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Inconvenient Truths — Jennifer Zeng Reports

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🎙️ Episode 10 of [trading places] featuring Rick Baker from Blackbird Ventures is out now. This week on trading places, hosts Dave McClure and Aman Verjee cover the latest tech news, including OpenAI's path to a trillion-dollar IPO, Big Tech's massive AI spending spree, and Tether's $500 billion valuation. Plus, we sit down with Rick Baker, Managing Partner at Blackbird Venture Capital, to discuss the incredible Canva story, secondary transactions, and building Australia's venture ecosystem from the ground up. 📰 THIS WEEK'S NEWS 🤖 OpenAI's IPO Plans -Potential $1 trillion IPO target -Microsoft ownership restructure (49% → 27%) -California AG blesses for-profit transition -Sam Altman hints at revenue north of $100B 💰 Big Tech AI Spending -Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta spending $125B/quarter on AI infrastructure -Meta raises $30B in corporate bonds -Oracle raises $38B for data center expansion -Power constraints emerging as key bottleneck 📈 Secondary Market Consolidation -Morgan Stanley acquires EquityZen -Goldman Sachs acquired Industry Ventures -Signals expansion of secondary market opportunities 🚀 IPO & Funding News -Navan's challenging IPO (down 20% on day one) -Mer raises $350M Series C at $10B valuation (5x step-up) -Securitize going public via SPAC at $1.2B valuation 🪙 Stablecoin Market - considering $500B valuation round -Coinbase 🛡️ reportedly pursuing $2B acquisition of BVNK -Stablecoin revenue growing 300M+ per quarter 🎙️ FEATURED GUEST: RICK BAKER, MANAGING PARTNER @ BLACKBIRD VENTURES The Canva Story -Rick shares the incredible journey of Blackbird's investment in Canva—from a $250K seed investment to a company now valued at $40B. -GP-Led Secondary Transactions -Rick walks through Blackbird's 2019 secondary sale: -Sold ~$120M (1/3 of Fund I) at 93% of NAV -Returned 3.5x to LPs while maintaining 9.5x exposure -Used Lazard to run a competitive process -StepStone + Australian super fund won the bid Managing Concentration Risk -Owned 15% of Canva at peak, now ~11% -Balance between maximizing returns and managing risk -LP perspectives range from "sell everything" to "hold forever" -Strategic sales during primary rounds to unlock growth capital Australian VC Ecosystem -Superannuation system: 12% of salary mandated into pension funds -$4T AUD pool of long-term capital -Reset after GFC: Blackbird, Square Peg, Airtree, Main Sequence -Circle of life: Atlassian/Canva alumni starting next wave 💎 VALUATION CORNER: TETHER @ $500 BILLION -Deep Dive on Tether -Aman analyzes whether the world's largest stablecoin issuer is worth a $500B valuation: -$13B+ in annual profit (2x BlackRock's profitability) -75% market share vs. Circle's 20% -36x P/E ratio vs. Circle at 240x -Medium transparency, aggressive reserve policy -Regulatory uncertainty in U.S. market 0:00 - Intro 01:12 -[ tech & vc news ] 01:21 - OpenAI Restructuring | $1T IPO? 08:24 - Big Tech Hyperscalers' Earnings and $125 Billion in Quarterly AI Spending 10:47 - Why This AI Boom is Different 15:58 - Morgan Stanley Acquires EquityZen 17:39 - Navan's Public Offering Performance 21:05 - Mercor Raises at a $10 Billion Valuation 22:23 - Securitize Going Public via SPAC ($1.25B) 24:37 - Tether's $500B Valuation Rumor 28:05 - [ interview: blackbird vc / rick baker ] 28:49 - Rick Baker's Background and Founding the MLC Venture Program 35:56 - The Canva Story 45:06 - The Australian Venture Capital Market 01:07:44 - How the Secondary Market Solves the Liquidity Problem 01:15:48 - [ valuation corner: tether] 01:13:30 - Tether's Aggressive vs. $CIRC’s Conservative Reserve Policy 01:16:32 - Calculating Tether's Valuation Based on P/E 01:24:00 - The Regulatory Uncertainty for Stablecoins 01:31:30 - Final Thoughts on Tether's $500B Valuation & Stablecoin Market DISCLAIMER: This podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only. Nothing discussed should be construed as investment advice. Always conduct your own research and consult with qualified professionals before making investment decisions.
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🎙️ Episode 10 of [trading places] featuring Rick Baker from Blackbird Ventures is out now. This week on trading places, hosts Dave McClure and Aman Verjee cover the latest tech news, including OpenAI's path to a trillion-dollar IPO, Big Tech's massive AI spending spree, and Tether's $500 billion valuation. Plus, we sit down with Rick Baker, Managing Partner at Blackbird Venture Capital, to discuss the incredible Canva story, secondary transactions, and building Australia's venture ecosystem from the ground up. 📰 THIS WEEK'S NEWS 🤖 OpenAI's IPO Plans -Potential $1 trillion IPO target -Microsoft ownership restructure (49% → 27%) -California AG blesses for-profit transition -Sam Altman hints at revenue north of $100B 💰 Big Tech AI Spending -Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta spending $125B/quarter on AI infrastructure -Meta raises $30B in corporate bonds -Oracle raises $38B for data center expansion -Power constraints emerging as key bottleneck 📈 Secondary Market Consolidation -Morgan Stanley acquires EquityZen -Goldman Sachs acquired Industry Ventures -Signals expansion of secondary market opportunities 🚀 IPO & Funding News -Navan's challenging IPO (down 20% on day one) -Mer raises $350M Series C at $10B valuation (5x step-up) -Securitize going public via SPAC at $1.2B valuation 🪙 Stablecoin Market - considering $500B valuation round -Coinbase 🛡️ reportedly pursuing $2B acquisition of BVNK -Stablecoin revenue growing 300M+ per quarter 🎙️ FEATURED GUEST: RICK BAKER, MANAGING PARTNER @ BLACKBIRD VENTURES The Canva Story -Rick shares the incredible journey of Blackbird's investment in Canva—from a $250K seed investment to a company now valued at $40B. -GP-Led Secondary Transactions -Rick walks through Blackbird's 2019 secondary sale: -Sold ~$120M (1/3 of Fund I) at 93% of NAV -Returned 3.5x to LPs while maintaining 9.5x exposure -Used Lazard to run a competitive process -StepStone + Australian super fund won the bid Managing Concentration Risk -Owned 15% of Canva at peak, now ~11% -Balance between maximizing returns and managing risk -LP perspectives range from "sell everything" to "hold forever" -Strategic sales during primary rounds to unlock growth capital Australian VC Ecosystem -Superannuation system: 12% of salary mandated into pension funds -$4T AUD pool of long-term capital -Reset after GFC: Blackbird, Square Peg, Airtree, Main Sequence -Circle of life: Atlassian/Canva alumni starting next wave 💎 VALUATION CORNER: TETHER @ $500 BILLION -Deep Dive on Tether -Aman analyzes whether the world's largest stablecoin issuer is worth a $500B valuation: -$13B+ in annual profit (2x BlackRock's profitability) -75% market share vs. Circle's 20% -36x P/E ratio vs. Circle at 240x -Medium transparency, aggressive reserve policy -Regulatory uncertainty in U.S. market 0:00 - Intro 01:12 -[ tech & vc news ] 01:21 - OpenAI Restructuring | $1T IPO? 08:24 - Big Tech Hyperscalers' Earnings and $125 Billion in Quarterly AI Spending 10:47 - Why This AI Boom is Different 15:58 - Morgan Stanley Acquires EquityZen 17:39 - Navan's Public Offering Performance 21:05 - Mercor Raises at a $10 Billion Valuation 22:23 - Securitize Going Public via SPAC ($1.25B) 24:37 - Tether's $500B Valuation Rumor 28:05 - [ interview: blackbird vc / rick baker ] 28:49 - Rick Baker's Background and Founding the MLC Venture Program 35:56 - The Canva Story 45:06 - The Australian Venture Capital Market 01:07:44 - How the Secondary Market Solves the Liquidity Problem 01:15:48 - [ valuation corner: tether] 01:13:30 - Tether's Aggressive vs. $CIRC’s Conservative Reserve Policy 01:16:32 - Calculating Tether's Valuation Based on P/E 01:24:00 - The Regulatory Uncertainty for Stablecoins 01:31:30 - Final Thoughts on Tether's $500B Valuation & Stablecoin Market DISCLAIMER: This podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only. Nothing discussed should be construed as investment advice. Always conduct your own research and consult with qualified professionals before making investment decisions.

trading places

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🤍New 5-Star Interactive Memory [Rafayel: Intertidal Zone] The unfamilar, blazing climate just mirrors his unwavering resolve to accompany you at every moment. Disconnect the call, filter out the noise, and leave each other marooned in this drying sea. "I've changed my mind. Stay with me—I'm not going anywhere." 🤍Nightly Rendezvous From the update on Dec. 31, 2024, to 4:59 AM on Jan. 20, 2025 (Server Time) During the event, you can select three out of the four event-limited 5-Star Memories: [Xavier: Misty Silhouette], [Zayne: Absolute Zeal], [Rafayel: Intertidal Zone], [Sylus: Night Of Secrecy]. The drop rate of the 3 Memories you selected will be significantly increased. Each time you obtain a 5-Star Memory, there's a 75% chance it will be one of the 3 Memories you selected. *Note 1. During the event, you can change your selected Memories at any time. Each time you obtain a 5-Star Memory, the chance of obtaining the unselected event-limited Memory and other permanent 5-Star Memories will be 25%. 2. After the event ends, the four event-limited Memories will not be obtainable through other means and will not enter the permanent Wish Pool, Xspace Echo. 3. Apart from the selection system, the wish event features Precise Wish and a pity system. For more details, please check the in-game rule page. 🤍Heartfelt Blessing: Wish Rewards During the event, after you make a certain number of wishes, you can claim the rewards including Universal Earrings [Butterfly's Grace], [Deepspace Wish: Limited*15], Love Interest's [Event-Limited Memory-Themed Outfit (Special Perk)], Selectable [Event Limited 5-Star Memory] and more. *Please note that this mechanism only takes effect in this event. 🤍Limited-Time Memory Growth Bonus Upgrade During the event, by completing upgrade tasks of the four event-limited 5-Star Memories, you can claim various Upgrade and Ascension Materials, with Materials return ratio reaching up to 75%! When the event-limited Memories reach Rank 1, you can claim [Special-Colored Memory-themed Outfit (Special Perk] for the corresponding love interest. #LoveandDeepspace
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🤍New 5-Star Interactive Memory [Rafayel: Intertidal Zone] The unfamilar, blazing climate just mirrors his unwavering resolve to accompany you at every moment. Disconnect the call, filter out the noise, and leave each other marooned in this drying sea. "I've changed my mind. Stay with me—I'm not going anywhere." 🤍Nightly Rendezvous From the update on Dec. 31, 2024, to 4:59 AM on Jan. 20, 2025 (Server Time) During the event, you can select three out of the four event-limited 5-Star Memories: [Xavier: Misty Silhouette], [Zayne: Absolute Zeal], [Rafayel: Intertidal Zone], [Sylus: Night Of Secrecy]. The drop rate of the 3 Memories you selected will be significantly increased. Each time you obtain a 5-Star Memory, there's a 75% chance it will be one of the 3 Memories you selected. *Note 1. During the event, you can change your selected Memories at any time. Each time you obtain a 5-Star Memory, the chance of obtaining the unselected event-limited Memory and other permanent 5-Star Memories will be 25%. 2. After the event ends, the four event-limited Memories will not be obtainable through other means and will not enter the permanent Wish Pool, Xspace Echo. 3. Apart from the selection system, the wish event features Precise Wish and a pity system. For more details, please check the in-game rule page. 🤍Heartfelt Blessing: Wish Rewards During the event, after you make a certain number of wishes, you can claim the rewards including Universal Earrings [Butterfly's Grace], [Deepspace Wish: Limited*15], Love Interest's [Event-Limited Memory-Themed Outfit (Special Perk)], Selectable [Event Limited 5-Star Memory] and more. *Please note that this mechanism only takes effect in this event. 🤍Limited-Time Memory Growth Bonus Upgrade During the event, by completing upgrade tasks of the four event-limited 5-Star Memories, you can claim various Upgrade and Ascension Materials, with Materials return ratio reaching up to 75%! When the event-limited Memories reach Rank 1, you can claim [Special-Colored Memory-themed Outfit (Special Perk] for the corresponding love interest. #LoveandDeepspace

