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“From lagging to leading, AP under YS Jagan Reddy’s model of development has set a new benchmark in sustainable and inclusive development” Clear Details 👇👇👇 Let’s say India exports ₹1000 a year, how much did AP & TG contribute? The numbers tell a story… 📉 CBN Rule (2017–2019): 2017...

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Dear ED NIA India गृहमंत्री कार्यालय, HMO India I am writing to bring to your urgent attention about serious financial irregularities, suspected benami dealings, and systematic FCRA violations involving Sodadasi Praveen Chakravarty and his network of linked NGOs and firms in Andhra Pradesh. The following FCRA-registered associations are under his control: Sylom Blind Centre (Darpan ID: AP/2017/0157272 – FCRA No. 010170248) Action in Distress (Darpan ID: TS/2021/0279097 – FCRA No. 010230131) Janavikas (Darpan ID: AP/2020/0256040 – FCRA No. 010340029) Janavikas Samastha (Darpan ID: AP/2018/0219228 – FCRA No. 010120093) Key Allegations Religious Conversions & Anti-Hindu Remarks (2021): During a controversy in Kakinada, Praveen faced allegations of conducting conversions. A viral video showed him boasting about destroying Hindu temples.Following this, CID and other agencies placed Sylom NGO under surveillance. Purchase & Misuse of NGOs: To escape scrutiny, Praveen purchased multiple pre-approved FCRA NGOs and replaced their trustees with his own benami individuals. Example: Action in Distress (purchased in 2021) had its original trustees are replaced by his Benamis, who are used for diversion of funds. Foreign Funding Misuse: Since then, he has systematically diverted foreign donations through these NGOs, fabricating social welfare projects while using the funds for religious conversions and personal luxury. Recent posts on social media confirm that foreign donors have been visiting India under the direct hosting of Praveen Chakravarty, which clearly indicates ongoing foreign funding activity and possible misuse under FCRA provisions. (Link attached) Role of Family Members: While Praveen runs KTC school, His sister Sowmya Sumalatha runs New Mother Teresa School.Tribal children are presented as “orphans” to foreign donors for sponsorship funds, while simultaneously collecting fees from parents — creating unaccounted black money. (Link attached) Pattern Similar to Previous Cases: This modus operandi closely resembles the 2020 case where Gospel for Tribals Social Service, after FCRA violations, rebranded itself as Grace Service Society. The pattern is strikingly similar to the ongoing issues you have already flagged regarding Rural Development Trust, Rayalaseema Development Trust, Accion Fraternal Trust, and Woman’s Development Trust, where suspected benami dealings, systematic FCRA violations, and financial irregularities were highlighted, demanding an ED probe. Praveen Chakravarty’s case appears to be another large-scale, organized misuse of FCRA in Andhra Pradesh. Why This Matters Large-scale money laundering and black money generation. Exploitation of tribal children under the guise of education and welfare. Religious conversions disguised as social work. Systematic misuse of FCRA approvals by acquiring multiple NGOs. Request Legal Rights Protection Forum to: Highlight this matter for public awareness. Urge the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and MHA (FCRA Division) to launch a probe into Praveen Chakravarty and the above-mentioned NGOs. Connect this with similar precedents (e.g., Gospel for Tribals Social Service case) to show the ongoing pattern of FCRA misuse in Andhra Pradesh. We believe your intervention will help expose these violations and safeguard both national security and the rights of vulnerable Hindu communities. Sincerely, Anonymous Well-wisher

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Israel moved from hitting Hezbollah targets to physically reshaping southern Lebanon. And inside Iran, the strike map widened again overnight with visible pressure on Tehran, missile infrastructure, coastal nodes, and internal security sites. At the same time, the anticipated U.S. move on Iranian power plants did not happen yet, which makes the immediate next window as important as the one just completed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 IRANIAN MISSILE ATTACKS ON ISRAEL Iran continued missile launches into Israel, but the operational detail that matters is how these attacks are being configured. Times of Israel live coverage reported fresh damage in central Israel from cluster munitions or fragments, while Jerusalem Post live coverage tracked shrapnel and fragment strikes in central Israel and additional impacts farther north. Ynet also highlighted two lightly wounded in Bat Yam and a partly collapsed building in Holon from the same general wave pattern. 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They are being used to sustain pressure while Iran’s launcher network remains under strain. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇱🇧 LEBANON: ISRAEL MOVED FROM STRIKES TO TERRAIN DENIAL The biggest concrete change on the northern front was Israel’s continued move toward physical denial of Hezbollah movement rather than just attritional fire. Reuters reported that Israel struck the main bridge on the southern Lebanese coastal highway and ordered the destruction of homes near the border and bridges over the Litani River. AP reported the same bridge strike and framed Katz’s order to include all Litani crossings as a meaningful broadening of the target set. That means the Lebanon front is no longer just a story of rockets and retaliatory airstrikes. Israel is trying to reengineer the battlespace itself. Destroying crossings, flattening frontline structures, and reducing usable approach routes all point to the same objective: make it harder for Hezbollah to return south in meaningful strength even if the current phase of fighting slows. Reuters explicitly described Lebanese criticism that these measures look like pre invasion preparation and collective punishment. There was also an important corrective detail today. Times of Israel and Ynet both reported that the farmer killed near Misgav Am was not killed by Hezbollah fire after all, but by errant Israeli artillery shelling intended to support troops in southern Lebanon. 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Patch 0.12.3 - "Blades of Ezochi" is now released! Patch 0.12.3 is a minor update patch that includes 3 new classes, some rules updates and a lot of changes to classes. Earthcleaving and Searing Lotus style are two elemental style sword classes, one of which is an anti-tank and the other a tank. Another paladin has also been added with gun paladin. A lot of classes have seen some key abilities redesigned or changed. Some of these such as backlash were too easy to use and lacked counterplay, while other such as defensive flexibility were resourceless defenses that warped the game around having them or not having them. Some other less used abilities have gotten some number buffs to make them less clunky to use. For the basic rules, precise attacks now have pinpoint by default to make them a better option against dodgy targets who often would still have enough guard to negate most of the damage. Block now works against damage in general, giving more of a reason to take it over simply dodging everything and making failed save damage have some counterplay. As always, thank you for your support. Rules Precise attacks now gain Pinpoint. Some abilities do not gain it. Added a Push basic action. Block reaction now works vs damage in general and not just attacks. Updated rules for abilities to state all abilities as general rule require you to have line of sight to it. Races Ryujin Dragon Breath now has the Safe keyword. Classes NEW: Gun Paladin, a ranged support/striker hybrid. Earthcleaving Style, an anti-tank earth melee striker. Searing Lotus Style, a fire style tank Abjurer Mana Shield slightly reworked Adventurer Steel Aura now has the Circuit and Rage keywords. Secret Art now also resets your Circuit keyword when used. Power Jump now has the Circuit keyword. Aeromaster Razor Hurricane now deals Wind damage. Alchemist Stone Grinding now also works on shielding effects. Amanita Spore Burst now deals Poison damage. Assassin Study Target can now apply Death Mark with only 2 AP spent. Battlemage Battle Cast now has the Circuit