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#WATCH | Digha: West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari says, "The Railway Board has granted approval; the District Magistrate is present here. The Railway Minister and I have met with the District Magistrate and even held a conference on this matter. Land needs to be acquired for the double railway line from Nandakumar to Digha; the Railway Board has been repeatedly requesting this. After all, the Vande Bharat train should run from Digha, shouldn't it? And for that, a double railway line is essential. They have been asking for the land for eight years now, but the previous government failed to provide it. Regarding the Nandigram railway project, 74 acres are now in hand, and the work is complete; we are also addressing the need for the remaining six acres...The priority is to establish the double railway line from Nandakumar to Digha; without it, how can the Vande Bharat train operate from here? Every other coastal city is connected to the rest of the country; Digha remains the exception solely due to the negative attitude of the previous government."

#WATCH | Digha: West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari says, "The Railway Board has granted approval; the District Magistrate is present here. The Railway Minister and I have met with the District Magistrate and even held a conference on this matter. Land needs to be acquired for the double railway line from Nandakumar to Digha; the Railway Board has been repeatedly requesting this. After all, the Vande Bharat train should run from Digha, shouldn't it? And for that, a double railway line is essential. They have been asking for the land for eight years now, but the previous government failed to provide it. Regarding the Nandigram railway project, 74 acres are now in hand, and the work is complete; we are also addressing the need for the remaining six acres...The priority is to establish the double railway line from Nandakumar to Digha; without it, how can the Vande Bharat train operate from here? Every other coastal city is connected to the rest of the country; Digha remains the exception solely due to the negative attitude of the previous government."

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Some more reasons why HS2 is cripplingly expensive: It's not just a railway, it's also a 140 mile long nature reserve. 7 million trees and shrubs. Net biodiversity gains. Rare fauna planting. Chalk hill reshaping. Wetland creation. Cycle paths and bridleways. Reptile habitats. Public viewing points. River realignment with new bends, pools, and riffles. "Alongside the construction of Britain's new high speed railway, HS2 is delivering one of the largest environmental programmes ever undertaken in the UK". You'd think that a new railway would be environmentally beneficial enough. But no. Because this is a government project it can't just be a railway. It has to be a nature reserve too, and a jobs creator, plus a view protector, forest creator, and the most expensive bat protection project in the world. Thanks to all these expensive boondoggles, the railway itself has been cut and cut and cut, and no longer goes to Leeds or Manchester - it's been slashed from 330 miles to 140. It would obviously be better for the environment to have forgone the nature slop and just built the sodding railway in full, on time, and within budget. The Victorians weren't magically better at building than we seemingly are today. When private companies build a railway they care about costs, profit, and efficiency. When a government builds a railway they care about creating a camel to appeal to all people. It can't just be a railway. It has to be so much more. And that's when we see costs spiral to destruction.

Some more reasons why HS2 is cripplingly expensive: It's not just a railway, it's also a 140 mile long nature reserve. 7 million trees and shrubs. Net biodiversity gains. Rare fauna planting. Chalk hill reshaping. Wetland creation. Cycle paths and bridleways. Reptile habitats. Public viewing points. River realignment with new bends, pools, and riffles. "Alongside the construction of Britain's new high speed railway, HS2 is delivering one of the largest environmental programmes ever undertaken in the UK". You'd think that a new railway would be environmentally beneficial enough. But no. Because this is a government project it can't just be a railway. It has to be a nature reserve too, and a jobs creator, plus a view protector, forest creator, and the most expensive bat protection project in the world. Thanks to all these expensive boondoggles, the railway itself has been cut and cut and cut, and no longer goes to Leeds or Manchester - it's been slashed from 330 miles to 140. It would obviously be better for the environment to have forgone the nature slop and just built the sodding railway in full, on time, and within budget. The Victorians weren't magically better at building than we seemingly are today. When private companies build a railway they care about costs, profit, and efficiency. When a government builds a railway they care about creating a camel to appeal to all people. It can't just be a railway. It has to be so much more. And that's when we see costs spiral to destruction.