Love and Deepspace

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🚨 JAKE HOFFMAN EXPOSED: One Child Goes MISSING In Hoffman’s District Every 48 Hours — The REAL Reason Jake Hoffman Left The "Dept. Of Child Safety" LEADERLESS for 2 Years. While the mainstream media looks the other way, WolvesAndFinance just dropped a new video exposing Jake Hoffman and the seddy world of AZ politics; Uncovering a web of UPS store mailboxes, quid pro quo, multimillion-dollar payments from Turning Point, and a legislative record that raises the most disturbing questions imaginable. Here is the breakdown of the Arizona "Musical Chairs" and what it means for the most vulnerable. Turning Point reportedly sent millions of dollars to 1:10 LLC, a company operated by Jake Hoffman out of a UPS Store mailbox. When questioned about whether this was a bribe, Turning Point didn't just deny it—they sent a Cease and Desist specifically telling investigators to stop asking about that specific transaction. What are they hiding? Hoffman’s rise to power wasn’t an accident. It was a carefully orchestrated game of "political musical chairs" with Andy Biggs, Warren Petersen, and Eddie Farnsworth. In 2012, Hoffman dropped out of a race so Petersen and Farnsworth could run unopposed. In exchange, the machine cleared his path to the school board and eventually the State Senate. Warren Petersen (a land developer) sold Hoffman a home in Queen Creek at a $25,000 loss to the seller just in time for Hoffman to meet residency requirements for the Town Council. This was while Petersen had a massive lawsuit pending against the town—a lawsuit Hoffman would eventually be in a position to vote on. That is a MASSIVE conflict of interest. Hoffman represents Queen Creek, home to Canyon State Academy and Desert Lily Academy. These facilities house at-risk and foster youth—many sent from California. Between Jan 2024 and Dec 2025, 327 children went missing from these two campuses. That is one child going missing every two days. The QC police chief (hired by Hoffman) admitted these "runaways" often turn into sex trafficking and exploitation cases. In one instance, 31-year-old Wendell White was sentenced to 20 years for trafficking girls out of Desert Lily to a Phoenix hotbed known as "The Blade." When Governor Katie Hobbs tried to appoint Matthew Stewart—a man with a decade of hands-on experience in the Dept. of Child Safety—to fix the agency, Hoffman blocked him. Hoffman kept the Department of Child Safety in leaderless chaos for two years. He finally confirmed Catherine Patak, the agency's General Counsel, specifically because she promised "consistent and reliable operations." Translation: He wanted the status quo. He wanted the management that allowed a child to go missing every 48 hours to remain in power. Jake Hoffman is at the center of the Turning Point money machine. He has used his power to maintain a "status quo" in a district where children are being plucked from state care and sold on the streets of Phoenix. Is he a representative, or is he a gatekeeper for a much darker industry? This is just a piece of the much larger puzzl connecting these powerful politicians in AZ who all work together to mak sure homegrown child sexual exploitation continues. Be sure to go watch the FULL video from WolvesAndFinance linked below.
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🚨 JAKE HOFFMAN EXPOSED: One Child Goes MISSING In Hoffman’s District Every 48 Hours — The REAL Reason Jake Hoffman Left The "Dept. Of Child Safety" LEADERLESS for 2 Years. While the mainstream media looks the other way, WolvesAndFinance just dropped a new video exposing Jake Hoffman and the seddy world of AZ politics; Uncovering a web of UPS store mailboxes, quid pro quo, multimillion-dollar payments from Turning Point, and a legislative record that raises the most disturbing questions imaginable. Here is the breakdown of the Arizona "Musical Chairs" and what it means for the most vulnerable. Turning Point reportedly sent millions of dollars to 1:10 LLC, a company operated by Jake Hoffman out of a UPS Store mailbox. When questioned about whether this was a bribe, Turning Point didn't just deny it—they sent a Cease and Desist specifically telling investigators to stop asking about that specific transaction. What are they hiding? Hoffman’s rise to power wasn’t an accident. It was a carefully orchestrated game of "political musical chairs" with Andy Biggs, Warren Petersen, and Eddie Farnsworth. In 2012, Hoffman dropped out of a race so Petersen and Farnsworth could run unopposed. In exchange, the machine cleared his path to the school board and eventually the State Senate. Warren Petersen (a land developer) sold Hoffman a home in Queen Creek at a $25,000 loss to the seller just in time for Hoffman to meet residency requirements for the Town Council. This was while Petersen had a massive lawsuit pending against the town—a lawsuit Hoffman would eventually be in a position to vote on. That is a MASSIVE conflict of interest. Hoffman represents Queen Creek, home to Canyon State Academy and Desert Lily Academy. These facilities house at-risk and foster youth—many sent from California. Between Jan 2024 and Dec 2025, 327 children went missing from these two campuses. That is one child going missing every two days. The QC police chief (hired by Hoffman) admitted these "runaways" often turn into sex trafficking and exploitation cases. In one instance, 31-year-old Wendell White was sentenced to 20 years for trafficking girls out of Desert Lily to a Phoenix hotbed known as "The Blade." When Governor Katie Hobbs tried to appoint Matthew Stewart—a man with a decade of hands-on experience in the Dept. of Child Safety—to fix the agency, Hoffman blocked him. Hoffman kept the Department of Child Safety in leaderless chaos for two years. He finally confirmed Catherine Patak, the agency's General Counsel, specifically because she promised "consistent and reliable operations." Translation: He wanted the status quo. He wanted the management that allowed a child to go missing every 48 hours to remain in power. Jake Hoffman is at the center of the Turning Point money machine. He has used his power to maintain a "status quo" in a district where children are being plucked from state care and sold on the streets of Phoenix. Is he a representative, or is he a gatekeeper for a much darker industry? This is just a piece of the much larger puzzl connecting these powerful politicians in AZ who all work together to mak sure homegrown child sexual exploitation continues. Be sure to go watch the FULL video from WolvesAndFinance linked below.

Project Constitution

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🤍New 5-Star Interactive Memory [Xavier: Misty Silhouette] None of the ways you come up with to satisfy him work this time. The surge concealed within his serene gaze, let it be pacified by the mingling breath and warm fog on the car window. "You said you'd leave me alone if I pushed my luck, right?" 🤍Nightly Rendezvous From the update on Dec. 31, 2024, to 4:59 AM on Jan. 20, 2025 (Server Time) During the event, you can select three out of the four event-limited 5-Star Memories: [Xavier: Misty Silhouette], [Zayne: Absolute Zeal], [Rafayel: Intertidal Zone], [Sylus: Night Of Secrecy]. The drop rate of the 3 Memories you selected will be significantly increased. Each time you obtain a 5-Star Memory, there's a 75% chance it will be one of the 3 Memories you selected. *Note 1. During the event, you can change your selected Memories at any time. Each time you obtain a 5-Star Memory, the chance of obtaining the unselected event-limited Memory and other permanent 5-Star Memories will be 25%. 2. After the event ends, the four event-limited Memories will not be obtainable through other means and will not enter the permanent Wish Pool, Xspace Echo. 3. Apart from the selection system, the wish event features Precise Wish and a pity system. For more details, please check the in-game rule page. 🤍Heartfelt Blessing: Wish Rewards During the event, after you make a certain number of wishes, you can claim the rewards including Universal Earrings [Butterfly's Grace], [Deepspace Wish: Limited*15], Love Interest's [Event-Limited Memory-Themed Outfit (Special Perk)], Selectable [Event Limited 5-Star Memory] and more. *Please note that this mechanism only takes effect in this event. 🤍Limited-Time Memory Growth Bonus Upgrade During the event, by completing upgrade tasks of the four event-limited 5-Star Memories, you can claim various Upgrade and Ascension Materials, with Materials return ratio reaching up to 75%! When the event-limited Memories reach Rank 1, you can claim [Special-Colored Memory-themed Outfit (Special Perk)] for the corresponding love interest. #LoveandDeepspace
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🤍New 5-Star Interactive Memory [Xavier: Misty Silhouette] None of the ways you come up with to satisfy him work this time. The surge concealed within his serene gaze, let it be pacified by the mingling breath and warm fog on the car window. "You said you'd leave me alone if I pushed my luck, right?" 🤍Nightly Rendezvous From the update on Dec. 31, 2024, to 4:59 AM on Jan. 20, 2025 (Server Time) During the event, you can select three out of the four event-limited 5-Star Memories: [Xavier: Misty Silhouette], [Zayne: Absolute Zeal], [Rafayel: Intertidal Zone], [Sylus: Night Of Secrecy]. The drop rate of the 3 Memories you selected will be significantly increased. Each time you obtain a 5-Star Memory, there's a 75% chance it will be one of the 3 Memories you selected. *Note 1. During the event, you can change your selected Memories at any time. Each time you obtain a 5-Star Memory, the chance of obtaining the unselected event-limited Memory and other permanent 5-Star Memories will be 25%. 2. After the event ends, the four event-limited Memories will not be obtainable through other means and will not enter the permanent Wish Pool, Xspace Echo. 3. Apart from the selection system, the wish event features Precise Wish and a pity system. For more details, please check the in-game rule page. 🤍Heartfelt Blessing: Wish Rewards During the event, after you make a certain number of wishes, you can claim the rewards including Universal Earrings [Butterfly's Grace], [Deepspace Wish: Limited*15], Love Interest's [Event-Limited Memory-Themed Outfit (Special Perk)], Selectable [Event Limited 5-Star Memory] and more. *Please note that this mechanism only takes effect in this event. 🤍Limited-Time Memory Growth Bonus Upgrade During the event, by completing upgrade tasks of the four event-limited 5-Star Memories, you can claim various Upgrade and Ascension Materials, with Materials return ratio reaching up to 75%! When the event-limited Memories reach Rank 1, you can claim [Special-Colored Memory-themed Outfit (Special Perk)] for the corresponding love interest. #LoveandDeepspace

Love and Deepspace

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🤍New 5-Star Interactive Memory [Sylus: Night Of Secrecy] Those of the same kind, permitted to cross into each other's territory, may also be lovers, lost in the simplicity of the ordinary after nightfall. You're not the only one who desires more. Take everything you crave until you are content—he too, seeks the same. "I'm hoping yes is still your answer because... I just can't hold back anymore." 🤍Nightly Rendezvous From the update on Dec. 31, 2024, to 4:59 AM on Jan. 20, 2025 (Server Time) During the event, you can select three out of the four event-limited 5-Star Memories: [Xavier: Misty Silhouette], [Zayne: Absolute Zeal], [Rafayel: Intertidal Zone], [Sylus: Night Of Secrecy]. The drop rate of the 3 Memories you selected will be significantly increased. Each time you obtain a 5-Star Memory, there's a 75% chance it will be one of the 3 Memories you selected. *Note 1. During the event, you can change your selected Memories at any time. Each time you obtain a 5-Star Memory, the chance of obtaining the unselected event-limited Memory and other permanent 5-Star Memories will be 25%. 2. After the event ends, the four event-limited Memories will not be obtainable through other means and will not enter the permanent Wish Pool, Xspace Echo. 3. Apart from the selection system, the wish event features Precise Wish and a pity system. For more details, please check the in-game rule page. 🤍Heartfelt Blessing: Wish Rewards During the event, after you make a certain number of wishes, you can claim the rewards including Universal Earrings [Butterfly's Grace], [Deepspace Wish: Limited*15], Love Interest's [Event-Limited Memory-Themed Outfit (Special Perk)], Selectable [Event Limited 5-Star Memory] and more. *Please note that this mechanism only takes effect in this event. 🤍Limited-Time Memory Growth Bonus Upgrade During the event, by completing upgrade tasks of the four event-limited 5-Star Memories, you can claim various Upgrade and Ascension Materials, with Materials return ratio reaching up to 75%! When the event-limited Memories reach Rank 1, you can claim [Special-Colored Memory-themed Outfit (Special Perk] for the corresponding love interest. #LoveandDeepspace
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🤍New 5-Star Interactive Memory [Sylus: Night Of Secrecy] Those of the same kind, permitted to cross into each other's territory, may also be lovers, lost in the simplicity of the ordinary after nightfall. You're not the only one who desires more. Take everything you crave until you are content—he too, seeks the same. "I'm hoping yes is still your answer because... I just can't hold back anymore." 🤍Nightly Rendezvous From the update on Dec. 31, 2024, to 4:59 AM on Jan. 20, 2025 (Server Time) During the event, you can select three out of the four event-limited 5-Star Memories: [Xavier: Misty Silhouette], [Zayne: Absolute Zeal], [Rafayel: Intertidal Zone], [Sylus: Night Of Secrecy]. The drop rate of the 3 Memories you selected will be significantly increased. Each time you obtain a 5-Star Memory, there's a 75% chance it will be one of the 3 Memories you selected. *Note 1. During the event, you can change your selected Memories at any time. Each time you obtain a 5-Star Memory, the chance of obtaining the unselected event-limited Memory and other permanent 5-Star Memories will be 25%. 2. After the event ends, the four event-limited Memories will not be obtainable through other means and will not enter the permanent Wish Pool, Xspace Echo. 3. Apart from the selection system, the wish event features Precise Wish and a pity system. For more details, please check the in-game rule page. 🤍Heartfelt Blessing: Wish Rewards During the event, after you make a certain number of wishes, you can claim the rewards including Universal Earrings [Butterfly's Grace], [Deepspace Wish: Limited*15], Love Interest's [Event-Limited Memory-Themed Outfit (Special Perk)], Selectable [Event Limited 5-Star Memory] and more. *Please note that this mechanism only takes effect in this event. 🤍Limited-Time Memory Growth Bonus Upgrade During the event, by completing upgrade tasks of the four event-limited 5-Star Memories, you can claim various Upgrade and Ascension Materials, with Materials return ratio reaching up to 75%! When the event-limited Memories reach Rank 1, you can claim [Special-Colored Memory-themed Outfit (Special Perk] for the corresponding love interest. #LoveandDeepspace