keyword. Battlemaster Can now be accessed through adventurer. Bloodbinder Blood Drain now deals Dark damage. Now has the Safe keyword. Transfusion and Life sacrifice no longer trigger effects on yourself that would trigger from taking damage. Carpenter Hammer and Nail now has the Rage keyword. Felling Strike mana cost reduced from 2→1. Chronofighter Past Self slightly reworked Attacks from the past reworked Secret Art reworked and renamed. Chronomancer Haste mana cost increased from 1→2 and given the circuit keyword. Colossus Can now be accessed throguh adventurer. Two Sword Crush now has the Rage keyword. Double Slam now gives you the option to make only 1 attack even when wielding two 2 handed weapons. Mighty Leap range increased from 20→40ft. Culinarian Herbal Stock now keeps the bonus for the entire node. Curse Knight Backlash is now Offstep rather than Sure Hit Devil's Blow wording updated to prevent confusion on the full pierce. Cutthroat Can now be entered through Culinarian. Deadeye Disarming Shot mana cost reduced from 3→2. Death Knight Call of the Grave AP cost reduced from 3→2. Dragoon Can be Jiangshi instead of the jumping expertise now. Duelist Deflect Missiles renamed to Deflect Everything, now works vs all attacks. Electromancer Zap no longer gains Sure Hit against targets valid for your superconductor. Forked Lightning now applies Focus x 2 static. All electromancer abilities now scale their static of Focus instead of Power. Electromaster Static Field now scales static of Focus instead of Power. Exalted Blade Divine Storm clarified. Execavator Cave Raider now has the Circuit keyword. Executor Holy Orders now can only be used before you attack and the free movement only occurs if the target moves away from you while in your melee range. Farmer Scarecrow's Gaze now has the Circuit keyword. Fencer Precise Thrust updated to not disable updated dueling weapon. Fighter Slam now lets you spend a mana to ignore the power requirement. Power Strike reworked. Defensive Flexibility reworked. Geomancer Earthquake now states it only hits people on the ground. Gravitect Black Hole now allows for a save. Graviturge Localized Collapse RP spend now fully avoids it. Gunfu Gun Martial Arts now lets your unarmed attacks benefit from your pistol material bonuses. Highlander Aftershock now has the Rage keyword. Can now be accessed through adventurer. Hydromancer Aqua Drill now deals Water damage. Now has the Safe keyword. Crashing Foam Wave now has the Active keyword. Lancer Can now be accessed through Adventurer and Cavalier. Mage Arcane Barrier now has to be in reaction to damage taken and no longer prevents true damage. Mycomancer Poison Spore damage reduced from Power + 5 → Power + 2. Necromancer Soulreap now also instantly kills the enemy on killing blow. Corpse Explosion now deals Dark damage. Pyromancer Incendiary Ray mana cost increased from 1→2. Now applies Burning on damage. Pyromaster Hellfire only applies when you inflict Burning on your own turn. Sage Lengthened Incantation capped to 2 additional AP, now applies to Scattering AoE attacks again. Can now be entered through Mage Knight. Selective Casting now has the Circuit keyword. Scout Can now be accessed through Rogue. Shield Paladin Holy Weapon light emitting part now also works on ranged weapons. Spearmaster Updated Gae Bolg wording. Spellblade Spellstrike wording updated. Sky Talon Style Heavenfall Descent now has the Rage keyword. Keywords Added an Opener keyword for abilities who must be used as the first action in a turn. Added a Circuit keyword for some abilities to give them a one time discount on their mana use. Added a Safe keyword for attacks that do not provoke AoO's Items NEW: New mods for thrown weapons. New mods added for poison materials. New ghimslag armor mod. New mod for shields. Some cloaks now gain a higher benefit if made with a higher tier base material. Bags now gain a benefit from higher materials and have a mod. Carts now gain a benefit from higher materials. Shields no longer gain bonuses to evasion or guard from material, only to block/dodge. (Does not affect existing ones) Elemental Weapon Alloy crafting point costs reduced from 15→10. Dueling weapon ability no longer works if you make a Heavy attack with it using AP. Added a mod that regains the ability for 1 heavy. Scythes Reworked Long Haft. Added a Focused Spin B mod. Armor Anti-poison silver mod removed. Chain Links reduced from 8→4. Flexible armor values increased. Gourmet Cooking Stock old wording updated. Greenhouse labor cost fixed to be consistent with other values. Perfect Balance mod now also works with precise attacks.

Angel's Sword RPG Official

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E166: Gracy Chen @Bitget - Single Mom. 2200 Employees. Top-5 Exchange Gracy Chen is CEO of Bitget - a top-5 global crypto exchange with 25 million users and $20B in daily trading volume. She went from TV journalist to MIT MBA to co-founding a unicorn startup to running one of the world's largest exchanges. She's also one of the few female CEOs in crypto who's been told directly by investors they won't back women who are married but don't have kids yet. So she built her own path! Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:34 Please Subscribe 2:00 The Only Bad Experience With When Shift Happens 4:37 How Do We Motivate More Women To Join The Crypto Space 6:13 Bitget’s Overall Work Environment Explained 7:06 How Gracy Manages 2,200 Remote Workers 10:09 Partnerships: Jupiter KAST 10:50 Who Is Gracy Chen? 13:04 Where Does Gracy’s Fire In The Belly Come From? 15:01 Why Is It Necessary To Go To The Best Schools 17:00 How Does Happiness Connect With Being The Best? 19:38 How Did Gracy End Up As A TV Host 23:45 The Hardest Part About Building A Business 26:10 Want-trepreneurs vs Entrepreneurs 28:52 Partnerships: Ethena Sumsub 29:52 Just Go and Do It 32:57 Why Investors Didn’t Invest In Gracy’s 2017 Project 34:55 Why Should People Care About Crypto Currencies & Blockchain 41:36 What Is Bitget, Explained Simply? 43:55 Gracy’s Breakdown Of Bitget’s Numbers 45:09 How Bitget Got Over 40% Of Its Management Team To Be Female 46:48 Where Women Excel In Terms Of Business Management Practice 50:45 Where Do Men Excel In Business Management Practice 52:20 Partnerships: Trezor Bitwise Sui 53:17 What Are Gracy’s KPIs As The CEO Of Bitget? 56:45 How Bitget Is Growing The Pie To Continue Expanding 59:31 What Can An Exchange Do To Capitalize On Stablecoin Growth 1:01:32 How Much Of Gracy’s Life Is Run On Crypto 1:03:40 What’s The Endgame For Bitget? 1:05:49 Why Can Anyone Become A CEO? 1:09:28 Running A 2,200 Employee Company While Taking Care Of A Kid 1:11:22 How Has Bitget Evolved Since Gracy Joined In 2022 1:13:25 Something Gracy’s Holding Onto That She Knows She Should Let Go Of 1:15:01 What She’ll Teach Her Son To End The “Failed Marriage Curse” 1:17:12 What The Voice In Gracy’s Head Tells Her In The Morning & Evening 1:20:05 One Thing Gracy’s Learned That You Can Take With You 1:24:31 Closing Thoughts

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A medieval woman walks out of her marriage with half of everything. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 And the law is on her side. This is Wales, over 1,000 years ago.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 The Welsh called it Cyfraith Hywel. The Law of Hywel. It carries the name of Hywel ap Cadell, the king Wales still calls Hywel the Good, who came to rule more of Wales than any king before him. The story the old law books tell: around 945 he summoned lawmen from every corner of Wales to a white hall on the river Taf, and there the laws of the Welsh were set in order. ⚖️ Open that book and a different Middle Ages looks back. An insult had a price in silver: sarhaed. And a woman held her price in her own name. A husband who struck his wife without cause paid for the blow, to her and no one else. Marriage was an agreement between 2 people. If a husband strayed, the law made him pay his wife, 120 silver pence the first time, a pound the second. A third time, and she could walk away. After 7 years of marriage, the law counted everything a couple owned as shared, and if it ended, she took her half and went. By right. Children born outside marriage, acknowledged by the father, inherited like any other. The father's sin, said the law, must not be held against the son. And when blood was spilled, this law refused the feud. Galanas: the killer's kindred paid the life's worth to the family wronged, and once it was paid, the vengeance was over. By law. Across the border, a wife's property passed to her husband. For centuries yet. ⚔️ Then Edward the First broke the Welsh princes, and in 1284 the Statute of Rhuddlan swept the criminal law aside. But in the farms and the families, Hywel's law held on, for another 250 years. Then the Acts of Union under Henry VIII outlawed it altogether. English law became the only law in Wales, and English the only tongue its courts could speak. 📜 After nearly 600 years, the Law of Hywel was closed. But a parliament can close a book. Not a memory. Around 80 of the old law books survive, copied hand to hand, the oldest made 300 years after Hywel died and still carrying his name. Today that name stands over hospitals across west Wales. 🏛️ Britain remembers most of its kings for their wars. Wales remembers this one for his fairness. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A woman's worth was written into law on these islands over 1,000 years ago. The Acts closed the book. The idea reached you anyway. We are the home of British heroes. There is a place for you in it. 👇🙏 👉 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

