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Wrexham’s travel plans include sightseeing, fine dining, and punching well above their weight class. Wrexham AFC visits Sheffield United tomorrow, live on ESPN 2 and ESPN+ 📸: @LajWarrington & stead.photos

Ryan Reynolds

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Lee Trundle3 years ago

@Wrexham_AFC @SheffieldUnited @espn @ESPNPlus @LajWarrington @steaddotphotos Come on boys 🔥 x

TheBlades3 years ago

@RacingBlade @Wrexham_AFC @SheffieldUnited @espn @ESPNPlus @LajWarrington @steaddotphotos Fine dining with a greasy chip butty!! 😆

John Katz3 years ago

@Wrexham_AFC @SheffieldUnited @espn @ESPNPlus @LajWarrington @steaddotphotos Good luck tomorrow, Ryan, Rob, Parky and co. Hope to see you at the Racecourse Tuesday next.

Garry Vaux Draws3 years ago

@Wrexham_AFC @SheffieldUnited @espn @ESPNPlus @LajWarrington @steaddotphotos Ryan, can you ask Jeff Goldblum if he'd like to buy @YorkCityFC please? Thank you

Ormondroyd3 years ago

@Wrexham_AFC @SheffieldUnited @espn @ESPNPlus @LajWarrington @steaddotphotos Just finished binge watching Welcome to Wrexham. Having to explain to my wife why I had tears in my eyes after a National League playoff semi final that happened last year, but not on our wedding day. Football, bloody hell….

Millie Tipping3 years ago

@Wrexham_AFC @SheffieldUnited @espn @ESPNPlus @LajWarrington @steaddotphotos I’ll be there Ryan! ❤️

Mark Raw 💙💛🏆⚽️🏍🤪🇬🇧🇮🇱3 years ago

@Wrexham_AFC @SheffieldUnited @espn @ESPNPlus @LajWarrington @steaddotphotos 🤔You've never been to Sheffield have you Ryan...

Vincenzo Landino3 years ago

@Wrexham_AFC @SheffieldUnited @espn @ESPNPlus @LajWarrington @steaddotphotos LFG WREXHAM

Kevin Moore3 years ago

@Wrexham_AFC @SheffieldUnited @espn @ESPNPlus @LajWarrington @steaddotphotos Fine dining? You’ve never been to Sheffield then?

Chris3 years ago

@Wrexham_AFC @SheffieldUnited @espn @ESPNPlus @LajWarrington @steaddotphotos As a man who lives in Sheffield, you’ll have to look elsewhere for the fine dining. Now we can do greasy chip butties all day long💪😂

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Currency Wars with Simon Dixon - Full Interview Simon Dixon When I published The State of Our Currencies in the spring of 2020, I observed that we were in a global currency war, stating: “[I]t is essential to realize that we live and transact in a transition time between two systems.” The U.S. dollar as global reserve currency is the current system—the second system, I wrote, is “in the invention room.” In the intervening years, the currency wars have heated up, and Mr. Global’s invention room is spitting out more and more tools to implement programmable money on distributed ledgers and the digital IDs and local hardware to make the system go. This week, British entrepreneur, Bitcoin investor, and geofinancial analyst Simon Dixon helps us take stock of these fast-moving developments. Like me, Dixon has a long-standing interest in “missing money”—which arose after the dot-com crash of 2000 wiped out his father’s pension—and like me, he found that asking inconvenient questions about a “corrupt banking and financial industry” was not compatible with his prior career in investment banking. Given our mutual passion for freedom and building wealth, this is a conversation you will not want to miss. We start by discussing the rise of stablecoins, the passage of the GENIUS Act, and stablecoins’ potential impact on the dollar and Treasury Bill markets as well as on local economies. We also take a look at asset tokens and assess the implications of the not-yet-passed CLARITY Act. Wall Street leaders speak openly about their plans to use tokens to trade securities and assets—but the specifics of what they have in mind are far from clear. Other topics of discussion include the role of Bitcoin in the emerging financial system, the U.S. Bitcoin Strategic Reserve being funded with seizures, and the role of the “multiple CBDC” platform mBridge—a cross-border payment and foreign exchange transaction system initially piloted by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in collaboration with central banks in Hong Kong, Thailand, China, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia. We conclude with the question of the day: How do we stop the control grid? Dixon agrees about the dangers of programmable money. He continues to be a Bitcoin enthusiast in the face of Wall Street’s embrace of crypto and stresses the importance of self-custody and not leveraging Bitcoin positions. His website offers information about self-custody and a fascinating podcast, Bitcoin Hard Talk, that connects the dots between financial markets and geopolitics. Full Report: Subscribe to

The Solari Report | Catherine Austin Fitts

37,008 views • 9 months ago

Over the last decade, a consensus has grown on the Left and Right that the US needs to be more self-sufficient when it comes to manufacturing. During Covid, we discovered we didn’t make much of the equipment we needed to deal with a pandemic and were thus dependent on other nations, and so Congress passed and Trump signed the CARES Act in part to spend money to support domestic manufacturing of medical supplies. In 2022, a bipartisan majority in Congress passed the CHIPS Act to bring semiconductor manufacturing back to the U.S. out of the recognition that we had become dangerously dependent on foreign nations for microchips, which have become general-purpose technologies, necessary for national security, and upon which the AI revolution will be built. Where America had a $38 billion trade surplus in 1991 on advanced technology manufacturing, today it has a $299 billion deficit. Liberals and conservatives, Leftists and Rightists, have long shared a broad agreement that manufacturing and its knock-on industries are an essential source of employment for non-college-educated working-class people, and that the loss of manufacturing contributed to social fragmentation, family breakdown, and the drug addiction and death crisis. In a 2024 survey, Americans agreed ten to one that “we need a stronger manufacturing sector; 47% said America suffered from globalization, while 33% said it benefited. It is partly for that reason that Joe Biden, in perhaps the most bipartisan and non-ideological decision of his presidency, kept in place the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump during his first term as president. And yet both liberals and many conservatives are reacting with outrage as President Donald Trump puts in place precisely the trade tariffs needed to reduce our dangerous dependency on other nations and increase our manufacturing of the goods we need for national security, economic security, and societal wellbeing. The China tariffs, the CARES Act, and the CHIPS Act did not result in the return of much manufacturing, much less the rebalancing of trade. Total manufacturing jobsare 12.8 million in December 2019 and are 12.8 million today. The US still depends on China and other nations for active pharmaceutical ingredients, personal protective equipment, microchips, and critical minerals. Suffice to say, we are a very long way from a manufacturing renaissance sufficiently robust to revitalize the communities that have lost good, high-wage jobs to China and other competitors and even rivals internationally. The reason is clear. The average tariff level globally is 6.7% compared to America’s 2.7%. And simply subsidizing industries may not be enough for two major semiconductor manufacturers, Intel and TSMC, to produce domestically without tariffs. US President Donald Trump delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs during an event in the Rose Garden entitled "Make America Wealthy Again" at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2025. Trump geared up to unveil sweeping new "Liberation Day" tariffs in a move that threatens to ignite a devastating global trade war. Key US trading partners including the European Union and Britain said they were preparing their responses to Trump's escalation, as nervous markets fell in Europe and America. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)📷 Anti-tariff liberals and conservatives say Trump’s actions will destroy people’s retirement savings by crashing the stock market, and will undermine the comparative advantage of other nations producing products we shouldn’t. And, they say, our goal should not be to return manufacturing to the United States, except for a few exceptions, which Congress has already made. For centuries, economists have argued that some nations, such as poorer ones, are more suited to produce many products than richer ones. Americans making t-shirts at $20 per hour are less efficient than the Vietnamese making them for $3 per hour. And the US should not be trying to replace perfectly reasonable products to import, like aluminum from Canada, which we have no reason to ever go to war with, and which has access to cheap hydroelectricity to make it. Over half of American families have money in the stock market, and they will all suffer, anti-tariff liberals and conservatives say. The economic system we have had since World War II has worked to maximize win-win relationships that result in poorer nations climbing the development ladder with manufacturing and wealthier nations like the US focused on services. But it’s unwise to evaluate policies based on the short-term impact of the stock market. Anti-tariff voices grossly overstate the comparative advantage when it comes to manufacturing, and the postwar system, economically and militarily, is no longer in the interests of non-college-educated Americans, who are both more vulnerable and more numerous than the college-educated elite. There is no need to bring back a significant amount of low-skill and nonstrategic manufacturing like T-shirts, and Trump has not advocated that. America may need to bring back some low-skill jobs, such as manufacturing protective gear. But our priority should rightly be high-skill manufacturing, and CARES, CHIPS, and the Trump-Biden China were, obviously, not enough. It may be fine to rely on Canada for aluminum. But the tariffs against it and Mexico, as well as Trump’s stated desire to make it the 51st state, should be viewed as the president negotiating in preparation for upcoming trade talks between the three countries. While offshoring manufacturing policies benefited multinational corporations, bankers, and consumers, they often devastated communities built on manufacturing, mining, and manual labor. US companies moved production to countries with lower labor costs, fewer regulations, and subsidized exports. Economists calculate that just the so-called “China Shock,” that country’s entry into the World Trade Organization, alone cost the U.S. 2.4 million jobs and had ripple effects across entire communities. The average manufacturing wage is $103,000 per year compared to $37,000 per year for the average service sector wage. And where a service sector job supports 2 to 3 jobs, a manufacturing job supports nine jobs. Continuing with a system that is fundamentally advantageous to a minority of the country and disadvantageous to a majority is not sustainable and unwise to prop up. Trump’s trade actions are part of a broader return to nationalism underway globally, and they can’t be understood on economic grounds alone. Regarding priorities, we should put the two-thirds of the country that is non-college educated working-class ahead of the 50% of the country who own stocks, for moral and democratic reasons. America is deeply divided. While there are many proximate reasons for this, including geographic sorting, cable TV, and social media, the underlying reasons are economic. The gulf between the educated elites and the non-educated working class has grown dangerously large. Many critics of the tariffs are well-intentioned. They are right to worry that they could come with significant economic costs and disruption. The concern of many of them is genuinely for the working class and poor, who higher prices for imported goods would most harm. However, many American elites today identify more with their global counterparts than their fellow Americans. And that’s a huge problem. In his study of 21 civilizations, British historian Arnold J. Toynbee found that civilizations collapse not simply from external invasion but from internal decay, precisely when their elites stop identifying with the people. “Civilizations die from suicide,” he famously wrote, “not murder.” Civilizations all depend on their elites, Toynbee noted, or the people he called the “creative minority.” But rising success creates decadence, complacency, and eventually contempt toward their people, and they start to identify with elites in other nations. This is all a natural outgrowth of trade, cosmopolitanism, and snobbery. It starts to view the ordinary people as “deplorables.” At this point, the elite lose their creativity and become simply the “dominant minority,” one that rules no longer by example but rather by manipulation or force. Toynbee could be describing America in the 21st Century. College-educated elites look down on the American working class and identify with other professional and managerial elites in Europe and other nations. They sympathize less with the low-skilled American citizen born here and more with the low-skilled foreign migrant here illegally. Such elites are more concerned with tariffs' impact on their stock portfolio and the cost of their gadgets than they are with the downward pressure illegal migrants put on wages or with how nations manipulate their currency to retain manufacturing. Toynbee said that, at this stage of development, a nation’s elites become “parasites or renegades,” alienated and contemptuous toward the culture that produced them. Civilizations at this late stage are morally hollow and thus fragile and prone to abuses of power, like censorship, lawfare, and the weaponization of government agencies. And these civilizations disparage their traditions in ways that the American elites have disparaged America’s founding and its history as essentially evil, due to the unavoidable tragedy of indigenous genocide and slavery, even though a civil war that killed over 600,000 people was fought to end it. But Toynbee didn’t believe that civilizational collapse was inevitable; some societies can snap back.... Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning reporting, read the rest of the article, and watch the full video!

