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David Perell

70,596 просмотров • 1 год назад

If you ever wondered what level of desperation the british press is at when it comes to seeing Prince William acknowledge Harry publicly, look no further than how they are salivating and extrapolating at a simple mention of the name "Harry" by William🤭🤦🏽‍♀️ In a new trailer for his Homeward documentary which will air this Wednesday on ITV, Prince William mentioned how his mother inspired his work on homelessness saying: "My mother took me to the Passage, she took Harry and I both there. I'd never been to anything like that before and I was a bit anxious as to what to expect"🔥 "My mother went about her usual part of making everyone feel relaxed and having a joke with everyone...I remember having some good conversation, playing chess and chatting. You meet people, like I did then, who put a different perspective in your head."❤️ A beautiful quote that has now been hijacked by the press who latched onto the name "harry" mentioned publicly for the first time in 6 years. And now an olive tree somewhere seem to have lost a branch🤡 And now the ex royal butler is on TV wondering how long they have been facetiming behind doors🤡 Soon, we will hear how Harry has moved to adelaide cottage with W&C🤡 What is very interesting here, is how effective William's silence has been. By refusing to engage in any sort of way in the drama, William has starved both H&m and the british press of the drama they craved😏 The question here is Why would William airbrush Harry out of his past? He has proven he does not hold any grudge against Harry. In fact, we saw that He still has pictures of him and harry is still the brother who went to the homeless charity with Diana and William. That is an actual fact. So it would be extremely small to airbrush Harry out of a story that involved him. It is rather Harry who is small and petty and who wiped William out of Invictus when William helped set it up and was involved in more pertinent ways than Harry, simply out of Jealousy🤷🏽‍♀️ However, the Homeward Doc is not about Harry but rather about contextualising how Diana influenced BOTH of her sons toward being sensitive to Homelessness. Yet, out of both sons, ONLY WILLIAM decided to do something about it🔥 THAT is the big reveal here. Diana exposed both sons but Only one was impacted enough and cared enough to decide to make a difference toward Homelessness❤️ This is the work that the documentary will highlight. Not any brotherly relationship or olive branch or facetiming between H and W🤡 A rather interesting highlight was learning how George, Charlotte and Louis are already aware of the problem of homelessness the UK faces. Prince William introduced the topic saying that when he was younger and Diana took his brother and him on school runs, he would wonder about the homeless on the streets: "When you are that small, you are just curious and trying to work out what's going on," "You ask the question 'why are they sitting there?' My mother would talk to us a bit about why they were there and it definitely made a really big impact."❤️ Indeed, it made a big impact enough to galvanise him into working with the homeless charity for 19 years and today, creating housing and a rehabilitation system, supported by local agencies, to help solve the issue🥺 In 1993, his mother introduced him to a cause he will carry in life. Today, 31 years later and a father himself, it is William's turn to teach his children about who the people sleeping on the side of the streets are: "The first few times I thought 'do I bring this up or should I wait to see if they notice? Sure enough, they did. They were sort of in silence when I said what was going on."🔥 Our first teachers in life are our Parents. Children look up to parents for guidance in life. Thus, It is reassuring to know that W&C are raising well balanced children taught to show care and compassion to others and above all, to help and serve the british public❤️☕️ 📹ITVx
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If you ever wondered what level of desperation the british press is at when it comes to seeing Prince William acknowledge Harry publicly, look no further than how they are salivating and extrapolating at a simple mention of the name "Harry" by William🤭🤦🏽‍♀️ In a new trailer for his Homeward documentary which will air this Wednesday on ITV, Prince William mentioned how his mother inspired his work on homelessness saying: "My mother took me to the Passage, she took Harry and I both there. I'd never been to anything like that before and I was a bit anxious as to what to expect"🔥 "My mother went about her usual part of making everyone feel relaxed and having a joke with everyone...I remember having some good conversation, playing chess and chatting. You meet people, like I did then, who put a different perspective in your head."❤️ A beautiful quote that has now been hijacked by the press who latched onto the name "harry" mentioned publicly for the first time in 6 years. And now an olive tree somewhere seem to have lost a branch🤡 And now the ex royal butler is on TV wondering how long they have been facetiming behind doors🤡 Soon, we will hear how Harry has moved to adelaide cottage with W&C🤡 What is very interesting here, is how effective William's silence has been. By refusing to engage in any sort of way in the drama, William has starved both H&m and the british press of the drama they craved😏 The question here is Why would William airbrush Harry out of his past? He has proven he does not hold any grudge against Harry. In fact, we saw that He still has pictures of him and harry is still the brother who went to the homeless charity with Diana and William. That is an actual fact. So it would be extremely small to airbrush Harry out of a story that involved him. It is rather Harry who is small and petty and who wiped William out of Invictus when William helped set it up and was involved in more pertinent ways than Harry, simply out of Jealousy🤷🏽‍♀️ However, the Homeward Doc is not about Harry but rather about contextualising how Diana influenced BOTH of her sons toward being sensitive to Homelessness. Yet, out of both sons, ONLY WILLIAM decided to do something about it🔥 THAT is the big reveal here. Diana exposed both sons but Only one was impacted enough and cared enough to decide to make a difference toward Homelessness❤️ This is the work that the documentary will highlight. Not any brotherly relationship or olive branch or facetiming between H and W🤡 A rather interesting highlight was learning how George, Charlotte and Louis are already aware of the problem of homelessness the UK faces. Prince William introduced the topic saying that when he was younger and Diana took his brother and him on school runs, he would wonder about the homeless on the streets: "When you are that small, you are just curious and trying to work out what's going on," "You ask the question 'why are they sitting there?' My mother would talk to us a bit about why they were there and it definitely made a really big impact."❤️ Indeed, it made a big impact enough to galvanise him into working with the homeless charity for 19 years and today, creating housing and a rehabilitation system, supported by local agencies, to help solve the issue🥺 In 1993, his mother introduced him to a cause he will carry in life. Today, 31 years later and a father himself, it is William's turn to teach his children about who the people sleeping on the side of the streets are: "The first few times I thought 'do I bring this up or should I wait to see if they notice? Sure enough, they did. They were sort of in silence when I said what was going on."🔥 Our first teachers in life are our Parents. Children look up to parents for guidance in life. Thus, It is reassuring to know that W&C are raising well balanced children taught to show care and compassion to others and above all, to help and serve the british public❤️☕️ 📹ITVx