Proudofus.uk

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"SARS-CoV-2 comes from a US lab" - Interview with lab leak researcher Jim Haslam, part 1 I interviewed US lab leak researcher Jim Haslam. He has been researching the lab leak theory for three years and arrives at a startling conclusion: Contrary to what most lab leakers believe, the coronavirus did not originate in a Chinese lab, but in a U.S. lab, because it bears U.S. "fingerprints": certain gene sequences that can only be found in U.S. research papers and U.S. patents. Haslam grounds his work on the infamous "blueprint" for SARS-CoV-2: a leaked US research proposal called "DARPA DEFUSE". This was ultimately not funded by DARPA, but by none other than former NIAID director Anthony Fauci, under his generous research umbrella called "CREID". At the center of his investigative research is the question of what was actually released in 2019. According to Haslam, SARS-CoV-2 is a "self-spreading bat vaccine" that was released in a laboratory accident in Wuhan in the fall of 2019. The vaccine was to be tested at the Wuhan Institute of Virology on wild-caught bats before being released in the wild. The idea of vaccinating bats was based on the fact that they are considered by virologists to be a "reserve population" for highly dangerous viruses: SARS1, MERS, Nipah, Hendra, Marburg - all these highly dangerous viruses for humans would survive in bats and from there jump to humans again and again via intermediate hosts. The idea was to make nature safer for humans. And the rest, as they say, is history. What sounds almost unbelievable at first, Haslam proves in detail by means of conspicuous gene sequences in the COVID-19 genome, a multitude of declassified documents, Slack messages, emails, research proposals, patents and public statements of the "DARPA DEFUSE" protagonists in the years before and after Corona. In my opinion, the topic is so relevant because ultimately it is about the question of how society wants to deal with high-risk biotechnologies such as gain-of-function research in the future - if there is a strong suspicion that Corona may have been based on a laboratory accident in which a product of US biotechnology was released. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:21 What leaked? 01:39 Why should we still be talking about the lab leak in 2024? 04:22 The controversy among the proponents of the lab leak theory 07:12 The DARPA DEFUSE proposal 10:00 Is the lab hypothesis consensus in the US? 11:09 The cover-up: The virologist's slack messages 13:30 The Furin Cleavage Site 16:15 Further indications of a lab leak: The restriction sites 20:12 Who is Shi Zhengli? 22:11 The obsession of biotechnology from 2015 to 2019: Wild bats 23:25 Why bats? 29:32 Are the suspects nervous? 28:13 Jim Haslam's theory 32:21 The BSL-2 and BSL-4 lab in Wuhan 33:36 The researcher in the BSL-4 lab: Danielle Anderson 40:07 How did Anderson become infected in a BSL-4 lab? 42:31 Wuhan, bats and self-spreading vaccines This is part 1 of the interview, part 2 will follow in the new year. This is the "English only" version without subtitles. A German subtitled and German dubbed version for my German audience were published some days ago:

Aya Velázquez

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Today: a 1.5 hour interview with the co-founders of Coherence Neuro: Ben Woodington and Elise Jenkins They are, as far as i can tell, the only (neurotechnology x oncology) startup that exists today. 'Neurotechnology? For cancer?' you may ask. Yes! As it turns out, tumors interact with the nervous system a fair bit, and you can use the very same neuromodulation toolbox that exists for neuropsychiatric conditions, for monitoring and treating cancer. Coherence has built an invasive device to place at the site of a tumor to do exactly this. Their first indication is a form of brain cancer called glioblastoma; one of the most fatal subtypes of cancer to exist today. The standard of care (with one exception that we discuss) has not changed in 25 years. If Coherence works out, and there is a very real chance they will, that may change. Most interesting of all is that Coherence believes that the bioelectric properties of cancer are not just worth poking at for brain cancers, but for all cancers. And maybe even for diseases outside of it! This conversation covers how Coherence’s first neurotech device (SOMA) works, the molecular reasons behind why neuromodulation affects cancer at all, what the biomarker readouts look like, the obvious Michael Levin comparison, and a lot more. Also: shout to Nicole for setting up the connection here in the first place! Crazy to think that a meeting in mid-2025 ended up leading to this Youtube/Spotify/Apple Podcasts links in replies 0:00:00 - Introduction 0:01:42 - How is SOMA different from Novocure’s Optune? 0:08:57 - Why does neuromodulation affect cancer at all? 0:13:28 - How was cancer-nervous system crosstalk first discovered? 0:15:42 - Anti-epileptics and beta blockers as accidental cancer drugs 0:17:38 - What is molecularly happening when you block cancer-neuron crosstalk? 0:19:50 - What is SOMA actually reading out as a biomarker? 0:20:44 - What does it mean that cancer is “very electric”? 0:22:02 - Can you derive universal biomarkers across patients? 0:23:09 - How is the device placed? 0:24:45 - How does the blocking stimulation regime work? 0:26:43 - Is it fair to say this is closed loop? 0:29:05 - Why not just spam the tumor with constant stimulation? 0:32:31 - Why MRI safety is non-negotiable for oncology devices 0:33:35 - Walk us through the patient journey from diagnosis to implantation 0:36:13 - The Michael Levin question: can you reprogram cancer back to normal? 0:42:29 - Efficacy, hospice settings, and the utility of the neuromodulation literature 0:45:52 - Why start with glioblastoma instead of an easier cancer? 0:48:57 - Regulatory strategy and the reimbursement threat 0:55:37 - How well does mouse-to-human translation work for neuromodulation? 0:55:57 - What do in silico models of neuromodulation look like? 0:58:09 - Why didn’t this exist 10 years ago? 1:01:48 - The founding story 1:06:38 - Why build your own device instead of using off-the-shelf arrays? 1:08:35 - Speaking with glioblastoma patients 1:12:04 - What was it like to raise money for this? 1:13:56 - Beyond cancer: TBI, lung disease, and the pan-disease argument 1:17:40 - Hiring at Coherence + what is the hardest type of talent to find 1:23:17 - What would you do with $100M equity-free? 1:27:15 - Are you a neurotech company or a cancer company?

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Wikileaks released thousands of emails from Hillary Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta. Here are some of the most shocking revelations pushing the “Obama is a Muslim” narrative during the 2008 Primary season, the Hillary campaign outlined potential “negative facts” about then Senator Barack Obama. Email Date: 2008-01-09 negative fact #7: “Obama’s father was a Muslim and Obama grew up among Muslims in the world’s most populous Islamic country. A birthday gift from the funders of ISIS. In August 2014, Hillary sent an email to Podesta saying the countries of Saudi Arabia and Qatar are funding ISIS. Another email, written by staffers at the Clinton Foundation, shows that Qatar gave Bill Clinton $1 Million for his "birthday". Email Date: 2012-04-16 Qatar would like to see WJC for five minutes in NYC to present Qatar - $1 Million check that Qatar promised for WJC'S “birthday". The secret Wall Street speeches transcripts from Hillary’s paid Wall Street speeches reveal she has “both a public and private position” on issues. An example of this is Hillary’s stance on the controversial TPP trade agreement which she said she was against during the primary debates, but in private Email Date: 2015-03-25 her campaign says “She’s ultimately going to support both TPA and TPP” During a paid speech to Brazilian Banco Itaú, Hillary professed support for Global “Open Borders” Speech Date: 2013-05-16 “My dream is a Hemispheric common market with open trade and open borders” Speech Date: 2013-10-29 in a private paid speech to Goldman Sachs, Hillary said: “Would like to see more successful business people run for office.” Speech Date: 2013-10-29 She says this is because a business person has had certain level of freedom and could be maybe rented, but never bought.” Colluding with the Press. One email shows the New York Times gave the Hillary campaign stories ahead of time, so they could “veto” anything. Email Date: 2015-07-10 “Thought you told me that you wanted us to pick.” - Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton communications director. Email Date: 2015-07-10 “Wanted the option to use it all and you could veto what you didn’t want.” - Mark Leibovich, New York Times reporter Email Date: 2015-07-10 “Pleasure doing business!” - Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton communications director Memo Date: January 2015 An internal memo talks about having a “very good relationship” with Maggie Haberman, a current New York Times Writer. Memo Date: January 2015 We have had her tee up stories for us before and have never been disappointed. Colluding with the Press about Benghazi. When the Congressional committee on Benghazi requested information on Hillary’s “deleted” emails, the Clinton team said: Email Date: 2015-06-25 “Just spoke to State(U.S. State Department) a little more about this. A few updates…” Email Date: 2015-06-25 “They do not plan to release anything publicly… They are considering placing a story with a friendly at the AP(Associated Press)” Email Date: 2015-06-25 Before the majority on the (Benghazi) committee has a chance to realize what they have” Financial ties with Russia. A 2014 email attachment reveals Podesta owned 75,000 shares in Joule Unlimited, an Energy Company. In 2011, Podesta joined the Board of Directors for Joule Unlimited. Months later, Joule received up to $35 Million from Rusnano, a Russian state-established and funded company. Hillary Clinton will say anything to get elected!!!