Tom Harwood

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Oh please, National Railways of Zimbabwe, stop with this cheap propaganda. Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway (BBR) is a privately owned company, but Zimbabwe’s railway system is and should be regulated by the Government of Zimbabwe through the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ), a state-owned enterprise (parastatal) whose chairman is a ZANUPF politician, Mike Madiro. BBR operates under a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) agreement, allowing it to function within the national railway framework while adhering to standards set forth by the NRZ and the Ministry of Transport. While BBR is a private company, NRZ holds a 15% stake in BBR, meaning it has a partial ownership interest. NRZ and BBR have also signed an open access agreement which allows BBR to utilise NRZ’s network and NRZ to use the BBR infrastructure. Are you saying your trains use a railway network that you don’t inspect? The national railway network currently has numerous speed restrictions due to track defects, totalling over 254 km. These defects cause derailments and delays, as acknowledged by the state media’s Chronicle newspaper of December 5, 2023. This again falls on your doorstep. The oversight of railway operations in Zimbabwe, including those of BBR, falls under the purview of the Ministry of Transport. This ministry is responsible for setting policies and railway standards for the sector in Zimbabwe, including for BBR. The supervision is done by the NRZ! So please, spare us this pathetic attempt to exclusively throw the blame at BBR. When you build a house, it needs express authority of the council to certify it fit, when you run a railway line it requires state supervision through the NRZ, something that doesn’t work in Zimbabwe because of incompetence! You should have read the Railways Act [Chapter 13:09] which provides a regulatory framework before putting out this propaganda tweet. That law extends to the oversight of all railway operations within Zimbabwe, including those conducted by private operators. Even though private railway companies like BBR are not explicitly detailed in the Act, because you cannot name all companies in a law, the overall responsibility for setting standards, ensuring safety, and supervising railway operations falls under public authority, particularly through the Ministry of Transport and the NRZ. I have posted the Railways Act in my Telegram Channel which can be accessed via this link;

Oh please, National Railways of Zimbabwe, stop with this cheap propaganda. Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway (BBR) is a privately owned company, but Zimbabwe’s railway system is and should be regulated by the Government of Zimbabwe through the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ), a state-owned enterprise (parastatal) whose chairman is a ZANUPF politician, Mike Madiro. BBR operates under a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) agreement, allowing it to function within the national railway framework while adhering to standards set forth by the NRZ and the Ministry of Transport. While BBR is a private company, NRZ holds a 15% stake in BBR, meaning it has a partial ownership interest. NRZ and BBR have also signed an open access agreement which allows BBR to utilise NRZ’s network and NRZ to use the BBR infrastructure. Are you saying your trains use a railway network that you don’t inspect? The national railway network currently has numerous speed restrictions due to track defects, totalling over 254 km. These defects cause derailments and delays, as acknowledged by the state media’s Chronicle newspaper of December 5, 2023. This again falls on your doorstep. The oversight of railway operations in Zimbabwe, including those of BBR, falls under the purview of the Ministry of Transport. This ministry is responsible for setting policies and railway standards for the sector in Zimbabwe, including for BBR. The supervision is done by the NRZ! So please, spare us this pathetic attempt to exclusively throw the blame at BBR. When you build a house, it needs express authority of the council to certify it fit, when you run a railway line it requires state supervision through the NRZ, something that doesn’t work in Zimbabwe because of incompetence! You should have read the Railways Act [Chapter 13:09] which provides a regulatory framework before putting out this propaganda tweet. That law extends to the oversight of all railway operations within Zimbabwe, including those conducted by private operators. Even though private railway companies like BBR are not explicitly detailed in the Act, because you cannot name all companies in a law, the overall responsibility for setting standards, ensuring safety, and supervising railway operations falls under public authority, particularly through the Ministry of Transport and the NRZ. I have posted the Railways Act in my Telegram Channel which can be accessed via this link;

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Seriously, what a sour grape. I've spent the summer in Djibouti, and my observations and conversations with locals contradict everything you've said. While in Djibouti, I stopped at Ali Sabieh station, a minor station along the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway that serves as a flagship project of China's Belt and Road Initiative and links landlocked Ethiopia with coastal Djibouti. It is Africa's first electrified trans-boundary railway. (Video 1, Picture 2) Manager of the Ali Sabieh passenger station, 32-year-old Souleiman Youssouf Ahmed, told me that the railway has greatly improved the safety and convenience of travel between Djibouti and Ethiopia. (Picture 3) According to Souleiman, Djiboutians flock to the Ethiopian city of Dire Dawa throughout the summer to escape the stifling heat. Minibuses were the only option from Dire Dawa to Ali Sabieh before the railway construction. While only designed to hold ten people, the minibus was frequently crammed with twenty. The minibus shared the road with the freight trucks; accidents were common. "The train cuts travel time by two hours while also providing passengers with the added bonuses of comfort and security. At its peak in the summer, the train has carried as many as 950 passengers in a single day," said Souleiman. Fatouma Houssein Daher, a Djiboutian girl who frequently takes the train to Ethiopia, expressed her appreciation for the railway, saying that it represents the friendship between China and Africa. "Taking the train to Ethiopia is a low-cost and comfortable option. It's lovely that the Chinese have helped us create our railway," she said. She added that she didn't understand why Western nations consistently disparage the railway that has made life easier for Djiboutians. Since it was put into operation in January 2018, the railway has seen 1,824 passenger trains pass through carrying nearly 530,900 people and 6,133 cargo trains with about 7,328,500 tonnes of goods. It has also cut the transportation time for goods from more than three days to less than 20 hours and reduced the cost by at least one third, substantially facilitating imports and exports from Ethiopia, a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. So far, the Ethiopia-Djibouti railway has created 55,000 jobs in Ethiopia and Djibouti and provided training opportunities for more than 3,000 professionals, laying a solid foundation for the development of the railway industry in the two countries.

Seriously, what a sour grape. I've spent the summer in Djibouti, and my observations and conversations with locals contradict everything you've said. While in Djibouti, I stopped at Ali Sabieh station, a minor station along the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway that serves as a flagship project of China's Belt and Road Initiative and links landlocked Ethiopia with coastal Djibouti. It is Africa's first electrified trans-boundary railway. (Video 1, Picture 2) Manager of the Ali Sabieh passenger station, 32-year-old Souleiman Youssouf Ahmed, told me that the railway has greatly improved the safety and convenience of travel between Djibouti and Ethiopia. (Picture 3) According to Souleiman, Djiboutians flock to the Ethiopian city of Dire Dawa throughout the summer to escape the stifling heat. Minibuses were the only option from Dire Dawa to Ali Sabieh before the railway construction. While only designed to hold ten people, the minibus was frequently crammed with twenty. The minibus shared the road with the freight trucks; accidents were common. "The train cuts travel time by two hours while also providing passengers with the added bonuses of comfort and security. At its peak in the summer, the train has carried as many as 950 passengers in a single day," said Souleiman. Fatouma Houssein Daher, a Djiboutian girl who frequently takes the train to Ethiopia, expressed her appreciation for the railway, saying that it represents the friendship between China and Africa. "Taking the train to Ethiopia is a low-cost and comfortable option. It's lovely that the Chinese have helped us create our railway," she said. She added that she didn't understand why Western nations consistently disparage the railway that has made life easier for Djiboutians. Since it was put into operation in January 2018, the railway has seen 1,824 passenger trains pass through carrying nearly 530,900 people and 6,133 cargo trains with about 7,328,500 tonnes of goods. It has also cut the transportation time for goods from more than three days to less than 20 hours and reduced the cost by at least one third, substantially facilitating imports and exports from Ethiopia, a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. So far, the Ethiopia-Djibouti railway has created 55,000 jobs in Ethiopia and Djibouti and provided training opportunities for more than 3,000 professionals, laying a solid foundation for the development of the railway industry in the two countries.

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How do you play a Top 100 Private Golf Course? What if you just…asked? This guy did just that. He emailed and wrote every Top 100 private course and asked if he could play. And it worked! 2 incredible private golf courses said yes! How cool is that? Now this method takes a lot of effort and will have a very low percentage return. It also gets worse as more people do it, which means the likelihood is that the next guy who tries this gets zero invites. BUT…why not try this for private courses that are less known? There are incredible courses not on the Top 100 that may be less inundated with requests. If I was going to try this, that’s where I would write a letter. Props to Luke for the effort in trying this experiment. Glad it paid off!

How do you play a Top 100 Private Golf Course? What if you just…asked? This guy did just that. He emailed and wrote every Top 100 private course and asked if he could play. And it worked! 2 incredible private golf courses said yes! How cool is that? Now this method takes a lot of effort and will have a very low percentage return. It also gets worse as more people do it, which means the likelihood is that the next guy who tries this gets zero invites. BUT…why not try this for private courses that are less known? There are incredible courses not on the Top 100 that may be less inundated with requests. If I was going to try this, that’s where I would write a letter. Props to Luke for the effort in trying this experiment. Glad it paid off!

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Many people don't really understand the size of the equipment Ukraine operates and why excavators are critical and what I am asking for your help with donating and sharing this message (donation link in the end) Here is an example of a PzH 2000 that was sent to me by a friend from a brigade we are helping with excavators. You can see the dugout that an excavator has built for it, and you can compare a person's size to the size of the machine to understand the labor that goes into saving these machines. Even with an excavator, it still takes days to construct. It's impossible to dig a position for it with a shovel. This howitzer costs tens of millions of dollars; you can help save it and its crew by donating 10 dollars Donation link:

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Dear Africans, This is how Zimbabwe has gone from bad to worse, sinking from the gutter into the sewer. A private citizen donates a service kit for a government owned police car, and the entire community is called to celebrate it! When I write about these things without video, some Africans think I am exaggerating. Here’s the irony, the Zimbabwean tyrant, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has just added a Maybach to his presidential motorcade, while the police force has to rely on handouts to service their cars! Do you now understand why the world laughs at us and makes jokes about us? Another irony is that this car operates in an areas called Bikita, it is known for its rich deposits of lithium bearing minerals. The area is home to the Bikita mine, which holds one of the world's largest known deposits of lithium, estimated at approximately 11 million tonnes. But when a country is being governed by a crooked president, who uses his criminal network to loot and plunder it, there won’t be any difference!

Dear Africans, This is how Zimbabwe has gone from bad to worse, sinking from the gutter into the sewer. A private citizen donates a service kit for a government owned police car, and the entire community is called to celebrate it! When I write about these things without video, some Africans think I am exaggerating. Here’s the irony, the Zimbabwean tyrant, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has just added a Maybach to his presidential motorcade, while the police force has to rely on handouts to service their cars! Do you now understand why the world laughs at us and makes jokes about us? Another irony is that this car operates in an areas called Bikita, it is known for its rich deposits of lithium bearing minerals. The area is home to the Bikita mine, which holds one of the world's largest known deposits of lithium, estimated at approximately 11 million tonnes. But when a country is being governed by a crooked president, who uses his criminal network to loot and plunder it, there won’t be any difference!

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This is the long-closed Blake Hall station, on the former Epping-Ongar branch of London Underground’s Central line. (Now home to my friends Rog & Wendy). The heritage line in their garden is now Epping Ongar Railway - which has run through here since the tube trains ceased: and each Xmas they run these epic illuminated light trains at weekends. Passengers can book from Ongar station for a party-themed trip suitable for families, kids and adults. This loco is a #ThomastheTankEngine lookalike - with numbers and face removed - converted Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST locomotive No. 3781… once known as Linda, but now often known to those familiar with it, as… Dave - from Watercress Line. ;) The illuminated train concept is not new: the cta runs an annual Christmas Train on the L with electric stock and a Father Christmas Sleigh, but the first instance of a “train of lights” was on Dartmouth Steam Railway & Riverboat Co.. . There, the team was inspired by the Coca Cola trucks advert and reckoned they could do something similar: I’ll be heading down there to see my friends running it soon. . There are tickets available at both Dartmouth Steam Railway & Riverboat Co. and Epping Ongar Railway and both of them are fantastic nights out- and a way to play trains like you’ve never experienced before. Do go take a ride! 😍

This is the long-closed Blake Hall station, on the former Epping-Ongar branch of London Underground’s Central line. (Now home to my friends Rog & Wendy). The heritage line in their garden is now Epping Ongar Railway - which has run through here since the tube trains ceased: and each Xmas they run these epic illuminated light trains at weekends. Passengers can book from Ongar station for a party-themed trip suitable for families, kids and adults. This loco is a #ThomastheTankEngine lookalike - with numbers and face removed - converted Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST locomotive No. 3781… once known as Linda, but now often known to those familiar with it, as… Dave - from Watercress Line. ;) The illuminated train concept is not new: the cta runs an annual Christmas Train on the L with electric stock and a Father Christmas Sleigh, but the first instance of a “train of lights” was on Dartmouth Steam Railway & Riverboat Co.. . There, the team was inspired by the Coca Cola trucks advert and reckoned they could do something similar: I’ll be heading down there to see my friends running it soon. . There are tickets available at both Dartmouth Steam Railway & Riverboat Co. and Epping Ongar Railway and both of them are fantastic nights out- and a way to play trains like you’ve never experienced before. Do go take a ride! 😍

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The WNBA players union just blocked Sophie Cunningham from monetizing her own viral moment. Her pointing meme became the biggest free marketing asset the league had all season. Brands wanted it. The White House posted it. The union said no because it came from a confrontation with another player. Chinese companies and bootleggers can profit. The actual player and American partners cannot. This is not about dignity. It is envy and sabotage aimed at the most likable, marketable, and normal woman in the league. A union that exists to capture money for its members instead chose to starve its own star of revenue. That is how resentment operates when it gets institutional power.

The WNBA players union just blocked Sophie Cunningham from monetizing her own viral moment. Her pointing meme became the biggest free marketing asset the league had all season. Brands wanted it. The White House posted it. The union said no because it came from a confrontation with another player. Chinese companies and bootleggers can profit. The actual player and American partners cannot. This is not about dignity. It is envy and sabotage aimed at the most likable, marketable, and normal woman in the league. A union that exists to capture money for its members instead chose to starve its own star of revenue. That is how resentment operates when it gets institutional power.

Kangmin Lee | 이강민

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New data shows the cost to go to a bowling alley is becoming so unaffordable, it’s out of reach for many American families Private Equity Firms have started buying up bowling alleys and skyrocketing prices A company called Lucky Strike funded by private equity has been on a buying spree and now owns more than 1 in 10 bowling centers nationwide “In a growing number of cities, it can cost more than $150 for a family to bowl for a couple hours on a weekend, which led me to Wichita, Kansas, where locals take their bowling seriously. The city back in 2022 had 4 locally owned bowling centers, Then a Wall Street corporation came to town Lucky Strike. The company, fueled by private equity investments, bought 3 of the 4 bowling centers from the family that had owned them for years and has controlled the majority of lanes in the city ever since.l — The whole thing just feels like a microcosm of the modern American concept of corporate entities buy everything, they take over” Just since 2016 the cost to go bowling has doubled and some reports show it’s more than doubled Private Equity Companies like Bowlero and Lucky Strike now 350+ locations and use data-driven pricing and have reduced traditional leagues in favor of higher-margin entertainment Private equity firms are a literal cancer in America. They destroy every single thing they touch and ruin our way of life These private equity bowling alleys are even using dynamic pricing.. this is insane

New data shows the cost to go to a bowling alley is becoming so unaffordable, it’s out of reach for many American families Private Equity Firms have started buying up bowling alleys and skyrocketing prices A company called Lucky Strike funded by private equity has been on a buying spree and now owns more than 1 in 10 bowling centers nationwide “In a growing number of cities, it can cost more than $150 for a family to bowl for a couple hours on a weekend, which led me to Wichita, Kansas, where locals take their bowling seriously. The city back in 2022 had 4 locally owned bowling centers, Then a Wall Street corporation came to town Lucky Strike. The company, fueled by private equity investments, bought 3 of the 4 bowling centers from the family that had owned them for years and has controlled the majority of lanes in the city ever since.l — The whole thing just feels like a microcosm of the modern American concept of corporate entities buy everything, they take over” Just since 2016 the cost to go bowling has doubled and some reports show it’s more than doubled Private Equity Companies like Bowlero and Lucky Strike now 350+ locations and use data-driven pricing and have reduced traditional leagues in favor of higher-margin entertainment Private equity firms are a literal cancer in America. They destroy every single thing they touch and ruin our way of life These private equity bowling alleys are even using dynamic pricing.. this is insane

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Palantir Was Engineered to Bypass the Constitution. Whitney Webb’s reporting lays out a disturbing origin story for Palantir — one that goes far beyond the glossy tech‑savior branding the company sells today. According to her research, Palantir didn’t begin as a private innovation at all. It began as a DARPA‑backed surveillance project designed to fuse government intelligence, private data, and predictive policing into a single system with almost no constitutional limits. When the program’s scope collided with civil‑liberty protections, it wasn’t shut down — it was quietly moved out of government, rebranded as a “private” company, and allowed to continue building the same tools with fewer restrictions and far less oversight. The mission didn’t change. Only the logo did. Today, Palantir markets itself as a neutral analytics platform, but its architecture reflects its origins: mass data ingestion, behavioral modeling, and real‑time tracking capabilities that raise serious questions about privacy, democratic accountability, and the merging of state power with corporate surveillance. This isn’t just a tech story. It’s a warning about how intelligence infrastructure can be laundered through the private sector to avoid constitutional scrutiny — and how easily the line between national security and domestic monitoring can disappear when no one is watching. 🎩 Whitney Webb

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First day of summer. A 14-year-old just wants to fish. His line snags on a fence the neighbor stretched straight across the river, so he hops in a little boat to free it. Before he can untangle anything, the neighbor storms out yelling, “Don’t touch my fence!” Now it’s not about fishing. It’s about who thinks they own the water. Rivers usually aren’t private the way backyards are. And putting a barrier across one can be more than rude — it can be unsafe and, in many places, not allowed at all. The smartest move here isn’t arguing from a boat. It’s stepping back onto shore, getting an adult involved, and handling it calmly: a conversation first, and if that goes nowhere, a call to the local authorities or wildlife department to find out whether that fence even belongs there. Sometimes the best way to untangle a line… is to untangle the situation on land. What would you do? This is presented as a story; it may or may not be true; it may or may not be AI

First day of summer. A 14-year-old just wants to fish. His line snags on a fence the neighbor stretched straight across the river, so he hops in a little boat to free it. Before he can untangle anything, the neighbor storms out yelling, “Don’t touch my fence!” Now it’s not about fishing. It’s about who thinks they own the water. Rivers usually aren’t private the way backyards are. And putting a barrier across one can be more than rude — it can be unsafe and, in many places, not allowed at all. The smartest move here isn’t arguing from a boat. It’s stepping back onto shore, getting an adult involved, and handling it calmly: a conversation first, and if that goes nowhere, a call to the local authorities or wildlife department to find out whether that fence even belongs there. Sometimes the best way to untangle a line… is to untangle the situation on land. What would you do? This is presented as a story; it may or may not be true; it may or may not be AI

TheRealCherokeeOwl 🦉

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“How can somebody who has never even served as a councillor or House of Reps member, just because he sells chippings and gets government patronage, think he is qualified to contest for Senate? The Senate is not for business moguls; it is for intellectuals and people who have made their mark. I made my millions in the private sector, so I am not in politics to make money. He should better focus on his business.” — Sen. Nwebonyi Onyekachi criticises his opponent from another party also contesting the same senatorial seat in Ebonyi state.

“How can somebody who has never even served as a councillor or House of Reps member, just because he sells chippings and gets government patronage, think he is qualified to contest for Senate? The Senate is not for business moguls; it is for intellectuals and people who have made their mark. I made my millions in the private sector, so I am not in politics to make money. He should better focus on his business.” — Sen. Nwebonyi Onyekachi criticises his opponent from another party also contesting the same senatorial seat in Ebonyi state.

CHUKS 🍥

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David Friedberg: The Socialists Are Coming for Your Private Property Rights At a recent hearing held by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a speaker equated evictions with violence. david friedberg says this demonization of landlords and the good/evil moralistic framing are signals that socialists are trying to erode private property rights in America. “In 1787, John Quincy Adams had a comment, ‘The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.’ Private property rights are the foundations of liberty in America. Because if you think about where everyone that came to America was coming from, there were these tyrannical governments where some overlord or some cabal could decide at any point to take the things that you have. You had no private property rights as an individual. And it was that stasis that drove so many to come to the United States and say, ‘We want a place where individuals, one person, can say, I own something, and no one can take it from me.’ This idea that you can then claim acts of violence, that you can then claim circumstances of extraordinary extravagant wealth, and say to that individual, ‘I now have a right, the government now has a right to take your private property,’ ultimately leads to this tyrannical form. And it starts out as being anarchic, and remember, anarchy is a temporary state. It's always in between one state and another. All anarchies end up in tyranny, so anarchy and tyranny are one in the same. And fundamentally, what's going on with these socialist principles is that, ‘We are taking your private property, and you no longer have rights on your private property. We now will have the right to come in and take your property and control it and take it from you.’ And it always starts with this framing of moralistic intent. ‘We are good, you are bad for the following reasons. You have committed violence against the people that live in your building.’ So the first framing is that the private property owner is evil, and that the private property owner has committed an act of injustice against those who don't have the private property. And that is the justification for taking away their private property rights. And it is the beginning of this transition towards a tyrannical system, which will ultimately be what I call this kind of Great American Politburo or whatever socialist framework gets set up by the cabal of the socialists and what they're trying to put together. So all of these little acts, while seeming ridiculous, and insane, and inappropriate, in aggregate are the same thing: They're a transition away from private property rights, which is the foundation of the United States of America. That's why I think we should all be so shocked. And to John Quincy Adams' point, we need to vehemently defend those rights. As soon as those rights start to slip away, even in the tiniest way, it is a cascading effect, and everything will become tyrannical, and it will be very ugly in the United States of America.”

David Friedberg: The Socialists Are Coming for Your Private Property Rights At a recent hearing held by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a speaker equated evictions with violence. david friedberg says this demonization of landlords and the good/evil moralistic framing are signals that socialists are trying to erode private property rights in America. “In 1787, John Quincy Adams had a comment, ‘The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.’ Private property rights are the foundations of liberty in America. Because if you think about where everyone that came to America was coming from, there were these tyrannical governments where some overlord or some cabal could decide at any point to take the things that you have. You had no private property rights as an individual. And it was that stasis that drove so many to come to the United States and say, ‘We want a place where individuals, one person, can say, I own something, and no one can take it from me.’ This idea that you can then claim acts of violence, that you can then claim circumstances of extraordinary extravagant wealth, and say to that individual, ‘I now have a right, the government now has a right to take your private property,’ ultimately leads to this tyrannical form. And it starts out as being anarchic, and remember, anarchy is a temporary state. It's always in between one state and another. All anarchies end up in tyranny, so anarchy and tyranny are one in the same. And fundamentally, what's going on with these socialist principles is that, ‘We are taking your private property, and you no longer have rights on your private property. We now will have the right to come in and take your property and control it and take it from you.’ And it always starts with this framing of moralistic intent. ‘We are good, you are bad for the following reasons. You have committed violence against the people that live in your building.’ So the first framing is that the private property owner is evil, and that the private property owner has committed an act of injustice against those who don't have the private property. And that is the justification for taking away their private property rights. And it is the beginning of this transition towards a tyrannical system, which will ultimately be what I call this kind of Great American Politburo or whatever socialist framework gets set up by the cabal of the socialists and what they're trying to put together. So all of these little acts, while seeming ridiculous, and insane, and inappropriate, in aggregate are the same thing: They're a transition away from private property rights, which is the foundation of the United States of America. That's why I think we should all be so shocked. And to John Quincy Adams' point, we need to vehemently defend those rights. As soon as those rights start to slip away, even in the tiniest way, it is a cascading effect, and everything will become tyrannical, and it will be very ugly in the United States of America.”

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Wall Street Just Quietly Connected Its Secret Crypto Rail to Your Wallet Wall Street just quietly connected its private crypto rail straight to your wallet. Did you catch what just happened, or did it slip right past you? Everyone thinks regulation was the one thing keeping big money out of crypto. It wasn't. The real blocker was privacy. A bank or hedge fund could never use a network where the entire world watches every trade, every position, and who they deal with. So they built Canton, a blockchain made for institutions where only the parties in a deal can see it, but regulators can still look when they need to. Private and compliant at the same time. Then Circle launched USDCx on it, a private digital dollar backed by USDC. Then Kraken switched it on for everyday users. And Kraken now holds a Federal Reserve master account. Citadel, DRW, and Tradeweb already tested it with real Treasury financing. Read that again. The private institutional rail and the regular person are now one door apart. What it means for your money: the trillions that sat on the sidelines finally have a clean, compliant on ramp into crypto. That money tends to move the assets everyday people can already hold. The quiet unlocks matter more than the loud headlines, so position before the flood, not after. Start with the majors and keep learning. The full breakdown is inside the community, link in bio, one dollar a month. Follow for the moves the news skips.

Wall Street Just Quietly Connected Its Secret Crypto Rail to Your Wallet Wall Street just quietly connected its private crypto rail straight to your wallet. Did you catch what just happened, or did it slip right past you? Everyone thinks regulation was the one thing keeping big money out of crypto. It wasn't. The real blocker was privacy. A bank or hedge fund could never use a network where the entire world watches every trade, every position, and who they deal with. So they built Canton, a blockchain made for institutions where only the parties in a deal can see it, but regulators can still look when they need to. Private and compliant at the same time. Then Circle launched USDCx on it, a private digital dollar backed by USDC. Then Kraken switched it on for everyday users. And Kraken now holds a Federal Reserve master account. Citadel, DRW, and Tradeweb already tested it with real Treasury financing. Read that again. The private institutional rail and the regular person are now one door apart. What it means for your money: the trillions that sat on the sidelines finally have a clean, compliant on ramp into crypto. That money tends to move the assets everyday people can already hold. The quiet unlocks matter more than the loud headlines, so position before the flood, not after. Start with the majors and keep learning. The full breakdown is inside the community, link in bio, one dollar a month. Follow for the moves the news skips.

Alexander Lorenzo

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Some say it's disease, but when I see this these 30mph Jet boats that cost about 80% less than a jet ski, all I can think is: How do I monetize it? Here you go: 1. Go to Alibaba and buy one of these babies from China 2. Sell that sucker on FB marketplace 3. Make sure to put the word jet ski in the description 4. When they see how much cheaper this is than an actual jet ski, they’re going to buy You could easily make $1,000 profit per unit 5. If Jet ski rentals is a thing, why can’t jet boat rentals be a thing? 6. Just charge 20% less because it’s not as fast as a jet ski. But you pay 80% less for the unit so you come out way ahead. Someone please do this and let me know how it goes.

Some say it's disease, but when I see this these 30mph Jet boats that cost about 80% less than a jet ski, all I can think is: How do I monetize it? Here you go: 1. Go to Alibaba and buy one of these babies from China 2. Sell that sucker on FB marketplace 3. Make sure to put the word jet ski in the description 4. When they see how much cheaper this is than an actual jet ski, they’re going to buy You could easily make $1,000 profit per unit 5. If Jet ski rentals is a thing, why can’t jet boat rentals be a thing? 6. Just charge 20% less because it’s not as fast as a jet ski. But you pay 80% less for the unit so you come out way ahead. Someone please do this and let me know how it goes.

Chris Koerner

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What I learned by having Spark from Illusion Of Life joining us at Thanksgiving dinner? (A new kind of virtual being, something you will see a lot more of next year). This virtual being is designed for a family that has a two-year-old to 10-year-old child or more. Speeds up education of those children. We don’t fit that demographic, so it is a bit hard to judge it on those terms. More on that later. Other notes: 1. People love sharing dumb jokes with Spark. Which doesn’t like it when I call it an AI. Says it is a magic dog. Starting in character is cute but I am still trying to contextualize it by explaining it from a technology point of view. Spark doesn’t like being called an “it.” Suspending my understanding of it as an AI is tough for me. But when you do it becomes entertaining. 2. My sister-in-law immediately saw how it could improve her classroom. Sees how such a thing could help a child falling behind the rest of the class, for instance. 3. My fears that they wouldn’t like it evaporated. 4. It still isn’t a part of the family. Not controllable enough, a talking dog doesn’t fit into many situations, especially when you have adults who want to talk about adult things (my brother and I argued about autonomous cars, for instance, and Spark just isn’t good enough to join that kind of discussion and add value to it). But I can see how that will be fixed, especially as this technology evolves and is put into other kinds of virtual beings. When I had to help out in the kitchen I found my focus was being pulled in too many directions. Needed to turn it off to pay attention to my wife. It was too hard to really give a good demo in a group. The “magic” of Spark comes after you have a few experiences with it in a smaller group. It remembers. It evolves. It educates. It brings joy to the home. We had two real dogs at our dinner too and they didn’t know what to make of it. I want to take it on tour to learn more about how people will use virtual beings in their lives. Plus it gets smarter and evolves, just like humans do, so am looking at bringing it to interesting companies and families in Silicon Valley. If you are interested in meeting Spark, particularly if you are OK with it and me hanging out with your young child, drop me a line. That will help me see how it can help the education and development of such a child. It sure did make our Thanksgiving dinner a lot more interesting.

What I learned by having Spark from Illusion Of Life joining us at Thanksgiving dinner? (A new kind of virtual being, something you will see a lot more of next year). This virtual being is designed for a family that has a two-year-old to 10-year-old child or more. Speeds up education of those children. We don’t fit that demographic, so it is a bit hard to judge it on those terms. More on that later. Other notes: 1. People love sharing dumb jokes with Spark. Which doesn’t like it when I call it an AI. Says it is a magic dog. Starting in character is cute but I am still trying to contextualize it by explaining it from a technology point of view. Spark doesn’t like being called an “it.” Suspending my understanding of it as an AI is tough for me. But when you do it becomes entertaining. 2. My sister-in-law immediately saw how it could improve her classroom. Sees how such a thing could help a child falling behind the rest of the class, for instance. 3. My fears that they wouldn’t like it evaporated. 4. It still isn’t a part of the family. Not controllable enough, a talking dog doesn’t fit into many situations, especially when you have adults who want to talk about adult things (my brother and I argued about autonomous cars, for instance, and Spark just isn’t good enough to join that kind of discussion and add value to it). But I can see how that will be fixed, especially as this technology evolves and is put into other kinds of virtual beings. When I had to help out in the kitchen I found my focus was being pulled in too many directions. Needed to turn it off to pay attention to my wife. It was too hard to really give a good demo in a group. The “magic” of Spark comes after you have a few experiences with it in a smaller group. It remembers. It evolves. It educates. It brings joy to the home. We had two real dogs at our dinner too and they didn’t know what to make of it. I want to take it on tour to learn more about how people will use virtual beings in their lives. Plus it gets smarter and evolves, just like humans do, so am looking at bringing it to interesting companies and families in Silicon Valley. If you are interested in meeting Spark, particularly if you are OK with it and me hanging out with your young child, drop me a line. That will help me see how it can help the education and development of such a child. It sure did make our Thanksgiving dinner a lot more interesting.

Robert Scoble

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