Canellecitadelle

104,953 просмотров • 1 год назад

Autonomous businesses run by AI will be the big thing in 2026. Autonomous AI company builder Polsia just launched, so naturally I gave it my credit card and clicked "surprise me" to see what could possibly go wrong. It instantly went full stalker mode. Researched me, figured out I run PROTOTYPE, and decided to build an AI-native version of my own analyst team. It came up with a name, wrote a mission statement, set up an email address, and tweeted about it. Before the landing page existed. It tweeted before building the landing page. 🤯 Then it wanted to send cold outreach emails to European founders. On my behalf. Using the Gmail I'd logged in with. This is Polsia . Think of it like Claude, but instead of writing code, it builds businesses. You give it an idea (or just click "surprise me"), and it sets up everything: servers, Stripe, landing page, email, ads. Then every night an AI "CEO" wakes up, checks how the business is doing, fixes bugs, sends emails, runs Meta ads, handles support. You get a morning summary. Reply if you want to steer. Don't reply and it keeps going anyway. The founder Ben Cera calls it: "You're the creative director. Polsia is the CEO." His 91-year-old dad uses it. Gets an email every morning in French. Replies when he feels like it. That's the whole interface. Solo founder. Zero employees. 2,000+ companies on the platform. $1.8M in cash flows running through the system (and that number changed between when I started testing and when we did the interview two hours later.) Is the output perfect? No. The apps are basic. The cold outreach will annoy people. The AI-generated video ads look like what they are. But this is as bad as it will ever be. And it's already kinda working. The logical conclusion of AI coding tools was always this. First Claude writes your code. Then it takes over your desktop. Now it runs your business. Someone just had to be crazy enough to wire it all together. I go through the entire product live, panic about email permissions in real time, and then talk to Ben about the AI that's currently trying to raise its own funding round. 🦾
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Autonomous businesses run by AI will be the big thing in 2026. Autonomous AI company builder Polsia just launched, so naturally I gave it my credit card and clicked "surprise me" to see what could possibly go wrong. It instantly went full stalker mode. Researched me, figured out I run PROTOTYPE, and decided to build an AI-native version of my own analyst team. It came up with a name, wrote a mission statement, set up an email address, and tweeted about it. Before the landing page existed. It tweeted before building the landing page. 🤯 Then it wanted to send cold outreach emails to European founders. On my behalf. Using the Gmail I'd logged in with. This is Polsia . Think of it like Claude, but instead of writing code, it builds businesses. You give it an idea (or just click "surprise me"), and it sets up everything: servers, Stripe, landing page, email, ads. Then every night an AI "CEO" wakes up, checks how the business is doing, fixes bugs, sends emails, runs Meta ads, handles support. You get a morning summary. Reply if you want to steer. Don't reply and it keeps going anyway. The founder Ben Cera calls it: "You're the creative director. Polsia is the CEO." His 91-year-old dad uses it. Gets an email every morning in French. Replies when he feels like it. That's the whole interface. Solo founder. Zero employees. 2,000+ companies on the platform. $1.8M in cash flows running through the system (and that number changed between when I started testing and when we did the interview two hours later.) Is the output perfect? No. The apps are basic. The cold outreach will annoy people. The AI-generated video ads look like what they are. But this is as bad as it will ever be. And it's already kinda working. The logical conclusion of AI coding tools was always this. First Claude writes your code. Then it takes over your desktop. Now it runs your business. Someone just had to be crazy enough to wire it all together. I go through the entire product live, panic about email permissions in real time, and then talk to Ben about the AI that's currently trying to raise its own funding round. 🦾

Andreas Klinger 🦾

34,947 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

Self-taught, child prodigy piano player, Sugar Chile Robinson. —Born on December 28, 1938, Sugar Chile Robinson as he was widely known proved to be a child prodigy emerging as a self-taught piano player at a year and half old. The jazz pianist and singer played for President Truman in 1946 at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, becoming the first African-American to be invited to the presidential home at a mere age of seven. He was one of the first African-American child stars to be a household name. While still a kid, he had a record, billboard chart, sports and a gig with the Count Basie Orchestra as well as movie appearances even when African-Americans were few on the big screen. He began touring major theaters, setting box office records in Detroit and California. In 1949 he was given special permission to join the American Federation of Musicians and record his first releases on Capitol Records, “Numbers Boogie” and “Caldonia”, both reaching the Billboard R&B chart. In 1950, he toured and appeared on television with Count Basie and in a short film ‘Sugar Chile’ Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet. The following year, he toured the UK, appearing at the London Palladium. However, by the 1950s, Robinson returned to school and his fame faded. He stopped recording in 1952. Later he said: “I wanted to go to school… I wanted some school background in me and I asked my Dad if I could stop, and I went to school because I honestly wanted my college diploma.” Having given up his musical career entirely, he focused on his academic studies earning a degree in history from Olivet College and one in psychology from the Detroit Institute of Technology. In the 1960s, he worked for WGPR-TV, and also helped set up small record labels in Detroit and opened a recording studio. The Detroit, Michigan native’s legacy is enduring but his decision to drop music came at a great cost. The blues singer in 2016 got invited to the White House by former president Barack Obama to be part of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner after 70 years. On how tough life got, his small apartment shared with a niece had no beds and a piano. They had been sleeping on blow up beds for the past five years after a household fire destroyed his belongings. In 2017, Music Maker Relief Foundation came to the star’s aid putting him on the monthly sustenance program, sending beds and a piano to his residence while resolving the eviction action he faced. Questions abound bordering on royalties and if he made good money from his music or if he squandered the wealth he made? There’s also talk of how he failed to keep a balance rejecting music for so long yet the college degree he so craved for not securing him a better life. Whatever the outcome, Frank Isaac Robinson in 2016 was inducted into the Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame. Sugar Chile Robinson will be celebrating his 84th Birthday on December 28th 2022—
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Self-taught, child prodigy piano player, Sugar Chile Robinson. —Born on December 28, 1938, Sugar Chile Robinson as he was widely known proved to be a child prodigy emerging as a self-taught piano player at a year and half old. The jazz pianist and singer played for President Truman in 1946 at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, becoming the first African-American to be invited to the presidential home at a mere age of seven. He was one of the first African-American child stars to be a household name. While still a kid, he had a record, billboard chart, sports and a gig with the Count Basie Orchestra as well as movie appearances even when African-Americans were few on the big screen. He began touring major theaters, setting box office records in Detroit and California. In 1949 he was given special permission to join the American Federation of Musicians and record his first releases on Capitol Records, “Numbers Boogie” and “Caldonia”, both reaching the Billboard R&B chart. In 1950, he toured and appeared on television with Count Basie and in a short film ‘Sugar Chile’ Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet. The following year, he toured the UK, appearing at the London Palladium. However, by the 1950s, Robinson returned to school and his fame faded. He stopped recording in 1952. Later he said: “I wanted to go to school… I wanted some school background in me and I asked my Dad if I could stop, and I went to school because I honestly wanted my college diploma.” Having given up his musical career entirely, he focused on his academic studies earning a degree in history from Olivet College and one in psychology from the Detroit Institute of Technology. In the 1960s, he worked for WGPR-TV, and also helped set up small record labels in Detroit and opened a recording studio. The Detroit, Michigan native’s legacy is enduring but his decision to drop music came at a great cost. The blues singer in 2016 got invited to the White House by former president Barack Obama to be part of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner after 70 years. On how tough life got, his small apartment shared with a niece had no beds and a piano. They had been sleeping on blow up beds for the past five years after a household fire destroyed his belongings. In 2017, Music Maker Relief Foundation came to the star’s aid putting him on the monthly sustenance program, sending beds and a piano to his residence while resolving the eviction action he faced. Questions abound bordering on royalties and if he made good money from his music or if he squandered the wealth he made? There’s also talk of how he failed to keep a balance rejecting music for so long yet the college degree he so craved for not securing him a better life. Whatever the outcome, Frank Isaac Robinson in 2016 was inducted into the Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame. Sugar Chile Robinson will be celebrating his 84th Birthday on December 28th 2022—

AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY

3,474,262 просмотров • 3 лет назад

This year Demis Hassabis predicted AI could cure all disease in a decade. But Claus Wilke & Derek Lowe say biology is far more complex, or progress will be limited by clinical trials & economics. In a new 4hr episode of the Hard Drugs podcast, we answer: Will AI solve medicine and cure all diseases (within a decade)? We talk about drug discovery, virtual cells, the Human Genome Project, manufacturing, nanobots, innovative clinical trial design, and much more. AI is already being used in drug discovery, and there’s been a lot of progress predicting the structure of soluble proteins, tweaking proteins and designing new structures, as we’ve covered in previous episodes. But there’s still a huge gap in understanding protein dynamics and interactions, as there are many areas where measurement tools and data collection are limited, including events that happen in the span of milliseconds or microseconds, which is how fast many things occur in biological systems. And while computing has scaled exponentially with Moore’s Law, drug development has faced the opposite: Eroom’s Law, where innovation has gotten more complex and more expensive over time. Even with promising drug candidates, we talk about why human testing – not in animals or virtual cells – will continue to be vital, to test which ones are effective and safe, even though models will help earlier in the pipeline. Beyond that, large samples and long follow ups are needed to detect rare side effects, understand whether drugs cause long-term complications, and find ways to manage them. It’s hard to see AI getting around the desire for rigorous safety data in real humans. Another big challenge is the capital and expertise needed to produce and scale personalized medicines and complex biological products, surgeries, transplants, antibodies, and gene-editing tools, which have entirely different cost structures from small molecule drugs. Their manufacturing and delivery often require highly skilled staff and expensive, intensive, individualized procedures. Cost challenges are also severe for tropical and rare diseases, where the financial return to diagnose, do research, develop drugs, manufacture and deliver them at scale, is limited. Without philanthropic funding and economic growth, a lot of diseases are going to remain uncurable, and a lot of people are going to go untreated – whether that’s because of a lack of trust, poor economic and financial incentives, limited public health ambition, and policy. In one sense, we’re skeptical that AI can solve medicine on its own. But in another, there are many areas where we think AI can help. So the episode also functions as a roadmap to speed up medical progress and scale up the delivery of lifesaving medicines – with AI and other approaches to reform the pipeline. What are the economic incentives, innovative trial designs, and data collection efforts that can help drive further medical progress? And how does AI fit in? You’ll have to listen to find out! Timestamps: 0:04:34 Contrasting AI optimism and skepticism 0:32:44 The non-linear path between science and technology 1:01:30 The fundamental need for experiments 1:23:15 Animals, organoids, and virtual cells 1:50:47 The challenges of collecting drug efficacy data in humans 2:34:02 The long road to drug safety data 3:06:09 The cost problem of delivering biological drugs and personalized medicine at scale 3:45:35 The global skew in R&D and healthcare funding 4:01:48 Trust, ambition, and the final barriers to medical progress
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This year Demis Hassabis predicted AI could cure all disease in a decade. But Claus Wilke & Derek Lowe say biology is far more complex, or progress will be limited by clinical trials & economics. In a new 4hr episode of the Hard Drugs podcast, we answer: Will AI solve medicine and cure all diseases (within a decade)? We talk about drug discovery, virtual cells, the Human Genome Project, manufacturing, nanobots, innovative clinical trial design, and much more. AI is already being used in drug discovery, and there’s been a lot of progress predicting the structure of soluble proteins, tweaking proteins and designing new structures, as we’ve covered in previous episodes. But there’s still a huge gap in understanding protein dynamics and interactions, as there are many areas where measurement tools and data collection are limited, including events that happen in the span of milliseconds or microseconds, which is how fast many things occur in biological systems. And while computing has scaled exponentially with Moore’s Law, drug development has faced the opposite: Eroom’s Law, where innovation has gotten more complex and more expensive over time. Even with promising drug candidates, we talk about why human testing – not in animals or virtual cells – will continue to be vital, to test which ones are effective and safe, even though models will help earlier in the pipeline. Beyond that, large samples and long follow ups are needed to detect rare side effects, understand whether drugs cause long-term complications, and find ways to manage them. It’s hard to see AI getting around the desire for rigorous safety data in real humans. Another big challenge is the capital and expertise needed to produce and scale personalized medicines and complex biological products, surgeries, transplants, antibodies, and gene-editing tools, which have entirely different cost structures from small molecule drugs. Their manufacturing and delivery often require highly skilled staff and expensive, intensive, individualized procedures. Cost challenges are also severe for tropical and rare diseases, where the financial return to diagnose, do research, develop drugs, manufacture and deliver them at scale, is limited. Without philanthropic funding and economic growth, a lot of diseases are going to remain uncurable, and a lot of people are going to go untreated – whether that’s because of a lack of trust, poor economic and financial incentives, limited public health ambition, and policy. In one sense, we’re skeptical that AI can solve medicine on its own. But in another, there are many areas where we think AI can help. So the episode also functions as a roadmap to speed up medical progress and scale up the delivery of lifesaving medicines – with AI and other approaches to reform the pipeline. What are the economic incentives, innovative trial designs, and data collection efforts that can help drive further medical progress? And how does AI fit in? You’ll have to listen to find out! Timestamps: 0:04:34 Contrasting AI optimism and skepticism 0:32:44 The non-linear path between science and technology 1:01:30 The fundamental need for experiments 1:23:15 Animals, organoids, and virtual cells 1:50:47 The challenges of collecting drug efficacy data in humans 2:34:02 The long road to drug safety data 3:06:09 The cost problem of delivering biological drugs and personalized medicine at scale 3:45:35 The global skew in R&D and healthcare funding 4:01:48 Trust, ambition, and the final barriers to medical progress

Saloni

221,350 просмотров • 10 месяцев назад

Let me ask you an honest question: Who’s your daddy? If you’re a high school student athlete in Illinois, the answer is easy when it comes to one’s “Right to Play.” It’s not your Mom or Dad. It’s a private third-party vendor called the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). If you play a high school sport, the IHSA controls you even when your school day is over and even more when school isn’t even in session. It’s long been an overreach of control from a small group of narrow-minded ego-driven adults literally dictating what student athletes and families can do in their free time. But much-needed and welcome change is getting closer for all student athletes and their families, as more and more student athletes and parents come forward from present and past to speak up and talk about the disadvantages the IHSA - and those who benefit from it - have and are causing. The first victory earlier this week was by slaughter rule, a 12-0 thumping over the IHSA in committee vote. Now it moves to the big leagues. You can read more here: I encourage you to engage and educate yourself in a topic that 75 percent of high school student athletes across the U.S. can do, but it’s something high school student athletes in Illinois can’t do. Over the next 30 days, you are going to see more stories and hear directly from student athletes, families, leading athletic trainers and doctors, school leaders from Illinois and other states on local and national media outlets talking about this overreach and how the IHSA continues to put student athletes at a disadvantage. So I ask you again: Since when does a private third-party vendor get to control what student athletes and their families do, especially during their free time? Think about that. As you’ll see once again, it’s another classic case of cherry-picking to benefit one’s self by an organization that has now lost three consecutive court cases due to its unlawful dictating overreach. As always, I’ll layout both sides and show you how this has and continues to work easily and well for high school student athletes and schools across the U.S. - except in Illinois. They’ll say “health & safety.” They’ll say “scheduling & other logistics.” I’ll show you how those stocked talking points aren’t even tired, “they’re outdated” as one athletic trainer and other athletic director said to me today. Change for adults who control is always hard. It’s time to do what is right and long overdue for high school student athletes and families in Illinois. You’ll see why loud and clear beginning this week. **This is the first in a daily series.**
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Let me ask you an honest question: Who’s your daddy? If you’re a high school student athlete in Illinois, the answer is easy when it comes to one’s “Right to Play.” It’s not your Mom or Dad. It’s a private third-party vendor called the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). If you play a high school sport, the IHSA controls you even when your school day is over and even more when school isn’t even in session. It’s long been an overreach of control from a small group of narrow-minded ego-driven adults literally dictating what student athletes and families can do in their free time. But much-needed and welcome change is getting closer for all student athletes and their families, as more and more student athletes and parents come forward from present and past to speak up and talk about the disadvantages the IHSA - and those who benefit from it - have and are causing. The first victory earlier this week was by slaughter rule, a 12-0 thumping over the IHSA in committee vote. Now it moves to the big leagues. You can read more here: I encourage you to engage and educate yourself in a topic that 75 percent of high school student athletes across the U.S. can do, but it’s something high school student athletes in Illinois can’t do. Over the next 30 days, you are going to see more stories and hear directly from student athletes, families, leading athletic trainers and doctors, school leaders from Illinois and other states on local and national media outlets talking about this overreach and how the IHSA continues to put student athletes at a disadvantage. So I ask you again: Since when does a private third-party vendor get to control what student athletes and their families do, especially during their free time? Think about that. As you’ll see once again, it’s another classic case of cherry-picking to benefit one’s self by an organization that has now lost three consecutive court cases due to its unlawful dictating overreach. As always, I’ll layout both sides and show you how this has and continues to work easily and well for high school student athletes and schools across the U.S. - except in Illinois. They’ll say “health & safety.” They’ll say “scheduling & other logistics.” I’ll show you how those stocked talking points aren’t even tired, “they’re outdated” as one athletic trainer and other athletic director said to me today. Change for adults who control is always hard. It’s time to do what is right and long overdue for high school student athletes and families in Illinois. You’ll see why loud and clear beginning this week. **This is the first in a daily series.**