Love and Deepspace

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[STRATEGIC ANALYSIS] Part I – POKROVSK, The Fall of the Corridor Russian forces have now been geolocated controlling Rodynske, with confirmation of their presence in Krasnyi Lyman. This narrows the Ukrainian exit corridor to roughly 5 km, leaving a single road through Rivne under sustained Russian fire control. (Maps from Julian Röpcke🇺🇦 et Poulet volant ) Losses during this retreat are expected to be significant, likely resulting in a casualty ratio below two to one, unfavorable to Ukraine. This reflects a recurrent pattern of the war: Ukrainian forces end up in semi encircled positions with limited supply routes, facing an adversary with overwhelming firepower. The result is predictable: heavy attrition and diminished operational capacity. This is not deliberate strategy by Ukraine. Having lost the initiative, the Ukrainian command is fighting without a coherent grand strategy, compelled to defend the Donbas fortress belt to delay northern Donetsk’s fall. The “meatgrinder” is a Russian concept, not a Ukrainian one. Remaining in besieged pockets to “bleed” Russian troops has never been Ukraine’s objective, as these battles consistently yield unfavorable loss ratios. Historical Context of Similar Battles 2022 1. Mariupol Roughly 3.5k POWs were captured after the final surrender. Once encircled, Ukrainian losses were catastrophic with over 1.6k KIA proven and the near total loss of defending units. 2. Sieverodonetsk Marked the first battle where Ukrainian KIA exceeded Russian, reaching up to 300 KIA per day. It introduced the pattern of partial encirclement and destruction through Russian artillery dominance. 2023 1. Bakhmut UA Losses identified 12k KIA and over 10k MIA, while Russian casualties (mostly Wagner) were estimated at 20–30k KIA. Even under the most optimistic view, that is a two to one ratio at best, achieved at the cost of elite Ukrainian formations such as the 93rd Mechanized Brigade. Between Dec 2022 and Apr 2023, losses totaled 9.6k Ukrainian vs 18.8k Russian theater wide, confirming the ratio. Yet Russian losses consisted mainly of expendable conscripts, leaving Ukraine strategically weakened. Further losses followed during the May–Sept 2023 counteroffensive, especially near Klishiivka, worsening the overall balance. 2. Avdiivka The October 2023 offensive caused high casualties on both sides, continuing until the collapse in Feb 2024. Mediazona recorded 20.1k Russian KIA front wide, while UA Losses listed 9k KIA, mostly in Avdiivka.The 110th Mechanized Brigade was virtually destroyed. Even at best, the 2 to 1 ratio ended with the fall of Ukraine’s most fortified Donbas city. 2024–2025 1. Kursk (Defensive Posture) During Ukraine’s incursion and Russia’s counterattack, Ukrainian forces were trapped around Sudja, repeating the attritional pattern. Losses reached 3k KIA and 11k MIA, with 30% higher armored losses than Russia’s. Russian logistics and command ensured a tighter, lower cost victory. 2. Pokrovsk, Kupyansk, Kostyantynivka, and Others By mid 2025, siege battles across Pokrovsk, Kupyansk, and Kostyantynivka followed identical dynamics: local encirclements, exhausted defenders, restricted supply.Russian forces shifted to small assault groups and infiltration tactics, reducing casualties while sustaining pressure. Ukrainian armor losses rose sharply during the 2025 summer, reflecting logistical strain. Operationally, attrition became increasingly one sided, as Russia paired methodical advances with resource discipline and fire control. Clausewitz warned of late withdrawals: “Reason counsels not to risk the last upon the game, but to retain as much as is necessary for an orderly retreat.” #UkraineRussiaWar️ #Pokrovsk #Warfare
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[STRATEGIC ANALYSIS] Part I – POKROVSK, The Fall of the Corridor Russian forces have now been geolocated controlling Rodynske, with confirmation of their presence in Krasnyi Lyman. This narrows the Ukrainian exit corridor to roughly 5 km, leaving a single road through Rivne under sustained Russian fire control. (Maps from Julian Röpcke🇺🇦 et Poulet volant ) Losses during this retreat are expected to be significant, likely resulting in a casualty ratio below two to one, unfavorable to Ukraine. This reflects a recurrent pattern of the war: Ukrainian forces end up in semi encircled positions with limited supply routes, facing an adversary with overwhelming firepower. The result is predictable: heavy attrition and diminished operational capacity. This is not deliberate strategy by Ukraine. Having lost the initiative, the Ukrainian command is fighting without a coherent grand strategy, compelled to defend the Donbas fortress belt to delay northern Donetsk’s fall. The “meatgrinder” is a Russian concept, not a Ukrainian one. Remaining in besieged pockets to “bleed” Russian troops has never been Ukraine’s objective, as these battles consistently yield unfavorable loss ratios. Historical Context of Similar Battles 2022 1. Mariupol Roughly 3.5k POWs were captured after the final surrender. Once encircled, Ukrainian losses were catastrophic with over 1.6k KIA proven and the near total loss of defending units. 2. Sieverodonetsk Marked the first battle where Ukrainian KIA exceeded Russian, reaching up to 300 KIA per day. It introduced the pattern of partial encirclement and destruction through Russian artillery dominance. 2023 1. Bakhmut UA Losses identified 12k KIA and over 10k MIA, while Russian casualties (mostly Wagner) were estimated at 20–30k KIA. Even under the most optimistic view, that is a two to one ratio at best, achieved at the cost of elite Ukrainian formations such as the 93rd Mechanized Brigade. Between Dec 2022 and Apr 2023, losses totaled 9.6k Ukrainian vs 18.8k Russian theater wide, confirming the ratio. Yet Russian losses consisted mainly of expendable conscripts, leaving Ukraine strategically weakened. Further losses followed during the May–Sept 2023 counteroffensive, especially near Klishiivka, worsening the overall balance. 2. Avdiivka The October 2023 offensive caused high casualties on both sides, continuing until the collapse in Feb 2024. Mediazona recorded 20.1k Russian KIA front wide, while UA Losses listed 9k KIA, mostly in Avdiivka.The 110th Mechanized Brigade was virtually destroyed. Even at best, the 2 to 1 ratio ended with the fall of Ukraine’s most fortified Donbas city. 2024–2025 1. Kursk (Defensive Posture) During Ukraine’s incursion and Russia’s counterattack, Ukrainian forces were trapped around Sudja, repeating the attritional pattern. Losses reached 3k KIA and 11k MIA, with 30% higher armored losses than Russia’s. Russian logistics and command ensured a tighter, lower cost victory. 2. Pokrovsk, Kupyansk, Kostyantynivka, and Others By mid 2025, siege battles across Pokrovsk, Kupyansk, and Kostyantynivka followed identical dynamics: local encirclements, exhausted defenders, restricted supply.Russian forces shifted to small assault groups and infiltration tactics, reducing casualties while sustaining pressure. Ukrainian armor losses rose sharply during the 2025 summer, reflecting logistical strain. Operationally, attrition became increasingly one sided, as Russia paired methodical advances with resource discipline and fire control. Clausewitz warned of late withdrawals: “Reason counsels not to risk the last upon the game, but to retain as much as is necessary for an orderly retreat.” #UkraineRussiaWar️ #Pokrovsk #Warfare

Delwin | Military Theorist

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I need to make this abundantly clear, after following this case now since August 2023, I can see how this wretched diabolical psychopath operates. She is starting to form a brand new narrative for who is responsible for John’s death. Here are the former targets of Read’s narrative to blame someone else for what she did. 1) It was a plow. 2)It was Chloe, the Albert’s dog 3) It was Jennifer McCabe 4) It was Colin Albert 5) It was Brian Albert 6)It was all 3 of these people. The following people are part of the conspiracy according to Karen, and are covering up what Jenn, Colin, Brian A, & Brian H did 📌Brian Albert Jr. 📌Julie Nagel 📌Sarah Levinson 📌Allie McCabe 📌Julie Albert 📌The EMT’s on the scene the morning John was found 📌The Canton PD 📌Mass State Police 📌Ian Whiffin: an expert in digital forensics who currently serves as a Senior Technical Product Manager at Cellebrite. 📌Dr. Jessica Hyde: a high-profile digital forensics examiner, consultant, and educator. *It’s important to note that any friends & family of the aforementioned, would be looked upon by Read & her attorneys of being complicit in the conspiracy if they were to speak out to support their family and/or friends. THERE IS NOT ONE SHRED OF EVIDENCE THAT ANYONE MENTIONED ABOVE, HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE DEATH OF JOHN O’KEEFE. Here are the basic facts and evidence that point directly to Karen Read. The digital data shows: 📌Karen backed her SUV up going 24 MPH, with the gas pedal pressed at 75% throttle. What that means is her gas pedal was almost completely pressed to the floor of the vehicle. 📌 Read's 2021 Lexus LX 570 SUV recorded a "trigger event" when put in reverse, corresponding to the time of the fatal strike of John O’Keefe. O'Keefe's iPhone, including Health app steps, Doppler data, and battery temperature, forensic experts testified that the phone's last recorded movement stopped at 12:32 a.m., right around the same time the SUV was in reverse. 📌A Canton Police Department cruiser responding to check on John O’Keefe's niece and nephew captured footage of Karen Read’s broken tail light at 8:23 a.m.on January 29, 2022, via the vehicle camera on law enforcement’s vehicle. 📌 Karen relayed through the intermediary to the blogger, that her taillight was already broken at 5:08 AM. 📌Pieces of her tail light were found at the scene (34 Fairview) 📌 microscopic pieces of tail light were found embedded in John’s clothing. 📌 Karen herself told several first responders, and witnesses testified during the trial, that Karen Read made statements at the scene admitting she hit John O’Keefe. 📌 Karen told investigators the afternoon of the horrific event, that John did not go into the house. Since then, Karen’s version of whether John went into the home at 34 Fairview has changed multiple times. Presently her story is that he did go into the home. (He didn’t) ‼️This is not a complicated case, this is a woman who was enraged, drunk, and in a fit of rage, backed her vehicle up into John, struck him, and left him to die in the cold. Instead of taking accountability, she is now trying to blame his death on John’s own friends, to avoid taking any accountability for what she did. She has destroyed people’s, including at the time, an 18 year old young man named Colin albert, who was not even inside the home by the time Karen had arrived. ‼️ given all of this evidence, if you still believe that Karen Read is innocent, then you are as dumb as a bag of damn rocks! 🚨 that brings me back to the original purpose of this post. She is now trying to put the blame on Michael Proctor. Michael Proctor‘s horrific, disgusting, and despicable text messages are just that, but they have nothing to do with Karen Read herself, or his investigation of her case. ‼️The FBI went through Michael Proctor‘s phone & found ZERO evidence of a coverup or a conspiracy. Read is a manipulative, lying, narcissist, & needs to be held accountable for the death of John O’Keefe.
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I need to make this abundantly clear, after following this case now since August 2023, I can see how this wretched diabolical psychopath operates. She is starting to form a brand new narrative for who is responsible for John’s death. Here are the former targets of Read’s narrative to blame someone else for what she did. 1) It was a plow. 2)It was Chloe, the Albert’s dog 3) It was Jennifer McCabe 4) It was Colin Albert 5) It was Brian Albert 6)It was all 3 of these people. The following people are part of the conspiracy according to Karen, and are covering up what Jenn, Colin, Brian A, & Brian H did 📌Brian Albert Jr. 📌Julie Nagel 📌Sarah Levinson 📌Allie McCabe 📌Julie Albert 📌The EMT’s on the scene the morning John was found 📌The Canton PD 📌Mass State Police 📌Ian Whiffin: an expert in digital forensics who currently serves as a Senior Technical Product Manager at Cellebrite. 📌Dr. Jessica Hyde: a high-profile digital forensics examiner, consultant, and educator. *It’s important to note that any friends & family of the aforementioned, would be looked upon by Read & her attorneys of being complicit in the conspiracy if they were to speak out to support their family and/or friends. THERE IS NOT ONE SHRED OF EVIDENCE THAT ANYONE MENTIONED ABOVE, HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE DEATH OF JOHN O’KEEFE. Here are the basic facts and evidence that point directly to Karen Read. The digital data shows: 📌Karen backed her SUV up going 24 MPH, with the gas pedal pressed at 75% throttle. What that means is her gas pedal was almost completely pressed to the floor of the vehicle. 📌 Read's 2021 Lexus LX 570 SUV recorded a "trigger event" when put in reverse, corresponding to the time of the fatal strike of John O’Keefe. O'Keefe's iPhone, including Health app steps, Doppler data, and battery temperature, forensic experts testified that the phone's last recorded movement stopped at 12:32 a.m., right around the same time the SUV was in reverse. 📌A Canton Police Department cruiser responding to check on John O’Keefe's niece and nephew captured footage of Karen Read’s broken tail light at 8:23 a.m.on January 29, 2022, via the vehicle camera on law enforcement’s vehicle. 📌 Karen relayed through the intermediary to the blogger, that her taillight was already broken at 5:08 AM. 📌Pieces of her tail light were found at the scene (34 Fairview) 📌 microscopic pieces of tail light were found embedded in John’s clothing. 📌 Karen herself told several first responders, and witnesses testified during the trial, that Karen Read made statements at the scene admitting she hit John O’Keefe. 📌 Karen told investigators the afternoon of the horrific event, that John did not go into the house. Since then, Karen’s version of whether John went into the home at 34 Fairview has changed multiple times. Presently her story is that he did go into the home. (He didn’t) ‼️This is not a complicated case, this is a woman who was enraged, drunk, and in a fit of rage, backed her vehicle up into John, struck him, and left him to die in the cold. Instead of taking accountability, she is now trying to blame his death on John’s own friends, to avoid taking any accountability for what she did. She has destroyed people’s, including at the time, an 18 year old young man named Colin albert, who was not even inside the home by the time Karen had arrived. ‼️ given all of this evidence, if you still believe that Karen Read is innocent, then you are as dumb as a bag of damn rocks! 🚨 that brings me back to the original purpose of this post. She is now trying to put the blame on Michael Proctor. Michael Proctor‘s horrific, disgusting, and despicable text messages are just that, but they have nothing to do with Karen Read herself, or his investigation of her case. ‼️The FBI went through Michael Proctor‘s phone & found ZERO evidence of a coverup or a conspiracy. Read is a manipulative, lying, narcissist, & needs to be held accountable for the death of John O’Keefe.

Andie (Albert) Dufrense

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#ZimElection2023 ZAMBIA-LED SADC ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION OUT OF ORDER AS IT, AU AND COMMONWEALTH COUNTERPARTS RELEASE PRELIMINARY REPORTS ON ZIM ELECTION It is a good thing that three major international election observer missions have submitted their preliminary reports: The Commonwealth Election Observation Mission, the African Union (AU) Observation Mission and the Sadc Election Observation mission. The links to the three reports are indicated below: The Commonwealth Zim Election Observation Mission Report AU Zim Election Observation Mission Report Sadc Election Observation Preliminary Report Notably, and significantly so, the three preliminary reports echo an important sentiment expressed by CITE's Zenzele Ndebele (Zenzele) a few weeks ago on Newzroom Afrika – for which he was vilified and demonised by the usual quarters among self-proclaimed champions of democracy – that Zimbabwe’s 2023 harmonised general election “has been largely peaceful”, compared to previous editions characterised by widespread violence. A peaceful harmonised general election in Zimbabwe is no mean achievement. It is big ns, and a huge social and political relief. And to say the election has been largely peaceful is not to say there have been no skirmishes or worse, any loss of life even if it was of one person, as Ndebele pointed out to Newzroom Afrika on the attached video clip. Meanwhile, there are no matters arising from the preliminary reports by the Commonwealth and the AU election observers, pending the release of their final reports in two or so months. Otherwise, election observation mission reports are precisely that, namely, reports on what the relevant missions actually observed on the conduct of an election in question. But not so for the Sadc Election Mission Preliminary Statement on Zimbabwe’s 2023 harmonised general election. Led by former Zambian Vice President Nevers Mumba, appointed by Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema, who recently assumed the chairmanship of the Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and Security. Unlike its African Union and Commonwealth counterparts, the Mumba Mission clearly, intentionally and scandalously wrote its report on the basis of what it heard, and not what it observed. Rather than making news about the election it ostensibly observed, the news is on the Sadc Election Observation for coming to Zimbabwe with an axe to grind, wielding it recklessly and shamelessly. It would be irresponsible to let the preliminary report of the Sadc Election Observation Mission go scot-free, unchallenged. The Mumba report is premised on this far reaching conclusion, which it is not competent to make: The Mission noted that some aspects of the Harmonised Elections, fell short of the requirements of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, the Electoral Act, and the SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections. Writing under the rubric, “Constitutional and Legal Framework for the Elections,” Mumba and his colleagues make sweeping and opinionated statements and conclusions that are all based not on the direct observation of the election by the Mission but on hearsay with not a single thread of even desktop evidence. The sweeping statements and conclusions include an array of gratuitous comments based on hearsay about the voters roll; freedom of assembly in general and the Maintenance of Peace and Order Act (MOPA); freedom of expression in relation to the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act; the nomination of candidates; participation of women as candidates; alleged intimidation of voters; postal voting controversy; and coverage of the election by the state media. In the result, the main thrust of the report is pure and naked hearsay. In this connection, the report’s treatment of two key issues is telling: one is the delimitation of constituencies and the other is on the so-called Patriotic Act. Regarding the so-called Patriotic Act, the report makes the following conclusion based on untested hearsay submissions: The Mission noted that the Patriot Act is incompatible with the spirit of section 61(1) of the Constitution, and paragraph 4.1.2 of the SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections which requires Member States to uphold, amongst others, the freedom of expression. This is utterly shocking. What jurisdiction, power and legal competence do Nevers Mumba and his colleagues in the Sadc Election Observation Mission on the Zimbabwean 2023 harmonised general election have to make such a judicial pronouncement? The pronouncement is manifest and gross interference with the rule of law in Zimbabwe under which such judicial findings are made by competent courts of law and, even worse, the pronouncement is an unacceptable violation of Zimbabwe’s sovereignty. Then there’s the report’s treatment of the delimitation of constituencies, about which it says: “The mission WAS INFORMED that the delimitation exercise that was conducted in 2022 by the ZEC was marred with controversy”. Without saying who informed it, the Sadc Observation Mission preliminary report makes the following scandalous statements and partisan conclusions on Zimbabwe’s delimitation exercise conducted by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission in 202, which it is not entitled to make – as it lacks the jurisdiction, authority and competence to do so – and which statements and conclusions demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt that its preliminary report is heavily opinionated hearsay that smacks of a malicious and predetermined hatchet job: "(i) In its Delimitation Report of 2022, the ZEC rightly states that, “the Constitution recognisesthe impracticability of having equal number of voters in each constituency by allowing the Commission to depart from this requirement within a stipulated margin. In this case the Constitution in section 161(6) stipulates that …“no constituency may have more than 20% more or fewer registered voters than other such constituencies”. The constitution in section 161(6)a-f also lists factors that need to be considered when delimiting since they are important during the exercise.” However, the ZEC goes on to also state that, “Based on the provision of section 161(6) the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission then calculated the 20% deviation from the national average voter registration expected in each constituency which was 27 640. This yielded a deviation of 5,528 voters. Since the average number of registered voters was regarded as a stable benchmark against which delimitation of constituencies was conducted, the deviation figure was added to the national average to determine the maximum number of registered voters that a constituency delimited would contain i.e., 33 168.” (ii) The Mission noted that the use of the average number voters per constituency is not consistent with the provision of section 161(6) of the newConstitution that was adopted in 2013. The word “average” appears in section 61A(6) of the old Constitution of Zimbabwe under which it was permissible to calculate the minimum and maximum permissible number of voter per constituency by using the national average as the baseline. That word “average” does not exist in section 161(6) of the new Constitution which deals with the same subject matter. The difference between section 61A(6) and section 161(6) of the old and the new constitutions respectively is far from being merely technical. (iii) In the new Constitution, and in the context of section 161(6), the maximum deviation is 20% of the voters registered in the constituencies. The new Constitution uses actual constituency by constituency registered voter population, not the national average number of constituency voter population to calculate the permissible deviation from the requirement that constituencies must have an equal number of voters. Mathematically, the two methods produce very different results and affect the equality of the vote with respect to the elections to parliament. On the other hand, since the country votes as a single constituency in the presidential election, the difference in the methods has no particular impact on the equality of the vote in that election. It was therefore not unexpected that ZEC would receive substantial criticism on this aspect of its latest Delimitation Report. (iv) The Mission noted that the use of the average number of voters per constituency is not consistent with the provision of section 161(6) of the new Constitution that was adopted in 2013. The word “average” appears in section 61A(6) of the old Constitution of Zimbabwe under which it was permissible to calculate the minimum and maximum permissible number of voter per constituency by using the national average as the baseline. That word “average” does not exist in section 161(6) of the new Constitution which deals with the same subject matter. The difference between section 61A(6) and section 161(6) of the old and the new constitutions respectively is far from being merely technical. (v) In the new Constitution, and in the context of section 161(6), the maximum deviation is 20% of the voters registered in the constituencies. The new Constitution uses actual constituency by constituency registered voter population, not the national average number of constituency voter population to calculate the permissible deviation from the requirement that constituencies must have an equal number of voters. Mathematically, the two methods produce very different results and affect the equality of the vote with respect to the elections to parliament. On the other hand, since the country votes as a single constituency in the presidential election, the difference in the methods has no particular impact on the equality of the vote in that election. It was therefore not unexpected that ZEC would receive substantial criticism on this aspect of its latest Delimitation Report." There are three things to highlight about what Mumba and his team say regarding the delimitation of constituencies. Firstly, everything they say is very familiar to Zimbabweans because the delimitation issue was widely, hotly and robustly debated. More specifically, the words used in the Mumba narrative about the delimitation report are familiar words that were used during the debate. It is disappointing that the familiar words have found their way, verbatim, into the Sadc Election Observation preliminary report. This alone is sad, and the less said about it, the better for everyone concerned. Secondly, ZEC’s delimitation exercise was challenged at the High Court of Zimbabwe and in the country’s apex court, the Constitutional Court. The views that the Sadc Election Observation Mission regurgitates as its own, when in fact they’re not, were argued in Zimbabwe’s courts, but no pronouncement or finding of the kind that the Mumba team goes to town about was made by any court of the land. What makes this even more egregious is the following statement in the Sadc Election Observer Mission’s report: In view of their significance in the event of legal challenges in the context of the electoral process, some stakeholders expressed the view that the judiciary is compromised by the Government. A key justification for this perception was information received from these stakeholders that the judiciary recently received large financial and material incentives which the stakeholders viewed as an attempt by the Government to buy the loyalty and allegiance of the judiciary. So, the Sadc Election Observation Mission on the 2023 harmonised general election in Zimbabwe “received information from…stakeholders that the judiciary recently received large financial and material incentives which the stakeholders viewed as an attempt by the Government to buy the loyalty and allegiance of the judiciary”. Why is the Sadc Election Observation Mission disrespecting Zimbabwe’s judiciary in this manner? The is outrageous, and for it to find expression in this report is shameless and unacceptable. In the interest of fairness, the Sadc Mission must be required by Sadc to share this information with everyone, particularly the Government of Zimbabwe which represents the Zimbabwean State, a member of Sadc. As already pointed out, the Sadc Observer Mission has no jurisdiction or competence to make any judicial pronouncements on Zimbabwean elections, not least because it is not a judicial inquiry; it is just and only an observation mission. This needs to be rectified by the Mission in its final report. That’s why it has been both important and necessary to engage the preliminary report at this stage. Thirdly, and last but not least, it is important to recall the Mission’s conclusion that is making news everywhere in order to show that it is politically opportunistic, and arguably is self-evident malice aforethought. The Sadc Election Observation Mission’s preliminary report has this running thread that ties everything in the report together, and which is effectively the essence of the report’s conclusion: The Mission noted that some aspects of the Harmonised Elections, fell short of the requirements of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, the Electoral Act, and the SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections. Is this conclusion in any way linked to or an outcome of the observations that the preliminary report lists as the observations that were actually made by the Sadc Mission? The best way to unpack the question is by looking at the full list of the observations that the Mission says it made, and they are the following: "3. OBSERVATIONS ON ELECTION DAYS (23-24 AUGUST 2023) On the Election Days, the SADC Electoral Observation Mission observed the voting process in 10 Provinces of the Republic of Zimbabwe. The deployed observer teams covered 172 polling stations in their respective areas. The political contestants have continued to call for peace during this election period and after. The SEOM observed the following critical aspects at the 172 polling stations that we visited: (a) The environment at the polling stations was relatively calm and peaceful. (b) A number of voters expressed concern due to a lack of, or late arrival of ballot papers and poor administration at some polling stations. However, voters remained patient to exercise their constitutional right to vote. (c) Professional and attentive police presence enhanced the overall peace and secure environment in all the polling stations observed. (d) 64% of the voting stations observed opened on time, 36% did not open on time for the 07:00am stipulated opening time. Some polling stations opened more than 12 hours after the stipulated time. The reason provided by ZEC for this unprecedented development was the unavailability of ballot papers, particularly for the local authority elections, and also due to previous litigation. This challenge was, however specific to Harare and Bulawayo Provinces. Due to the delays, some voters left without casting their votes, while others opted to remain in the lengthy queues throughout the day and night. By 06:00am on 24 August 2023, some voters in these two provinces had still not voted. Consequently, these delays also had a knock-on effect as they dissuaded voters from voting in the first place. Against this observation we further note as follows: i. Section 52(1) of the Electoral Act provides that for any election, the ZEC shall ensure that every constituency elections officer is provided with polling booths or voting compartments and ballot boxes, and shall provide papers, including ballot papers. ii. Prior to election day, ZEC had assured our Mission and other stakeholders, that all necessary voting materials, including ballot papers, were available and ready for use before election day. This communication was made in the context of section 52A(2) of the Electoral Act which requires ZEC to provide information on the number of ballot papers and publication of details regarding them. On the basis of these two considerations, the subsequent information from ZEC that they did not have adequate ballot papers has the unfortunate effect of creating doubts about the credibility of this electoral process. (e) The voters roll was unavailable at 1% of the polling stations observed, and was therefore not displayed outside the polling stations for the convenience of the voters and verification by party/candidates agents. (f) During the voting period, and at 26% of the polling stations observed, not all voters who turned out could vote. The reasons advanced for this included: i. Voters were identified, but the names were not found on the voters’ roll; ii. It was not possible to establish the voter’s identity; iii. Voters were at the wrong polling station; and iv. Voters did not have a national identity card or passport, or due to the absence of an official witness confirming an elector’s identity. (g) 8% of the polling stations observed were not accessible to voters living with disabilities. (h) At 50% of the polling stations, voters living with disabilities, the elderly, and pregnant women were not given priority to vote. (i) In 3% of polling stations observed, indelible ink was not checked on the voters before allowing them to cast their vote. (j) At 97% of the polling stations observed, voting was free from irregularities. (k) Voting proceeded in an orderly manner at 95% of the polling stations observed. (l) Ballot boxes did not remain locked and/or sealed at 2% of the polling stations. (m) As a result of the excessive delays in the opening of polling stations in Harare and Bulawayo provinces, at least 36% of the voting stations observed did not close at the scheduled closing time of 1900hrs, while some had not even opened by that time. It was announced that voting would be extended to proceed into 24 August 2023 to compensate for the late opening. (n) In previous stakeholder consultations, a shadowy organisation referred to as Forever Associates Zimbabwe was accused of conducting a country-wide exercise of electoral intimidation. Our observers confirmed the existence of this group as its officials or agents were easily identifiable at some polling stations as they were dressed in regalia emblazoned with the FAZ name and were accredited local observers. These, and other unidentified persons who were not polling officials were also observed taking down the names of voters before they cast their votes. In some areas, voters were intimidated by actions of these individuals. (o) The Mission observed the closing and vote counting processes. A proper analysis of these two processes shall be provided as part of the final SEOM Report." CONCLUSION Three points to conclude: Firstly, it is notable that the actual observations made by the Sadc Election Observation Mission are given as a skeletal laundry list with little if any analysis. Yet the observations are at the core of how the actual polling or election was conducted on polling day. Secondly, there’s no connection between the preliminary report’s running theme that “the Mission noted that some aspects of the Harmonised Elections, fell short of the requirements of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, the Electoral Act, and the SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections”. Surely, to sustain the theme, it has to be connected with the actual observations made by the Mission. But the preliminary report makes no connection, not least because the connection is contrived, based on hearsay and therefore has no factual foundation. Thirdly, one of the observations that proves malice in the preliminary report is the following [number “m” on the laundry list of observations]: As a result of the excessive delays in the opening of polling stations in Harare and Bulawayo provinces, at least 36% of the voting stations observed did not close at the scheduled closing time of 1900hrs, while some had not even opened by that time. It was announced that voting would be extended to proceed into 24 August 2023 to compensate for the late opening. It is an unfortunate falsehood that there is any polling station that had not opened by 1900hrs on polling day, 23 August 2023. It’s a shame that such a falsehood found itself in a report of this stature and implication. Otherwise, if the report was based on good faith, the name and location of polling stations that had not opened by 1900hrs on polling day should have been specified for purposes of verification and rectification. Fourthly, right upfront the preliminary report says: The Mission was informed that a further proclamation was issued rendering 24 August 2023 as a polling day in view of the delays experienced at certain polling stations. Furthermore, President Mnangagwa also proclaimed 2 October 2023 for the run-off election to the office of president if such a poll becomes necessary. Two points about this. One is that the mind boggles at why the Mission had to be “informed” about this, and why the Mission did not get a copy of the proclamation for itself. Was this out of laziness or what? The other point is why does the preliminary report fail to see and understand that “the further proclamation” was the specific solution to the litany of what the Mission lists in its preliminary report as its observations regarding the delayed opening of polling stations on polling day and the shortage of ballot papers and related issues? An impression, a false one at that, is created to the effect that the litany of observations of problems that beset polling stations that opened late or opened without some or all ballot papers for the three elections were left unattended to. If truth be told, the Sadc Election Observation Mission’s preliminary report leaves a distinct and disturbing impression that the Mission had a sinister and a not so hidden mission against the people of Zimbabwe and the Republic of Zimbabwe, abi nitio. That’s unfortunate because the impression is palpable!
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#ZimElection2023 ZAMBIA-LED SADC ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION OUT OF ORDER AS IT, AU AND COMMONWEALTH COUNTERPARTS RELEASE PRELIMINARY REPORTS ON ZIM ELECTION It is a good thing that three major international election observer missions have submitted their preliminary reports: The Commonwealth Election Observation Mission, the African Union (AU) Observation Mission and the Sadc Election Observation mission. The links to the three reports are indicated below: The Commonwealth Zim Election Observation Mission Report AU Zim Election Observation Mission Report Sadc Election Observation Preliminary Report Notably, and significantly so, the three preliminary reports echo an important sentiment expressed by CITE's Zenzele Ndebele (Zenzele) a few weeks ago on Newzroom Afrika – for which he was vilified and demonised by the usual quarters among self-proclaimed champions of democracy – that Zimbabwe’s 2023 harmonised general election “has been largely peaceful”, compared to previous editions characterised by widespread violence. A peaceful harmonised general election in Zimbabwe is no mean achievement. It is big ns, and a huge social and political relief. And to say the election has been largely peaceful is not to say there have been no skirmishes or worse, any loss of life even if it was of one person, as Ndebele pointed out to Newzroom Afrika on the attached video clip. Meanwhile, there are no matters arising from the preliminary reports by the Commonwealth and the AU election observers, pending the release of their final reports in two or so months. Otherwise, election observation mission reports are precisely that, namely, reports on what the relevant missions actually observed on the conduct of an election in question. But not so for the Sadc Election Mission Preliminary Statement on Zimbabwe’s 2023 harmonised general election. Led by former Zambian Vice President Nevers Mumba, appointed by Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema, who recently assumed the chairmanship of the Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and Security. Unlike its African Union and Commonwealth counterparts, the Mumba Mission clearly, intentionally and scandalously wrote its report on the basis of what it heard, and not what it observed. Rather than making news about the election it ostensibly observed, the news is on the Sadc Election Observation for coming to Zimbabwe with an axe to grind, wielding it recklessly and shamelessly. It would be irresponsible to let the preliminary report of the Sadc Election Observation Mission go scot-free, unchallenged. The Mumba report is premised on this far reaching conclusion, which it is not competent to make: The Mission noted that some aspects of the Harmonised Elections, fell short of the requirements of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, the Electoral Act, and the SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections. Writing under the rubric, “Constitutional and Legal Framework for the Elections,” Mumba and his colleagues make sweeping and opinionated statements and conclusions that are all based not on the direct observation of the election by the Mission but on hearsay with not a single thread of even desktop evidence. The sweeping statements and conclusions include an array of gratuitous comments based on hearsay about the voters roll; freedom of assembly in general and the Maintenance of Peace and Order Act (MOPA); freedom of expression in relation to the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act; the nomination of candidates; participation of women as candidates; alleged intimidation of voters; postal voting controversy; and coverage of the election by the state media. In the result, the main thrust of the report is pure and naked hearsay. In this connection, the report’s treatment of two key issues is telling: one is the delimitation of constituencies and the other is on the so-called Patriotic Act. Regarding the so-called Patriotic Act, the report makes the following conclusion based on untested hearsay submissions: The Mission noted that the Patriot Act is incompatible with the spirit of section 61(1) of the Constitution, and paragraph 4.1.2 of the SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections which requires Member States to uphold, amongst others, the freedom of expression. This is utterly shocking. What jurisdiction, power and legal competence do Nevers Mumba and his colleagues in the Sadc Election Observation Mission on the Zimbabwean 2023 harmonised general election have to make such a judicial pronouncement? The pronouncement is manifest and gross interference with the rule of law in Zimbabwe under which such judicial findings are made by competent courts of law and, even worse, the pronouncement is an unacceptable violation of Zimbabwe’s sovereignty. Then there’s the report’s treatment of the delimitation of constituencies, about which it says: “The mission WAS INFORMED that the delimitation exercise that was conducted in 2022 by the ZEC was marred with controversy”. Without saying who informed it, the Sadc Observation Mission preliminary report makes the following scandalous statements and partisan conclusions on Zimbabwe’s delimitation exercise conducted by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission in 202, which it is not entitled to make – as it lacks the jurisdiction, authority and competence to do so – and which statements and conclusions demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt that its preliminary report is heavily opinionated hearsay that smacks of a malicious and predetermined hatchet job: "(i) In its Delimitation Report of 2022, the ZEC rightly states that, “the Constitution recognisesthe impracticability of having equal number of voters in each constituency by allowing the Commission to depart from this requirement within a stipulated margin. In this case the Constitution in section 161(6) stipulates that …“no constituency may have more than 20% more or fewer registered voters than other such constituencies”. The constitution in section 161(6)a-f also lists factors that need to be considered when delimiting since they are important during the exercise.” However, the ZEC goes on to also state that, “Based on the provision of section 161(6) the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission then calculated the 20% deviation from the national average voter registration expected in each constituency which was 27 640. This yielded a deviation of 5,528 voters. Since the average number of registered voters was regarded as a stable benchmark against which delimitation of constituencies was conducted, the deviation figure was added to the national average to determine the maximum number of registered voters that a constituency delimited would contain i.e., 33 168.” (ii) The Mission noted that the use of the average number voters per constituency is not consistent with the provision of section 161(6) of the newConstitution that was adopted in 2013. The word “average” appears in section 61A(6) of the old Constitution of Zimbabwe under which it was permissible to calculate the minimum and maximum permissible number of voter per constituency by using the national average as the baseline. That word “average” does not exist in section 161(6) of the new Constitution which deals with the same subject matter. The difference between section 61A(6) and section 161(6) of the old and the new constitutions respectively is far from being merely technical. (iii) In the new Constitution, and in the context of section 161(6), the maximum deviation is 20% of the voters registered in the constituencies. The new Constitution uses actual constituency by constituency registered voter population, not the national average number of constituency voter population to calculate the permissible deviation from the requirement that constituencies must have an equal number of voters. Mathematically, the two methods produce very different results and affect the equality of the vote with respect to the elections to parliament. On the other hand, since the country votes as a single constituency in the presidential election, the difference in the methods has no particular impact on the equality of the vote in that election. It was therefore not unexpected that ZEC would receive substantial criticism on this aspect of its latest Delimitation Report. (iv) The Mission noted that the use of the average number of voters per constituency is not consistent with the provision of section 161(6) of the new Constitution that was adopted in 2013. The word “average” appears in section 61A(6) of the old Constitution of Zimbabwe under which it was permissible to calculate the minimum and maximum permissible number of voter per constituency by using the national average as the baseline. That word “average” does not exist in section 161(6) of the new Constitution which deals with the same subject matter. The difference between section 61A(6) and section 161(6) of the old and the new constitutions respectively is far from being merely technical. (v) In the new Constitution, and in the context of section 161(6), the maximum deviation is 20% of the voters registered in the constituencies. The new Constitution uses actual constituency by constituency registered voter population, not the national average number of constituency voter population to calculate the permissible deviation from the requirement that constituencies must have an equal number of voters. Mathematically, the two methods produce very different results and affect the equality of the vote with respect to the elections to parliament. On the other hand, since the country votes as a single constituency in the presidential election, the difference in the methods has no particular impact on the equality of the vote in that election. It was therefore not unexpected that ZEC would receive substantial criticism on this aspect of its latest Delimitation Report." There are three things to highlight about what Mumba and his team say regarding the delimitation of constituencies. Firstly, everything they say is very familiar to Zimbabweans because the delimitation issue was widely, hotly and robustly debated. More specifically, the words used in the Mumba narrative about the delimitation report are familiar words that were used during the debate. It is disappointing that the familiar words have found their way, verbatim, into the Sadc Election Observation preliminary report. This alone is sad, and the less said about it, the better for everyone concerned. Secondly, ZEC’s delimitation exercise was challenged at the High Court of Zimbabwe and in the country’s apex court, the Constitutional Court. The views that the Sadc Election Observation Mission regurgitates as its own, when in fact they’re not, were argued in Zimbabwe’s courts, but no pronouncement or finding of the kind that the Mumba team goes to town about was made by any court of the land. What makes this even more egregious is the following statement in the Sadc Election Observer Mission’s report: In view of their significance in the event of legal challenges in the context of the electoral process, some stakeholders expressed the view that the judiciary is compromised by the Government. A key justification for this perception was information received from these stakeholders that the judiciary recently received large financial and material incentives which the stakeholders viewed as an attempt by the Government to buy the loyalty and allegiance of the judiciary. So, the Sadc Election Observation Mission on the 2023 harmonised general election in Zimbabwe “received information from…stakeholders that the judiciary recently received large financial and material incentives which the stakeholders viewed as an attempt by the Government to buy the loyalty and allegiance of the judiciary”. Why is the Sadc Election Observation Mission disrespecting Zimbabwe’s judiciary in this manner? The is outrageous, and for it to find expression in this report is shameless and unacceptable. In the interest of fairness, the Sadc Mission must be required by Sadc to share this information with everyone, particularly the Government of Zimbabwe which represents the Zimbabwean State, a member of Sadc. As already pointed out, the Sadc Observer Mission has no jurisdiction or competence to make any judicial pronouncements on Zimbabwean elections, not least because it is not a judicial inquiry; it is just and only an observation mission. This needs to be rectified by the Mission in its final report. That’s why it has been both important and necessary to engage the preliminary report at this stage. Thirdly, and last but not least, it is important to recall the Mission’s conclusion that is making news everywhere in order to show that it is politically opportunistic, and arguably is self-evident malice aforethought. The Sadc Election Observation Mission’s preliminary report has this running thread that ties everything in the report together, and which is effectively the essence of the report’s conclusion: The Mission noted that some aspects of the Harmonised Elections, fell short of the requirements of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, the Electoral Act, and the SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections. Is this conclusion in any way linked to or an outcome of the observations that the preliminary report lists as the observations that were actually made by the Sadc Mission? The best way to unpack the question is by looking at the full list of the observations that the Mission says it made, and they are the following: "3. OBSERVATIONS ON ELECTION DAYS (23-24 AUGUST 2023) On the Election Days, the SADC Electoral Observation Mission observed the voting process in 10 Provinces of the Republic of Zimbabwe. The deployed observer teams covered 172 polling stations in their respective areas. The political contestants have continued to call for peace during this election period and after. The SEOM observed the following critical aspects at the 172 polling stations that we visited: (a) The environment at the polling stations was relatively calm and peaceful. (b) A number of voters expressed concern due to a lack of, or late arrival of ballot papers and poor administration at some polling stations. However, voters remained patient to exercise their constitutional right to vote. (c) Professional and attentive police presence enhanced the overall peace and secure environment in all the polling stations observed. (d) 64% of the voting stations observed opened on time, 36% did not open on time for the 07:00am stipulated opening time. Some polling stations opened more than 12 hours after the stipulated time. The reason provided by ZEC for this unprecedented development was the unavailability of ballot papers, particularly for the local authority elections, and also due to previous litigation. This challenge was, however specific to Harare and Bulawayo Provinces. Due to the delays, some voters left without casting their votes, while others opted to remain in the lengthy queues throughout the day and night. By 06:00am on 24 August 2023, some voters in these two provinces had still not voted. Consequently, these delays also had a knock-on effect as they dissuaded voters from voting in the first place. Against this observation we further note as follows: i. Section 52(1) of the Electoral Act provides that for any election, the ZEC shall ensure that every constituency elections officer is provided with polling booths or voting compartments and ballot boxes, and shall provide papers, including ballot papers. ii. Prior to election day, ZEC had assured our Mission and other stakeholders, that all necessary voting materials, including ballot papers, were available and ready for use before election day. This communication was made in the context of section 52A(2) of the Electoral Act which requires ZEC to provide information on the number of ballot papers and publication of details regarding them. On the basis of these two considerations, the subsequent information from ZEC that they did not have adequate ballot papers has the unfortunate effect of creating doubts about the credibility of this electoral process. (e) The voters roll was unavailable at 1% of the polling stations observed, and was therefore not displayed outside the polling stations for the convenience of the voters and verification by party/candidates agents. (f) During the voting period, and at 26% of the polling stations observed, not all voters who turned out could vote. The reasons advanced for this included: i. Voters were identified, but the names were not found on the voters’ roll; ii. It was not possible to establish the voter’s identity; iii. Voters were at the wrong polling station; and iv. Voters did not have a national identity card or passport, or due to the absence of an official witness confirming an elector’s identity. (g) 8% of the polling stations observed were not accessible to voters living with disabilities. (h) At 50% of the polling stations, voters living with disabilities, the elderly, and pregnant women were not given priority to vote. (i) In 3% of polling stations observed, indelible ink was not checked on the voters before allowing them to cast their vote. (j) At 97% of the polling stations observed, voting was free from irregularities. (k) Voting proceeded in an orderly manner at 95% of the polling stations observed. (l) Ballot boxes did not remain locked and/or sealed at 2% of the polling stations. (m) As a result of the excessive delays in the opening of polling stations in Harare and Bulawayo provinces, at least 36% of the voting stations observed did not close at the scheduled closing time of 1900hrs, while some had not even opened by that time. It was announced that voting would be extended to proceed into 24 August 2023 to compensate for the late opening. (n) In previous stakeholder consultations, a shadowy organisation referred to as Forever Associates Zimbabwe was accused of conducting a country-wide exercise of electoral intimidation. Our observers confirmed the existence of this group as its officials or agents were easily identifiable at some polling stations as they were dressed in regalia emblazoned with the FAZ name and were accredited local observers. These, and other unidentified persons who were not polling officials were also observed taking down the names of voters before they cast their votes. In some areas, voters were intimidated by actions of these individuals. (o) The Mission observed the closing and vote counting processes. A proper analysis of these two processes shall be provided as part of the final SEOM Report." CONCLUSION Three points to conclude: Firstly, it is notable that the actual observations made by the Sadc Election Observation Mission are given as a skeletal laundry list with little if any analysis. Yet the observations are at the core of how the actual polling or election was conducted on polling day. Secondly, there’s no connection between the preliminary report’s running theme that “the Mission noted that some aspects of the Harmonised Elections, fell short of the requirements of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, the Electoral Act, and the SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections”. Surely, to sustain the theme, it has to be connected with the actual observations made by the Mission. But the preliminary report makes no connection, not least because the connection is contrived, based on hearsay and therefore has no factual foundation. Thirdly, one of the observations that proves malice in the preliminary report is the following [number “m” on the laundry list of observations]: As a result of the excessive delays in the opening of polling stations in Harare and Bulawayo provinces, at least 36% of the voting stations observed did not close at the scheduled closing time of 1900hrs, while some had not even opened by that time. It was announced that voting would be extended to proceed into 24 August 2023 to compensate for the late opening. It is an unfortunate falsehood that there is any polling station that had not opened by 1900hrs on polling day, 23 August 2023. It’s a shame that such a falsehood found itself in a report of this stature and implication. Otherwise, if the report was based on good faith, the name and location of polling stations that had not opened by 1900hrs on polling day should have been specified for purposes of verification and rectification. Fourthly, right upfront the preliminary report says: The Mission was informed that a further proclamation was issued rendering 24 August 2023 as a polling day in view of the delays experienced at certain polling stations. Furthermore, President Mnangagwa also proclaimed 2 October 2023 for the run-off election to the office of president if such a poll becomes necessary. Two points about this. One is that the mind boggles at why the Mission had to be “informed” about this, and why the Mission did not get a copy of the proclamation for itself. Was this out of laziness or what? The other point is why does the preliminary report fail to see and understand that “the further proclamation” was the specific solution to the litany of what the Mission lists in its preliminary report as its observations regarding the delayed opening of polling stations on polling day and the shortage of ballot papers and related issues? An impression, a false one at that, is created to the effect that the litany of observations of problems that beset polling stations that opened late or opened without some or all ballot papers for the three elections were left unattended to. If truth be told, the Sadc Election Observation Mission’s preliminary report leaves a distinct and disturbing impression that the Mission had a sinister and a not so hidden mission against the people of Zimbabwe and the Republic of Zimbabwe, abi nitio. That’s unfortunate because the impression is palpable!

Prof Jonathan Moyo

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Antrim County, MI 2020 ELECTION FRAUD EXPOSED as forensic experts uncover foreign IPs on voting machines, anonymous remote access, software subversion, and compromised security allowing vote manipulation in the 2020 election. Taiwan & German connections, deleted logs, no ballot images, high reversal rates, and deliberate error suppression. The "human error" excuse doesn't hold up, the 2020 election was stolen. 1. Critical Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Foreign IP addresses communicating with Dominion ImageCast X (ICX) devices, Taiwan IP 120.125.201.101 linked to Ministry of Education, German IP 62.146.7.79. Machines were not air-gapped as claimed. ES&S DS200 tabulators had active Verizon cellular modems that auto-powered on and transmitted vote totals wirelessly. Anonymous remote administrative logins to the Antrim County Election Management System (EMS) on Nov 5 and Nov 17, 2020, with escalated privileges. Windows security logs deleted before Nov 4, 2020, 31-day window for anti-forensic activity. 2. Database Security and Encryption Failures Master cryptographic keys stored in plaintext in the SQL database, allowing potential alteration of results. Hard-coded weak/default passwords. Examples are ridiculous, "dvscorp08!" unchanged since 2008, "123456", "12345678", "11032020," etc. Technician passcodes allowed poll reopening, time manipulation on tapes, and ballot injection. Microsoft SQL Server tools installed, not approved. Windows authentication mode enabled broad access to alter votes, accounts, and logs. 3. Evidence of Software Subversion EMS/RTR software allegedly subverted to suppress error reporting, test ballots with swapped votes reported as undervotes instead of errors. Anomalies in Barry County, unusually high votes for minor candidate Rocky De La Fuente early on, later corrected dramatically. Helena Township discrepancies between compact flash card data and official reports, hundreds of votes unaccounted for. High ballot reversal rates in multiple locations, 82% in Central Lake on Nov 6, 110% in Warner Township LAT on Oct 20, 28.9% in Mancelona Precinct 1. 4. Ballot Handling and Tabulation Irregularities Ballots lacked serial numbers, allowing unlimited re-scanning or duplication without detection. Ballot PDF formatting flaws, asymmetric margins, 1mm shifts in markers/contests caused high reversal/misread rates, especially when fed bottom-first. Late-night processing anomalies. A good example is 313 ballots every 11 seconds in Mancelona. ElectionSource technicians had centralized control over project files, passwords, encryption keys, and ballot PDFs with poor version control and ignored warnings. 5. Missing Evidence and Audit Trail Gaps Significant equipment never produced for analysis, ImageCast Listener Express Server, firewall, switch, 17 ICP wireless modems, Communications Manager Server, RAS, 5 USB modems, network logs. No ballot images on any of the 38 compact flash cards examined, none imported into EMS, contrary to vendor training. Auto-deleting telemetry/logs, CEIP set to delete every 5 minutes, security logs missing or deleted. Michigan Secretary of State December 2020 memo allegedly authorizing destruction of records before full forensics. 6. Significant Findings to Add Contradictions with Prof. J. Alex Halderman's report article's experts claim Halderman ignored high reversal rates, anonymous logins, and that testing showed subversion behavior not explained by human error alone. They attempted to pass "fraud" as "errors," and overlooked many aspects, which have now been uncovered years after Halderman's original report. Lawsuit, Bailey v. Antrim County, dismissed as moot after a statewide audit, May 2021 circuit court, affirmed by Court of Appeals April 2022, Michigan Supreme Court declined Dec 2022. The trial judge stated the ruling did not mean there were "no problems" in how Antrim County conducted the election. There was just massive fraud. Overall conclusion finds systemic vulnerabilities, potential for undetected manipulation, which seems to be a similar pattern across the country, concluding that the 2020 election should not have been certified when fraud persists at this high of a level and in this many states.
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Antrim County, MI 2020 ELECTION FRAUD EXPOSED as forensic experts uncover foreign IPs on voting machines, anonymous remote access, software subversion, and compromised security allowing vote manipulation in the 2020 election. Taiwan & German connections, deleted logs, no ballot images, high reversal rates, and deliberate error suppression. The "human error" excuse doesn't hold up, the 2020 election was stolen. 1. Critical Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Foreign IP addresses communicating with Dominion ImageCast X (ICX) devices, Taiwan IP 120.125.201.101 linked to Ministry of Education, German IP 62.146.7.79. Machines were not air-gapped as claimed. ES&S DS200 tabulators had active Verizon cellular modems that auto-powered on and transmitted vote totals wirelessly. Anonymous remote administrative logins to the Antrim County Election Management System (EMS) on Nov 5 and Nov 17, 2020, with escalated privileges. Windows security logs deleted before Nov 4, 2020, 31-day window for anti-forensic activity. 2. Database Security and Encryption Failures Master cryptographic keys stored in plaintext in the SQL database, allowing potential alteration of results. Hard-coded weak/default passwords. Examples are ridiculous, "dvscorp08!" unchanged since 2008, "123456", "12345678", "11032020," etc. Technician passcodes allowed poll reopening, time manipulation on tapes, and ballot injection. Microsoft SQL Server tools installed, not approved. Windows authentication mode enabled broad access to alter votes, accounts, and logs. 3. Evidence of Software Subversion EMS/RTR software allegedly subverted to suppress error reporting, test ballots with swapped votes reported as undervotes instead of errors. Anomalies in Barry County, unusually high votes for minor candidate Rocky De La Fuente early on, later corrected dramatically. Helena Township discrepancies between compact flash card data and official reports, hundreds of votes unaccounted for. High ballot reversal rates in multiple locations, 82% in Central Lake on Nov 6, 110% in Warner Township LAT on Oct 20, 28.9% in Mancelona Precinct 1. 4. Ballot Handling and Tabulation Irregularities Ballots lacked serial numbers, allowing unlimited re-scanning or duplication without detection. Ballot PDF formatting flaws, asymmetric margins, 1mm shifts in markers/contests caused high reversal/misread rates, especially when fed bottom-first. Late-night processing anomalies. A good example is 313 ballots every 11 seconds in Mancelona. ElectionSource technicians had centralized control over project files, passwords, encryption keys, and ballot PDFs with poor version control and ignored warnings. 5. Missing Evidence and Audit Trail Gaps Significant equipment never produced for analysis, ImageCast Listener Express Server, firewall, switch, 17 ICP wireless modems, Communications Manager Server, RAS, 5 USB modems, network logs. No ballot images on any of the 38 compact flash cards examined, none imported into EMS, contrary to vendor training. Auto-deleting telemetry/logs, CEIP set to delete every 5 minutes, security logs missing or deleted. Michigan Secretary of State December 2020 memo allegedly authorizing destruction of records before full forensics. 6. Significant Findings to Add Contradictions with Prof. J. Alex Halderman's report article's experts claim Halderman ignored high reversal rates, anonymous logins, and that testing showed subversion behavior not explained by human error alone. They attempted to pass "fraud" as "errors," and overlooked many aspects, which have now been uncovered years after Halderman's original report. Lawsuit, Bailey v. Antrim County, dismissed as moot after a statewide audit, May 2021 circuit court, affirmed by Court of Appeals April 2022, Michigan Supreme Court declined Dec 2022. The trial judge stated the ruling did not mean there were "no problems" in how Antrim County conducted the election. There was just massive fraud. Overall conclusion finds systemic vulnerabilities, potential for undetected manipulation, which seems to be a similar pattern across the country, concluding that the 2020 election should not have been certified when fraud persists at this high of a level and in this many states.

The SCIF

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$HIMS| Adjustment on Growth toward 2030🧵 Not Financial Advice! FY2025: Revenue: $2.35B or 58% YoY (weightloss $740), Core $1.61B FY2026: Revenue $3.2B(36%) where weightloss may be down by 10-15% or flat. FY2027: Revenue $4.16B(30%) FY2028: Revenue: $5.2B(25%) FY2029 Revenue: $6.5B(25%) FY2030 Revenue: $8.12B(25%) I expect management to ramp up buyback from FCF generation while company is trading at under 2x P/S andrewdudum. The discontinuation of Hims & Hers' compounded oral semaglutide pill in early February 2026(after 2 days), prompted by FDA regulatory actions and legal pressures from Novo Nordisk, introduces near-term challenges to the weight loss segment but does not derail the company's broader growth trajectory, as it pivots aggressively toward diversification and high-potential expansions The weight loss category bolstered by liraglutide injectables, generic semaglutide in Canada, and non-GLP-1 personalized kits retains strong momentum, contributing approximately 31% of total revenue in 2025 and projected to grow at 15-20% annually through 2030, down from prior 60%+ rates but still adding $150-250 million yearly through cross-selling and retention. Offsetting this moderation are ambitious new expansions: international markets, now accounting for an initial 5-10% of revenue but scaling to 20% by 2030 via Canada entry (projected 10% growth contribution in 2026 from generic semaglutide and Livewell acquisition) and Europe/UK via Zava (adding 8-12% incremental growth through telehealth in Germany, France, and Ireland); diagnostics and labs, launched in late 2025 with Quest Diagnostics partnership and YourBio Health's pain-free blood sampling tech, offering 50-120 biomarker tests across heart, metabolism, hormones, inflammation, and stress, expected to generate 12-18% of total revenue by 2027 and ramp to a standalone $1 billion segment by 2030. Preventive care and longevity initiatives, set for full 2026 rollout including peptide manufacturing (via acquired U.S. facility, contributing 10-15% to growth through vertical integration and supply control), coenzymes, GLP/GIP blends for performance and recovery, and a $325 million Grail investment enabling multi-cancer early detection blood tests (projected to add 8-12% revenue uplift starting in 2026 by enhancing subscription retention); and hormone health expansions like menopause/perimenopause and low testosterone treatments, already driving 10% of 2025 growth and poised for 20-25% annual expansion through data-driven personalization. Multi-cancer early detection (MCED) blood testing via the Galleri® test from GRAIL in the prior breakdown, even though it was bundled under longevity/preventive care. This is a significant new offering launched on February 4, 2026, providing subscribers (via the Labs platform) access to a simple annual blood test that screens for signals shared by over 50 types of cancer (including hard-to-detect ones like pancreatic, liver, ovarian, and lung) before symptoms appear. Hims & Hers is offering it at a discounted ~$700 (vs. retail $949), following their participation in GRAIL's $325 million private placement investment in late 2025, which strengthens the partnership and positions this as a core pillar of proactive/longevity care. This could help push Average growth to 30-35% vs 28.2%(my above revised projection). These levers, combined with a subscriber base exceeding 2.5 million (up 31% YoY) and AI-enhanced platform efficiency under new CTO leadership, support an upward revision to growth rates targeting 22-25% CAGR from 2026-2030 to meet the company's $6.5 billion revenue goal, far outpacing prior conservative estimates of mid-teens expansion. This high-growth scenario assumes execution on global scaling, regulatory navigation (FDA approvals for compounded alternatives), and margin recovery to 74-78% via vertical integration, positioning Hims & Hers as a comprehensive digital health ecosystem rather than a GLP-1-dependent player, with potential upside from emerging trends like peptide demand (up 144% in Google searches) and proactive wellness adoption. Not Financial Advice!
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$HIMS| Adjustment on Growth toward 2030🧵 Not Financial Advice! FY2025: Revenue: $2.35B or 58% YoY (weightloss $740), Core $1.61B FY2026: Revenue $3.2B(36%) where weightloss may be down by 10-15% or flat. FY2027: Revenue $4.16B(30%) FY2028: Revenue: $5.2B(25%) FY2029 Revenue: $6.5B(25%) FY2030 Revenue: $8.12B(25%) I expect management to ramp up buyback from FCF generation while company is trading at under 2x P/S andrewdudum. The discontinuation of Hims & Hers' compounded oral semaglutide pill in early February 2026(after 2 days), prompted by FDA regulatory actions and legal pressures from Novo Nordisk, introduces near-term challenges to the weight loss segment but does not derail the company's broader growth trajectory, as it pivots aggressively toward diversification and high-potential expansions The weight loss category bolstered by liraglutide injectables, generic semaglutide in Canada, and non-GLP-1 personalized kits retains strong momentum, contributing approximately 31% of total revenue in 2025 and projected to grow at 15-20% annually through 2030, down from prior 60%+ rates but still adding $150-250 million yearly through cross-selling and retention. Offsetting this moderation are ambitious new expansions: international markets, now accounting for an initial 5-10% of revenue but scaling to 20% by 2030 via Canada entry (projected 10% growth contribution in 2026 from generic semaglutide and Livewell acquisition) and Europe/UK via Zava (adding 8-12% incremental growth through telehealth in Germany, France, and Ireland); diagnostics and labs, launched in late 2025 with Quest Diagnostics partnership and YourBio Health's pain-free blood sampling tech, offering 50-120 biomarker tests across heart, metabolism, hormones, inflammation, and stress, expected to generate 12-18% of total revenue by 2027 and ramp to a standalone $1 billion segment by 2030. Preventive care and longevity initiatives, set for full 2026 rollout including peptide manufacturing (via acquired U.S. facility, contributing 10-15% to growth through vertical integration and supply control), coenzymes, GLP/GIP blends for performance and recovery, and a $325 million Grail investment enabling multi-cancer early detection blood tests (projected to add 8-12% revenue uplift starting in 2026 by enhancing subscription retention); and hormone health expansions like menopause/perimenopause and low testosterone treatments, already driving 10% of 2025 growth and poised for 20-25% annual expansion through data-driven personalization. Multi-cancer early detection (MCED) blood testing via the Galleri® test from GRAIL in the prior breakdown, even though it was bundled under longevity/preventive care. This is a significant new offering launched on February 4, 2026, providing subscribers (via the Labs platform) access to a simple annual blood test that screens for signals shared by over 50 types of cancer (including hard-to-detect ones like pancreatic, liver, ovarian, and lung) before symptoms appear. Hims & Hers is offering it at a discounted ~$700 (vs. retail $949), following their participation in GRAIL's $325 million private placement investment in late 2025, which strengthens the partnership and positions this as a core pillar of proactive/longevity care. This could help push Average growth to 30-35% vs 28.2%(my above revised projection). These levers, combined with a subscriber base exceeding 2.5 million (up 31% YoY) and AI-enhanced platform efficiency under new CTO leadership, support an upward revision to growth rates targeting 22-25% CAGR from 2026-2030 to meet the company's $6.5 billion revenue goal, far outpacing prior conservative estimates of mid-teens expansion. This high-growth scenario assumes execution on global scaling, regulatory navigation (FDA approvals for compounded alternatives), and margin recovery to 74-78% via vertical integration, positioning Hims & Hers as a comprehensive digital health ecosystem rather than a GLP-1-dependent player, with potential upside from emerging trends like peptide demand (up 144% in Google searches) and proactive wellness adoption. Not Financial Advice!

Mike

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Gulf Conflict is going to screw World, especially wrt Oil. Does Bharat need to worry? Let's deep dive before CONgress starts fear mongering to run Chinese Agenda of mounting pressure on #Modi Sarkar to build pressure on #Israel to stop #Iran War. BHARAT NEED NOT WORRY AT ALL! Bharat has 6-8 weeks of crude & crude inventories. 25-30 days LPG & Crude. Even NO immediate plan to raise the prices of Petrol & Diesel. But what if War prolongs? BHARAT STILL NEED NOT WORRY. Bharat's Energy Security? Rock-Solid, Not Shaky! Here's why Bharat needn't sweat over oil supplies—even dodging the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint. Data-driven punch: Let's dive in. 👉First, diversification is our shield. Bharat's crude imports: ~5 mbpd total (Jan 2026 est.). Non-Hormuz sources dominate now—Russia at 1.16 mbpd (25% share, via Indian Ocean routes bypassing Hormuz entirely), US 0.30 mbpd (up 31% YoY from Dec 2024), West Africa (Nigeria/Libya/Egypt) surging to 5%+ combined (Nigeria alone 3.3% in Apr-Nov 2025). Latin America (Brazil/Mexico) adds 2-3%. That's ~40-45% already Hormuz-free! Gulf share down to 55% from 60%+ pre-2022. 👉Avoiding Hormuz? Easy pivot to Atlantic Basin. US/Brazil/West Africa oil sails via Cape of Good Hope—adds 20-30 days transit but zero Hormuz risk. Bharat already ramped US imports to 8.1% (Apr-Nov 2025, from 4.6% prior year). Brazil up big too. Cost? Extra freight ~$1-2/bbl, but beats disruption. Plus, Saudi/UAE bypass pipelines (East-West 5 mbpd capacity, Habshan-Fujairah 1.5 mbpd) can reroute some Gulf oil to Red Sea/Gulf of Oman—India taps that via Suez or direct. 👉Buffer power: Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR) at 5.33 MMT (39M barrels, 9.5 days cover) + OMC stocks (64.5 days) = 74 days total cushion. Phase II adds 6.5 MMT (12 days more), pushing toward 90-day goal. Filled to brim in 2020 low-price window—saved ₹5,000 Cr! Short-term crunch? Drawdown + spot buys from "oil on water" tankers. No panic. 👉Long-game wins: Renewables slashing oil dependency. 44.5 GW added in 2025—solar hits 132 GW, renewables meet 51.5% peak electricity demand. Transport? EVs booming (10M+ on roads by 2026 est.), biofuels blend up to 20%. Domestic output + diplomacy (ties with Russia, US, Gulf) ensures steady flow. Bharat sources from 40+ countries now—up from 19 in 2024! 👉Bottom line: Hormuz hiccup? Bharat reroutes, reserves up, diversifies hard. Every $10 oil spike adds $13-14B to bill, but buffers absorb it. Bharat is not vulnerable—Bharat is versatile. Energy security = Bharat's superpower. Now sit back & think! Would this have been possible under Policy-Paralysed CONgress Govt? A party whose Foreign Policy is no different from Domestic Appeasement Policy? Full Marks to PM .Narendra Modi Ji's Vision, EAM .Dr. S. Jaishankar Ji's Diplomacy and Petroleum Minister .Hardeep Singh Puri Ji's Oil Diplomacy. We're actually blessed to have such visionary & proactive Govt in the difficult turbulence time. #AtmanirbharBharat
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Gulf Conflict is going to screw World, especially wrt Oil. Does Bharat need to worry? Let's deep dive before CONgress starts fear mongering to run Chinese Agenda of mounting pressure on #Modi Sarkar to build pressure on #Israel to stop #Iran War. BHARAT NEED NOT WORRY AT ALL! Bharat has 6-8 weeks of crude & crude inventories. 25-30 days LPG & Crude. Even NO immediate plan to raise the prices of Petrol & Diesel. But what if War prolongs? BHARAT STILL NEED NOT WORRY. Bharat's Energy Security? Rock-Solid, Not Shaky! Here's why Bharat needn't sweat over oil supplies—even dodging the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint. Data-driven punch: Let's dive in. 👉First, diversification is our shield. Bharat's crude imports: ~5 mbpd total (Jan 2026 est.). Non-Hormuz sources dominate now—Russia at 1.16 mbpd (25% share, via Indian Ocean routes bypassing Hormuz entirely), US 0.30 mbpd (up 31% YoY from Dec 2024), West Africa (Nigeria/Libya/Egypt) surging to 5%+ combined (Nigeria alone 3.3% in Apr-Nov 2025). Latin America (Brazil/Mexico) adds 2-3%. That's ~40-45% already Hormuz-free! Gulf share down to 55% from 60%+ pre-2022. 👉Avoiding Hormuz? Easy pivot to Atlantic Basin. US/Brazil/West Africa oil sails via Cape of Good Hope—adds 20-30 days transit but zero Hormuz risk. Bharat already ramped US imports to 8.1% (Apr-Nov 2025, from 4.6% prior year). Brazil up big too. Cost? Extra freight ~$1-2/bbl, but beats disruption. Plus, Saudi/UAE bypass pipelines (East-West 5 mbpd capacity, Habshan-Fujairah 1.5 mbpd) can reroute some Gulf oil to Red Sea/Gulf of Oman—India taps that via Suez or direct. 👉Buffer power: Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR) at 5.33 MMT (39M barrels, 9.5 days cover) + OMC stocks (64.5 days) = 74 days total cushion. Phase II adds 6.5 MMT (12 days more), pushing toward 90-day goal. Filled to brim in 2020 low-price window—saved ₹5,000 Cr! Short-term crunch? Drawdown + spot buys from "oil on water" tankers. No panic. 👉Long-game wins: Renewables slashing oil dependency. 44.5 GW added in 2025—solar hits 132 GW, renewables meet 51.5% peak electricity demand. Transport? EVs booming (10M+ on roads by 2026 est.), biofuels blend up to 20%. Domestic output + diplomacy (ties with Russia, US, Gulf) ensures steady flow. Bharat sources from 40+ countries now—up from 19 in 2024! 👉Bottom line: Hormuz hiccup? Bharat reroutes, reserves up, diversifies hard. Every $10 oil spike adds $13-14B to bill, but buffers absorb it. Bharat is not vulnerable—Bharat is versatile. Energy security = Bharat's superpower. Now sit back & think! Would this have been possible under Policy-Paralysed CONgress Govt? A party whose Foreign Policy is no different from Domestic Appeasement Policy? Full Marks to PM .Narendra Modi Ji's Vision, EAM .Dr. S. Jaishankar Ji's Diplomacy and Petroleum Minister .Hardeep Singh Puri Ji's Oil Diplomacy. We're actually blessed to have such visionary & proactive Govt in the difficult turbulence time. #AtmanirbharBharat

BhikuMhatre

18,575 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce

In the spring of 2022, former President Barack Obama gave a major policy addressat Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center, where he laid out a sweeping proposal for government censorship of social media platforms through the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act. Six days later, President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security announced that it had created a “Disinformation Governance Board” to serve as an Orwellian Ministry of Truth with the clear goal of controlling the information Americans could access online. At the heart of Obama’s vision for Internet censorship was legislation that would have authorized the US government’s National Science Foundation to authorize and fund supposedly independent NGOs to censor the Internet. The DHS and Stanford Internet Observatory, which was part of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, pioneered this censorship-by-proxy strategy as a way to get around the First Amendment in 2020 with posts raising concerns about the 2020 elections and in 2021 with “narratives” expressing concern about the Covid vaccine. The 2024 election of President Donald Trump significantly reduced the threat of Obama, DHS, and NSF censoring the American people. Trump defunded much of the Censorship Industrial Complex. The Platform Accountability Act is going nowhere in Congress. Elon Musk fired most of the censorship staff at Twitter and has allowed a significantly wider range of speech on the platform. And even before Trump’s election, Stanford donor Frank McCourt stopped funding the Stanford Internet Observatory after Public, Racket News, and House Weaponization Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan exposed its central role in the DHS censorship-by-proxy scheme. But now, foreign governments, including Europe, the UK, Brazil, Australia, and others are demanding censorship, including of the American people. The risk is that US tech companies will find it significantly less expensive to have a single global censorship regime and just go along with foreign censorship requests. Facebook complied with Biden administration demands to censor because it needed Biden’s help in dealing with European censorship officials. And the Brazilian government forced Elon Musk to continue censoring the Brazilian people after it froze Starlink’s assets. And Public has discovered that the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, which is led by Obama’s former ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, is at the heart of a new, secretive, and possibly illegal censorship initiative that appears even more ambitious than the one Obama proposed in 2022. On September 24, the Cyber Policy Center hosted a secret dinner between its leaders and top censorship officials from Europe, UK, Brazil, California and Australia. The meeting was titled “Compliance and Enforcement in a Rapidly Evolving Landscape.” Frank McCourt, the same person behind the Stanford Internet Observatory, financed the gathering through his “Project Liberty Institute,” (PLI), toward which he gave $500 million to “strengthen democracy” and “foster responsible technology.” Public emailed all 21 participants and organizers and only heard from four, PLI, the Australian government, the UK government, and the European Union, which declined to comment because, even though Public gave it over 24 hours, a spokesperson said, “We would need several days.” The UK government said, “The legal framework gives Ofcom power to enforce the duties in the Act which are related to securing protections for people in the UK; it does not give Ofcom powers to enforce under any other legal regimes…. Ofcom has always engaged with various international forums and networks across all of the sectors we regulate, including online safety, spectrum, telecommunications, post, and broadcast and media. Regulators around the world regularly exchange insights, experience, and best practice.” A spokesperson for PLI said it “has made unrestricted gifts to several academic research programs, including Stanford University” and that “PLI does not receive funding from governments, intergovernmental organizations, or large technology companies.” But PLI’s own policy “blueprint” reveals that it is demanding a single total global censorship regime and intends to use the EU’s market power, known as the “Brussels effect,” to force big tech companies to comply. The blueprint calls for governments to “Recommit to a Single, Global Internet,” with “regulatory interoperability and oversight, to achieve a single unified market” and use the large size of the EU market to “drive bilateral and multilateral agendas to formally enshrine reciprocal guarantees.” A spokesperson for the Australian government said, “Whilst in attendance at Stanford for the 2-day conference, some attendees, including trust and safety researchers, industry, civil society, and government representatives, were also invited to attend an informal evening roundtable event organised by Stanford University entitled, ‘Compliance and Enforcement in a Rapidly Evolving Landscape.’ This roundtable did not involve any discussion of compliance coordination or regulatory information sharing.” The Australian spokesperson claimed that “eSafety has no role in regulating hate speech or disinformation. eSafety has no remit or interest in regulating the affairs of other nations, nor does it have any role in diplomatic, trade or other government-to-government relations.” But it also said, “As the internet is global and functions irrespective of national borders, by necessity eSafety collaborates with law enforcement, other government agencies, and non-government partners around the world, including in the United States.” The leaked agenda’s stated purpose was to “discuss the state of compliance and enforcement” in order to “identify where data, research, and expertise can enable more effective compliance with and enforcement of existing policy.” Much of the following two days of the public conference were focused on coordinating government censorship (“regulation”) of social media platforms, and the other nations that attended the meeting are all intensively involved in censoring their citizens and US tech companies. And, the head of Australia’s eSafety, Julie Inman-Grant, who was a keynote speaker at Stanford’s foreign censorship meeting, is also the head of a global government censorship network that serves as forum, she told the World Economic Forum, “to help us coordinate, build capacity and do just that…. We use the tools that we have, and can be effective, but we know we’re going to be, go, much further, when we work together with other like-minded independent statutory authorities around the globe.” As such, the people who are demanding censorship are once again spreading disinformation about what they are doing. All of this is happening in a context of global censorship intensifying. The UK government arrests 30 people per day for “offensive” social media posts, is attempting to censor 4Chan, which has no servers in the UK, and will mandate digital IDs for employment, which may give unprecedented control to politicians and bureaucrats to censor. The Brazilian government has, for year,s been censoring journalists and policymakers, incarcerating people for legal social media content, and threatening prosecution of journalists, including this author. And several European nations are censoring and arresting their citizens, preventing opposition political candidates from running for office, and preparing to implement digital IDs. Why did Stanford Cyber Policy Center hold this meeting, what is its strategy for global censorship? Who leaked the agenda to Public and why? And what can be done to stop Stanford, Brazil, Australia, the EU and others from realizing their totalitarian censorial vision? Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning investigatie journalism, read the rest of the article, and watch the full video!
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In the spring of 2022, former President Barack Obama gave a major policy addressat Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center, where he laid out a sweeping proposal for government censorship of social media platforms through the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act. Six days later, President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security announced that it had created a “Disinformation Governance Board” to serve as an Orwellian Ministry of Truth with the clear goal of controlling the information Americans could access online. At the heart of Obama’s vision for Internet censorship was legislation that would have authorized the US government’s National Science Foundation to authorize and fund supposedly independent NGOs to censor the Internet. The DHS and Stanford Internet Observatory, which was part of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, pioneered this censorship-by-proxy strategy as a way to get around the First Amendment in 2020 with posts raising concerns about the 2020 elections and in 2021 with “narratives” expressing concern about the Covid vaccine. The 2024 election of President Donald Trump significantly reduced the threat of Obama, DHS, and NSF censoring the American people. Trump defunded much of the Censorship Industrial Complex. The Platform Accountability Act is going nowhere in Congress. Elon Musk fired most of the censorship staff at Twitter and has allowed a significantly wider range of speech on the platform. And even before Trump’s election, Stanford donor Frank McCourt stopped funding the Stanford Internet Observatory after Public, Racket News, and House Weaponization Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan exposed its central role in the DHS censorship-by-proxy scheme. But now, foreign governments, including Europe, the UK, Brazil, Australia, and others are demanding censorship, including of the American people. The risk is that US tech companies will find it significantly less expensive to have a single global censorship regime and just go along with foreign censorship requests. Facebook complied with Biden administration demands to censor because it needed Biden’s help in dealing with European censorship officials. And the Brazilian government forced Elon Musk to continue censoring the Brazilian people after it froze Starlink’s assets. And Public has discovered that the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, which is led by Obama’s former ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, is at the heart of a new, secretive, and possibly illegal censorship initiative that appears even more ambitious than the one Obama proposed in 2022. On September 24, the Cyber Policy Center hosted a secret dinner between its leaders and top censorship officials from Europe, UK, Brazil, California and Australia. The meeting was titled “Compliance and Enforcement in a Rapidly Evolving Landscape.” Frank McCourt, the same person behind the Stanford Internet Observatory, financed the gathering through his “Project Liberty Institute,” (PLI), toward which he gave $500 million to “strengthen democracy” and “foster responsible technology.” Public emailed all 21 participants and organizers and only heard from four, PLI, the Australian government, the UK government, and the European Union, which declined to comment because, even though Public gave it over 24 hours, a spokesperson said, “We would need several days.” The UK government said, “The legal framework gives Ofcom power to enforce the duties in the Act which are related to securing protections for people in the UK; it does not give Ofcom powers to enforce under any other legal regimes…. Ofcom has always engaged with various international forums and networks across all of the sectors we regulate, including online safety, spectrum, telecommunications, post, and broadcast and media. Regulators around the world regularly exchange insights, experience, and best practice.” A spokesperson for PLI said it “has made unrestricted gifts to several academic research programs, including Stanford University” and that “PLI does not receive funding from governments, intergovernmental organizations, or large technology companies.” But PLI’s own policy “blueprint” reveals that it is demanding a single total global censorship regime and intends to use the EU’s market power, known as the “Brussels effect,” to force big tech companies to comply. The blueprint calls for governments to “Recommit to a Single, Global Internet,” with “regulatory interoperability and oversight, to achieve a single unified market” and use the large size of the EU market to “drive bilateral and multilateral agendas to formally enshrine reciprocal guarantees.” A spokesperson for the Australian government said, “Whilst in attendance at Stanford for the 2-day conference, some attendees, including trust and safety researchers, industry, civil society, and government representatives, were also invited to attend an informal evening roundtable event organised by Stanford University entitled, ‘Compliance and Enforcement in a Rapidly Evolving Landscape.’ This roundtable did not involve any discussion of compliance coordination or regulatory information sharing.” The Australian spokesperson claimed that “eSafety has no role in regulating hate speech or disinformation. eSafety has no remit or interest in regulating the affairs of other nations, nor does it have any role in diplomatic, trade or other government-to-government relations.” But it also said, “As the internet is global and functions irrespective of national borders, by necessity eSafety collaborates with law enforcement, other government agencies, and non-government partners around the world, including in the United States.” The leaked agenda’s stated purpose was to “discuss the state of compliance and enforcement” in order to “identify where data, research, and expertise can enable more effective compliance with and enforcement of existing policy.” Much of the following two days of the public conference were focused on coordinating government censorship (“regulation”) of social media platforms, and the other nations that attended the meeting are all intensively involved in censoring their citizens and US tech companies. And, the head of Australia’s eSafety, Julie Inman-Grant, who was a keynote speaker at Stanford’s foreign censorship meeting, is also the head of a global government censorship network that serves as forum, she told the World Economic Forum, “to help us coordinate, build capacity and do just that…. We use the tools that we have, and can be effective, but we know we’re going to be, go, much further, when we work together with other like-minded independent statutory authorities around the globe.” As such, the people who are demanding censorship are once again spreading disinformation about what they are doing. All of this is happening in a context of global censorship intensifying. The UK government arrests 30 people per day for “offensive” social media posts, is attempting to censor 4Chan, which has no servers in the UK, and will mandate digital IDs for employment, which may give unprecedented control to politicians and bureaucrats to censor. The Brazilian government has, for year,s been censoring journalists and policymakers, incarcerating people for legal social media content, and threatening prosecution of journalists, including this author. And several European nations are censoring and arresting their citizens, preventing opposition political candidates from running for office, and preparing to implement digital IDs. Why did Stanford Cyber Policy Center hold this meeting, what is its strategy for global censorship? Who leaked the agenda to Public and why? And what can be done to stop Stanford, Brazil, Australia, the EU and others from realizing their totalitarian censorial vision? Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning investigatie journalism, read the rest of the article, and watch the full video!