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It always takes me a little time to absorb the events of the day before adding new commentary. There’s no question, Friday’s events took some absorbing for sure. I’ve watched the entire clip of the ‘Ambush in the Oval’ a few times and it is beyond doubt, it was a staged event in which it had been decided, the best leverage could be had by publicly humiliating Zelensky in front of the world’s media. Once you take a closer look at the staging, it becomes very clear who this event was being staged for. Among the hand-picked pool of reporters for the Oval Office presser, was an interesting addition. A correspondent for TASS, the Russian state media organization. It’s worthy of note that AP and Reuters were deliberately excluded. The White House later claimed this was an error and the reporter was eventually asked to leave. In addition, there was a plant in the room. The boyfriend of Marjorie Taylor Green, Brian Glenn. He reports for fringe conservative site ‘Real America's Voice’. This was the guy who asked Zelensky "Why don't you wear a suit? You're the highest level in this country's office, and you refuse to wear a suit”, adding “Do you own a suit” JD Vance openly laughed as the question was posed. Zelenskyy’s polite response? "I will wear a suit after this war is over. Maybe something like yours. Maybe better." It was a vacuous question asked in order to tee up Vance for his disgusting demand that Zelenskyy show gratitude to the man who had run a campaign on not providing a cent in military aid to Ukraine. The current Kremlin talking points are that Zelenskyy should step down. We saw this being echoed by the likes of Lyndsay Graham and other right wing talking heads. Effectively, the hard right is doing the bidding of the Kremlin propaganda machine, in an attempt to do what Russia has not been able to do since day one of the invasion. Remove Zelenskyy from the chess board. In addition, they’re running a bogus impeachment narrative, using the line “Ukrainian MP Oleksandr Dubinsky just called for an Emergency Session of Ukraine’s Parliament to initiate IMPEACHMENT” For context, Dubinsky is a suspect in a number of criminal cases related to corruption and treason. He was charged with document forgery in August 2023 after he allegedly travelled abroad under a false pretext. In addition, the US had sanctioned him in 2021, alleging ties to a Russian influence network and interference in the 2020 US election. I think it safe to say, he is of dubious character. This impeachment narrative is already on this platform being circulated by MAGA accounts. As they say, "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes". Replacing Zelenskyy is now a top priority for the Kremlin. Therefore, it’s a top priority for the U.S. administration. Think about that for a moment and let it sink in. Trump allies are now actively using Kremlin talking points to unseat the Democratically elected president of a sovereign nation. Sound familiar? Zelenskyy is clearly exhausted. This is a man whose country is under siege not only from Russian aggression, but from a proxy Russian campaign run from inside the White House, to undermine his authority. The pressure must be off the chart. Let’s be clear, all Zelenskyy did was stand up for his people against an international criminal extortion gang, attempting to strip an ally of its mineral rights. I have said all week he should not sign the agreement and he was right not to do so. Now the real challenge begins. The good news for Zelenskyy is, he is now among friends as he found when he landed in London last night.

𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰

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Today I wanted to wish a Man who, at sixteen, left Ahmedabad with almost nothing in his pocket. He took the Gujarat Mail to Mumbai, joined Mahendra Brothers to learn diamond sorting, and later started his own small brokerage in Zaveri Bazaar. That was his beginning. #HappyBirthdayGautamBhai Gautam Adani. From those humble steps, he went on to build one of India’s largest infrastructure empires. Not through shortcuts, but through consistent execution, bold bets on long-term projects, and a clear focus on nation-building. And then let me tell u something on his 64th Birthday… 1 - Started in diamond trading after moving to Mumbai at 16. 2 - Worked at Mahendra Brothers before starting his own brokerage in Zaveri Bazaar. 3 - Moved into commodity trading and exports in the late 1980s. 4 - Incorporated Adani Exports in 1993. 5 - Identified Mundra’s potential as a port in the mid-1990s. 6 - Developed Mundra Port from a small creek into a major commercial port. 7 - Created India’s first private port with integrated SEZ facilities. 8 - Focused on long-term infrastructure assets over short-term gains. 9 - Expanded port capacity steadily even during low investment periods. 10 - Grew Mundra into one of India’s busiest ports. 11 - Entered the power sector and built large thermal power plants. 12 - Expanded Adani Ports across both coasts. 13 - Built transmission lines to strengthen power infrastructure. 14 - Established a model of port-led industrial development in Gujarat. 15 - Began investing in renewable energy as India’s energy transition started. 16 - Expanded solar and wind projects across multiple states. 17 - Built one of India’s early large-scale renewable energy portfolios. 18 - Acquired six airports in 2020, entering the aviation sector. 19 - Took over operations of Ahmedabad, Lucknow, and other airports. 20 - Modernised and expanded airport infrastructure across India. 21 - Added Mumbai and Navi Mumbai airports to the portfolio. 22 - His airports now handle nearly 23-25% of India’s air traffic. 23 - Accelerated renewable energy capacity at a rapid pace. 24 - Developed the world’s largest single-location renewable project at Khavda. 25 - Delivered the highest-ever annual capex by any Indian corporate — ₹1.53 lakh crore in FY26. 26 - Added over 5 GW of new renewable capacity in a single year. 27 - Took Adani Green’s operational renewable capacity beyond 19 GW. 28 - Installed over 9.4 GW at the Khavda Renewable Energy Park. 29 - Crossed 500 million tonnes of cumulative cargo at Adani Ports. 30 - Made Mundra the first Indian port to handle over 200 MMT cargo in a year. 31 - Invested in data centres and digital infrastructure. 32 - Scaled cement and other businesses to support India’s construction needs. 33 - Maintained high execution pace despite global and domestic challenges. 34 - Through Adani Foundation, impacted over 9.6 million people. 35 - Worked across more than 7,000 villages in 22 states. 36 - Built and upgraded schools and digital classrooms in rural areas. 37 - Provided healthcare through hospitals, clinics, and mobile units. 38 - Focused on skill development and sustainable livelihoods in backward regions. 39 - Supported nutrition and women empowerment programmes. 40 - Created direct employment for tens of thousands of people. 41 - Generated lakhs of indirect jobs through port, airport, and energy projects. 42 - Promoted local hiring and entrepreneurship around project sites. 43 - Played a major role in improving India’s port and logistics capacity. 44 - Helped increase India’s share in global trade through better infrastructure. 45 - Accelerated India’s transition towards renewable energy at scale. 46 - Strengthened India’s energy security through power and renewable projects. 47 - Created long-term assets that will serve India for decades. 48 - Attracted significant investment into Indian infrastructure. 49 - Demonstrated that Indian companies can deliver and operate mega projects.

Anshul Saxena

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