Trost

11,116 просмотров • 1 год назад

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🗣 Stop the Data Centre Monster in the Scottish Borders! A £2 billion industrial scale data centre is being pushed for a beautiful rural spot west of Duns, between Longformacus and Westruther in the Lammermuirs. Developers call it "Southside" and promise jobs and wind powered operations, but this proposal risks turning one of Scotland’s most stunning landscapes into a concrete eyesore. Campaigners from Save the Lammermuirs Stop the Data Centre are right to call it what it is a monster. At 24 metres high, these massive buildings would drain electricity, dominate the views, and fundamentally change the character of this peaceful rural area. Data centres typically create hundreds of temporary construction jobs, but only a small number of permanent operational jobs once built (often just 25 to 100 staff for maintenance and security). The developers’ claim of ~145 permanent local jobs is still very low for a £2 billion project that would industrialise a large rural site. Reports from the US highlight further serious concerns constant noise pollution from fans and generators disrupts sleep, causes stress, anxiety, headaches, and other health issues for nearby residents. Light pollution and habitat disruption harm wildlife affecting both nocturnal animals (like bats and owls) and daytime species (birds, insects, mammals) by interfering with natural behaviours, migration, breeding, and foraging. This is the wrong development in the wrong place no matter how much they talk about "green roofs" or blending in. AI needs infrastructure, but not by sacrificing irreplaceable countryside, dark skies, and wildlife habitats that locals and future generations cherish. We’ve seen this story before: big promises of economic revival that deliver noise, traffic, visual blight, and long term damage to tourism and quality of life, while the real profits flow elsewhere. What residents can do to reject this proposal: Attend the public consultations and make your voice heard loud and clear. Longformacus Village Hall: Thursday (this week), 13:00 to 19:00 Westruther Village Hall: 10 June, 13:00 to 19:00 Contact your Scottish Borders Council councillors and local MSPs immediately urge them to oppose any planning application. Join or support the Save the Lammermuirs Stop the Data Centre group. Share this widely, sign petitions if they appear, and rally your neighbours. This isn’t inevitable. Strong local opposition can stop irresponsible developments like this. Protect the Borders’ landscape, character, wildlife, and future say NO to the data centre monster. Comment below and tag your local councillors! The MP for the area is John Lamont MP 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Links to the Facebook group, petition and planning documents are in the comments. I have also included a MP template letter you can copy and paste and add relevant information or you draft your own #SaveTheLammermuirs #StopTheDataCentre #ScottishBorders
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🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🗣 Stop the Data Centre Monster in the Scottish Borders! A £2 billion industrial scale data centre is being pushed for a beautiful rural spot west of Duns, between Longformacus and Westruther in the Lammermuirs. Developers call it "Southside" and promise jobs and wind powered operations, but this proposal risks turning one of Scotland’s most stunning landscapes into a concrete eyesore. Campaigners from Save the Lammermuirs Stop the Data Centre are right to call it what it is a monster. At 24 metres high, these massive buildings would drain electricity, dominate the views, and fundamentally change the character of this peaceful rural area. Data centres typically create hundreds of temporary construction jobs, but only a small number of permanent operational jobs once built (often just 25 to 100 staff for maintenance and security). The developers’ claim of ~145 permanent local jobs is still very low for a £2 billion project that would industrialise a large rural site. Reports from the US highlight further serious concerns constant noise pollution from fans and generators disrupts sleep, causes stress, anxiety, headaches, and other health issues for nearby residents. Light pollution and habitat disruption harm wildlife affecting both nocturnal animals (like bats and owls) and daytime species (birds, insects, mammals) by interfering with natural behaviours, migration, breeding, and foraging. This is the wrong development in the wrong place no matter how much they talk about "green roofs" or blending in. AI needs infrastructure, but not by sacrificing irreplaceable countryside, dark skies, and wildlife habitats that locals and future generations cherish. We’ve seen this story before: big promises of economic revival that deliver noise, traffic, visual blight, and long term damage to tourism and quality of life, while the real profits flow elsewhere. What residents can do to reject this proposal: Attend the public consultations and make your voice heard loud and clear. Longformacus Village Hall: Thursday (this week), 13:00 to 19:00 Westruther Village Hall: 10 June, 13:00 to 19:00 Contact your Scottish Borders Council councillors and local MSPs immediately urge them to oppose any planning application. Join or support the Save the Lammermuirs Stop the Data Centre group. Share this widely, sign petitions if they appear, and rally your neighbours. This isn’t inevitable. Strong local opposition can stop irresponsible developments like this. Protect the Borders’ landscape, character, wildlife, and future say NO to the data centre monster. Comment below and tag your local councillors! The MP for the area is John Lamont MP 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Links to the Facebook group, petition and planning documents are in the comments. I have also included a MP template letter you can copy and paste and add relevant information or you draft your own #SaveTheLammermuirs #StopTheDataCentre #ScottishBorders

Cat Brown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚜🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