Over the last decade, a consensus has grown on the Left and Right that the US needs to be more self-sufficient when it comes to manufacturing. During Covid, we discovered we didn’t make much of the equipment we needed to deal with a pandemic and were thus dependent on other nations, and so Congress passed and Trump signed the CARES Act in part to spend money to support domestic manufacturing of medical supplies. In 2022, a bipartisan majority in Congress passed the CHIPS Act to bring semiconductor manufacturing back to the U.S. out of the recognition that we had become dangerously dependent on foreign nations for microchips, which have become general-purpose technologies, necessary for national security, and upon which the AI revolution will be built. Where America had a $38 billion trade surplus in 1991 on advanced technology manufacturing, today it has a $299 billion deficit. Liberals and conservatives, Leftists and Rightists, have long shared a broad agreement that manufacturing and its knock-on industries are an essential source of employment for non-college-educated working-class people, and that the loss of manufacturing contributed to social fragmentation, family breakdown, and the drug addiction and death crisis. In a 2024 survey, Americans agreed ten to one that “we need a stronger manufacturing sector; 47% said America suffered from globalization, while 33% said it benefited. It is partly for that reason that Joe Biden, in perhaps the most bipartisan and non-ideological decision of his presidency, kept in place the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump during his first term as president. And yet both liberals and many conservatives are reacting with outrage as President Donald Trump puts in place precisely the trade tariffs needed to reduce our dangerous dependency on other nations and increase our manufacturing of the goods we need for national security, economic security, and societal wellbeing. The China tariffs, the CARES Act, and the CHIPS Act did not result in the return of much manufacturing, much less the rebalancing of trade. Total manufacturing jobsare 12.8 million in December 2019 and are 12.8 million today. The US still depends on China and other nations for active pharmaceutical ingredients, personal protective equipment, microchips, and critical minerals. Suffice to say, we are a very long way from a manufacturing renaissance sufficiently robust to revitalize the communities that have lost good, high-wage jobs to China and other competitors and even rivals internationally. The reason is clear. The average tariff level globally is 6.7% compared to America’s 2.7%. And simply subsidizing industries may not be enough for two major semiconductor manufacturers, Intel and TSMC, to produce domestically without tariffs. US President Donald Trump delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs during an event in the Rose Garden entitled "Make America Wealthy Again" at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2025. Trump geared up to unveil sweeping new "Liberation Day" tariffs in a move that threatens to ignite a devastating global trade war. Key US trading partners including the European Union and Britain said they were preparing their responses to Trump's escalation, as nervous markets fell in Europe and America. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)📷 Anti-tariff liberals and conservatives say Trump’s actions will destroy people’s retirement savings by crashing the stock market, and will undermine the comparative advantage of other nations producing products we shouldn’t. And, they say, our goal should not be to return manufacturing to the United States, except for a few exceptions, which Congress has already made. For centuries, economists have argued that some nations, such as poorer ones, are more suited to produce many products than richer ones. Americans making t-shirts at $20 per hour are less efficient than the Vietnamese making them for $3 per hour. And the US should not be trying to replace perfectly reasonable products to import, like aluminum from Canada, which we have no reason to ever go to war with, and which has access to cheap hydroelectricity to make it. Over half of American families have money in the stock market, and they will all suffer, anti-tariff liberals and conservatives say. The economic system we have had since World War II has worked to maximize win-win relationships that result in poorer nations climbing the development ladder with manufacturing and wealthier nations like the US focused on services. But it’s unwise to evaluate policies based on the short-term impact of the stock market. Anti-tariff voices grossly overstate the comparative advantage when it comes to manufacturing, and the postwar system, economically and militarily, is no longer in the interests of non-college-educated Americans, who are both more vulnerable and more numerous than the college-educated elite. There is no need to bring back a significant amount of low-skill and nonstrategic manufacturing like T-shirts, and Trump has not advocated that. America may need to bring back some low-skill jobs, such as manufacturing protective gear. But our priority should rightly be high-skill manufacturing, and CARES, CHIPS, and the Trump-Biden China were, obviously, not enough. It may be fine to rely on Canada for aluminum. But the tariffs against it and Mexico, as well as Trump’s stated desire to make it the 51st state, should be viewed as the president negotiating in preparation for upcoming trade talks between the three countries. While offshoring manufacturing policies benefited multinational corporations, bankers, and consumers, they often devastated communities built on manufacturing, mining, and manual labor. US companies moved production to countries with lower labor costs, fewer regulations, and subsidized exports. Economists calculate that just the so-called “China Shock,” that country’s entry into the World Trade Organization, alone cost the U.S. 2.4 million jobs and had ripple effects across entire communities. The average manufacturing wage is $103,000 per year compared to $37,000 per year for the average service sector wage. And where a service sector job supports 2 to 3 jobs, a manufacturing job supports nine jobs. Continuing with a system that is fundamentally advantageous to a minority of the country and disadvantageous to a majority is not sustainable and unwise to prop up. Trump’s trade actions are part of a broader return to nationalism underway globally, and they can’t be understood on economic grounds alone. Regarding priorities, we should put the two-thirds of the country that is non-college educated working-class ahead of the 50% of the country who own stocks, for moral and democratic reasons. America is deeply divided. While there are many proximate reasons for this, including geographic sorting, cable TV, and social media, the underlying reasons are economic. The gulf between the educated elites and the non-educated working class has grown dangerously large. Many critics of the tariffs are well-intentioned. They are right to worry that they could come with significant economic costs and disruption. The concern of many of them is genuinely for the working class and poor, who higher prices for imported goods would most harm. However, many American elites today identify more with their global counterparts than their fellow Americans. And that’s a huge problem. In his study of 21 civilizations, British historian Arnold J. Toynbee found that civilizations collapse not simply from external invasion but from internal decay, precisely when their elites stop identifying with the people. “Civilizations die from suicide,” he famously wrote, “not murder.” Civilizations all depend on their elites, Toynbee noted, or the people he called the “creative minority.” But rising success creates decadence, complacency, and eventually contempt toward their people, and they start to identify with elites in other nations. This is all a natural outgrowth of trade, cosmopolitanism, and snobbery. It starts to view the ordinary people as “deplorables.” At this point, the elite lose their creativity and become simply the “dominant minority,” one that rules no longer by example but rather by manipulation or force. Toynbee could be describing America in the 21st Century. College-educated elites look down on the American working class and identify with other professional and managerial elites in Europe and other nations. They sympathize less with the low-skilled American citizen born here and more with the low-skilled foreign migrant here illegally. Such elites are more concerned with tariffs' impact on their stock portfolio and the cost of their gadgets than they are with the downward pressure illegal migrants put on wages or with how nations manipulate their currency to retain manufacturing. Toynbee said that, at this stage of development, a nation’s elites become “parasites or renegades,” alienated and contemptuous toward the culture that produced them. Civilizations at this late stage are morally hollow and thus fragile and prone to abuses of power, like censorship, lawfare, and the weaponization of government agencies. And these civilizations disparage their traditions in ways that the American elites have disparaged America’s founding and its history as essentially evil, due to the unavoidable tragedy of indigenous genocide and slavery, even though a civil war that killed over 600,000 people was fought to end it. But Toynbee didn’t believe that civilizational collapse was inevitable; some societies can snap back.... Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning reporting, read the rest of the article, and watch the full video!

Michael Shellenberger

57,018 views • 1 year ago

🚨"So why, Mr. Kissinger, should we expand NATO?" 🚨And Kissinger says, "If you can't antagonize Russia when they're weak, what are you going to do when they're strong?" The West is losing the Ukraine War big time. But that does not mean the NATO lunatics are willing to give up their plans for total global domination. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: 📑But this is the amazing thing. I was there exactly at that juncture... Mm ... when I was, sitting across the table from Boris Yeltsin, and he's saying, "Yes, we want to be a normal democratic country. We want peace. We want market economy." And I said, "Mr. President, I'm sure that the United States will give you full support for that." Of course, I was completely wrong. The United States was ready to bring him down the same way. What they wanted in the US was, "Bend your knee to us. We are the sole superpower. We're going to, run the show. And yes, if you want to be a fourth-rate power, we'll let you live." But this is ... But why? You had the Matlocks, you had the Kennans. All of these people were Americans, too. Why did those goddamn neocons win the debate? If you look in, by the way, 1994, the wonderful segment of Jack Matlock debating Henry Kissinger on the McNeal News Hour, and people can find it just on the website, it's truly amazing. This is the year 1994, and the, we used to have, intelligent mainstream news, and, Robert McNeal was the, newscaster, very intelligent. And you took 20 minutes, 40 minutes, 60 minutes for a serious discussion of a serious issue, and the issue on this show was should NATO enlarge? Mm. And Ambassador Matlock said, "No, this is not the time for that. You know, we're just reestablishing good, trusting relations with Russia. There's no threat. There's no reason. We should leave well enough alone and just, go on to deepen our relations with Russia. The Cold War has ended, and we have a chance for peace." And then they ask Kissinger, "Mr. Kissinger, should NATO expand?" And he says, "Yes, NATO should expand." And McNeal says, "Um, why, Mr. Kissinger? "Is Russia a threat?" He says, "No, no, no, no, no, no, Russia's no threat." Well, is this, in the security needs of, the countries of Central Europe?" "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, nothing to do with that." "Well, Mr. Kissinger, wouldn't this antagonize Russia?" "Oh, yes. Yes, it would antagonize Russia," he says. 🚨"So why, Mr. Kissinger, should we expand NATO?" 🚨And Kissinger says, "If you can't antagonize Russia when they're weak, what are you going to do when they're strong?" Mm. That's the logic that was used. Mm. And this is absolutely remarkable logic, and this is exactly on the record, exactly at that hinge moment, exactly in this debate. You presume, yes, we're going to be in conflict, so we might as well start the conflict now. The idea that there could be peace doesn't dawn on Mr. Kissinger, which is a little odd because he actually was the student of the Concert of Europe. That was his scholarship. He knew that after the Napoleonic Wars, it was a balance of major powers that kept the peace in Europe for decades, arguably for a century, to avoid a cataclysmic war. There were, of course, several wars in Europe, in, the Crimean War, the war of Italian unification, the war, creating the German state. But there was no great war of Europe, and the Concert of Europe played a decisive institutional role, and it was the opposite of what Kissinger said, Kissinger said, "Well, we need to antagonize them. It's either now or later." And that is the mindset, but the mindset in the United States was even worse than that. I know these people, and I remember the times, and this was the time absolutely of the supreme arrogance of the American strategists. They were, as they told themselves every day, the indispensable nation. They were the world's sole superpower. They were the most powerful country that had ever strode the planet, many times more powerful than the Roman Empire. This is what they told themselves. And these were nasty people and greedy people and, of course, above all, arrogant people.

🚨"So why, Mr. Kissinger, should we expand NATO?" 🚨And Kissinger says, "If you can't antagonize Russia when they're weak, what are you going to do when they're strong?" The West is losing the Ukraine War big time. But that does not mean the NATO lunatics are willing to give up their plans for total global domination. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: 📑But this is the amazing thing. I was there exactly at that juncture... Mm ... when I was, sitting across the table from Boris Yeltsin, and he's saying, "Yes, we want to be a normal democratic country. We want peace. We want market economy." And I said, "Mr. President, I'm sure that the United States will give you full support for that." Of course, I was completely wrong. The United States was ready to bring him down the same way. What they wanted in the US was, "Bend your knee to us. We are the sole superpower. We're going to, run the show. And yes, if you want to be a fourth-rate power, we'll let you live." But this is ... But why? You had the Matlocks, you had the Kennans. All of these people were Americans, too. Why did those goddamn neocons win the debate? If you look in, by the way, 1994, the wonderful segment of Jack Matlock debating Henry Kissinger on the McNeal News Hour, and people can find it just on the website, it's truly amazing. This is the year 1994, and the, we used to have, intelligent mainstream news, and, Robert McNeal was the, newscaster, very intelligent. And you took 20 minutes, 40 minutes, 60 minutes for a serious discussion of a serious issue, and the issue on this show was should NATO enlarge? Mm. And Ambassador Matlock said, "No, this is not the time for that. You know, we're just reestablishing good, trusting relations with Russia. There's no threat. There's no reason. We should leave well enough alone and just, go on to deepen our relations with Russia. The Cold War has ended, and we have a chance for peace." And then they ask Kissinger, "Mr. Kissinger, should NATO expand?" And he says, "Yes, NATO should expand." And McNeal says, "Um, why, Mr. Kissinger? "Is Russia a threat?" He says, "No, no, no, no, no, no, Russia's no threat." Well, is this, in the security needs of, the countries of Central Europe?" "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, nothing to do with that." "Well, Mr. Kissinger, wouldn't this antagonize Russia?" "Oh, yes. Yes, it would antagonize Russia," he says. 🚨"So why, Mr. Kissinger, should we expand NATO?" 🚨And Kissinger says, "If you can't antagonize Russia when they're weak, what are you going to do when they're strong?" Mm. That's the logic that was used. Mm. And this is absolutely remarkable logic, and this is exactly on the record, exactly at that hinge moment, exactly in this debate. You presume, yes, we're going to be in conflict, so we might as well start the conflict now. The idea that there could be peace doesn't dawn on Mr. Kissinger, which is a little odd because he actually was the student of the Concert of Europe. That was his scholarship. He knew that after the Napoleonic Wars, it was a balance of major powers that kept the peace in Europe for decades, arguably for a century, to avoid a cataclysmic war. There were, of course, several wars in Europe, in, the Crimean War, the war of Italian unification, the war, creating the German state. But there was no great war of Europe, and the Concert of Europe played a decisive institutional role, and it was the opposite of what Kissinger said, Kissinger said, "Well, we need to antagonize them. It's either now or later." And that is the mindset, but the mindset in the United States was even worse than that. I know these people, and I remember the times, and this was the time absolutely of the supreme arrogance of the American strategists. They were, as they told themselves every day, the indispensable nation. They were the world's sole superpower. They were the most powerful country that had ever strode the planet, many times more powerful than the Roman Empire. This is what they told themselves. And these were nasty people and greedy people and, of course, above all, arrogant people.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil

28,098 views • 24 days ago

Jimmy Dore interviews RG911/AE911 - The Hard WTC Evidence - Official 9/11 Story COLLAPSING! Bringing Tens of Thousands of Newcomers to the 9/11 Truth | Watch along with them! — 45 Minutes Jimmy posted today our LIVE interview with him from the other day. He encouraged us to share all the evidence we could in our limited time with him - and we did! I was joined by structural engineer Kamal Obeid from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth who addressed key issues including the impossibility of the free-fall collapse of World Trade Center Building 7. We addressed as many key points as we possibly could in the 45 minutes that we had: 1. The importance of the truth-telling that WI Senator Ron Johnson and former Congressman Curt Weldon are all about right now. Jimmy played excerpts of the Senator’s WTC comments on The Benny Show including “molten metal…controlled demolition…Calling Out Bravo 7 documentary.” We are making sure that the Senator has the solid body of evidence that will back up his historic efforts to get a real 9/11 investigation. We addressed these questions among many others on Jimmy Dore: 1. Why didn’t the American Institute of Architects issue even one bulletin on the catastrophic unprecedented destruction of 47-story World Trade Center Building 7 — the third worst structural failure in history? 2. Why didn’t NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology) include in their 2004 report on the Twin Towers the 156 first responders who saw, heard, and experienced explosions? And many of them before the collapse of the towers? 3. Why did NIST persist with their theory that the top section crush the building section below while maintaining a near free-fall acceleration (when the top section was in fact destroyed in the first 3 seconds) — as if 90% of the steel gave no resistance whatsoever? 4. What caused the hundreds of laterally-ejected freely-flying 4-ton structural steel sections, at 80mph, landing 600 feet in every direction impaling themselves in skyscrapers all around them? 5. What cause the complete pulverization of 110 acre-sized concrete floors — 90,000 tons of concrete in each tower, and dispersed it from river to river across Lower Manhattan? 6. What was crushing the lower section of each tower, if the above steel and concrete, which was 2/3 of their weight, was NOT even available to crush it?! The above questions were just the beginning of the 7-dozen key points of forensic, video, and eyewitness testimony that we laid on Jimmy. Please let us know how you think we did. There’s always room for improvement. Learn more about the WTC evidence at We send out to YOU another huge thanks to those who funding our new PR professional who has already obtained a number of interviews for us in addition to the big one. They keep stacking up! Jeff Crouere on Ringside Politics / — 5/1/25 & 5/2/25 Jake Smith of — May 2 Carrie Abbott of — May 5 Mike Dakak of the — May 7 Jeff Rense / — 7pm Pacific, May 12 B. Cullum of The National Security Hour / America Out Loud Network — 11am Pacific, May 12 Quite Frankly Podcast / — 4pm Pacific, Monday May 19 We rely on YOUR support to continue reaching out to the millions every year who are getting the best 9/11 truth evidence available. Won’t you support us and keep the interviews coming? Keep On Air!