Michael Shellenberger

196,124 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce

Leaked Brandon Johnson Video: $8.8M in CTU Money Missing — CTU’s Vanishing Reserves and the Political Machine Behind It by drkugler Johnson denies hiding funds as CTU withholds 2019–2023 audits; Fewkes Tower proceeds routed to the CTU Foundation fuel a politics-first machine Aug 10, 2025 A leaked video now making the rounds shows Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, then a top Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) official, pushing back against accusations that he hid millions from the rank-and-file. “You think it’s worth me hiding $8 million from thousands of members? To put my own family at risk for that? I wouldn’t do that,” Johnson told a May 2022 Zoom meeting with teachers at Morgan Park High School. “And don’t think that if I did do something like that, folks wouldn’t come to try to figure out how to take me down.” The clip, posted August 10, 2025 by Austin Berg, comes as CTU fights a lawsuit to force release of annual financial audits it hasn’t shared since 2020 — the very years when the union’s once-$8.8 million reserve vanished. The paper trail leading to this moment runs back more than a decade, to 2014, when CTU sold Fewkes Tower, its 29-story apartment building at 55 W. Chestnut. In April 2015, the union announced that “all of the proceeds” — later estimated between $40 and $60 million — were deposited into the Chicago Teachers Union Foundation. The Foundation, controlled by CTU’s ruling caucus but operating outside direct member oversight, became the quiet holding tank for the union’s most valuable asset and the launchpad for a new kind of political power. In an interview for the Illinois Policy documentary Local 1: The Rise of America’s Most Powerful Teachers Union, Dr John Kugler (the author of this article) called this “go to jail” stuff because of what happened next: “When you say you’re gonna use the money for one thing, and you’re an education institution, and you give a bag of cash to guys to run political stuff on the street… What does that have to do with the kid that can’t read on the East Side? Nothing. That’s a concerted effort to deceive not only the members of the Chicago Teachers Union but the public… If you want to do politics, say we’re going to do politics… But if you’re pretending to do one thing, and then on the side you’re doing something else, that’s what I’m talking about.” From there, the Foundation became the financial engine for a gleaming new headquarters and millions in payouts to political allies — spending far removed from classrooms and contract fights, and shielded from the kind of scrutiny that would have come with keeping the money inside the union’s books. By 2018, the same leadership was pulling off another maneuver. Delegates had approved a $1.4 million supplemental budget to be split evenly between political campaigns, a contract fight, and public communications. But Vice President Jesse Sharkey told members the money had been “loaned” to Jesús “Chuy” García’s mayoral campaign — a loan union records never showed. Reporter and CTU consultant George N. Schmidt documented the shift and warned that repayment could stretch into the 2030s, while every dollar of the allocation was already gone. The operation ran beyond one campaign. Political operative Jason Lee, a fixture in Chicago’s progressive electoral machine, was allegedly “handing out bags of cash on the West Side,” with two street captains known as Dana and Frank (?) directing the ground game. Mr Lee is currently under investigation for being a Texas resuident and employed by teg city of Chicago as a staffer for Mayor Johnson, a violation of teh residency rules governing city employment. Then - CTU CFO Mike Baldwin walked away rather than “be part of the corruption.” Those who questioned the spending — Schmidt, Joey McDermott, and eventually dr kugler — were pushed out. The message inside the union was clear: speak up, and you’re gone. Even moments of deep personal crisis couldn’t slow the fight over money. Multiple sources say that during late CTU President Karen Lewis’s hospitalization, top officers — including current Vice President Jackson Potter — were present when shouting matches erupted over union funds. One account has Stacey Davis Gates confronting Lewis about the money while she lay on her deathbed. Several staffers know what happened, but have stayed silent to protect their jobs, health insurance, and pensions. Baldwin remains the key witness. His testimony could crack open allegations of interstate wire fraud, money laundering, and a decade’s worth of political cash transfers that insiders estimate may reach a quarter-billion dollars. By January 2022, the Members First caucus publicly warned that the reserves were gone, millions had been loaned out, and much of it had never come back. Four months later, Johnson gave his now-leaked denial. By October 2024, four union members sued in Cook County to compel the release of the missing audits. In May 2025, a judge refused to dismiss the case, keeping alive the demand for the 2019–2023 financials. Now, with the Johnson video circulating and the audit lawsuit grinding forward, the unanswered questions from the “Chuy loan” era remain sharper than ever: how did CTU go from an $8.8 million reserve and a $50 million real estate sale to empty coffers, hidden audits, and a membership kept entirely in the dark? Until those audits see the light of day — and Baldwin and others speak under oath — the suspicion will remain that the Chicago Teachers Union wasn’t just funding political change. It was running a machine, and the money meant for classrooms and members was the fuel. References Chicago Teachers Union Selling Downtown Apartment Tower (13 Oct 2014) CTU Sells Fewkes Tower — “All of the proceeds … were deposited into the Chicago Teachers Union Foundation.” (30 Apr 2015) Did CTU officers and staff violate union rules … spending ALL of the $1.4 million … on the Chuy campaign “loan”? (20 Apr 2018) CTU: Selling Out the Membership — proceeds transferred to CTU Foundation (2 Oct 2019) CTU leaders now face internal revolt — reserves once $8.8M; loans outstanding (25 Jan 2022) CTU sold apartment tower for $50M, but members saw no benefit (19 May 2022) Local 1: The Rise of America’s Most Powerful Teachers Union (Full Film) — interview with Dr. John Kugler (YouTube) Chicago Teachers Union members sue over missing audits (8 Oct 2024) Chicago Teachers Union sued over missing audits (9 Oct 2024) CTU sued over financial records (case filing overview) (Oct 2024) Probe Ongoing Into Whether Senior Adviser Violated Residency Rule by Voting in Texas, Johnson Says (Dec 9, 2024) Court keeps audit-access lawsuit alive; motion to dismiss denied (21 May 2025) Mayor Brandon Johnson’s ‘pending’ Springfield lobbyist team draws ethics questions (July 1, 2025) Leaked 2022 Johnson clip denying “hiding $8 million” (10 Aug 2025) on-the-spot reporting #Chicago #Political #Corruption
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Leaked Brandon Johnson Video: $8.8M in CTU Money Missing — CTU’s Vanishing Reserves and the Political Machine Behind It by drkugler Johnson denies hiding funds as CTU withholds 2019–2023 audits; Fewkes Tower proceeds routed to the CTU Foundation fuel a politics-first machine Aug 10, 2025 A leaked video now making the rounds shows Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, then a top Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) official, pushing back against accusations that he hid millions from the rank-and-file. “You think it’s worth me hiding $8 million from thousands of members? To put my own family at risk for that? I wouldn’t do that,” Johnson told a May 2022 Zoom meeting with teachers at Morgan Park High School. “And don’t think that if I did do something like that, folks wouldn’t come to try to figure out how to take me down.” The clip, posted August 10, 2025 by Austin Berg, comes as CTU fights a lawsuit to force release of annual financial audits it hasn’t shared since 2020 — the very years when the union’s once-$8.8 million reserve vanished. The paper trail leading to this moment runs back more than a decade, to 2014, when CTU sold Fewkes Tower, its 29-story apartment building at 55 W. Chestnut. In April 2015, the union announced that “all of the proceeds” — later estimated between $40 and $60 million — were deposited into the Chicago Teachers Union Foundation. The Foundation, controlled by CTU’s ruling caucus but operating outside direct member oversight, became the quiet holding tank for the union’s most valuable asset and the launchpad for a new kind of political power. In an interview for the Illinois Policy documentary Local 1: The Rise of America’s Most Powerful Teachers Union, Dr John Kugler (the author of this article) called this “go to jail” stuff because of what happened next: “When you say you’re gonna use the money for one thing, and you’re an education institution, and you give a bag of cash to guys to run political stuff on the street… What does that have to do with the kid that can’t read on the East Side? Nothing. That’s a concerted effort to deceive not only the members of the Chicago Teachers Union but the public… If you want to do politics, say we’re going to do politics… But if you’re pretending to do one thing, and then on the side you’re doing something else, that’s what I’m talking about.” From there, the Foundation became the financial engine for a gleaming new headquarters and millions in payouts to political allies — spending far removed from classrooms and contract fights, and shielded from the kind of scrutiny that would have come with keeping the money inside the union’s books. By 2018, the same leadership was pulling off another maneuver. Delegates had approved a $1.4 million supplemental budget to be split evenly between political campaigns, a contract fight, and public communications. But Vice President Jesse Sharkey told members the money had been “loaned” to Jesús “Chuy” García’s mayoral campaign — a loan union records never showed. Reporter and CTU consultant George N. Schmidt documented the shift and warned that repayment could stretch into the 2030s, while every dollar of the allocation was already gone. The operation ran beyond one campaign. Political operative Jason Lee, a fixture in Chicago’s progressive electoral machine, was allegedly “handing out bags of cash on the West Side,” with two street captains known as Dana and Frank (?) directing the ground game. Mr Lee is currently under investigation for being a Texas resuident and employed by teg city of Chicago as a staffer for Mayor Johnson, a violation of teh residency rules governing city employment. Then - CTU CFO Mike Baldwin walked away rather than “be part of the corruption.” Those who questioned the spending — Schmidt, Joey McDermott, and eventually dr kugler — were pushed out. The message inside the union was clear: speak up, and you’re gone. Even moments of deep personal crisis couldn’t slow the fight over money. Multiple sources say that during late CTU President Karen Lewis’s hospitalization, top officers — including current Vice President Jackson Potter — were present when shouting matches erupted over union funds. One account has Stacey Davis Gates confronting Lewis about the money while she lay on her deathbed. Several staffers know what happened, but have stayed silent to protect their jobs, health insurance, and pensions. Baldwin remains the key witness. His testimony could crack open allegations of interstate wire fraud, money laundering, and a decade’s worth of political cash transfers that insiders estimate may reach a quarter-billion dollars. By January 2022, the Members First caucus publicly warned that the reserves were gone, millions had been loaned out, and much of it had never come back. Four months later, Johnson gave his now-leaked denial. By October 2024, four union members sued in Cook County to compel the release of the missing audits. In May 2025, a judge refused to dismiss the case, keeping alive the demand for the 2019–2023 financials. Now, with the Johnson video circulating and the audit lawsuit grinding forward, the unanswered questions from the “Chuy loan” era remain sharper than ever: how did CTU go from an $8.8 million reserve and a $50 million real estate sale to empty coffers, hidden audits, and a membership kept entirely in the dark? Until those audits see the light of day — and Baldwin and others speak under oath — the suspicion will remain that the Chicago Teachers Union wasn’t just funding political change. It was running a machine, and the money meant for classrooms and members was the fuel. References Chicago Teachers Union Selling Downtown Apartment Tower (13 Oct 2014) CTU Sells Fewkes Tower — “All of the proceeds … were deposited into the Chicago Teachers Union Foundation.” (30 Apr 2015) Did CTU officers and staff violate union rules … spending ALL of the $1.4 million … on the Chuy campaign “loan”? (20 Apr 2018) CTU: Selling Out the Membership — proceeds transferred to CTU Foundation (2 Oct 2019) CTU leaders now face internal revolt — reserves once $8.8M; loans outstanding (25 Jan 2022) CTU sold apartment tower for $50M, but members saw no benefit (19 May 2022) Local 1: The Rise of America’s Most Powerful Teachers Union (Full Film) — interview with Dr. John Kugler (YouTube) Chicago Teachers Union members sue over missing audits (8 Oct 2024) Chicago Teachers Union sued over missing audits (9 Oct 2024) CTU sued over financial records (case filing overview) (Oct 2024) Probe Ongoing Into Whether Senior Adviser Violated Residency Rule by Voting in Texas, Johnson Says (Dec 9, 2024) Court keeps audit-access lawsuit alive; motion to dismiss denied (21 May 2025) Mayor Brandon Johnson’s ‘pending’ Springfield lobbyist team draws ethics questions (July 1, 2025) Leaked 2022 Johnson clip denying “hiding $8 million” (10 Aug 2025) on-the-spot reporting #Chicago #Political #Corruption

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