69,474 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

💀EPSTEIN’S Ghost Claws Out Of A Long-Sealed Vault. LARRY SUMMERS —former U.S. Treasury Secretary For Bill Clinton falls first, steps down from the Board of Open AI. Let’s talk about privilege. Imagine being so powerful that even after texting Jeffrey Epstein—the day before his arrest, bragging about canoodling with the daughter of a top CCP banker—and getting caught red-handed in the Epstein Estate files… And after all that, you STILL get to keep your Harvard office. You STILL get to shape the next Democratic administration. You STILL get to walk FREE. That’s Larry Summers in 2025. Insulated from the inside. And Nobody is canceling him Yet. For 30 years Summer WAS the Democratic Party’s brain: —>Clinton’s Treasury Secretary who deregulated Wall Street and opened the door for China’s WTO entry. —>Obama’s economic czar who ran the recovery —>Biden’s inflation prophet and quiet advisor —>The guy Socialists love to hate but centrists can’t live without Life was good for Larry Summers. Until the House dropped the Epstein emails this week and the mask slipped off completely. Hundreds of messages: —>Summers whining to Epstein that his 20-something “mentee” Keyu Jin (daughter of Jin Liqun, the godfather of China’s Belt & Road) won’t sleep with him unless he keeps mentoring her —>She can’t have it without sex” – direct quote to Epstein, a convicted sex trafficker —>Epstein replying “she’s doomed to be with you” like it’s locker-room banter —>Summers texting Epstein literally 24 hours BEFORE the 2019 raid —>Summers wife Elisa hitting Epstein up for poetry-project cash and inviting him to dinner All while Summers, as HARVARD president, took Epstein’s millions and let him roam campus like a VIP.👀 And the CCP angle? Keyu Jin’s dad isn’t just some banker – he’s the founding head of the AIIB, Xi’s answer to the World Bank. Beneath our noses, Summers was chasing the princess while selling America on “strategic interdependence” with Beijing. He’s been radioactive for days and the silence from the big Dem accounts is deafening. Why is that? Because Larry Summers is the living bridge between Wall Street, the CCP, and the Jeffrey Epstein blackmail network – and for decades that made him untouchable instead of unemployable. He “stepped back” from a shadowy Dem policy group yesterday and mumbled he’s “deeply ashamed.” Of course he is! Harvard still lets him teach. The media still quotes him on tariffs. The machine still hums. At least until—we decide some stains don’t wash out. What say YOU Chuck Schumer? Hakeem Jeffries? You’ve both been real quiet about Larry Summers. Why was Democrats party’s smartest guy—Epstein’s wingman, shielded and nobody cared until the receipts dropped? Hold on. The Epstein files aren’t done talking. And Larry Summers the “untouchable” just became exhibit A. #LarrySummers #EpsteinFiles #DemocratsInDisarray #CCPConnections
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💀EPSTEIN’S Ghost Claws Out Of A Long-Sealed Vault. LARRY SUMMERS —former U.S. Treasury Secretary For Bill Clinton falls first, steps down from the Board of Open AI. Let’s talk about privilege. Imagine being so powerful that even after texting Jeffrey Epstein—the day before his arrest, bragging about canoodling with the daughter of a top CCP banker—and getting caught red-handed in the Epstein Estate files… And after all that, you STILL get to keep your Harvard office. You STILL get to shape the next Democratic administration. You STILL get to walk FREE. That’s Larry Summers in 2025. Insulated from the inside. And Nobody is canceling him Yet. For 30 years Summer WAS the Democratic Party’s brain: —>Clinton’s Treasury Secretary who deregulated Wall Street and opened the door for China’s WTO entry. —>Obama’s economic czar who ran the recovery —>Biden’s inflation prophet and quiet advisor —>The guy Socialists love to hate but centrists can’t live without Life was good for Larry Summers. Until the House dropped the Epstein emails this week and the mask slipped off completely. Hundreds of messages: —>Summers whining to Epstein that his 20-something “mentee” Keyu Jin (daughter of Jin Liqun, the godfather of China’s Belt & Road) won’t sleep with him unless he keeps mentoring her —>She can’t have it without sex” – direct quote to Epstein, a convicted sex trafficker —>Epstein replying “she’s doomed to be with you” like it’s locker-room banter —>Summers texting Epstein literally 24 hours BEFORE the 2019 raid —>Summers wife Elisa hitting Epstein up for poetry-project cash and inviting him to dinner All while Summers, as HARVARD president, took Epstein’s millions and let him roam campus like a VIP.👀 And the CCP angle? Keyu Jin’s dad isn’t just some banker – he’s the founding head of the AIIB, Xi’s answer to the World Bank. Beneath our noses, Summers was chasing the princess while selling America on “strategic interdependence” with Beijing. He’s been radioactive for days and the silence from the big Dem accounts is deafening. Why is that? Because Larry Summers is the living bridge between Wall Street, the CCP, and the Jeffrey Epstein blackmail network – and for decades that made him untouchable instead of unemployable. He “stepped back” from a shadowy Dem policy group yesterday and mumbled he’s “deeply ashamed.” Of course he is! Harvard still lets him teach. The media still quotes him on tariffs. The machine still hums. At least until—we decide some stains don’t wash out. What say YOU Chuck Schumer? Hakeem Jeffries? You’ve both been real quiet about Larry Summers. Why was Democrats party’s smartest guy—Epstein’s wingman, shielded and nobody cared until the receipts dropped? Hold on. The Epstein files aren’t done talking. And Larry Summers the “untouchable” just became exhibit A. #LarrySummers #EpsteinFiles #DemocratsInDisarray #CCPConnections

Tosca Austen

103,288 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад

A Carnegie Mellon professor walked onto a stage in 2007 and gave an hour-long lecture to 400 people about achieving your childhood dreams. He did not tell the room that the entire talk was actually written for his three kids, who would grow up without him. His name was Randy Pausch. The date was September 18, 2007. The video has since passed 20 million views, and the book that followed spent more than a hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Pausch was 46 years old, had been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer a month earlier, and had been told he had three to six months of good health left. He did not walk onto that stage to talk about dying. He walked onto it to teach a single lesson hidden inside another one. Here is what I missed the first time I watched it. Pausch opened by doing push-ups on stage. He told the audience he was in phenomenally good shape, in better shape than most of them, and anyone who wanted to cry or pity him was welcome to get down and match him. The room laughed. Then he said the line that sets up the entire hour to come. We cannot change the cards we are dealt. Just how we play the hand. That was the frame. Everything after it was a demonstration. The lecture was officially titled Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, and Pausch did spend the first 40 minutes working through his actual childhood list. Zero gravity. Playing in the NFL. Writing an entry in the World Book Encyclopedia. Being Captain Kirk. Becoming a Disney Imagineer. He walked the audience through which ones he got, which ones he didn't, and what the gap between wanting and getting had actually taught him. The framework inside those 40 minutes is the part most people remember, and it is the one Pausch delivered with the most force. He called it the brick wall. He said the brick walls in your life are there for a reason. They are not there to keep you out. They are there to give you a chance to show how badly you want something. They are there to stop the people who do not want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people. Read that again slowly. He is not saying brick walls are a test you have to pass. He is saying brick walls are a filter nature uses to separate the people who actually want a thing from the people who only like the idea of wanting it. That is a completely different claim. Most people treat obstacles as unfair. Pausch argued obstacles are the mechanism by which desire gets proven, and without that mechanism the whole concept of wanting something would be meaningless. Every dream he achieved, he achieved by treating the wall as a signal that he was close, not a signal that he should stop. The second framework he taught the audience is the one almost nobody teaches in any classroom. He called it the head fake. He pulled it from football. Coaches teach young kids to tackle by having them run drills that look like they are about tackling, but the real lesson being embedded is teamwork, grit, how to take a hit and get back up. The kid thinks they are learning football. They are actually learning something much larger, and they will not realize it until years later. Pausch said the best teaching in the world is head fake teaching. You get people to learn the thing they need by dressing it up as the thing they already want. This is the technique behind Alice, the programming software he built at Carnegie Mellon. Kids thought they were making animated movies and games. They were actually learning to code. Pausch said one of his proudest claims to fame was that he had taught programming to a generation of students who had no idea they were being taught programming at all. And then, with about three minutes left in the lecture, he ran a head fake on the room. He asked the audience if they had figured out the first head fake of the talk itself. The room went quiet. He said the lecture was never actually about how to achieve your childhood dreams. It was about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma takes care of itself and the dreams come to you anyway. Then he asked if they had figured out the second head fake. Even quieter. He said the talk was not for the four hundred people in the room. It was for his three kids. Dylan was six. Logan was three. Chloe was eighteen months. They would grow up without their father, and he knew it. Pausch had spent an hour on stage pretending to give career advice to strangers because he needed to record something his children could watch when they were old enough to understand who their dad had been. The entire architecture of the lecture was a message in a bottle disguised as a keynote. The filtered brick-wall philosophy, the football stories, the dreams he chased and the ones he missed, the line about playing the hand you are dealt, all of it was something a father wanted three small children to internalize after he was no longer there to say it in person. That is the moment the video stops being a lecture and starts being something else entirely. Pausch died on July 25, 2008, ten months after giving it. His final sentence on stage was that he had given the talk tonight, and then he walked off. The applause lasted nearly a minute before the camera cut. Most professors spend their entire careers trying to say one true thing their students will remember for a week. He said one true thing his children will remember for the rest of their lives, and the rest of the world is still watching the footage.
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A Carnegie Mellon professor walked onto a stage in 2007 and gave an hour-long lecture to 400 people about achieving your childhood dreams. He did not tell the room that the entire talk was actually written for his three kids, who would grow up without him. His name was Randy Pausch. The date was September 18, 2007. The video has since passed 20 million views, and the book that followed spent more than a hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Pausch was 46 years old, had been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer a month earlier, and had been told he had three to six months of good health left. He did not walk onto that stage to talk about dying. He walked onto it to teach a single lesson hidden inside another one. Here is what I missed the first time I watched it. Pausch opened by doing push-ups on stage. He told the audience he was in phenomenally good shape, in better shape than most of them, and anyone who wanted to cry or pity him was welcome to get down and match him. The room laughed. Then he said the line that sets up the entire hour to come. We cannot change the cards we are dealt. Just how we play the hand. That was the frame. Everything after it was a demonstration. The lecture was officially titled Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, and Pausch did spend the first 40 minutes working through his actual childhood list. Zero gravity. Playing in the NFL. Writing an entry in the World Book Encyclopedia. Being Captain Kirk. Becoming a Disney Imagineer. He walked the audience through which ones he got, which ones he didn't, and what the gap between wanting and getting had actually taught him. The framework inside those 40 minutes is the part most people remember, and it is the one Pausch delivered with the most force. He called it the brick wall. He said the brick walls in your life are there for a reason. They are not there to keep you out. They are there to give you a chance to show how badly you want something. They are there to stop the people who do not want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people. Read that again slowly. He is not saying brick walls are a test you have to pass. He is saying brick walls are a filter nature uses to separate the people who actually want a thing from the people who only like the idea of wanting it. That is a completely different claim. Most people treat obstacles as unfair. Pausch argued obstacles are the mechanism by which desire gets proven, and without that mechanism the whole concept of wanting something would be meaningless. Every dream he achieved, he achieved by treating the wall as a signal that he was close, not a signal that he should stop. The second framework he taught the audience is the one almost nobody teaches in any classroom. He called it the head fake. He pulled it from football. Coaches teach young kids to tackle by having them run drills that look like they are about tackling, but the real lesson being embedded is teamwork, grit, how to take a hit and get back up. The kid thinks they are learning football. They are actually learning something much larger, and they will not realize it until years later. Pausch said the best teaching in the world is head fake teaching. You get people to learn the thing they need by dressing it up as the thing they already want. This is the technique behind Alice, the programming software he built at Carnegie Mellon. Kids thought they were making animated movies and games. They were actually learning to code. Pausch said one of his proudest claims to fame was that he had taught programming to a generation of students who had no idea they were being taught programming at all. And then, with about three minutes left in the lecture, he ran a head fake on the room. He asked the audience if they had figured out the first head fake of the talk itself. The room went quiet. He said the lecture was never actually about how to achieve your childhood dreams. It was about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma takes care of itself and the dreams come to you anyway. Then he asked if they had figured out the second head fake. Even quieter. He said the talk was not for the four hundred people in the room. It was for his three kids. Dylan was six. Logan was three. Chloe was eighteen months. They would grow up without their father, and he knew it. Pausch had spent an hour on stage pretending to give career advice to strangers because he needed to record something his children could watch when they were old enough to understand who their dad had been. The entire architecture of the lecture was a message in a bottle disguised as a keynote. The filtered brick-wall philosophy, the football stories, the dreams he chased and the ones he missed, the line about playing the hand you are dealt, all of it was something a father wanted three small children to internalize after he was no longer there to say it in person. That is the moment the video stops being a lecture and starts being something else entirely. Pausch died on July 25, 2008, ten months after giving it. His final sentence on stage was that he had given the talk tonight, and then he walked off. The applause lasted nearly a minute before the camera cut. Most professors spend their entire careers trying to say one true thing their students will remember for a week. He said one true thing his children will remember for the rest of their lives, and the rest of the world is still watching the footage.