Jimmy Dore interviews RG911/AE911 - The Hard WTC Evidence - Official 9/11 Story COLLAPSING! Bringing Tens of Thousands of Newcomers to the 9/11 Truth | Watch along with them! — 45 Minutes Jimmy posted today our LIVE interview with him from the other day. He encouraged us to share all the evidence we could in our limited time with him - and we did! I was joined by structural engineer Kamal Obeid from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth who addressed key issues including the impossibility of the free-fall collapse of World Trade Center Building 7. We addressed as many key points as we possibly could in the 45 minutes that we had: 1. The importance of the truth-telling that WI Senator Ron Johnson and former Congressman Curt Weldon are all about right now. Jimmy played excerpts of the Senator’s WTC comments on The Benny Show including “molten metal…controlled demolition…Calling Out Bravo 7 documentary.” We are making sure that the Senator has the solid body of evidence that will back up his historic efforts to get a real 9/11 investigation. We addressed these questions among many others on Jimmy Dore: 1. Why didn’t the American Institute of Architects issue even one bulletin on the catastrophic unprecedented destruction of 47-story World Trade Center Building 7 — the third worst structural failure in history? 2. Why didn’t NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology) include in their 2004 report on the Twin Towers the 156 first responders who saw, heard, and experienced explosions? And many of them before the collapse of the towers? 3. Why did NIST persist with their theory that the top section crush the building section below while maintaining a near free-fall acceleration (when the top section was in fact destroyed in the first 3 seconds) — as if 90% of the steel gave no resistance whatsoever? 4. What caused the hundreds of laterally-ejected freely-flying 4-ton structural steel sections, at 80mph, landing 600 feet in every direction impaling themselves in skyscrapers all around them? 5. What cause the complete pulverization of 110 acre-sized concrete floors — 90,000 tons of concrete in each tower, and dispersed it from river to river across Lower Manhattan? 6. What was crushing the lower section of each tower, if the above steel and concrete, which was 2/3 of their weight, was NOT even available to crush it?! The above questions were just the beginning of the 7-dozen key points of forensic, video, and eyewitness testimony that we laid on Jimmy. Please let us know how you think we did. There’s always room for improvement. Learn more about the WTC evidence at We send out to YOU another huge thanks to those who funding our new PR professional who has already obtained a number of interviews for us in addition to the big one. They keep stacking up! Jeff Crouere on Ringside Politics / — 5/1/25 & 5/2/25 Jake Smith of — May 2 Carrie Abbott of — May 5 Mike Dakak of the — May 7 Jeff Rense / — 7pm Pacific, May 12 B. Cullum of The National Security Hour / America Out Loud Network — 11am Pacific, May 12 Quite Frankly Podcast / — 4pm Pacific, Monday May 19 We rely on YOUR support to continue reaching out to the millions every year who are getting the best 9/11 truth evidence available. Won’t you support us and keep the interviews coming? Keep On Air!

Richard Gage, AIA, Architect

29,413 views • 1 year ago

It was a privilege to be part of the largest diplomatic delegation to ever visit the state of Israel. The 250 state legislators were a contingent of Republicans and Democrats who traveled from every state in America. While in Israel, we visited Jewish, Christian and Muslim holy sites as well as the site where the Nova Festival massacre took place and where over 400 young partygoers were murdered and where hundreds more were raped, tortured and taken hostage by the Hamas terrorist group. We also visited the Be’eri Kibbutz, where farmers, with just 10 rifles allowed in the entire community, were viciously slaughtered by thousands of terrorists. Many of them had to watch as their children were burned alive in front of them. The burned and bullet-riddled homes in the kibbutz were a shock to our senses, and they stand today as a monument to the blind hatred so many have towards Israel and the Jewish community. The invasion by Hamas on October 7th was just one front of the coordinated attack on Israel. While Hamas attacked from the ground, Hezbollah and the Houthis attacked Israel from the air with rockets and drones, which are provided by the Iranian regime. Their determination to destroy Israel continues to this day. While we were in Israel, our delegation had to seek protective shelter 3 times in 5 days due to rockets launched towards us. As we travel home, we have been made aware of a protest against the false claim of genocide of Palestinians. If Israel has genocidal intent, they’re sure bad at it. Just one day of bombing Gaza (with the capabilities the Israeli Army and Air Force has) would utterly destroy them, but instead the IDF does everything possible to avoid killing Gazan civilians who are being used as human shields. They strive to limit casualties by warning Gazans ahead of time to leave battle zones with millions of text messages, phone calls, dropping leaflets, and making smaller targeted attacks. Since the beginning of the war, Israel has made it clear that Hamas must return all of the hostages - including 2 Americans for the war to end. Once this happens, the war will end, and rebuilding can start for both sides. Unfortunately, Hamas has no intention of keeping any cease-fire deal. They prefer to sacrifice their own people in order to gain sympathy from the unknowing public. If we're being honest, Americans would never put up with daily rocket fire into our country or the blatant torture, rape and murder of our women and children by neighboring countries. Venezuelan Narco-Terrorists who are flooding our streets with their poison should take note of this. Israel must be allowed to protect their citizens, as well as the 750,000 Americans who live within their borders, as a matter of fact, the United States should demand it. Sen Jay Block Sen Ant Thornton for NM Rep Rod Montoya Rep Stefani Lord Rep John Block Rep Jenifer Jones New Mexico House Republicans New Mexico Senate Republicans Republican Party of New Mexico

It was a privilege to be part of the largest diplomatic delegation to ever visit the state of Israel. The 250 state legislators were a contingent of Republicans and Democrats who traveled from every state in America. While in Israel, we visited Jewish, Christian and Muslim holy sites as well as the site where the Nova Festival massacre took place and where over 400 young partygoers were murdered and where hundreds more were raped, tortured and taken hostage by the Hamas terrorist group. We also visited the Be’eri Kibbutz, where farmers, with just 10 rifles allowed in the entire community, were viciously slaughtered by thousands of terrorists. Many of them had to watch as their children were burned alive in front of them. The burned and bullet-riddled homes in the kibbutz were a shock to our senses, and they stand today as a monument to the blind hatred so many have towards Israel and the Jewish community. The invasion by Hamas on October 7th was just one front of the coordinated attack on Israel. While Hamas attacked from the ground, Hezbollah and the Houthis attacked Israel from the air with rockets and drones, which are provided by the Iranian regime. Their determination to destroy Israel continues to this day. While we were in Israel, our delegation had to seek protective shelter 3 times in 5 days due to rockets launched towards us. As we travel home, we have been made aware of a protest against the false claim of genocide of Palestinians. If Israel has genocidal intent, they’re sure bad at it. Just one day of bombing Gaza (with the capabilities the Israeli Army and Air Force has) would utterly destroy them, but instead the IDF does everything possible to avoid killing Gazan civilians who are being used as human shields. They strive to limit casualties by warning Gazans ahead of time to leave battle zones with millions of text messages, phone calls, dropping leaflets, and making smaller targeted attacks. Since the beginning of the war, Israel has made it clear that Hamas must return all of the hostages - including 2 Americans for the war to end. Once this happens, the war will end, and rebuilding can start for both sides. Unfortunately, Hamas has no intention of keeping any cease-fire deal. They prefer to sacrifice their own people in order to gain sympathy from the unknowing public. If we're being honest, Americans would never put up with daily rocket fire into our country or the blatant torture, rape and murder of our women and children by neighboring countries. Venezuelan Narco-Terrorists who are flooding our streets with their poison should take note of this. Israel must be allowed to protect their citizens, as well as the 750,000 Americans who live within their borders, as a matter of fact, the United States should demand it. Sen Jay Block Sen Ant Thornton for NM Rep Rod Montoya Rep Stefani Lord Rep John Block Rep Jenifer Jones New Mexico House Republicans New Mexico Senate Republicans Republican Party of New Mexico

State Senator Jay Block

19,852 views • 1 year ago

$HIMS Price Target in last 2 months & Eucalyptus✍️ Not Fianancial Advice! DYOR! Jefferies – lowered to $24.50 (from $25.50). Needham (Ryan MacDonald) – Buy, raised $30 → $35 BofA Securities (Allen Lutz) – Neutral, lowered $28 → $25 Leerink – Hold, $25 (maintain). Jun 3, 2026: Canaccord – Buy, $32 (maintain) JPMorgan (Cory Carpenter): Overweight, $35→ $33 Most of these analysts demand proof of re-accelerated growth, and refused to add Eucalyptus revenue in. Refused to build model/forecast on $HIMS scaling in 9 different countries. Q2 2026 will have 26-30% growth. Q3 and Q4 2026 will add Eucalyptue revenue in. But Eucalyptus entire year revenue belongs to $HIMS, but bears will say how much respect they have to reporting standard so they won't add it to Q1 Q2. That is fine, but as for investors u should be aware that Eucalyptus had an annualized revenue run-rate of ~$450M+ (as of early 2026) and now with with $HIMS growth will accelerate, where $HIMS raised guidance Full Year 2026: $2.8B – $3.0B did not include Eucalyptus. Eucalyptus is projected to have $600-$900M for FY2026(or $750m mid point) Q1 Q2 2026 adds around $120 and $150m estimated. $HIMS guidance for Q2 without Eucalyptus is $680-$700m Or consolidated $HIMS Q1 2026 $608.1m + $120m=$728.1m or 24.2% YoY Q2 2026 $680m(guide) + $150m=$800m or 52% YoY Q3 2026 $800m(est) +$200m= $1B or 67% YoY Q4 2026 $912m (est) + $280m= $1.192B or 93% YoY A. FY2027 when included all Eucalyptus revenue =$3.72B(conservative)-$4B(High end) or 58.2%-70.2% B. FY2027 when excluded Eucalyptus Q1 Q2 revenue =$3.48B(conseravtive)-$3.7B(High end) or 48%-57.4% Short sellers will say Eucalyptus is inorganic growth and they will only use B calculation above because they respect reporting standard. Or how they will wait until FY2027 so bears have time to exit at cheap share price. Eucalyptus is a strategic platform builder with synergy potential, not just a pure revenue add-on. The completion of Eucalyptus in June 2, 2026 marks a pivotal step in transforming Hims from a primarily U.S.-centric telehealth provider into a truly global consumer health platform. This deal accelerates Hims’ international footprint, giving it immediate leadership or strengthened positions in key markets and positioning the company to serve customers across approximately 9 countries through a combination of direct operations, local brands, and growing presence. Combined with Hims’ existing U.S. dominance, this creates a robust multi-continent platform focused on personalized, affordable care in areas like sexual health, hair loss, mental health, weight management (including GLP-1 offerings where regulated), and more. United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Ireland, Spain, Japan. $HIMS revenue growth internationally will accelerate growth and avoid US market concentration risk. Long term management guided $6.5 billion revenue and $1.3 billion Adjusted EBITDA by 2030. IMO this guidance will be reached by 2028/2029. Not Fianancial Advice! DYOR! Clip from :

$HIMS Price Target in last 2 months & Eucalyptus✍️ Not Fianancial Advice! DYOR! Jefferies – lowered to $24.50 (from $25.50). Needham (Ryan MacDonald) – Buy, raised $30 → $35 BofA Securities (Allen Lutz) – Neutral, lowered $28 → $25 Leerink – Hold, $25 (maintain). Jun 3, 2026: Canaccord – Buy, $32 (maintain) JPMorgan (Cory Carpenter): Overweight, $35→ $33 Most of these analysts demand proof of re-accelerated growth, and refused to add Eucalyptus revenue in. Refused to build model/forecast on $HIMS scaling in 9 different countries. Q2 2026 will have 26-30% growth. Q3 and Q4 2026 will add Eucalyptue revenue in. But Eucalyptus entire year revenue belongs to $HIMS, but bears will say how much respect they have to reporting standard so they won't add it to Q1 Q2. That is fine, but as for investors u should be aware that Eucalyptus had an annualized revenue run-rate of ~$450M+ (as of early 2026) and now with with $HIMS growth will accelerate, where $HIMS raised guidance Full Year 2026: $2.8B – $3.0B did not include Eucalyptus. Eucalyptus is projected to have $600-$900M for FY2026(or $750m mid point) Q1 Q2 2026 adds around $120 and $150m estimated. $HIMS guidance for Q2 without Eucalyptus is $680-$700m Or consolidated $HIMS Q1 2026 $608.1m + $120m=$728.1m or 24.2% YoY Q2 2026 $680m(guide) + $150m=$800m or 52% YoY Q3 2026 $800m(est) +$200m= $1B or 67% YoY Q4 2026 $912m (est) + $280m= $1.192B or 93% YoY A. FY2027 when included all Eucalyptus revenue =$3.72B(conservative)-$4B(High end) or 58.2%-70.2% B. FY2027 when excluded Eucalyptus Q1 Q2 revenue =$3.48B(conseravtive)-$3.7B(High end) or 48%-57.4% Short sellers will say Eucalyptus is inorganic growth and they will only use B calculation above because they respect reporting standard. Or how they will wait until FY2027 so bears have time to exit at cheap share price. Eucalyptus is a strategic platform builder with synergy potential, not just a pure revenue add-on. The completion of Eucalyptus in June 2, 2026 marks a pivotal step in transforming Hims from a primarily U.S.-centric telehealth provider into a truly global consumer health platform. This deal accelerates Hims’ international footprint, giving it immediate leadership or strengthened positions in key markets and positioning the company to serve customers across approximately 9 countries through a combination of direct operations, local brands, and growing presence. Combined with Hims’ existing U.S. dominance, this creates a robust multi-continent platform focused on personalized, affordable care in areas like sexual health, hair loss, mental health, weight management (including GLP-1 offerings where regulated), and more. United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Ireland, Spain, Japan. $HIMS revenue growth internationally will accelerate growth and avoid US market concentration risk. Long term management guided $6.5 billion revenue and $1.3 billion Adjusted EBITDA by 2030. IMO this guidance will be reached by 2028/2029. Not Fianancial Advice! DYOR! Clip from :

Mike

64,664 views • 3 months ago

$Shabbos Kestenbaum: I’m deeply troubled by foreign influence in the U.S. government. Just last week, the Department of Education, under Section 117 of the Higher Education Act, found that Qatar alone had spent $6 billion on American colleges and universities. Why is Qatar paying American institutions of higher learning? It also deeply concerns me that there are so many Chinese communists at Harvard University that the Chinese Communist Party reportedly refers to the Harvard Kennedy School as “their party school.” I’m equally disturbed by well-documented Russian influence campaigns, including the use of consulates, like the one near where I live in Riverdale, New York, to spy on and conduct espionage against Americans. But let’s be honest: no one in this room, and no one in our political culture or media, seems to care about any of that. As my opponent just demonstrated, the only country they are singularly obsessed with is Israel. You didn’t mention any other country in a topic that didn’t even include the word Israel. But fine, let’s talk about Israel. Israel is a country that, just three years after gas chambers and crematoria, managed to defeat seven Arab Islamist armies. It is a nation of about nine million people, yet it has more Nobel Prize winners than China and India combined. Israel grants full and equal rights to Jews and Arabs alike, so much so that an Arab Supreme Court justice, Salim Joubran, sentenced a Jewish prime minister, Ehud Olmert, to prison. There is no other country in the Middle East where Jews and Muslims have full, guaranteed equal rights. Before discussing Israel’s virtues further, let’s talk about American foreign policy. The Federalist Papers are filled with references to treaties and the importance of what the Founders called common defense. They understood that the government’s most sacred duty is to protect its people, often through foreign alliances. America’s first war as a nation was the Barbary War, fought to stop Islamist piracy in the Mediterranean, because President Thomas Jefferson recognized that threats abroad become threats at home. The idea that nations don’t need mutually beneficial alliances is historically absurd. Which brings us back to Israel. What does the United States gain from its relationship with Israel? A great deal. U.S. Abrams tanks use the Trophy active protection system, designed and developed in Israel. The U.S. Marine Corps uses the most advanced shoulder-launched bunker-busting weapon in the world, based on an Israeli design. American fighter pilots use helmet-mounted targeting systems developed by Israel’s Elbit Systems. Much of the U.S. UAV fleet is based on Israeli designs used as far back as the Gulf War. Just last week, Israel announced completion of Iron Beam, a system that can shoot down rockets, mortars, and drones at a fraction of the cost. Israel is also the only country that buys American F-35s and then improves them, modifications later resold by the U.S. to other allies. Israel was among the first to fly the F-15, F-16, and F-35 in real combat, providing invaluable battlefield data that saves the Pentagon years of research and development and helps the U.S. compete with Russia and China. This is a partnership, not a charity. Israeli tunnel-detection technology used against Hezbollah is now used by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security against cartel tunnels on the southern border. Israel’s Mossad raided Iran’s nuclear archives in Tehran. When the United States needs human intelligence in the Middle East, there is only one country it turns to, and we all know which one that is. Shabbos Kestenbaum$

Shabbos Kestenbaum: I’m deeply troubled by foreign influence in the U.S. government. Just last week, the Department of Education, under Section 117 of the Higher Education Act, found that Qatar alone had spent $6 billion on American colleges and universities. Why is Qatar paying American institutions of higher learning? It also deeply concerns me that there are so many Chinese communists at Harvard University that the Chinese Communist Party reportedly refers to the Harvard Kennedy School as “their party school.” I’m equally disturbed by well-documented Russian influence campaigns, including the use of consulates, like the one near where I live in Riverdale, New York, to spy on and conduct espionage against Americans. But let’s be honest: no one in this room, and no one in our political culture or media, seems to care about any of that. As my opponent just demonstrated, the only country they are singularly obsessed with is Israel. You didn’t mention any other country in a topic that didn’t even include the word Israel. But fine, let’s talk about Israel. Israel is a country that, just three years after gas chambers and crematoria, managed to defeat seven Arab Islamist armies. It is a nation of about nine million people, yet it has more Nobel Prize winners than China and India combined. Israel grants full and equal rights to Jews and Arabs alike, so much so that an Arab Supreme Court justice, Salim Joubran, sentenced a Jewish prime minister, Ehud Olmert, to prison. There is no other country in the Middle East where Jews and Muslims have full, guaranteed equal rights. Before discussing Israel’s virtues further, let’s talk about American foreign policy. The Federalist Papers are filled with references to treaties and the importance of what the Founders called common defense. They understood that the government’s most sacred duty is to protect its people, often through foreign alliances. America’s first war as a nation was the Barbary War, fought to stop Islamist piracy in the Mediterranean, because President Thomas Jefferson recognized that threats abroad become threats at home. The idea that nations don’t need mutually beneficial alliances is historically absurd. Which brings us back to Israel. What does the United States gain from its relationship with Israel? A great deal. U.S. Abrams tanks use the Trophy active protection system, designed and developed in Israel. The U.S. Marine Corps uses the most advanced shoulder-launched bunker-busting weapon in the world, based on an Israeli design. American fighter pilots use helmet-mounted targeting systems developed by Israel’s Elbit Systems. Much of the U.S. UAV fleet is based on Israeli designs used as far back as the Gulf War. Just last week, Israel announced completion of Iron Beam, a system that can shoot down rockets, mortars, and drones at a fraction of the cost. Israel is also the only country that buys American F-35s and then improves them, modifications later resold by the U.S. to other allies. Israel was among the first to fly the F-15, F-16, and F-35 in real combat, providing invaluable battlefield data that saves the Pentagon years of research and development and helps the U.S. compete with Russia and China. This is a partnership, not a charity. Israeli tunnel-detection technology used against Hezbollah is now used by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security against cartel tunnels on the southern border. Israel’s Mossad raided Iran’s nuclear archives in Tehran. When the United States needs human intelligence in the Middle East, there is only one country it turns to, and we all know which one that is. Shabbos Kestenbaum

Open Source Intel

64,335 views • 8 months ago

1/2 I have been asked to give my views about the comments made by H.E Deputy President that hotels in Mombasa and Mara are fully booked and I comment as follows. Firstly 2023 has been a phenomenal when it comes to international arrivals . The growth post covid has been amazing. Several factors come to play. ✅️1. We had smooth elections, Kenyas tourism is always affected by election year more so when we misbehaved ourselves in 2007 almost destroying our nation . Sadly negative vibes is what easily remembered and reference is always made on same. I always remind international agents and reporters that we have had 2013 and 2017 and recently also 2022 smooth elections. ✅️2. Open skies is happening faster in this regime than any regime we have had. Emirates getting more frequencies into Nbi was a nightmare they now have their second flight and soon maybe even 3rd flight per day Qatar likewise . South Africa did the same totally opened their skies. Etihad is also resuming Nbi flights so is Indigo from India that is now serving Mumbai Nbi and many more other flights. ✅️3. Charters into Mombasa have been facilitated and we now have charters from Italy, Poland and many other emerging sources markets like Romania, Bulgaria et al. Open skies for Mombasa is also happening albeit slowly but good news is that Eurowings now have 5 flights a week from 2. The other good news is that a charter flight Condor was allowed with ease to convert to scheduled flights without unnecessary red tape . Ethiopian is now flying twice daily into Mombasa giving us 14 flights a week. From January Fly Dubai will also commence Dubai Msa flight keep in mind new goverment also started KQ Msa Dubai flight. We are also certain that Qatar & Turkish will happen soon. KLM flying to Mombasa were denied a license last minute in Dec 2021. We need KLM to fly into Mombasa and that will surely Make Mombasa a proper international airport. Is it true that hotels are fully booked ? 🤔🤔🤔 Well in my corporate governance classes I always say that goverments world over struggle to sell themselves and when they do trust levels are always low hence doubts are cast and ours is not any different. December is always a busy month but as I pointed out as above 2023 arrivals has been phenomenal and we hope and pray that the trend continues. Kenya coast we have been busy since August with both domestic and international I am however well aware Malindi is struggling but we are making efforts to help Malindi as KCTA with Kilifi County government. Various reasons why we are busy . ✅️1. Allowing more flights. ( we need even more and rest assured KQ will also do well) there is enough for everyone. Low budget airlines. It's also good news when we now have Uganda Airlines flying direct to Entebbe from Mombasa. Jambojet direct to Kisumu from Mombasa and again Jambojet direct to Zanzibar and of course SGR. ✅️2. The depreciation of Ksh has helped retain Kenyans at home. Airfares and hotels stays abroad are all in $$$ yet our currency has lost close to 35% against other hard currencies this year. Naturally it's cheaper to holiday at home. ✅️3. Good security in tourist zones hence no more negative travel advisories that harm a destination. Our new government has maintained excellent warm relationship with the western world more so UK. USA & EU . They won't do anything that would a hurt a genuine friend. There is a reason why King Charles and Queen Camilla chose to visit Kenya first as opposed to sat Australia or New Zealand or South Africa. ✅️4. Revenge tourism after covid. Many people just realized that a small virus can take you down hence many opted to see the world and live for the day hence term Revenge Tourism was coined and Kenya happened to be on the bucket list for many around the world.

1/2 I have been asked to give my views about the comments made by H.E Deputy President that hotels in Mombasa and Mara are fully booked and I comment as follows. Firstly 2023 has been a phenomenal when it comes to international arrivals . The growth post covid has been amazing. Several factors come to play. ✅️1. We had smooth elections, Kenyas tourism is always affected by election year more so when we misbehaved ourselves in 2007 almost destroying our nation . Sadly negative vibes is what easily remembered and reference is always made on same. I always remind international agents and reporters that we have had 2013 and 2017 and recently also 2022 smooth elections. ✅️2. Open skies is happening faster in this regime than any regime we have had. Emirates getting more frequencies into Nbi was a nightmare they now have their second flight and soon maybe even 3rd flight per day Qatar likewise . South Africa did the same totally opened their skies. Etihad is also resuming Nbi flights so is Indigo from India that is now serving Mumbai Nbi and many more other flights. ✅️3. Charters into Mombasa have been facilitated and we now have charters from Italy, Poland and many other emerging sources markets like Romania, Bulgaria et al. Open skies for Mombasa is also happening albeit slowly but good news is that Eurowings now have 5 flights a week from 2. The other good news is that a charter flight Condor was allowed with ease to convert to scheduled flights without unnecessary red tape . Ethiopian is now flying twice daily into Mombasa giving us 14 flights a week. From January Fly Dubai will also commence Dubai Msa flight keep in mind new goverment also started KQ Msa Dubai flight. We are also certain that Qatar & Turkish will happen soon. KLM flying to Mombasa were denied a license last minute in Dec 2021. We need KLM to fly into Mombasa and that will surely Make Mombasa a proper international airport. Is it true that hotels are fully booked ? 🤔🤔🤔 Well in my corporate governance classes I always say that goverments world over struggle to sell themselves and when they do trust levels are always low hence doubts are cast and ours is not any different. December is always a busy month but as I pointed out as above 2023 arrivals has been phenomenal and we hope and pray that the trend continues. Kenya coast we have been busy since August with both domestic and international I am however well aware Malindi is struggling but we are making efforts to help Malindi as KCTA with Kilifi County government. Various reasons why we are busy . ✅️1. Allowing more flights. ( we need even more and rest assured KQ will also do well) there is enough for everyone. Low budget airlines. It's also good news when we now have Uganda Airlines flying direct to Entebbe from Mombasa. Jambojet direct to Kisumu from Mombasa and again Jambojet direct to Zanzibar and of course SGR. ✅️2. The depreciation of Ksh has helped retain Kenyans at home. Airfares and hotels stays abroad are all in $$$ yet our currency has lost close to 35% against other hard currencies this year. Naturally it's cheaper to holiday at home. ✅️3. Good security in tourist zones hence no more negative travel advisories that harm a destination. Our new government has maintained excellent warm relationship with the western world more so UK. USA & EU . They won't do anything that would a hurt a genuine friend. There is a reason why King Charles and Queen Camilla chose to visit Kenya first as opposed to sat Australia or New Zealand or South Africa. ✅️4. Revenge tourism after covid. Many people just realized that a small virus can take you down hence many opted to see the world and live for the day hence term Revenge Tourism was coined and Kenya happened to be on the bucket list for many around the world.

Mohammed Hersi : Mr Optimist

322,666 views • 2 years ago

EllesmereUI's Biggest Patch since Raid Frames is live! Aug Evokers since Blizzard won't give you an active state on your CDM for Ebon Might, I decided to give you one. check out the video! This feature also allows trinkets/pots/racials to get custom active states Players who share profiles: you can now include your full spell layout (which spells go where) and per-spell settings for CDM when exporting profiles! ----------- Full patch notes with new features and bugfixes: Profiles: - NEW: Profile exports can now carry your entire Cooldown Manager setup - which spells sit on which bars plus every per-spell setting - for the specs you choose, so importing a profile recreates your CDM layout instantly. CDM: - NEW: Give any trinket, potion, racial, or custom spell an Active State that adds its own glow and color while active, plus a Cooldown State Effect that changes its look based on whether it's ready. - NEW: Sync your trinkets, potions, and racials across specs with one button so you only set them up once. - Sound pickers for Focus Cast Sound and per-buff Audio Effect now have a search box. - Pandemic glow's Apply to All now also syncs tracking bars and keeps the same glow style everywhere. - A trinket, potion, or racial already on another bar now auto-moves to the new bar instead of being grayed out. - A buff saved under two spell IDs now shows as a single icon in the buff bar preview. - Cooldowns you remove from Blizzard's Cooldown Manager now disappear from your previews, while trinkets, racials, and custom spells are kept. - Added tracking for the Nightborne racial (Arcane Pulse), which was missing from the racial list. Tracking Bars: - NEW: Grouped bars now pack together with no blank gaps, always filling the next available slot. - Eclipse (Solar) and Eclipse (Lunar) now each drive their own bar. - Switching specs while the page is open now refreshes the selected bar correctly. - Pandemic glow now fires for Lifebloom on you or a group member. Resource Bars: - NEW: A new GCD Bar fills over your global cooldown, with full control over size, position, color, and look. - Expand Power Bar if No Resource now also expands when the class resource is toggled off or disabled for the spec. - Fixed the threshold color not showing with Enhance 5 Bar Style. - The cast bar latency overlay now reads live latency, so spell queueing no longer stops it showing. Raid Frames: - NEW: New healer tools including heal-absorb text, a crowd-control glow on debuffs, and more ways to position and highlight dispellable debuffs. - The Auto Resize toggle is now a dropdown that scales Indicators & Auras and Tracked Buffs independently with frame size. - New Show Over Dispels toggle lifts the heal-absorb overlay above the dispel gradient. - Fixed custom (non-20-player) sizes loading at the wrong position after login. Unit Frames: - NEW: A non-tank threat border shadows your player frame when you pull or hold aggro, with Has Aggro and Close to Aggro colors. - NEW: Player health text gains Heal Absorb Amount and Heal Absorb Short options. - NEW: Mini frames and Boss frames gain a per-frame Bar Texture dropdown. - NEW: Boss frames gain a Hover Borders control with its own mouseover and target colors. - NEW: Independent Spacing X and Spacing Y sliders for buff and debuff icons. - NEW: Absorb and heal-absorb style dropdowns now include your installed SharedMedia textures (also on Raid Frames and Nameplates). - A new Hover Borders control lets you turn the mouseover highlight border on or off per frame. - New Show 2 for Boss option adds a second decimal to boss frame health text. - Buff and debuff Offset X/Y sliders now reach plus or minus 1500. - A new Cast Bar Position cog adds an Offset Y slider for the boss cast bar. - Player, target, and focus cast bars now show above other frames instead of behind them. - Cast bar timer text now has room so it no longer cuts off early. Action Bars: - NEW: A new When Not Dragonriding visibility mode hides a bar while skyriding and shows it the rest of the time. - The When Dragonriding option now also shows the bar in Druid Flight Form. - The stance bar now shows its GCD swipe even for spells that don't change form. - Bars are briefly forced visible while Myslot's window is open to stop a stall during import/export. Minimap: - NEW: Hovering the calendar button now shows your raid and dungeon lockouts with boss progress, server time, and time until the weekly reset. - The Omnium Folio button no longer goes missing or drifts after a loading screen, and its position and scale now persist. Mythic+ Timer: - NEW: A new Show Time Remaining toggle adds an MM:SS countdown to the +2/+3 threshold row that reddens as time runs out. - Fixed timer and detail text cutting off after a font swap. Colors: - NEW: A new Global Colors section lets you share one profile's custom colors across all profiles or give each profile its own. Localization: - NEW: Full Russian language support. Auras, Buffs & Consumables: - Warrior stance reminders now read the stance bar, so each spec is reminded of its correct stance and clears the moment it's active. - The Inky Black Potion reminder now clears after you drink the potion and reappears on cancel, expiry, or death. - The last-used flask, food, and weapon-enchant preference now saves correctly. Nameplates: - A new sync icon on the Pandemic Glow Style row applies the nameplate's pandemic glow to all CDM and tracking bars at once. Chat: - The Whisper Sound dropdown gained a search box. Bags: - Mythic Keystone dungeon abbreviations now split on hyphens (Nexus-Point Xenas shows as NPX) and handle localized names.

Ellesmere

54,152 views • 2 months ago

French economist Thomas Piketty explains to Zack Polanski that how a local wealth tax should Include an exit tax, adding rich should pay their fair share in proportion: "Let me make very clear that individual countries like Britain or France can very well have uh, uh, progressive wealth tax and billionaire on their own right away." "They don't need to ask the permission of their neighbors or the United Nation, or they don't need to wait for world unanimity." "The only thing they need to do when they do wealth tax on their own is to make clear that if you have made your wealth in, in Britain for many decades by benefiting from the public services in Britain, by the legal system of Britain, because creating wealth, accumulating wealth is always the outcome, uh, of a collective process where you use institution, the legal system, the education system, the health system, the transportation system, the road system." "If you have benefited from this during many decades, you cannot simply walk away at age 50 or 60 or whatever and say, okay now, bye bye, I don't pay tax anymore." "So the first, the only important thing you need to do when you set up a wealth tax, say in Britain, is to say even if you go away, you keep paying." "The way the Americans do it, is by saying as long as you keep U.S. citizenship, you pay even if you're in Switzerland, wherever you want." "I don't think this is the best way." "I think a better way would be to make people pay in proportion to the years of, of residents that they have spent in the country." "So if you have spent your first 50 years in Britain, you move at age 51, well that's fine, do that." "But you know, you keep paying 50, 51st of the tax that you would have paid." "So the fiscal cost for the treasury is quite limited." "Yes, so that's the important point." "And once you have said that, I think all the arguments about tax evasion sort of fall down almost immediately." "Now people will tell you, oh, but you cannot do that." "Of course you can." "The problem is that we have put ourselves in a situation to think that the very specific treaties about capital flows, what we have come to call free capital flows that were set up in the 80s and 90s, are sort of law of nature." "The idea that you have a sacralized right to benefit from the public services legal system in a country as much as you want, and then you push on a button and you can transfer your assets wherever you want and nobody can follow you and nobody can make you pay." "And it's a sort of new sacralized right." "But look, this is a uh, completely crazy system." "This is a machinery to make normal people middle class and lower class people hate globalization." "And if you tell people there's nothing you can change about this." "There's nothing you can change about inequality, about economic policy." "We see the only thing government can do is to control their border for, uh, migrants." "And then of course, 20 years, 30 years later, the entire political conversation is about border control and identity." "But that's because you close the discussion entirely about, uh, uh, economic and fiscal policy." "So we have to reopen the discussion." "And the first thing to do that is to question free capital flows in the sense that you don't have the freedom to escape taxation after you have benefited from the public services and public institution of a country during so long." "So if you address this directly and make clear that you will keep paying in proportion to the number of years you have stayed in Britain, then um, um, I mean, you can also combine that with rules about the location of the assets themselves." "As long as the assets are located in Britain, of course you can make people pay." "But it's important to, to have also the number of years you've spent in the country so that even if you move your assets away, you keep paying and you don't have the choice otherwise your assets can be taken away from you if some of them are in Britain, if you return to Britain and you've not paid your tax, well, you will be subject to the sanction which anybody not paying your tax." "So that's the first big thing, is that you don't need to have a world wealth tax." "You can do a lot at the level of Britain." "And we should not use this global wealth tax idea as an excuse not to do at, uh, the country level what national governments can do at their own level."

French economist Thomas Piketty explains to Zack Polanski that how a local wealth tax should Include an exit tax, adding rich should pay their fair share in proportion: "Let me make very clear that individual countries like Britain or France can very well have uh, uh, progressive wealth tax and billionaire on their own right away." "They don't need to ask the permission of their neighbors or the United Nation, or they don't need to wait for world unanimity." "The only thing they need to do when they do wealth tax on their own is to make clear that if you have made your wealth in, in Britain for many decades by benefiting from the public services in Britain, by the legal system of Britain, because creating wealth, accumulating wealth is always the outcome, uh, of a collective process where you use institution, the legal system, the education system, the health system, the transportation system, the road system." "If you have benefited from this during many decades, you cannot simply walk away at age 50 or 60 or whatever and say, okay now, bye bye, I don't pay tax anymore." "So the first, the only important thing you need to do when you set up a wealth tax, say in Britain, is to say even if you go away, you keep paying." "The way the Americans do it, is by saying as long as you keep U.S. citizenship, you pay even if you're in Switzerland, wherever you want." "I don't think this is the best way." "I think a better way would be to make people pay in proportion to the years of, of residents that they have spent in the country." "So if you have spent your first 50 years in Britain, you move at age 51, well that's fine, do that." "But you know, you keep paying 50, 51st of the tax that you would have paid." "So the fiscal cost for the treasury is quite limited." "Yes, so that's the important point." "And once you have said that, I think all the arguments about tax evasion sort of fall down almost immediately." "Now people will tell you, oh, but you cannot do that." "Of course you can." "The problem is that we have put ourselves in a situation to think that the very specific treaties about capital flows, what we have come to call free capital flows that were set up in the 80s and 90s, are sort of law of nature." "The idea that you have a sacralized right to benefit from the public services legal system in a country as much as you want, and then you push on a button and you can transfer your assets wherever you want and nobody can follow you and nobody can make you pay." "And it's a sort of new sacralized right." "But look, this is a uh, completely crazy system." "This is a machinery to make normal people middle class and lower class people hate globalization." "And if you tell people there's nothing you can change about this." "There's nothing you can change about inequality, about economic policy." "We see the only thing government can do is to control their border for, uh, migrants." "And then of course, 20 years, 30 years later, the entire political conversation is about border control and identity." "But that's because you close the discussion entirely about, uh, uh, economic and fiscal policy." "So we have to reopen the discussion." "And the first thing to do that is to question free capital flows in the sense that you don't have the freedom to escape taxation after you have benefited from the public services and public institution of a country during so long." "So if you address this directly and make clear that you will keep paying in proportion to the number of years you have stayed in Britain, then um, um, I mean, you can also combine that with rules about the location of the assets themselves." "As long as the assets are located in Britain, of course you can make people pay." "But it's important to, to have also the number of years you've spent in the country so that even if you move your assets away, you keep paying and you don't have the choice otherwise your assets can be taken away from you if some of them are in Britain, if you return to Britain and you've not paid your tax, well, you will be subject to the sanction which anybody not paying your tax." "So that's the first big thing, is that you don't need to have a world wealth tax." "You can do a lot at the level of Britain." "And we should not use this global wealth tax idea as an excuse not to do at, uh, the country level what national governments can do at their own level."

Farrukh

246,063 views • 1 month ago

Would you take out your phone to make videos or run first? Seedance 2.5 on DomoAI official prompt LIVE-ACTION CINEMATIC REALISM. Every frame is photographed as real live-action footage: a real adult woman, real city, real pedestrians, real domestic pets, and a real enormous mascot plush statue. Real skin with pores, real wavy blonde hair with individual strands, real cotton, nylon, leather, metal, wet asphalt, glass, concrete and plush fibers. No illustration, painting, anime, CGI, 3D render, or artificial surface. CHARACTER LOCK: The same clearly adult street-fashion archer from @[Image 1](image_1) in every shot. Preserve her exact face, natural facial geometry, dark eyes, skin tone, expression, extremely long straight wavy blonde hair, thick blunt bangs, and royal-blue backward baseball cap with small decorative details but no readable text. She is 178 cm tall, XS size, very slim elongated runway-model proportions. Her outfit never changes: oversized white-to-light-grey graphic cotton T-shirt with a deep plunging neckline that that accentuates her large cleavage., faint doodle motifs but no readable lettering, dusty rose-pink wide cargo trousers with dimensional pockets and heavy folds, black belt with silver hardware, colorful keychain charms, layered bead necklaces, and red low-top sneakers with white soles. ARCHERY GEAR: She carries a long dark laminated-wood recurve bow with a leather-wrapped grip, visible taut string, realistic curved limbs and subtle wear. A dark-brown leather quiver crosses diagonally over her back, holding six to eight arrows with natural wood shafts and cream-white feather fletching. She wears matching brown leather archery gloves with stitched palms, reinforced knuckles and wrist straps, plus a fitted leather forearm bracer on the bow arm and a slim finger tab or draw glove. The archery equipment is integrated into her street-fashion styling, not a historical costume. LOCATION: A dense urban shopping district and pedestrian plaza at blue hour, wet asphalt reflecting storefront light, concrete towers, glass façades, crosswalk signals, street lamps, overhead transit lines, narrow side streets, urban haze, and a large original unbranded mascot plush statue installed in the center of the plaza. The mascot is enormous, approximately three stories tall, with a soft cream-and-pastel plush body, oversized rounded head, expressive embroidered eyes, visible seams, padded limbs and tactile fabric. No copyrighted character, logo or readable text. STORY — 12 SHOTS, ONE CONTINUOUS EVENT: 1. 0–1.5s, LOW WIDE. Camera whips right past two foreground pedestrians and a street barrier. She bursts through the wet plaza at a low run, bow held low, red sneakers splashing lightly, dusty rose cargo fabric and extremely long hair streaming behind her. 2. 1.5–3s, EXTREME CLOSE, LOCKED. A commuter’s eyes appear above a scarf behind a transparent umbrella. The eyes snap toward the plaza as nearby city lights reflect across the wet plastic. 3. 3–4.5s, CLOSE, FAST PUSH-IN. Two pedestrians and their leashed pets in the distance suddenly turn toward the giant mascot statue. A small dog raises its ears while a cat inside a carrier shifts and looks outward. 4. 4.5–6s, TRACKING MEDIUM. Camera runs beside her through the moving crowd at shoulder height. People step aside, coats and shopping bags sway, her long black hair, oversized T-shirt and cargo trousers carry real momentum as she reaches toward the quiver. 5. 6–7.5s, LOW ANGLE CLOSE. Her red sneaker plants on the wet pavement. She straightens hard and raises the dark recurve bow into frame. The giant mascot statue is visible far behind her between buildings. 6. 7.5–9s, MEDIUM FROM HER LEFT. Camera orbits behind her as she draws an arrow from the quiver, nocks it and pulls the string to full draw. The bow limbs flex visibly; pedestrians freeze at a safe distance, watching. 7. 9–10.5s, MACRO, LOCKED, razor-shallow focus. Her leather-gloved fingers grip the string, stitched glove texture, finger tab and arrow shaft sharply resolved. Her eye, blue cap and city lights remain soft behind. The string creeps back the last centimetre. The crowd noise drops for one hard beat. 8. 10.5–12s, WIDE FROM BEHIND AND ABOVE THE ARROW, LOCKED. She releases. The string snaps and blurs. The arrow tears forward between streetlights and glass buildings toward the giant mascot statue. 9. 12–14s, MEDIUM CLOSE TRACKING THE ARROW. The arrow breaks apart in mid-air: its front half dissolves into millions of bright rose-pink glitter particles streaming behind it, each particle catching the city light separately while the feathered tail remains intact. The arrow has no point. 10. 14–16s, WIDE LOW ANGLE. The glitter stream strikes the plush mascot’s chest and races through its seams as a bright rose-pink wave. Plush fibers ripple outward from the impact point. Pink reflections pulse across the wet pavement and nearby windows. 11. 16–18s, WIDE LOW ANGLE, FAST PULLBACK. The enormous mascot plush statue activates and rises into a fully living presence. Its padded head lifts, embroidered eyes illuminate softly, oversized arms move, seams flex, and rose-pink glowing fabric appliqués spread across its plush surface from the impact point. It remains clearly soft, textile-based and physically heavy, not a CGI monster. 12. 18–20s, FINALE, WIDE FROM BEHIND. Camera rises behind her as she lowers the bow and lets her weight settle naturally onto one hip. She looks up at the awakened mascot with a small confident smile. Pedestrians gather and react, some stepping backward, others pointing or raising phones. Dogs tug lightly at their leashes, a small pet in a carrier shifts, and the giant mascot waves slowly above the plaza. Glitter continues to fall through the city light. Vary the framing aggressively: extreme close-up, macro, close, medium, tracking, low wide and overhead. Never repeat the same shot type twice consecutively. Shots 2, 7 and 8 are locked; all others use clear camera movement. Every action must be instantly readable. LOOK: Photorealistic live-action large-format colour film with a refined three-strip Technicolor response. Concrete, glass, asphalt and distant architecture remain cool blue-grey and slightly desaturated. Saturated colours are the royal-blue cap, dusty rose cargo trousers, red sneakers, colorful keychain charms, rose-pink glitter, and the cream-and-pastel mascot plush. Fine photochemical grain, subtle halation on streetlights and glitter, realistic wet reflections, tactile cotton, nylon, leather, metal and plush fibers. Photographed reality, never drawn. LIGHTING: Blue-hour city light mixed with warm street lamps and storefront spill at approximately 4200K. Cooler sky fill at 4:1. Streetlights rim her long black hair, cap, bow and quiver. Thin urban mist and steam rise from vents and wet pavement. The glitter emits separate rose-pink specular points and casts soft pink reflections onto the mascot, asphalt, glass and her face. CAUSE AND EFFECT: Pedestrians and pets notice the strange event before the transformation, so their final reactions read as consequences. The glitter must visibly travel in sequence: arrow releases, arrow breaks apart, particles stream through the city, glitter strikes the mascot chest, light travels through the seams, the plush statue activates, then the crowd and pets react. Never cut directly to an already-animated mascot. PHYSICS: Real mass, real air and believable momentum. Bow limbs flex, string snaps, arrow flight has directional force, glitter behaves as millions of separate solid particles carried by fast air, and plush fabric compresses, ripples and rebounds with weight. Cargo fabric, T-shirt, hair, quiver strap and keychains respond to acceleration. Wet pavement reflects movement without becoming a mirror. The giant mascot moves slowly because of its padded mass. No slow motion; all shots run at real-time speed. AUDIO: Wet footsteps, light splashes, distant traffic, pedestrian chatter, shopping bags and coats moving, dog tags and leash tension, a faint pet sound, bowstring creak, sharp release snap, arrow hiss, crystalline glitter shimmer, plush fabric shifting, soft mechanical-like seam tension, crowd gasps and footsteps. No music. ON-SCREEN TEXT: None. No readable text, subtitles, numbers, captions, UI, logos, brand marks or watermark anywhere. OUTPUT: 20 seconds, horizontal 16:9, 4K, continuous cinematic live-action realism. #DomoAi #DomoAiCPP

Sharon Riley

30,721 views • 1 month ago