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OF RJ Austin (Vanderbilt Baseball) is an intriguing college hitter in this year's Draft. Carved out an every day role as a Freshman and collected 18 XBH with 43 RBIs, but had a breakout summer on the Cape to the tune of a .327/.426/.376 slash line with 13 RBIs in 29 games. Carried that momentum over into last season where he hit .335/.402/.471 with 14 2B, 5 HRs, 54 RBIs and 28 SB. Earned an invitation to Team USA, but had a strong 15-game stint on the Cape and hit .321/.361/.536 with 6 2B, 2 HRs and 9 RBIs. Strong, athletic build at 5'11" and 193-lbs with plenty of natural strength. Stands fairly tall in the box with his knees slightly bent and a tight base with a slightly open front side. Austin has lowered his handset a bit since last spring, and he now has more of a medium-high handset. Barrel tip in his load is accompanied by his hands drifting. High leg kick leads into a rather lengthy stride. Quick hands and easy plus bat speed. Athletic look, rotates well. Austin's hit tool has taken positive strides since the start of his college career, and last year he posted an overall contact rate of 82% and an IZ contact rate of 91% (including 94% against FB). Present feel for the barrel. Approach and swing decisions still need some fine-tuning, and Austin is susceptible to FBs in the top and outer-1/3 as well as secondaries down-and-away. Very pull-oriented approach. Would give it a 50, probably closer to a 55 than a 50. Austin's also a strong kid with more impact in the tank than his 12 career HRs might suggest. All of his HR power has come to the pull side, but he needs to get the ball up in the air more. Posted a Max EV of 110 last spring. There are some ingredients to work with here, but has to lift the baseball on a more regular basis. Power plays as a 45 in-game. Has had limited experience in the OF to this point, but will roam CF this spring for Vanderbilt. Got a fair amount of run out there this summer on the Cape. Austin's speed and athleticism both translate to the position—he can go and get it—but the reads and route running will need refinement. Fringe-average arm. I'm curious to see the progress over the course of the season. I alluded to it, but Austin is a plus runner and an effective base-stealer. Twitchy. 2nd-3rd round type for me this July. (📽️: Vanderbilt Baseball)

Peter Flaherty III

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Redpill Drifter

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DLN

21,177 views • 1 year ago

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Stephen Ford

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But times don't wait and opportunities always come and go, so we'll just have to present the work we've done so far with the doodiest attitude and let the show go on.🙌 Each morning there would be a giant rush as early participants run through the venue to collect time slotted entry tickets from giant publishers to make sure they can experience upcoming AAA titles like Monster Hunter Wilds (MH is actually where Apeiron normal attacks are inspired from). Most of the giant booths don't actually give out much merchandise or ingame rewards, and the only real offer they have is for their fans to playtest the latest games, watch unrevealed trailers or take photos with cosplayers/mascots/diorama. Having been in web3 for a while, this is a good reminder that, out there, there is a massive and genuine love for gaming beyond incentives. 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We would mention the crypto elements of the game but most of the interest is centered around the cute dood, the colorful artwork and the unique gameplay. I literally got over 200+ business cards during these 4 days (though bulk of them are marketing agencies lol) and my email and telegram is absolutely flooded.💦 We may be a bucket in the ocean, and there is still a lot of work that needs to be done, but amidst the giants out there, the appeal of Apeiron is still here. Our uniqueness and quality is what sets us apart even amongst web2 peers. I don't know how much longer it will take for Apeiron to be ready to compete with the giants up there, but I know I want to be up there one day, and I have a target I really want to aim for.🎯 During those 4 days, while I was giving out flyers and waving plushies towards smiling japanese doods in real life, I was also messaging back in omega channel to a group of upset holders who were concerned with our token performance. 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LoreKeeper

28,962 views • 1 year ago

You round the bend of that forgotten mountain trail, boots crunching on pine needles, the air thick with the scent of damp earth and rushing water. The stream’s been whispering to you for miles—clear, cold, cutting through granite like it’s been waiting centuries just for this moment. Then you see it: a small carved-out alcove tucked right against the bank, maybe three feet deep and wide enough for one person to kneel, the rock smoothed by who-knows-how-many old-timers before you. Sunlight slants in like a spotlight, turning the water’s edge into liquid gold. Your pulse kicks up. This isn’t just a pretty spot. This is a natural sluice box, a hidden trap where the current slows, drops its heavy cargo, and leaves the black sand shimmering like midnight promises. You drop your pack, heart hammering. Modern panning isn’t the back-breaking pick-and-shovel grind of 1849 anymore—you’ve got the kit: a lightweight 22-inch ceramic pan with riffles that catch every speck, a classifier screen to sort out the big stuff in seconds, a snuffer bottle the size of your thumb, and maybe a tiny hand sluice you can prop in the alcove’s curve if the mood strikes. Gold’s sitting at over $5,100 an ounce right now—prices that would’ve made those Forty-Niners weep. One decent pinch of flakes and you’re already ahead of your coffee money. You scoop a panful of that dark, promising gravel right from the alcove’s lip, plunge it into the stream, and start the dance: tilt, swirl, dip, let the river do the work. Lighter sands and pebbles wash away in lazy spirals while the heavies—magnetite, hematite, and yes, maybe that telltale flash of yellow—sink to the bottom like they belong there. The excitement builds with every swirl. You see the first “color”—tiny glittering threads hugging the riffles. Another pan. More. The alcove’s geometry is perfect; the stream bends just enough here to drop the good stuff century after century. You’re grinning like a kid, knees wet, sun warm on your neck, imagining the nugget that’s been waiting since the last ice age. A full vial after an hour? Two? The daydream races: sell it raw, melt it into a ring, or just keep it in a jar on the shelf as proof you outsmarted the mountains. Modern tools make it feel almost too easy—apps on your phone showing public claim maps, lightweight gear that fits in a daypack, even a cheap UV light to spot fluorescent tracers if you get fancy. This alcove could be your lucky strike. The thrill is electric. Here’s the straight truth, though, whispered like the stream itself: no, modern hand-panning isn’t a lucrative feat. Not in the “quit your job and buy a yacht” way. The average recreational panner pulls about 0.041 grams an hour in decent ground—that’s roughly twenty bucks at today’s prices, before gas, food, and the sheer sweat equity. A banner day in a rich pocket might net you a gram or two (maybe $160–$170), enough to cover your weekend and leave a little sparkle in your pocket. But most folks walk away with beautiful memories, a few flakes, and the quiet satisfaction of having chased the dream instead of scrolling on the couch. The real gold? The peace, the exercise, the story you’ll tell when you get home with wet boots and a grin you can’t wipe off. So yeah… that carved-out alcove next to the stream? It’s calling. Grab your pan, let the excitement build, and go see what the river’s been hiding. Just don’t quit your day job—let the mountains pay you in wonder instead.

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1,322,206 views • 4 months ago

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Gabriele Corno

91,860 views • 11 days ago

Across the United States, people who voted for Kamala Harris are reacting with shock, sadness, and anger at the election results. They are asking themselves why so many Latinos, Gen Xers, men, and women not only voted the way they did but also why so many of us feel enormous relief at Trump’s historic victory. But do they really not understand? Or do they not want to understand? After all, over the last decade, many of us who have moved away from the Left have been explaining our concerns at length: We didn’t appreciate being told we were bigots for not wanting to defund the police, open the borders, or mandate racial quotas; We didn’t enjoy being called phobic for not wanting doctors to experiment on children with pseudoscientific “transgender medicine;” And we didn’t like being labeled conspiracy theorists for asking questions about Covid policies or asking why the FBI, CIA, and Department of Homeland Security were involved in mass censorship. We’re not suggesting those were the main reasons most voters or swing voters voted for Trump. The polls indicate that the top issues were the economy and migration. But elections are won on the margins, and what made the difference between 2020 and 2024 was the defection of so many traditionally Democratic voters to Trump and the Republicans. And many of those who defected were, like us, alienated by the transformation of the Democratic Party into a mob of Woke scolds and persecutors. Trump gained unprecedented ground across the electorate, disrupting Democrats’ hold on black, Latino, and Muslim voters in key areas. Even young people, and especially young men, swung to the right. Trump won over large segments of the working class, while Harris improved over Joe Biden with high-income voters, college-educated white women, and white people in general. These results are nothing short of a massive political realignment that should put to bed once and for all the corrosive myth that Trump’s coalition is driven by “white supremacy” or “fascism.” Through the democratic process, voters have resoundingly rejected elites’ favored narratives about race, class, and immigration. And so if anyone really wants to understand why so many of us, even if we have criticisms of Trump, feel relief and vindication at his victory, they need to consider that it has more to do with the repudiation of totalitarianism than with Trump as a person or even his policies. Wokeism or whatever else you want to call it — progressivism, identity politics, radical leftism — has been rampaging through society for roughly the last decade, and those of us who have been stigmatized and ostracized by it feel like we can finally breathe again. What we are experiencing is known as catharsis, which comes from the Greek word for cleanse or purge. In Greek tragedy, the audience experiences catharsis when it feels a release of negative emotions and a sense of renewal. Many of us who have felt persecuted for our views, even in supposedly small ways, such as not feeling comfortable expressing our true feelings with friends and family, feel freer now to speak our minds. After all, the majority is with us. Our views are normal, mainstream, and common sense. As Democrats weaponized the government and justice system, attempting to keep Trump off the ballot and put him in prison, we identified not with Trump the Republican or businessman or former president, but rather with Trump the wrongly accused. At bottom, he was being persecuted by the same totalitarian forces that had been rampaging through society for a decade. Sometime between Occupy Wall Street in 2011 and the first Black Lives Matter protest in 2013, seemingly normal liberals and Democrats started to lose their minds. Everything became racist. Everything became suspicious. And nothing was more suspicious than not agreeing 100% with the official Woke Democratic agenda. Trump’s election put Wokeism on steroids. Suddenly, a word that, in the past, only extreme radical Leftists had used to describe a Republican president — “fascist” — was now being used by Very Serious People like New York Times columnists, establishment Democrats, and the previously sober foreign policy establishment. It was between 2016 and 2020 that Wokeism not only completed but intensified its grip on every major institution in society, from news and entertainment media to schools and universities. These institutions encouraged and participated in the mass condemnation and cancellation of heretics, which became known as the Great Awokening and was a new witch hunt. Ordinary and otherwise decent people behaved cruelly. They accused people they had known for years or decades of bigotry or racism or wanting to genocide trans people or wanting millions to die from Covid. Diverging from progressive orthodoxy in any way became enough for people to not only end friendships, but to insist that the transgressors be ostracized and excommunicated. Those who had made a great show of being courageously open-minded and tolerant became intolerant, incurious, and cowardly. We were asked to pretend that the people carrying the pitchforks and torches to go witch-hunting were well-intentioned and just cared a lot more than the rest of us. They didn’t. Behind the totalitarianism were individuals who had given into base motives like hedonism, envy, dogmatism, self-righteousness, prejudice, snobbery, psychopathy, and even sadism. There are many underlying causes of the totalitarian Great Awokening: the growing distance between educated elites and working people; the rise of narcissism, psychopathy, and other Cluster B personality traits like entitlement and grandiosity; the way in which social media dehumanizes people and normalizes behaviors that would seem psychopathic in real life; the anxiety induced by social media’s fishbowl effect, where our natural fears of social disapproval are magnified to a degree we were not evolved for; the counterpopulist reaction from the deep state foreign policy establishment to a populist American president and populist uprising around the world; the list goes on. Fully excavating the causes of the derangement of the last decade requires a book-length treatment, which we are dutifully working on. The good news is that we are already on the downward slope moving away from Peak Woke. If one had to find the moment where the lies were at their greatest power, it might have been during was the summer of 2020 when the public health experts who had demanded we shut down the schools said it would be immoral not to join Black Lives Matter protesters in physical events no different from the “superspreader events” they had, just a few weeks earlier, demanded people be arrested for attending. Peak censorship came less than two years later when former President Barack Obama gave a Stanford University speech, urging government “regulation” of social media platforms. The bad news is that much of the Censorship Industrial Complex remains in place, few of the abuses of power over the last eight years have been fully investigated, and Wokeism remains entrenched in every major societal institution. The good news is that we understand the work we have in front of us. We must defund the thought police; investigate the abuses of power by the FBI, CIA, and DHS; replace IC leaders and reform the agencies; de-Wokeify and reform public institutions; and get some accountability for all of the awful consequences of the last ten years....

Michael Shellenberger

88,118 views • 1 year ago

$ASTI Ascent Solar Technologies Space and Drone Solar Panels The "Going to Zero" or Mispriced Space/Drone Solar Play Intro and comparison to $RKLB and $RDW panels Let’s get the ugly stuff out of the way first. $ASTI is a distressed penny stock with a ~$5M-$10M market cap. • They burn millions in cash. • 2024 Revenue: ~$40k. 2025 Revenue (YTD): ~$60k. • They generate less revenue than a single Tesla Model Y. • They have diluted shareholders relentlessly. $ASTI just raised $2M in December with the potential of $3.5M more via warrants while being a ~$5M mcap "company". Yikes. To most, this is "uninvestable trash." Stay away. Full stop. So why did I buy ~5% of the float? IF the technology works and IF they execute then I believe this is a massive market pricing dislocation about to inflect. They have been grinding for years and may finally be hitting an inflection point. $RKLB Rocketlab is the king of space solar and they are my second largest position overall, but here is why $ASTI might be a very high risk but asymmetric bet in Space & Defense right now. 1. The Tech Pivot: Flexible CIGS vs. The World Ascent started in 2005 but pivoted 2 years ago from consumer to pure-play Space & Defense. They have sunk ~$250M and 20 years of R&D into proprietary CIGS (Copper-Indium-Gallium-Selenide) thin-film technology while building out fully domestic and vertically integrated manufacturing capabilities. The Physics: • Thickness: 0.03 mm (Thinner than paper). • Flexibility: Wraps around drones/satellites; rolls up like a poster. • Durability: "Self-Healing" capabilities against space radiation. Can take a bullet or micrometeoroid and keep working. Can handle shocks/vibration. Does not shatter. The Metric that Matters: Specific Power (W/kg) (aka energy to weight ratio) In space, mass means cost and difficult decision decisions. • Rocket Lab ($RKLB) / Spectrolab: ~150 W/kg (System level). • Ascent Solar ($ASTI): ~1,960 W/kg (Module level). $ASTI is roughly 10x lighter for the same power output potential (mass-wise). This frees up design limitations and cost. 2. The Competition: $RKLB & $RDW Rocket Lab (SolAero) & Redwire (iROSA): • Tech: Rigid Crystal Cells (Multi-junction) embedded in a fabric mesh. • Pros: Extreme Efficiency (~30%+). Perfect for limited surface area. • Cons: Heavy, Brittle, Expensive ($3k-$10k per Watt). Manufacturing multi-junction cells (SolAero) involves slowly growing crystals in a vacuum chamber. With radiation the panels degrade and loose efficiency over time which will limit the satellite lifespan. • Use Case: James Webb Telescope, Flagship missions. Ascent Solar (ASTI): • Tech: Flexible Thin-Film on Plastic. • Pros: Ultra-light, Durable, Cheap ($500-$1k per Watt). Manufacturing CIGS is roughly similar to printing newspapers (roll-to-roll). The panels are radiation degradation resistant and will outlive the satellite • Cons: Lower Efficiency (~17.5%). Requires 2x surface area. • Use Case: Mega-Constellations (Starlink/Amazon Leo), Small/Low cost satellites, Drones, Deformable surfaces. The lower efficiency is not an ASTI failing. It is the inherent physics trade-off of not using glass/rigid silicone. The downside however is increased atmospheric drag with very larger/massive panel sheets. Because ASTI modules are ~50% less efficient than rigid panels, they require ~2x the physical surface area to generate the same amount of power. In GEO (High Orbit): Drag doesn't matter. Weight savings are king. A massive solar array allows for more sensors and longer project lifespan. ASTI is highly competitive here. In LEO (Low Orbit): Atmospheric drag is real. A massive solar array acts like a large parachute, causing the satellite to de-orbit faster unless it burns more fuel to stay up. At LEO, smaller satellites are a better fit for ASTI. 3. Durability & Radiation "Self-Healing" Radiation Hardness This is ASTI's "Ace in the Hole" for physics. The Problem: In space, high-energy protons (radiation) smash into solar cells, creating atomic "defects" that trap electrons. Over time, this kills the panel's power output (degradation). The CIGS Advantage: CIGS (Copper-Indium-Gallium-Selenide) material has a unique property where heat (annealing) allows the atomic structure to relax and "heal" these defects. Self-Healing: Because CIGS heals at relatively low temperatures (often achieved just by the sun heating the panel), it suffers significantly less degradation than traditional Silicon or even some GaAs panels over long missions in high-radiation belts (like MEO or GEO). Lifespan: While a rigid GaAs panel might lose 15-20% of its power over 15 years (enough to kill a satellite), CIGS panels heal and can maintain a flatter power curve, potentially outlasting the satellite itself in high-radiation orbits. 4. Brittleness & Flexibility ASTI (CIGS on Polyimide): Flexible. You can roll it like a poster. It can take a bullet or micrometeoroid and the hole will just be a dead spot; the rest of the panel keeps working. It does not shatter. Redwire (ROSA) & Rocket Lab (SolAero): Brittle Cells on a Flex Blanket. $RDW's ROSA (Roll-Out Solar Array) typically uses rigid multi-junction cells (made by SolAero/Rocket Lab or Spectrolab) mounted on a flexible mesh fabric. The Risk: If you bend the cells too far, they crack. They rely on the mesh backing for flexibility, but the active generating material is still a brittle crystal wafer. Much heavier, more expensive, and less durable than $ASTI's option 5. The Inflection Point (Why Now?) After years of silent struggle, late 2025 has seen an explosion of activity. Recent Agreements (Nov/Dec 2025): NovaSpark: Hydrogen-powered military drones. $ASTI panels generate power in the field → NovaSpark creates hydrogen fuel. CisLunar Industries: Integrating ASTI solar with power conversion hardware for deep space longevity. Defiant Space: A strategic alliance to act as the "door opener" for classified DoD/NATO programs. More headlines: Ascent Solar Technologies Provides Leading Space Company with Thin-Film PV modules for Spacecraft Power Generation Testing in Cislunar Space December 03, 2025 08:00 ET Ascent Solar Technologies Delivers Thin-Film PV for Saltwater Environment Durability and Space-Based Power Beaming Testing October 14, 2025 08:00 ET Ascent Solar Enters Teaming Agreement with Emtel Energy USA to Advance Thin-Film PV Energy Storage Capabilities September 16, 2025 08:00 ET Ascent Solar Technologies Signs MOU with Star Catcher Industries to Improve Power Capabilities for Thin-Film Solar Technology in Space August 28, 2025 08:00 ET Ascent Solar Technologies Establishes Rapid Thin-Film PV Delivery Process to Provide Customized Space Solar Products Ahead of Schedule on Mission Enabling Timelines August 07, 2025 08:00 ET The Pipeline (From Aug Corporate Presentation) 18 new NDA's signed in 2025. They are field testing with 3 major players: • Company A: Mega-constellation (+2,500 satellites). • Company B: Space Defense (Explicitly mentioned "Golden Dome"). • Company C: Satellite Manufacturer (30-200 unit scale). Management: New board members include a former founding member of SpaceX and a retired Air Force General and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Contracting (acquisitions expert). The company started in 2005 based out of Colorado, but two years ago pivoted to Space & Defense and away from consumer applications. Made in USA: Defense contracts heavily favor domestic supply chains. ASTI manufactures in Colorado. This is a huge moat against cheap Chinese solar. In their Q3 report they note that their market has seen sudden recent acceleration. The space solar industry is currently only capable of 8 to 12 MW per year of production meanwhile the demand is growing to over 100 MW per year. 6. The Risk (The Sword of Damocles) ⚠️ This is critical. $ASTI just raised ~$2M in December. Attached to that raise are ~2 Million Warrants with a strike price of $1.70. These are exercisable immediately. If the stock rips to $3.00, warrant holders exercise at $1.70 and dump on the market for a risk-free 76% profit. This creates a massive "sell wall" and potential 40% dilution of the float. Summary: This is a binary bet. • Bear Case: They run out of cash in 6 months, dilution spirals, stock goes to $0. • Bull Case: They land one of the "Company A/B/C" contracts. Revenue jumps from $60k to projected $20M+ in 2026. The stock reprices from a "bankrupt penny stock" to a "critical defense/space supplier." I have gradually accumulated ~5% of the float. I am ready for it to go to zero. But if the space economy demands "Cheap, Light, and Durable," $ASTI is the only public pure-play. Disclaimer: This is a very high-risk microcap. Do your own due diligence. Not financial advice.

YeahDave

208,143 views • 7 months ago

These quick workouts are for people who want to improve their postures. The exercises target the weakened foundations pulling your body out of alignment. The sessions are short yet effective. Use the workouts to raise yourself to the next level before the new year starts. Instructions: - Do the exercises as a circuit, or one at a time if you find the circuit format too challenging. - Repeat the circuit or each exercise 3 to 4 times. - The sessions are light enough that you can done daily. Follow the sequence from Day 1 to Day 7 in order. - Ideally done at the start of your day or at the end. Day 1: Kneeling T-Spine Stretch (0:06) [ 10 reps/side ] - Start: Kneeling, one hand on the floor. - Slide your straight arm under your torso. - Reach as far forward as possible. - Keep your hips squared throughout the motion. Kneeling T-Spine Rotation (0:12) [10 reps/side] - Start: Kneeling, one hand on the floor, the other behind your head. - Rotate inward to point your elbow toward the floor. - Rotate outward to point your elbow toward the ceiling. - You may not have the mobility to go all the way up. Stop when you reach your max, and do not force it. Supine Around The World (0:18) [10-20 reps/side] - Start: Lying on your back, arms by your sides, palms toward the ceiling. - Rotate your arms back to have your hands pointing behind you. Day 2 Side-Lying Quad Stretch (0:27) [30-60 seconds/leg] - Start: Lying on your side, legs stacked. - Grab your ankle and pull your foot toward you. - Use a towel or elastic band if you cannot reach your ankle. Hip Bridge, Feet on Bench (0:37) [10 reps with a 3s hold at the top of each rep] - Start: Lying on your back, feet on an elevated surface like a bench, couch, or chair. - Lift your hips off the floor to align your upper and lower bodies. - Adapt: If you cannot lift all the way, do the same exercise with your feet on the floor. - Adapt: If this variation is too easy, do one leg at a time. Dynamic Hip Extension Plank (0:49) [ 10-20 reps/leg] - Start: Push-up position. - Lift one leg as high as possible, keeping it straight. - Alternate legs. - Adapt: Rest on your forearms if you struggle to hold the push-up position. Day 3 Sky Reach (1:04) [10 reps/side] - Start: Deep Squat position - Rotate one arm to have your hand pointing toward the ceiling or as close as you can reach. - Do not force the range of motion if you block before that. - Alternate arms. - Adapt: Kneeling variation. Side-Lying External Rotation (1:21) [10 reps/arm] - Start: Lying on your side, one hand supports your head, and the other holds a dumbbell or any weighted object if you lack equipment. - Rotate the weight directly above your body while keeping your arm locked to your torso. Bent-Over Reverse Flys (1:28) [20 reps] Start: Bend forward, arms hanging down. Ensure your back is straight and your hips are held high. Lift your arms to shoulder level and keep them straight. Adapt: Add weights if bodyweight is too easy. Day 4 Deep Squat (1:36) [10 reps] - Start: Feet slightly wider than hips apart. Inhale first, then hold it in. - Lead the motion by sliding your knees forward and letting your hips naturally fold. - Go as low as your body allows, then push back up. - Exhale on the way up. - Adapt: Hold onto something stable to help you go lower. Hip Thrust (1:44) [10 reps with a 3s hold at the top of each rep] - Start: Both feet on the ground, shoulders on the edge of a bench or couch, hips down. - Lift your hips to align your lower and upper bodies, and hold. Side Bridge (1:57) [10 reps/side] - Start: Side Plank position, legs stacked. - Lift your hips off the floor and hold when you reach the top. - Ensure your head stays aligned with your shoulders and hips. Avoid bending it forward to make the motion easier. - Adapt: Bend the lower leg. Day 5 Wall Slides (2:23) [10 reps] - Start: Stand in front of a wall with your forearms and hands flat behind you. - Be as close as you can to the wall, but you can take a few steps forward if you lack the mobility to keep your arms flat. - Straighten your arms while keeping them flat against the wall. Y-Raises (2:29) [10 reps with a 3s hold at the top] - Start: Lying on your stomach, arms in a Y position, thumbs toward the ceiling. - Lift your thumbs toward the ceiling and hold. - Lower back to the floor. T-Raises (2:41) [10 reps with a 3-second hold at the top] - Start: Lying on your stomach, arms in a T position, thumbs toward the ceiling. - Lift your arms toward the ceiling and hold. - Lower back to the floor. Day 6 Seated Toe Pointing (2:56) [10 reps] - Start: Sitting on the floor with your legs ahead of you, feet together. - Point your toes forward. - Point them toward you. Seated Ankle Rotations (3:02) [10 reps] - Start: Sitting on the floor with your legs ahead of you, feet apart. - Rotate your feet like a windshield wiper, going as deep as possible on either side. Reverse Plank (3:09) [Hold for 30-60 seconds] - Start: Ball of the feet on a step, heels hanging. You may hold on to a ramp or wall for added support. - Lower your heels as low as possible and hold at the bottom. - Lift your heels as high as possible. Day 7 Unilateral Chest Stretch (3:21) [30-60 seconds/arm] - Start: Place your hand flat against the wall at shoulder level. - Rotate your body in the opposite direction and hold. - Placing your hand higher than shoulder level increases the stretch. Cat-Cow Stretch (3:31) [10 reps] - Start: Hands and knees on the floor. - Round your lower back like a cat (pulling it toward the ceiling) and hold. - Push it down as much as possible and hold. Wide Leg Adductor Stretch (3:38) [30-60 seconds] - Start: Sit on the floor with your legs as wide as possible, hands right in front of you. - Hold the position. // Start your New Year's resolutions with these quick posture workouts. You'll build up the foundations needed to withstand 2024 and crush your goals. Have an excellent weekend!

Alex Bernier

380,482 views • 2 years ago

🚨 69 𝕏 MINUTES — THE SYSTEM IS BREAKING: Tyrants & the War on Truth | EPISODE 6 This week on the most unfiltered news show on 𝕏… Serbia’s president speaks exclusively to Mario — and what he says could flip the script on the Balkans and beyond. Milei cracked open Nazi escape files, revealing just how far global elites went to bury the past. Interpol targets an Eastern European leader — but the President of Srpska isn’t backing down. In an exclusive interview, he breaks down his fight against lawfare and the global forces trying to silence him. In the U.S, the gloves are off: A federal judge blocks Trump — again, and conservatives are fighting back. Censorship is on overdrive. DEI and gender ideology get torched as Americans turn on the theater. And in a twist, no one saw coming: Big Soda is funding MAGA influencers — is nothing sacred? Meanwhile, Iran is days from a nuclear bomb while Europe hits snooze. And Burisma? It might have been a Moscow op all along. This isn’t a headline — it’s a reckoning. No spin. No filters. Just truth — raw, risky, and real. Hosted by Erin Molan. Only on 𝕏. Watch. Share. Buckle up. 01:30 – 🇷🇸 Serbian Chaos: President Vučić Under Fire Anti-corruption protests erupt after a deadly train crash. Александар Вучић says the chaos is funded by foreign media, fake elites, and NGO networks aiming to overthrow him. 08:20 – 🇦🇷 69 SECONDS: Milei Exposes Argentina’s Nazi Past Argentina's Milei News 🇦🇷🤝🌎 discusses Javier Milei's declassification of WWII Nazi escape routes, revealing how war criminals fled to Argentina with help from Swiss banks and Perón’s regime. 09:32 – 🇺🇸 DEI Is the New Tyranny Robby Starbuck says the regime dresses up control as compassion—calls for an Internet Bill of Rights to fight back. 16:18 – 🇧🇦 Wanted by Interpol: Dodik vs the Deep State Милорад Додик says the globalists want him silenced. With a red notice, a political ban, and Brussels breathing down his neck—he’s not backing down. 22:55 – 🇺🇸 Trump’s Judge Problem: Impeachment Incoming Congressman Brandon Gill tells David Pollack a federal judge blocking President Donald J. Trump deportation order was sabotage—and he’s filing articles of impeachment. 29:34 – 🌐 69 SECONDS: Crypto Carnage From Kraken’s $1.5B play to a flash loan heist and The BitBoy’s arrest—Adel recaps the madness. 30:41 – 🇺🇸 Big Soda’s MAGA Playbook 🇺🇸 ERIC BOLLING 🇺🇸 uncovers the influencers shilling sugar—and why Robert F. Kennedy Jr calling soda "poison" might be the real conservative stance. 36:33 – 🇺🇸 69 SECONDS: NATO, AI & The West’s Willpower Scott Adams asks if peace is even on the table anymore—or if AI-fueled censorship and endless war are the new normal. 37:33 – 🇮🇷 Nuclear Countdown: Iran on the Brink The U.S. says Tehran is just days away from nuclear capabilities —and years of Western hand-wringing made it possible. Jonathan Conricus joins us to break it down and how Israel has prepared for this very moment for decades. 44:22 – 🇬🇧 Europe’s Wake-Up Call Rɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ Kᴇᴍᴘ ⋁ says NATO’s not ready, the EU is bluffing, and only Donald J. Trump is thinking big enough to stop WW3. 51:01 – 69 SECONDS: AI Chaos & the Coming Gold Rush Buzz 巴斯光年 breaks down Grok’s Telegram expansion, OpenAI’s hallucinations, and the $40B power grab behind the scenes. 52:11 – 🇺🇸 Moscow’s Shadow Over Burisma JP Lindsley | Journalist says the entire “Ukraine scandal” started in Russia—and Clintonworld may have recycled it to take down Trump. 58:48 – UNCANNY VALLEY: Ben Goertzel’s AGI Warning Ben Goertzel tells Dr Danish AGI isn’t decades away—it’s months. The tech will work. The problem? Society might collapse before it adapts. 01:05:24 – 🇺🇸 ERIN’S TAKE: Climate Panic… Gone Silent Erin Molan calls out the green grifters — Liberals have seemed to ditch their climate cause, and the voters are done playing along. No censorship. No corporate spin. No talking points. Just the stories they refuse to cover. Special thanks to the fearless journalists on 𝕏 exposing the truth every day. And of course, thanks to Elon Musk for building a platform where free speech actually means free speech. Episode 6 — raw, unfiltered, unstoppable.

Mario Nawfal

3,128,514 views • 1 year ago

From Creator to Founder: The Rollercoaster Journey of Building Chatter Social Man, what a journey it’s been so far. Four years ago, I was just another creator, spending late nights on Clubhouse during the height of the pandemic. Like so many others, I was searching for connection, for community, for something meaningful. But what I found there wasn’t just connection—it was purpose. Alongside my brother, Jonathan Bing, we built a nightly show that reached over 5 million people. Imagine that: 5 million lives touched by conversations that felt real and unfiltered, all on a platform that at its peak had 10 million monthly active users. Clubhouse was magic. But then the decline began. Watching the platform struggle, I couldn’t help but reflect: what made it great? What went wrong? And what could the future look like if we did things differently? The Spark of Chatter As a content creator, I understood the needs of both creators and users. I knew what excited people, what kept them engaged, and what made them leave. Clubhouse had tapped into something special, but it had missed the mark on scalability and sustainability. By September 2023, I couldn’t stop thinking about the potential for something new—something that brought back the magic of real-time interaction but made it scalable, engaging, and sticky. And so, I set out to build Chatter Social. But I wasn’t a tech founder. I didn’t have a background in software development or a network of Silicon Valley insiders. What I did have was determination and the belief that if I could bring the right people together, we could build something extraordinary. Building the Team The journey to build Chatter started with assembling a team. Through my network from my days on Clubhouse, I found Samir, my first CTO. He believed in the vision and was instrumental in getting the project off the ground. Shortly after, I connected with Tyler, our Head of Design, whose creativity brought life to our ideas. A developer joined us soon after, and we were off to the races. By the end of 2023, Samir had to step away due to other commitments, and we promoted the developer to CTO. At the same time, I brought on Banko, a Sony music executive, as our CMO. Banko’s connections led to one of our biggest early wins: landing Davido, a global superstar, as an owner-ambassador. To this day, I still marvel at the fact that Davido believed in our vision when all we had were Tyler’s Figma designs. From Dream to Reality Early 2024 was a whirlwind. We hired Yurii and Vasyl, two developers from Ukraine who brought incredible skill and dedication to the team. Vasyl, in particular, stood out as a leader and has since earned an equity position in the company. But despite these wins, we were facing growing pains. Our new CTO struggled to meet deadlines, and as a result, I found myself constantly pushing back the launch date. What started as a January release turned into February, then March, then April, then May. By then, people on Twitter Spaces—where I had been hyping up the platform—started doubting if we even had a product. Launch and Lessons June 1, 2024, marked a turning point. It was the day my son Noah was born and the day we launched Chatter in private beta. We started with just 40 users, but by the end of the month, we had grown to 1,000. The engagement was unbelievable. Users loved it, even though we had launched with just one feature: live rooms. This represented less than 20% of what we had planned, but it was enough to show that we were onto something big. In July, we launched our public beta on the App Store as an invite-only platform. Within 48 hours, Chatter ranked as a top 30 social app in over 30 countries. But our invite system throttled access, and most users couldn’t get in. While engagement metrics soared for those inside, our AWS costs exploded. In August, our AWS bill hit $10,000. By September, it had climbed to $15,000, and we were drowning in bugs and glitches. The breaking point came when our CTO became unresponsive, often disappearing during critical moments. Users were dropping off, frustrated by the issues, developers were confused and the team was also growing increasingly frustrated, I made the tough decision to let him go. A New Beginning Enter Horane, a long-time user of Chatter who had been with us since private beta. He was the first to discover some of the most innovative use cases for the platform and had a deep passion for its potential. After meeting him in person at a Chatter event, I knew he was the right person to step into the CTO role. When Horane took over, we discovered just how bad the situation was. Key areas of the codebase were locked, and there were no separate environments for development and production. Every fix seemed to break something else. But through sheer determination and countless 18-hour days, Horane stabilized the platform. Today, Chatter is far from perfect, but it’s stable. The bugs that plagued us have been reduced to moderate issues, and our core users—those who stuck with us through the chaos—are still engaged on the platform. Looking Ahead: Chatter V2 While the platform is stable now, we’ve shifted our focus to Chatter V2. This is where the magic really begins. V2 isn’t just an improvement; it’s a complete reimagining of the platform. It includes all the features we couldn’t release in V1 because we were too busy putting out fires. Imagine this: Chatter V1, with only one live feature, was incredibly sticky. Now think about what happens when we release a fully loaded platform with all the innovative features we’ve been working on behind the scenes. The possibilities are endless. V2 is slated to hit TestFlight by the end of December, with a public release in January 2025. And this time, we’re ready—not just with the product but with the lessons we’ve learned. The Hard Lessons This journey has taught me more than I ever thought possible: 1) Your Team is Everything: The right people can make or break your vision. Finding people who believe in your mission is just as important as finding people with the right skills. 2) Adaptability is Key: As a non-technical founder, I had to learn about development, DevOps, and product management on the fly. Challenges will push you to grow, whether you’re ready or not. 3) Trust the Process: Every setback, every delay, every bug—it all taught us something. Without those lessons, we wouldn’t be building the incredible V2 product we are today. 4) Resilience is Non-Negotiable: From technical disasters to predatory investors who tried to exploit my desperation, I’ve had to fight for this vision every step of the way. What’s Next December is shaping up to be an exciting month. We have some amazing events planned on the platform to close out the year, bringing our core community together as we prepare for the V2 launch. When V2 drops, it will mark a new era for Chatter. This isn’t just a social audio platform or a social audiovisual platform. Chatter is all about interactive experiences—making social media social again in ways that are truly unique. The public launch is slated for February 2025, and for the first time, we’ll have the marketing dollars to tell the world about Chatter. Our core community has been our biggest cheerleaders, and I can’t wait to see how the world reacts when they experience what we’ve built. Final Thoughts This has been the hardest year of my life, but also the most rewarding. To other founders, or anyone thinking about starting a company: know this—it will test you in ways you can’t imagine. You’ll face betrayal, doubt, and moments where you feel like giving up. But if you believe in your vision and refuse to quit, you’ll find a way forward. Thank you to everyone who has supported me, my team, and Chatter. We’re just getting started. Let’s talk about it. 🚀 If this story inspired you, please like and share it so others can learn from my experiences. The journey is far from over, but I’m more excited than ever for what’s to come.

Nelson Epega

43,340 views • 1 year ago

“The highest instrument of the inner awakening of race is combat, and war is its highest expression.” These words, from Julius Evola’s “Metaphysics of War,” express the core of what I regard as his most essential and enduring work. Nowhere else does Evola so fully unite the metaphysical principles of Tradition with the ethos of the warrior and the political destiny of Europe and the West. This book is not the romanticizing of bloodshed for its own sake, nor the crude militarism of modern ideology. It is the assertion that combat, rightly understood as contest, the agon, is the supreme path by which man may transcend his lower nature, awaken his inner race, and align himself with the eternal order that stands above the rise and fall of nations. Evola grounds this vision on two distinct but inseparable levels. The first is the profane, where war is the highest school of heroism, the most direct means of forming character. In war, men face the fact that everything they have, including possessions, comfort, and even life itself, can be taken in an instant. This confrontation with impermanence strips away illusions and forces detachment from all that is transient. It places life in its proper perspective, revealing the distance between what is temporary and what is timeless. For many, such moments of danger and loss bring a sudden awakening, a liberation from the grip of material attachments. The second level is the sacred, where war becomes a path to transcendence. Here Evola draws on the “Bhagavad Gita,” the supreme text of the Aryan warrior tradition. Arjuna, the warrior prince, faces two wars: the lesser war, the outer conflict against his enemies; and the greater war, the inner battle against fear, weakness, and the passions that bind man to the merely human. Krishna instructs him that those he must fight are already destined to fall, that his task is to fulfill his duty without attachment to personal feeling or outcome, and that in doing so he becomes the instrument of a higher will. This is the essence of karma yoga, the path of action in the ancient Indo-European tradition, wholly removed from the modern, commercialized idea of yoga as mere stretching or relaxation. In its original sense, it is the disciplined fulfillment of one’s duty as a means of overcoming the self. Evola stresses that the outer war cannot be won without first winning the inner one, and that the true warrior is defined above all by his mastery over himself. For Evola, a man who conquers himself may never take up arms and still be a warrior in the highest sense, while a man who fights without inner mastery may win battles yet fail as a man of Tradition. Physical combat remains, however, the supreme opportunity for transformation, because in the face of death all masks fall away and a man must stand wholly present in his being. In this moment, the fear of death can be overcome and replaced with an active ecstasy, a state in which the individual transcends the limits of his personality and participates in the eternal. From this understanding follows Evola’s vision for a new European order. Such an order cannot be founded upon bourgeois comfort, sentimental nationalism, or the reduction of race to biological factors alone. It requires men who have stripped themselves of vanity, personal grievance, and dependence on material ease. These men must see reality without distortion, live simply but with conscious force, and be wholly committed to principles that outlast their own lives. Evola speaks of such men as those who “come from afar,” men whose presence carries the dignity, clarity, and detachment of a warrior aristocracy. The essays that make up this volume, written between the 1930s and 1940s, were originally published individually in periodicals and only later collected and issued together as “Metaphysics of War” by Arktos. They reflect a time of immense political upheaval, when Evola saw possibilities for the restoration of Europe but believed such efforts required a deeper transformation. His alternative was what he called “super-fascism,” meaning a worldview that rose above the limitations and superficialities of conventional fascism. By this he did not mean a more rigid or oppressive authoritarianism, but a political form inseparable from an inner revolution, a regeneration of spirit that would awaken the imperial virtues, the heroic ethos, and the deep racial memory within Europeans. The essays in “Metaphysics of War” draw on the great warrior traditions of the Indo-European, Aryan world. The Aryan kshatriya bound to dharma, the medieval knight who fused martial skill with a code of chivalry, the Crusader who fought for a principle higher than any political allegiance, and the disciplined initiates of Mithraism all embody the same constants. The true warrior acts with courage and without hesitation. He possesses clarity unclouded by sentiment. He welcomes the trial of danger. He subordinates passion to principle. He chooses his comrades carefully, respecting only those who meet his standard. He holds to an instinctive sense of order and form. Above all, he practices detachment toward himself, toward possessions, and toward life itself, which grants him calm in uncertainty, the ability to begin anew after loss, and the indomitability to endure all trials. Evola places these virtues in the context of the Traditional doctrine of the four ages. The first age is ruled by the spiritual authority of the priestly caste. The second age is ruled by the warrior principle. The third age sees the dominance of the merchant, when the concept of the nation becomes material and democratic. The fourth is the age of the slave, the reign of quantity, when both priestly and warrior virtues are nearly extinct. This last age, the Kali Yuga, is the most degenerate, but for those capable of transformation it offers unique possibilities. The same forces that degrade the many can be used by the few to reach a higher state, if met with the right inner discipline. This is why Evola could still affirm the potential of modern warfare, despite condemning its mechanized and impersonal nature, a view shared in part by Ernst Jünger and others. In traditional combat, the warrior met his adversary face to face, and the contest contained both honor and the possibility of transcendence. Modern war, conducted by machines and managed by bureaucracies, robs combat of much of this. The soldier, significantly the soldier rather than the warrior, becomes an anonymous function within an industrial process. Yet for the man rightly prepared, even the disasters of modern conflict can strip life to its essentials, burn away the false, and reveal the unshakable core of the self. In our own time, politics has degenerated into managed disputes within mass democracy, and war is often waged by remote technology rather than by men in direct contest. The decisive battlefield has shifted. The total war of the modern age is fought within the soul of every man who would preserve his dignity, his form, and his identity in a world bent on dissolution. The enemy is not only the system that denies higher values, but the corrosion of will, clarity, and discipline that such a system fosters. “Metaphysics of War” is therefore not merely a historical or philosophical study, but a summons to all still capable of rising above the detritus of this broken world. It calls for the forging of a warrior aristocracy able to wage both the inner and the outer war. It affirms that the man of Tradition fights not for material gain, not from instinct, and not from compulsion, but as an act of fidelity to an order that stands above life and death. For such a man, combat is not the destruction of life, but its elevation into the eternal. The restoration of a Europe worthy of its inheritance depends upon the creation of such men, for no lesser foundation will endure.

Chad Crowley

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COMMONS HOUSING SELECT COMMITTEE: STATEMENT FROM FREE LEASEHOLDERS 3/3/26 Today, we told Parliament the truth. About the cynical games Conservative and Labour governments have been playing with your homes, money and lives. It was awkward. We had to motor through to cover as many points as humanely possible in a short time. Sorry if we didn’t cover yours. We are the insurgents against a very closed and broken political system. We will go away when they finally free the people from the property servitude of leasehold. Until then, we will keep challenging the official line and holding power to account, however uncomfortable that may be. Parliament has been talking about abolishing leasehold, a legacy of serfdom, since the 1880s, before working men and women had the right to vote. In 2026, we keep hearing it’s “complicated” and our politicians need more time because they might get sued by the wealthy landowners. What happened to the will of the people? Isn’t Parliament sovereign? Wasn’t that what all the Brexit lark was about? And doesn’t this Labour government have the second biggest parliamentary majority in its 126-year history as the so-called working people’s party? Keir Starmer can do a TikTok stunt on ground rents. But he can’t run away from the truth. His government are peddling a draft Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill that has been purged of policies that you voted for in the The Labour Party manifesto. Policies promised again in the July 2024 King’s Speech: the remaining Law Commission enfranchisement and Right to Manage recommendations. So you can finally “take back control”. The Starmer administration appears to be captured by the deep-pocketed freeholder lobby and property cartels. And the Prime Minister is in thrall to the hand-wringing lawyers who bleat on about the risk of judicial review and ECHR lawfare, as if the rights of extortionists, many offshore, and lofty international law matter more than the British people being looted in their homes and what election manifestos have promised time and time again. This government claims that they are ending the feudal leasehold system. Instead, they keep it on life support by protecting money-for-nothing ground rents until 2068. We’ll have flying cars before feudalism is banished from our homes! And buried away in the small print, the Labour government concedes our point: “leasehold as a tenure will not disappear overnight and it will be a feature of the housing market for many years to come.” The government is also siding with the leasehold grifters by failing to restrict development value in the draft legislation, which means many flat leaseholders will never be able to afford to buy their freehold, something that must happen before conversion to commonhold. Remember, the freeholders’ main lobby group, the Residential Freehold Association, admits that the typical freeholder owns just 2.5% capital value in a block of flats. These wealth-destroying corporates own a sliver of our homes and have the cheek to talk about their human rights. We are not Mugabeists. We will, of course, pay a fair rate to compensate the freeholder to leave our homes for good. But demanding more of our money so they can thwart our right to buy them out, on the basis that they could theoretically build a skyscraper in the garden, is taking the mick and must end, as the government first promised in 2021. Don’t take our word on the scam of freeholders invoking development value to block leaseholders’ bid for self-rule. Barrister Nicola Muir, of Tanfield Chambers, has written that “it is amazing what developments landlords believe are possible and the profits they claim they will generate”, citing a telling example from practice: “The landlord initially claimed £34 million for the alleged potential to build a skyscraper in the front garden of the block. Such claims can obviously be a deterrent to leaseholders, who probably have no intention of developing.” And we were the ONLY campaign group that urged the Housing, Communities & Local Government Committee to ensure that this government sets enfranchisement rates high in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024, to the benefit of leaseholders. There is a major risk that, due to the influence peddling of ground rent grifters and their lobbyists in Westminster and Whitehall, the government will fail to implement these long-awaited reforms already on the statute books. Matthew Pennycook MP promised in November 2024 to put enfranchisement rates out to public consultation last summer, but it never happened. And if the government is forced to begin the enfranchisement changes in the 2024 Act, it will likely set the deferment and capitalisation rates artificially low, stuffing freeholders’ mouths with gold when desperate leaseholders try to extend their leases or buy out the freehold. These deferment and capitalisation rates are already derived from freeholder-friendly case law, specifically the 2006 Upper Tribunal decision known as Sportelli, with the deferment rate set at 4.75% for houses and 5.0% for flats, and a capitalisation rate of 6.0%. While the 2024 Act is vague on what these rates should be, we know that investors routinely buy freeholds at auction or directly from developers at higher rates than those implied by Sportelli, meaning they pay significantly less than leaseholders are already required to pay under statutory schemes with the low Sportelli rates. For example, an analysis of Allsop Ground Rent Auctions found that investors have been paying an average 9% capitalisation rate for the ground rent in freehold titles – well above Sportelli’s 6%. This situation is clearly unfair, and there is significant industry lobbying to keep the deferment and capitalisation rates low, i.e. below the going market rates, so that freeholders are excessively compensated by leaseholders. Once the rates are set in the 2024 Act, they remain fixed for ten years, creating jeopardy that they will be set to the disadvantage of leaseholders, who are less organised and resourced than industry interests to influence policy. If the rates are set substantially below Sportelli rates, the savings from other provisions of the 2024 Act – such as the removal of marriage value, the 0.1% restriction on ground rents, and the end of the requirement to pay the freeholder’s reasonable legal and valuation costs – would be more than cancelled out, leaving leaseholders paying more than they do today under the current rules. Minister Pennycook highlighted this risk while in opposition during the passage of the 2024 Act, stating that Labour “remain[s] convinced that this government, or a future one, could be lobbied by vested interests to set a deferment rate that will be punitive to leaseholders.” He proposed an amendment on the deferment rate to guide the Secretary of State, requiring that “in setting the deferment rate, the Secretary of State must have regard to the desirability of encouraging leaseholders to extend their lease at the lowest possible cost”, although the amendment was not passed. This policy ought to be in the draft Bill, yet it remains absent. We are urging that the 2024 Act be amended to require that the enfranchisement rates must not fall below an absolute floor of the existing Sportelli rates (with the deferment rate of 4.75% for houses and 5.0% for flats, and a capitalisation rate of 6.0%). But leaseholders should really benefit from market rates, i.e. those which developers and investors already enjoy being significantly above Sportelli, to ensure that they do not pay excessive compensation to freeholders, as occurs under the current system, to buy their freehold or extend a lease. And this isn’t just about what goes into the algorithm for the online enfranchisement calculator under the 2024 Act, or about ending the development value scam, a reform dropped from the legislation after behind-the-scenes lobbying. We will not accept a failure to bring forward a Universal Right to Manage, as part of a glidepath to commonhold. Watch what our founder said about a well-connected landlord and tenant barrister who bragged to the property tribunal last year that he had worked on the Law Commission’s Right to Manage reforms, all while representing an offshore billionaire freeholder trying to block leaseholders’ quest for Right to Manage. It should be easy. But the leaseholders at this development had to spend £150,000 just to defend their no-fault right against this legal onslaught at the First-tier Tribunal. They won, but the freeholder is now appealing… Beyond Right to Manage reform, we need a Right to Participate in collective enfranchisement so that all flat leaseholders can buy a share of the freehold even if they miss out the first time when one group of neighbours has enough support to enfranchise the block. It is unfair for leaseholders to be locked out of decisions over the charges they pay and the services affecting their home when they are ready to buy their share of the freehold. Sorting this inequity was the will of Parliament with Right to Enfranchise provisions in the 2002 Act. It’s also what the Law Commission originally recommended before seemingly being pressured by vested interests to drop the policy from their final recommendations in 2020. Also, why on earth should leaseholders have to contort themselves to get 50% support of all unit-owners in a block? Satisfying the onerous 50% participation threshold is near impossible in bigger buildings and those with high levels of buy-to-let, yet scummy investors face no qualifying criteria when hoovering up the freeholds of our homes from developers or auctioneers behind our backs. Don’t patronise us with Lord Best’s scheme for managing agents. We want liberation, not regulation. There’s a reason both the freeholder and managing agent lobbies are gagging for the cosy Lord Best policy, which wasn’t promised in either the Labour manifesto or the King’s Speech. It will jack up leaseholders’ already sky-high service charges, repeat the cruel joke of the Building Safety Regulator, and keep freeholders and their managing agent cronies firmly in the ecosystem. At the same time, a statutory regulator of managing agents will no doubt restrict competition by keeping out small ethical new entrants. It will also allow the government to claim job done while failing to end leasehold. Even without leasehold abolition, leaseholders will still be denied rightful control of their service charges and the power to easily sack their managing agent - the real regulation needed to rein in rip-off service providers and put them out of business, not some powerless or captured regulator in Whitehall. Labour should be for the grafters. If the government wants to win back public support after the Gordon and Denton by-election drubbing, salvaging this draft legislation and swiftly commencing the 2024 Act must be its priority. Show that politics can be a force for good. Stand up to the ground rent grifters and offshore property mafia. Free leaseholders. 5.3 million households in England and Wales are watching.

Free Leaseholders

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