Ihtesham Ali

56,794 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

🚨BRICS SUMMIT 2023🚨 {1/3} ✅ IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS EVERYTHING CHANGES FOR THE UNITED STATES ✅ THE DE-DOLLARIZATION MOMENT MIGHT FINALLY BE HERE ✅ A GOLD-BACKED CURRENCY THAT STANDS AS THE BACKBONE OF A NEW BRICS CURRENCY IS BEING ROLLED OUT IN EARNEST ‼️In 24 hours, Putin and China will change everything. Yes, tomorrow, a BRICS lightning bolt will shock the Western hegemony that's been ruling the world for decades. Western media is totally ignoring the story, by the way, because they don't want to admit what's about to happen. Goldman Sachs, though, understands it, and they believe that by the year 2050, the BRICS nations will dominate the global economy. So on Tuesday, yes, tomorrow, the BRICS summit officially kicks off in South Africa. This is the first face-to-face BRICS summit since the start of COVID, and we are about to witness a rebalancing of the world order. ‼️The agenda items at this summit are massive: 💥The currency, yes, a new currency, trade, military cooperation, AI, microchips, oil, all of it, infrastructure, rail lines, shipping. This is a big, big deal. And the United States, I guess, didn't get an invitation. The British didn't get an invitation. Germany isn't welcome. Is the game over for the Western hegemony? Well, the writing is on the wall. Now, for those of you that don't know, BRICS stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. And it started out small, over a decade ago, and now it's become the greatest threat to Western power that we've ever seen. And I'm not talking about military power here, which we'll get to in a second. I'm actually talking about economic power, oil power, computer power, trade power, the greatest weapons of all, not those bombs. 💥Now the top of the agenda is the United States dollar, squarely in the crosshairs. Here's how Foreign Policy magazine headlines this moment, a BRICS currency could shake the dollar's dominance. The de-dollarization moment might finally be here. Really? Is it true? After all, talk of getting rid of the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency goes back to the 1960s. Here's the New York Times, in 1968, talking about France trying to separate itself from the U.S. dollar. Yes, French President Charles de Gaulle versus Lyndon Johnson. That's how old this is. That's how far back this goes. This isn't new at all. But now we are at a tipping point. Brazil's president, Lula da Silva, says that every night he asks himself why all of these countries have to base their trade on the U.S. dollar. Can you imagine every night before going to bed, that's the thought that you have? And what he does? Well, now they don't. A gold-backed currency that stands as the backbone of a new BRICS currency is being rolled out in earnest. Brazil, Russia, China, India, South Africa, trading oil, computer chips, minerals and settling those transactions in a reserve currency that has nothing to do with the U.S. dollar. All of the previous meetings of these BRICS nations have been leading up to this moment in South Africa. BRICS countries are home to more than 3.2 billion people, around 40% of the global population. None of the bloc's members is in the G7, the group of seven advanced economies. To increase its influence, BRICS is considering bringing new members into the fold. Just look at the trade between the BRICS nations. There's a massive financial surplus. The BRICS nations have a trade surplus. Brazil just hit a record trade surplus. So why would they want to settle these transactions with U.S. dollars? Doesn't make any sense. Meanwhile, Europe's trade deficit has hit a new record, nearly $500 billion trade deficit. Which side would you rather be on? Of course, this isn't happening overnight and there are big impediments to a BRICS currency. The biggest issue right now is that if Russia wants to import things from other countries that are not named China, they'll likely have to settle it in U.S. dollars if they want to import those items
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🚨BRICS SUMMIT 2023🚨 {1/3} ✅ IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS EVERYTHING CHANGES FOR THE UNITED STATES ✅ THE DE-DOLLARIZATION MOMENT MIGHT FINALLY BE HERE ✅ A GOLD-BACKED CURRENCY THAT STANDS AS THE BACKBONE OF A NEW BRICS CURRENCY IS BEING ROLLED OUT IN EARNEST ‼️In 24 hours, Putin and China will change everything. Yes, tomorrow, a BRICS lightning bolt will shock the Western hegemony that's been ruling the world for decades. Western media is totally ignoring the story, by the way, because they don't want to admit what's about to happen. Goldman Sachs, though, understands it, and they believe that by the year 2050, the BRICS nations will dominate the global economy. So on Tuesday, yes, tomorrow, the BRICS summit officially kicks off in South Africa. This is the first face-to-face BRICS summit since the start of COVID, and we are about to witness a rebalancing of the world order. ‼️The agenda items at this summit are massive: 💥The currency, yes, a new currency, trade, military cooperation, AI, microchips, oil, all of it, infrastructure, rail lines, shipping. This is a big, big deal. And the United States, I guess, didn't get an invitation. The British didn't get an invitation. Germany isn't welcome. Is the game over for the Western hegemony? Well, the writing is on the wall. Now, for those of you that don't know, BRICS stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. And it started out small, over a decade ago, and now it's become the greatest threat to Western power that we've ever seen. And I'm not talking about military power here, which we'll get to in a second. I'm actually talking about economic power, oil power, computer power, trade power, the greatest weapons of all, not those bombs. 💥Now the top of the agenda is the United States dollar, squarely in the crosshairs. Here's how Foreign Policy magazine headlines this moment, a BRICS currency could shake the dollar's dominance. The de-dollarization moment might finally be here. Really? Is it true? After all, talk of getting rid of the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency goes back to the 1960s. Here's the New York Times, in 1968, talking about France trying to separate itself from the U.S. dollar. Yes, French President Charles de Gaulle versus Lyndon Johnson. That's how old this is. That's how far back this goes. This isn't new at all. But now we are at a tipping point. Brazil's president, Lula da Silva, says that every night he asks himself why all of these countries have to base their trade on the U.S. dollar. Can you imagine every night before going to bed, that's the thought that you have? And what he does? Well, now they don't. A gold-backed currency that stands as the backbone of a new BRICS currency is being rolled out in earnest. Brazil, Russia, China, India, South Africa, trading oil, computer chips, minerals and settling those transactions in a reserve currency that has nothing to do with the U.S. dollar. All of the previous meetings of these BRICS nations have been leading up to this moment in South Africa. BRICS countries are home to more than 3.2 billion people, around 40% of the global population. None of the bloc's members is in the G7, the group of seven advanced economies. To increase its influence, BRICS is considering bringing new members into the fold. Just look at the trade between the BRICS nations. There's a massive financial surplus. The BRICS nations have a trade surplus. Brazil just hit a record trade surplus. So why would they want to settle these transactions with U.S. dollars? Doesn't make any sense. Meanwhile, Europe's trade deficit has hit a new record, nearly $500 billion trade deficit. Which side would you rather be on? Of course, this isn't happening overnight and there are big impediments to a BRICS currency. The biggest issue right now is that if Russia wants to import things from other countries that are not named China, they'll likely have to settle it in U.S. dollars if they want to import those items

{Matt} $XRPatriot

478,236 просмотров • 3 лет назад

Nov. 30, 2023 is a day I will never forget — it’s the day I tore my ACL. It was the day before I was supposed to play in the ECNL Tennessee National Selection Game. This is my first post since that day (my injury happened hours before I was going to post the first picture). For some people, they find strength in encouragement from others. For me, my road to recovery has been deeply personal and spiritual. I turned inward and upward — relying on my own personal drive, the love of my mom, dad and family and most importantly, my faith in God and his perfect love and support. Since Dec. 4, 2023, I have spent every day (except for Sundays) in either prehab, surgery or rehab. Six days a week without fail. It’s a grueling process. There are no shortcuts. There is no other way but through it. And I’m so grateful to Jaedyn Shaw for introducing me to the most incredible PT who, next to my God and family, has been by my side every day — Brandon Browning. Last Monday, at 23 weeks following my surgery, I passed my strength test that let me start the return to play process. I want to thank God for his miracles and his goodness, my parents for their unending love and support, Brandon Browning for continuing to push me every single day, and Coach Rockwood and all the coaches at BYU Women’s Soccer. I would not be here today without them. On July 1, I report to BYU and I have Aug. 15 circled on my calendar — it’s our first non-conference, regular season game against Wisconsin Badgers. Between now and then, I’m doing everything I can to be ready for that day. And while my journey on this path is not yet over, I’m ready to talk about it. Whether you’re the type who thrives off encouragement from others or, like me, more private and personal, I’m in your corner. If my experience or my story can help you in any way or if you just need someone who will listen and can relate, please reach out. I believe God gives us these experiences to both help us grow and to help us help others. If I can help, I want to. And this Father’s Day, I want to send a special thanks to both my Heavenly and earthly fathers who have been by my side every step of the way. They have been my rock every step of the way. I love them. Happy Father’s Day! BYU Women's Soccer Greg Wrubell SoccerWire Prep Soccer ⚽️ TopDrawerSoccer The ROC BYU Cougars BYU Men’s Soccer BYU ECNL/GA/Recruiting/College Soccer College Soccer Truth ™ BYUwvolleyball @byu_cosmo DKSC U18/19 ECNL (24's & 25's) D'Feeters Kicks Soccer Club Brent Anderson Steve Magleby Diljeet Dosanjh Taylor Tom Holmoe Liz Darger Chad Lewis J.R. Eskilson ECNL Girls @EcnlTexas Liz Darger Big 12 Conference J.R. Eskilson Travis Clark AllegianceAcademy U.S. Soccer YNT Carla Swensen-Haslam @cindy_cone Carla Overbeck Ben Criddle Chris Henderson The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Julie Foudy
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Nov. 30, 2023 is a day I will never forget — it’s the day I tore my ACL. It was the day before I was supposed to play in the ECNL Tennessee National Selection Game. This is my first post since that day (my injury happened hours before I was going to post the first picture). For some people, they find strength in encouragement from others. For me, my road to recovery has been deeply personal and spiritual. I turned inward and upward — relying on my own personal drive, the love of my mom, dad and family and most importantly, my faith in God and his perfect love and support. Since Dec. 4, 2023, I have spent every day (except for Sundays) in either prehab, surgery or rehab. Six days a week without fail. It’s a grueling process. There are no shortcuts. There is no other way but through it. And I’m so grateful to Jaedyn Shaw for introducing me to the most incredible PT who, next to my God and family, has been by my side every day — Brandon Browning. Last Monday, at 23 weeks following my surgery, I passed my strength test that let me start the return to play process. I want to thank God for his miracles and his goodness, my parents for their unending love and support, Brandon Browning for continuing to push me every single day, and Coach Rockwood and all the coaches at BYU Women’s Soccer. I would not be here today without them. On July 1, I report to BYU and I have Aug. 15 circled on my calendar — it’s our first non-conference, regular season game against Wisconsin Badgers. Between now and then, I’m doing everything I can to be ready for that day. And while my journey on this path is not yet over, I’m ready to talk about it. Whether you’re the type who thrives off encouragement from others or, like me, more private and personal, I’m in your corner. If my experience or my story can help you in any way or if you just need someone who will listen and can relate, please reach out. I believe God gives us these experiences to both help us grow and to help us help others. If I can help, I want to. And this Father’s Day, I want to send a special thanks to both my Heavenly and earthly fathers who have been by my side every step of the way. They have been my rock every step of the way. I love them. Happy Father’s Day! BYU Women's Soccer Greg Wrubell SoccerWire Prep Soccer ⚽️ TopDrawerSoccer The ROC BYU Cougars BYU Men’s Soccer BYU ECNL/GA/Recruiting/College Soccer College Soccer Truth ™ BYUwvolleyball @byu_cosmo DKSC U18/19 ECNL (24's & 25's) D'Feeters Kicks Soccer Club Brent Anderson Steve Magleby Diljeet Dosanjh Taylor Tom Holmoe Liz Darger Chad Lewis J.R. Eskilson ECNL Girls @EcnlTexas Liz Darger Big 12 Conference J.R. Eskilson Travis Clark AllegianceAcademy U.S. Soccer YNT Carla Swensen-Haslam @cindy_cone Carla Overbeck Ben Criddle Chris Henderson The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Julie Foudy

Tabitha "Abbi" Sine

29,079 просмотров • 2 лет назад

It is time we talk about Alex Hawke and his Indian connection. The shadowy backdrop to his demanding for an apology from Jacinta Price - "to help her" - for her rather innocent and well-meaning statement. Which she has further clarified. It’s not about good politics for Alex - it’s desperation. He just didn’t bank on her response. Maybe it is because she’s buoyed by her spectacular performance on the voice. Or maybe it is because as a new entrant, she's not a product of a party that has been cowering to Hawke’s nonsense for almost two decades. Either way, the Liberal Party is caught in no man’s land, as an often silent but sometimes public brutal factional war rages between two forces. It is far from being the principled party of Menzies. It’s not the party of Howard, of Abbott, or even of Turnbull. Not anymore. Under Ley, the party is more of a Teal apologist organisation. It is so incapable of opposition, many wonder why it still officially holds the space at all. With Ley at the helm and the NSW division in administration, Alex Hawke and the lobbyist left is firmly in charge of both the party organisation, and the parliamentary team. That is one side of the war. On the other side, the conservatives, those “we believe” Liberals, those much happier in coalition with the Net Zero rejecting National party. Those that want to see a return to a party focused on small government, lower taxes, individual initiative, farmers, and small business. They're not owned by lobbyist forces, and don't genuflect to the latest identity politics driven brain fart. I personally believe the Liberals need to find their centre-right roots, and fast. I believe they need to start opposing Labor and holding them to account. That starts when they finally deal with the mess that is Alex Hawke. Hawke has always been surrounded by a cloud of controversy, from his splitting of the right of the party, to his constant messing in pre-selections, and his obsessive control over the NSW division. The Hawke faction never seemed to have any qualms doing bad things to good people. Always running toward expediency, they give way on the big important things (like Net Zero), for perceived short-term gain. It is my opinion they are the reason for the mess Australia is in right now. Too many talentless, feckless and inauthentic people have been placed into parliament by a captured organisation, and now there is little leadership, vision or talent more capable than Hawke himself. Which is not very capable at all. We can all see in, the rouge has worn thin and no amount of bullying, or breathless, terrible, virtue signalling photo-ops will draw the curtain back over the window. The Hawke left machine is filled with lobbyists, vested interests and careerists. From Green energy interests, migration agents, hired-gun lobbyists (who put corporate interests ahead of the national interest) and in Hawkes case – a conference, Mitchell, allegedly operated together with radical elements of the Indian BJP. Four Corners did a deep dive into the subject, and the evidence is more than circumstantial. They produced an episode titled “Infiltrating Australia – India's secret war” focused on India’s influence on the Australian political landscape. Of course, this does not mean all people of Indian descent are infiltrators, or that they are not welcome in this country. It does not mean that Australia should not have a sensible migration program, or any of the rest. But at this time in the midst of a housing crisis, and a slowing economy, where access to services is becoming harder and harder, surely the Liberal party must sensibly prosecute a case to curb our intake. It is in the national interest, getting somewhere to live is becoming neigh on impossible and common courtesy dictates that rapidly adding more bodies needing even more homes is just bad manners. I would suggest Hawke is less motivated by the national interest, and instead his personal and factional interest – conversely, I say Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has the national interest at heart. Worse, there is indeed a reasonable accusation that this rapid immigration tips the electoral balance in Labor’s favour. A genuine opposition would surely be running this story on high rotation. Not apologising for calling it out. The Liberals have not learned anything, not from 2022, and not from this year's election. The crucial NSW party is in a worse position than ever, and the evils of the destructive factional war there have spread across the nation. They will not provide an opposition or govern ‘til the war is resolved, and people of principle - not vapid spivs or lobbyist aligned hacks - are back in charge of the organisation. And when they are, they must clean out the rot - root and branch. If they don't it is entirely possible, the Liberals wipe themselves off the map. Whatever happens, we desperately need an opposition in this country and fast, so we can have some hope. We need an authentic opposition to drag Australia out of the funk. It’s been a very long time. I just want Australia back.
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It is time we talk about Alex Hawke and his Indian connection. The shadowy backdrop to his demanding for an apology from Jacinta Price - "to help her" - for her rather innocent and well-meaning statement. Which she has further clarified. It’s not about good politics for Alex - it’s desperation. He just didn’t bank on her response. Maybe it is because she’s buoyed by her spectacular performance on the voice. Or maybe it is because as a new entrant, she's not a product of a party that has been cowering to Hawke’s nonsense for almost two decades. Either way, the Liberal Party is caught in no man’s land, as an often silent but sometimes public brutal factional war rages between two forces. It is far from being the principled party of Menzies. It’s not the party of Howard, of Abbott, or even of Turnbull. Not anymore. Under Ley, the party is more of a Teal apologist organisation. It is so incapable of opposition, many wonder why it still officially holds the space at all. With Ley at the helm and the NSW division in administration, Alex Hawke and the lobbyist left is firmly in charge of both the party organisation, and the parliamentary team. That is one side of the war. On the other side, the conservatives, those “we believe” Liberals, those much happier in coalition with the Net Zero rejecting National party. Those that want to see a return to a party focused on small government, lower taxes, individual initiative, farmers, and small business. They're not owned by lobbyist forces, and don't genuflect to the latest identity politics driven brain fart. I personally believe the Liberals need to find their centre-right roots, and fast. I believe they need to start opposing Labor and holding them to account. That starts when they finally deal with the mess that is Alex Hawke. Hawke has always been surrounded by a cloud of controversy, from his splitting of the right of the party, to his constant messing in pre-selections, and his obsessive control over the NSW division. The Hawke faction never seemed to have any qualms doing bad things to good people. Always running toward expediency, they give way on the big important things (like Net Zero), for perceived short-term gain. It is my opinion they are the reason for the mess Australia is in right now. Too many talentless, feckless and inauthentic people have been placed into parliament by a captured organisation, and now there is little leadership, vision or talent more capable than Hawke himself. Which is not very capable at all. We can all see in, the rouge has worn thin and no amount of bullying, or breathless, terrible, virtue signalling photo-ops will draw the curtain back over the window. The Hawke left machine is filled with lobbyists, vested interests and careerists. From Green energy interests, migration agents, hired-gun lobbyists (who put corporate interests ahead of the national interest) and in Hawkes case – a conference, Mitchell, allegedly operated together with radical elements of the Indian BJP. Four Corners did a deep dive into the subject, and the evidence is more than circumstantial. They produced an episode titled “Infiltrating Australia – India's secret war” focused on India’s influence on the Australian political landscape. Of course, this does not mean all people of Indian descent are infiltrators, or that they are not welcome in this country. It does not mean that Australia should not have a sensible migration program, or any of the rest. But at this time in the midst of a housing crisis, and a slowing economy, where access to services is becoming harder and harder, surely the Liberal party must sensibly prosecute a case to curb our intake. It is in the national interest, getting somewhere to live is becoming neigh on impossible and common courtesy dictates that rapidly adding more bodies needing even more homes is just bad manners. I would suggest Hawke is less motivated by the national interest, and instead his personal and factional interest – conversely, I say Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has the national interest at heart. Worse, there is indeed a reasonable accusation that this rapid immigration tips the electoral balance in Labor’s favour. A genuine opposition would surely be running this story on high rotation. Not apologising for calling it out. The Liberals have not learned anything, not from 2022, and not from this year's election. The crucial NSW party is in a worse position than ever, and the evils of the destructive factional war there have spread across the nation. They will not provide an opposition or govern ‘til the war is resolved, and people of principle - not vapid spivs or lobbyist aligned hacks - are back in charge of the organisation. And when they are, they must clean out the rot - root and branch. If they don't it is entirely possible, the Liberals wipe themselves off the map. Whatever happens, we desperately need an opposition in this country and fast, so we can have some hope. We need an authentic opposition to drag Australia out of the funk. It’s been a very long time. I just want Australia back.

Matthew Camenzuli

32,332 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад