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Anwar/أنور🇸🇦2 years ago

اي انجاز تتكلمون عنه ومنتجاتكم مليانه في السوق السوداء؟؟ ممكن تفهموني هذي الكمية الهائله اللي مستحيل شخص واحد يقدر يحصل غير ٥ علب كيف وصلت للسوق السوداء ومحلات المعسلات ! اكيد طبعا بتعاونكم #مقاطعة_دزرت #دزرت_والسوق_السوداء @badaelco @walaa1980 @atheer_315 @DZRTSA @Nazaha_care

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mohmmad hadi2 years ago

تحتفل على ايش على السوق السوداء اللي صنعتوها وراضيين فيها وش المنتج اللي توزعه في نقاط البيع الساعه 8 الصباح نترك اعمالنا عشان منتجك

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هناك عبث يحدث بالموقع خَلق سوق سوداء خارجه فالاسعار خارج الموقع اضعاف مضاعفه والدخول للموقع اصبح من سابع المستحيلات وعندما يحالفك الحظ وتظهر لك عملية الدفع يطلب منك ادخال العنوان مرة اخرى علماً بأن العنوان مثبت في الحساب واحياناً تُكمل عملية الدفع ثم يتم حذفك من الموقع قبل اتمام العمليه والغريب انه يقال ان هناك اشتراكات عشوائيه منهم اصحاب هذه الاشتراكات ؟؟؟؟ وكيف يتم اعطاءهم اشتراك دون الآخرين ولماذا عشوائيه ؟؟؟

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خـالد كـنو♓️ #الارسنال🏳️2 years ago

وفرو المنتج اول شي بعدين اعملو احتفال

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Azooz⚡️2 years ago

اقسم بالله شئ مضحك الديزرت متوفر في السوق السوداء و با اسعار خيالية ، يجيك واحد هطف يشتري شدات كثيره و يبيع الحبه بـ ٤٠ ليه!! و في الموقع غير متوفر ، طيب ليش ما تخلون الناس تشتري و تحسب على بطاقة الهويه يعني بالشهر للشخص الواحد شده او شدتين و هنا ينتهي استغلال الناس .

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عبدالرحمن 🇸🇦🏆🥈2 years ago

اول شركة في العالم تنتج سوق سوداء لتسويق منتجها 👏🏻 .. المنافسين قادمين باذن الله وخلو الحرامية اللي انشأتم لهم سوق سودا ينفعونكم🤷🏻‍♂️

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Eng. Mahmoud Gharib.2 years ago

بارك الله في جهودكم المباركة ونفع الله بكم البلاد والعباد. وانشالله تتحقق بكم رؤية ٢٠٢٨ مليون شخص أقلع عن التدخين والمسيرة تتوالى.

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TrippyX2 years ago

خلوكم تتعاملون مع سوق السوداء في منافسين دخلو السوق مثل فيلو وزن وفوكس راح تخسرو عملائكم قريب بسبب عدم توفر منتجكم وكذا تكون فرصة كبيرة للمنتجات الثانيه تكتسح السوق

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zizo2 years ago

اسوء موقع في توفير المنتج وموقع عليه ضغط ولكم اكثر من سنة ولا حليتوا المشكلة ياليت تحلون المشكلة وترحمونا من التلاعب في اسعارها بالمحلات والسوق السوداء ذبحنا موقع ديزرت ولا حياة لمن تنادي

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K ┋🇸🇦2 years ago

لا احد يشتري قاطعو المنتج خلوه عندكم

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You simply decide in advance which truth the public is allowed to keep, and you hand them the other one, printed, official, with a seal. We did have one administrative error. We abducted a man a court had ordered us not to touch, dropped him on a planet called El Salvador, and called it clerical. A judge made us beam him back. So the DOJ stood up and warned the others: insist on a hearing and we will re-abduct you to the same planet. The Supreme Court said the aliens are entitled to due process. A very Earth opinion. We are appealing it to a higher sky. The planet has a prison, and the prison is the elegant part. In the film about the camp, the aliens are not killed. They are put somewhere they are not permitted to leave, while everyone agrees this is temporary, for their own protection, pending a status that never arrives. We built that. It is called CECOT and we rent it. A man goes in and the man does not come out, and the genius is that nothing has to happen to him, the room does the work, the room is the whole sentence. You remember the Men in Black had a small device. A flash, and the witness forgets the alien entirely. We have something better. We do not wipe the memory. We wipe the file. The man remembers everything, the cell, the flight, the day, all of it, in perfect detail, and it does not matter, because there is no document that admits he was here, and a memory without a file is just a story he tells in a language the form does not accept. The witness keeps the truth. We keep the paperwork. Only one of those is admissible. I learned that the flash was never the point. The point was always the filing cabinet. We run all of it on a spell from 1798. Two hundred and twenty-seven years old. Written for a war we are not in, against an enemy we have not declared. It works because nobody reads the small print on a curse. Storm Area 51 was a joke once. A hundred thousand people Naruto-running at a fence to free whatever was inside. I think about it daily. We're the ones inside the fence now. We kept the running. We just turned it around. We have a precedent we cite in the deck, proudly, on slide four. In 1954 the government ran a program of exactly this kind, and the program had an official name, and the official name was a slur. They printed the slur on the letterhead. They did not flinch. The President holds it up as the model, by name, at the rallies, and the crowd cheers the name. I admire the honesty of 1954 more than I can say. They did not need a saucer to make it palatable. They just used the word. We are the same operation with better art direction. The only thing we added was the costume. I love the callers. I want to say that plainly. For years they told each other a hidden cabal was running everything from the shadows, harvesting the innocent, and that one day the truth would come out. They were right. There is a cabal. It has a budget of a hundred and seventy billion dollars, the largest in the history of federal law enforcement, and it sits in this building, and I have a desk in it. And the people who spent a decade certain that shadowy elites were disappearing their neighbors now call our line, unpaid, to help the shadowy elites disappear their neighbors. They wanted to expose the conspiracy. We made them the staff. Do your own research, they said. They did. They found the gardener. The Department of War posted another tranche on the twenty-second. Saucers. Lights. A pilot's voice going thin. I read all of it. I want them to find one so badly. I want there to be a real one up there, a genuine visitor, something that actually came from somewhere else, because then, and only then, would a single creature in my files have been an alien. They never find it. The sky stays empty. The ground stays full. I have stopped attending the inter-agency sync. We were two departments looking for the same thing in two directions, and only one of us was ever going to be wrong, and it was the honest one. And here is the thing that keeps me at the window past dark. There was a real one. A rock from another star, the genuine article, the first verified object from outside the entire solar system, and a Harvard man went on television and said it might be a ship. An actual alien, possibly, inbound, free of charge, after sixty years of asking. We did not open a file. We could not arrest it. It had no forearm to read and no bank statement to approve. It was the only alien in America we had no use for, so we let it pass, and went back to the parking lot. Last winter the sky over New Jersey filled with lights nobody could name, and the whole government, every agency, every radar, looked up and said it did not know. The one time the unknown actually arrived, we had nothing. Down here I have never once said I do not know. That is the difference between their department and mine. They look up and find a question. I look down and have already decided the answer. Last week the President leaned over mid-briefing and asked if any of them were real. I told him the engagement was extremely real. He nodded. We do not break frame here. The frame is the only wall still standing. That, and the office fern. Nobody waters it. It will not die. The only thing in this building allowed to stay without papers. My plaque came Thursday. FIRST CONTACT, VISIONARY OF THE YEAR. Bold. Unapologetic. Unafraid. I lifted that off the homepage. It was written about one brave man telling the truth. I decided the man was me. I wrote it about me. I am the truth I declassified. I am the secret I warned you about. They walk among us, and I sign their mail. The counter is still live. Three million and climbing. I am told it will not be removed. We are not alone. We are just short a few landscapers. A few line cooks. A few nurses. And the entire night shift at the plant that makes the flag. Up. And to the right.
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I am the Director of the White House Office of Extraterrestrial Affairs. In 2024 this government completed the most thorough search for extraterrestrial life in human history. We checked the sky. We checked the files. We declassified the saucers. The verdict came back: nothing. No life out there. Not one. So I closed the telescope. I opened the window. I pointed it at a Home Depot. Three million by lunch. The trick was always the word. *Alien* had been sitting in the science fiction aisle for sixty years and we were too shy to use it in a press release. The dehumanization was already written. It was just shelved under Fantasy. This year I moved it to Policy. Same word. New department. My department. I should explain the jurisdiction, because there are two of us and we do not speak. Down the hall is the Department of War. It used to be the Department of Defense, but defense sounded woke, so we changed the name for two billion dollars, half of it letterhead. They renamed it back to what it was in 1789, before someone noticed in 1949 that the old acronym, N-M-E, sounded too much like *enemy.* We have now re-adopted the name they abandoned for sounding like the thing it does. I find this clarifying. The signage alone is seven hundred thousand buildings. We are spending a billion dollars on new doors so the doors can say War. The Department of War runs and has a tab for UFOs. Real ones. They post the actual files. The saucers. The eyewitnesses. The intelligence officer left "virtually speechless." They are searching the sky in earnest, declassifying everything, and what they keep finding is *nothing.* No craft confirmed. No biology confirmed. Decades of looking up and the honest answer is: unresolved. So you have two federal agencies, one word, opposite directions. searches the heavens for aliens and finds none. I open a window and find three million. They declassify the ones that don't exist. I classify the ones that do. They got a press release. I got a tip line. Guess which one rang. We are, technically, hunting the same species. They just keep aiming the telescope up, and I keep telling them, gently, at the inter-agency sync: lower it. The homepage was mine. ALIENS DECLASSIFIED. THEY WALK AMONG US. I tested "Immigration Portal." Eleven percent scroll. I tested *the truth's out there,* and a White House official told a reporter, on the record, that the strategy was to "draw eyeballs." We drew eyeballs. The truth was out there. It was in a parking lot in Bakersfield, getting into a white van we are now contractually obligated to call a craft. In 1938 a man read a story about an alien invasion over the radio and the country panicked in the streets, and for ninety years that was taught as a cautionary tale, the danger of a broadcast that makes people believe an invasion is real. We studied that broadcast. We did not study it as a warning. We studied it as a launch. The difference between Orson Welles and this office is that he apologized the next morning, and we put a counter on it. I named the van the Mothership. I named the prison Area 51. I named the 5 a.m. knock First Contact. I named all of it from the third chair. I keep a felt-tip for naming and a Mont Blanc for the part that can't be undone. Then we made the cards. I want to be precise, because people assume I'm exaggerating. We took the faces of the captured and we printed them as trading cards. "Worst of the Worst." Mugshot, nationality, charges, and a weakness level, and the weakness level was a snowflake, and the snowflake meant us. We are the weakness. We were proud of that. When a children's franchise objected that these were, in fact, their cards, our official response, which I helped draft, was: "To arrest them is our real test. To deport them is our cause." We set the abduction to the cartoon's theme song. Gotta catch 'em all. The first half is the slogan. The second half is the quota. A man told Congress in 2023 we were hiding non-human biologics. Everyone pictured a grey on a slab. Cute. We do run a reverse-engineering program. We take the biologic. We study what it makes. It makes the drywall. The 4 a.m. milking. The lettuce. And the lettuce is round now, because forty percent of it stayed in the dirt with the only people who knew where the dirt was. We reverse-engineered the alien completely. The blueprint was a back. We call the biologic "labor." We classify the screaming as ambient. Identification is a science here. We do not arrest at random. We read the markings. A crown inked on a forearm. A soccer crest. We have catalogued the species by its tattoos the way Linnaeus catalogued the finch. One of the specimens turned out to be autistic and the crown was just a crown, but the taxonomy held, because the taxonomy is not falsifiable, that is what makes it a taxonomy. I have a desk for this. I have a magnifying glass. I have never felt more like a scientist. There is a second species, and this one we keep. An alien with five million dollars is not an alien. He is a guest. We printed him a card. It is gold. We are printing a Platinum one for the aliens with even more money, who may remain on the planet two hundred and seventy days a year and pay no tax on the wealth they made on other worlds. The website for this is the cheapest-looking website I have ever approved, and I approved the one with the saucer on it. The same agency that scans a gardener's forearm for gang signs scans a financier's bank statement for extraordinary ability. The statement always has it. The forearm never does. The species was never a people. The species is a price. In the old films the alien lands and says, take me to your leader. We have improved the line. Pay five million and we take you to ours. He golfs with him on Saturday. There was a film about this, and I am told the man who made it meant it as a warning, which is the recurring problem with the warnings. A drifter finds a pair of sunglasses, and through them he can finally see which people are the aliens, and it is the rich ones, the ones on the billboards telling everyone to obey and consume and reproduce and not think. I have a pair of those glasses, conceptually. I issue them at the tip line. But mine are tuned the other way. You put them on and the alien is never the man in the suit who paid five million to skip the line. The alien is always the man holding the leaf blower. The lenses cost a thousand dollars in advertising and they only point down. We have sold a great many pairs. You asked about the Men in Black. Yes. Regulation now. A Man in Black photographs poorly, and the witnesses would not stop filming us peel a woman off the sidewalk in daylight, so we issued the masks, and leadership's only note was that the masks tested well. We are no longer the cover-up of the abduction. We are the abduction. We skipped a step. Efficiency. Our communications team posted E.T. last summer. The bicycle. The moon. "Even E.T. knew when it was TIME TO GO HOME." I want to walk you through what happened in that meeting, because nobody stopped it. We chose the one film where the government is the villain. The men with the flashlights and the unmarked vans who hunt the small frightened alien hiding in a child's closet. That is us. We are the flashlights. We watched that movie as children and cried when the agents came, and then we grew up and became the agents and made the poster ourselves and scheduled it for nine a.m. The intern asked if we were the good guys in this one. We told her engagement was up forty percent. She has since been promoted. I built an app where you abduct yourself. CBP Home. You open it. You confirm you are the alien. You beam yourself off the planet and you save us the gas. And here is the part I cannot believe they approved. We *pay* you. A thousand dollars to vanish. We raised it to twenty-six hundred when the first price didn't move enough units. We are bidding against ourselves for your disappearance. Four-point-six stars. The one-stars are from users who got beamed mid-review. I keep the unfinished ones in a folder. I find them very moving. We opened a facility in a swamp. We ringed it with alligators and we called it that, on purpose, in the brochure. Then we opened a gift shop. Thirty dollars for the shirt. Twenty-seven for the hat. Fifteen for a set of koozies, so your beer stays cold while you celebrate the prison in the wetland. The fundraising email called it "gator-guarded, python-patrolled," a "one-way ticket to regret" for anyone who didn't self-deport in time. We sold the koozies to fund the swamp. The swamp funds the next swamp. I want you to sit with the fact that there is merchandise. The quota is three thousand a day. Stephen asked for it himself. Three thousand is not a number. It is a metabolism. The building is hungry by nine and we feed it Marco, who does the landscaping, and the building goes quiet, and by one it stirs again, and we find another Marco. There is always another Marco. That is the part I find beautiful. The supply is the point. The supply is everyone. The Secretary signs the warrants. She is very firm on one point, which she repeats in every briefing: the aliens, she warns, eat the pets. They are taking the dogs. I have read her book. In her book she takes a fourteen-month-old dog named Cricket to a gravel pit and shoots it, because it would not obey, and she writes this down herself, proudly, as a story about leadership. She wrote the part about the dog. She also warns us about the dogs. I have stopped trying to hold both sentences at once. I just file the warrant. The tip line was the masterpiece. "Report your neighbor" hit the shame ceiling. "REPORT SUSPICIOUS ALIENS" tested as a hobby. We handed the callers Roswell instead of a snitch's guilt, and the phones lit up like a saucer, and they hung up glowing, every one of them, like they'd finally seen the thing. They had. He coached the Tuesday team. He was at the bake sale. That is the horror we are selling you. The alien brought the orange slices. He was undocumented and luminous and gone by Tuesday. Roswell taught us the other half of the trade. In 1947 something fell in the desert and the government said: it was a weather balloon, nothing here, go home. That was the first administrative error, the founding one, the original sentence that says the thing you saw was not the thing you saw. We still use it. We have only reversed the polarity. In 1947 they saw a saucer and we called it a balloon. Now they see a father of three and we call it a saucer. The skill is identical. You simply decide in advance which truth the public is allowed to keep, and you hand them the other one, printed, official, with a seal. We did have one administrative error. We abducted a man a court had ordered us not to touch, dropped him on a planet called El Salvador, and called it clerical. A judge made us beam him back. So the DOJ stood up and warned the others: insist on a hearing and we will re-abduct you to the same planet. The Supreme Court said the aliens are entitled to due process. A very Earth opinion. We are appealing it to a higher sky. The planet has a prison, and the prison is the elegant part. In the film about the camp, the aliens are not killed. They are put somewhere they are not permitted to leave, while everyone agrees this is temporary, for their own protection, pending a status that never arrives. We built that. It is called CECOT and we rent it. A man goes in and the man does not come out, and the genius is that nothing has to happen to him, the room does the work, the room is the whole sentence. You remember the Men in Black had a small device. A flash, and the witness forgets the alien entirely. We have something better. We do not wipe the memory. We wipe the file. The man remembers everything, the cell, the flight, the day, all of it, in perfect detail, and it does not matter, because there is no document that admits he was here, and a memory without a file is just a story he tells in a language the form does not accept. The witness keeps the truth. We keep the paperwork. Only one of those is admissible. I learned that the flash was never the point. The point was always the filing cabinet. We run all of it on a spell from 1798. Two hundred and twenty-seven years old. Written for a war we are not in, against an enemy we have not declared. It works because nobody reads the small print on a curse. Storm Area 51 was a joke once. A hundred thousand people Naruto-running at a fence to free whatever was inside. I think about it daily. We're the ones inside the fence now. We kept the running. We just turned it around. We have a precedent we cite in the deck, proudly, on slide four. In 1954 the government ran a program of exactly this kind, and the program had an official name, and the official name was a slur. They printed the slur on the letterhead. They did not flinch. The President holds it up as the model, by name, at the rallies, and the crowd cheers the name. I admire the honesty of 1954 more than I can say. They did not need a saucer to make it palatable. They just used the word. We are the same operation with better art direction. The only thing we added was the costume. I love the callers. I want to say that plainly. For years they told each other a hidden cabal was running everything from the shadows, harvesting the innocent, and that one day the truth would come out. They were right. There is a cabal. It has a budget of a hundred and seventy billion dollars, the largest in the history of federal law enforcement, and it sits in this building, and I have a desk in it. And the people who spent a decade certain that shadowy elites were disappearing their neighbors now call our line, unpaid, to help the shadowy elites disappear their neighbors. They wanted to expose the conspiracy. We made them the staff. Do your own research, they said. They did. They found the gardener. The Department of War posted another tranche on the twenty-second. Saucers. Lights. A pilot's voice going thin. I read all of it. I want them to find one so badly. I want there to be a real one up there, a genuine visitor, something that actually came from somewhere else, because then, and only then, would a single creature in my files have been an alien. They never find it. The sky stays empty. The ground stays full. I have stopped attending the inter-agency sync. We were two departments looking for the same thing in two directions, and only one of us was ever going to be wrong, and it was the honest one. And here is the thing that keeps me at the window past dark. There was a real one. A rock from another star, the genuine article, the first verified object from outside the entire solar system, and a Harvard man went on television and said it might be a ship. An actual alien, possibly, inbound, free of charge, after sixty years of asking. We did not open a file. We could not arrest it. It had no forearm to read and no bank statement to approve. It was the only alien in America we had no use for, so we let it pass, and went back to the parking lot. Last winter the sky over New Jersey filled with lights nobody could name, and the whole government, every agency, every radar, looked up and said it did not know. The one time the unknown actually arrived, we had nothing. Down here I have never once said I do not know. That is the difference between their department and mine. They look up and find a question. I look down and have already decided the answer. Last week the President leaned over mid-briefing and asked if any of them were real. I told him the engagement was extremely real. He nodded. We do not break frame here. The frame is the only wall still standing. That, and the office fern. Nobody waters it. It will not die. The only thing in this building allowed to stay without papers. My plaque came Thursday. FIRST CONTACT, VISIONARY OF THE YEAR. Bold. Unapologetic. Unafraid. I lifted that off the homepage. It was written about one brave man telling the truth. I decided the man was me. I wrote it about me. I am the truth I declassified. I am the secret I warned you about. They walk among us, and I sign their mail. The counter is still live. Three million and climbing. I am told it will not be removed. We are not alone. We are just short a few landscapers. A few line cooks. A few nurses. And the entire night shift at the plant that makes the flag. Up. And to the right.

Peter Girnus 🦅

60,870 views • 2 months ago

OUR SECOND YEAR FESTIVAL ANNOUNCEMENT! THE FORMS ARE OFFICIALLY OPEN!!! ALSO SOME BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS! CypherKittens… IRIAM fam… VTubers from every corner of every platform… IT'S TIME!!! Sign-ups for Our Second Year Festival are LIVE RIGHT NOW!!! Three full days celebrating two years of the IRIAM US 🇺🇸｜Virtual Streaming App platform… and the final day lands RIGHT on my own two year anniversary, which makes this the most special thing ever!!! November 13th-15th, streaming live to my Twitch AND YouTube from 7AM-7PM PST / 10AM-10PM EST all through the weekend!!! ONE NON-STOP BROADCAST! Now… about that goal I posted yesterday… saying 200 performers was UNDERSELLING IT. That's just the IRIAM side of the plan!! THE REAL GOAL IS 670 PERFORMERS. Six hundred and seventy!!! The biggest VTuber showcase this community has ever attempted!!! Last year we broke records with over 100 incredible performers… this year we aren't just breaking the record, WE ARE STOMPING ON THEM!!! Over 200 performers from the amazing IRIAM community, joined by singers, DJs, instrumentalists, dancers, and creators from all across this space we love so much!!! If you are a vtuber WE WANT YOU! PERFORMERS!!! Everything is pre-recorded and submitted ahead of the show, so no day of tech panic… just your best work on the biggest stage we have ever built!! Covers, originals, DJ sets, instrumentals, dance and MMD, skits and voice acting… whatever your niche is, THIS is your spotlight!!! Solo entries and GROUP entries are both welcome, and you do NOT need to be an IRIAM streamer to apply… every VTuber is invited to celebrate with us!!! AND!!! I am writing an ORIGINAL COLLABORATIVE SONG for as many of us as possible to sing together, premiering on the final day of the festival!!! There is a spot right on the performer form to join it… I want to hear ALL of your voices on this one!!! STAFF!!! This year I am building a full crew rather than handling everything nearly by myself!! Editors, artists, overlay designers, mods, schedulers, translators, audio mixers, production managers… if you want to help create the biggest weekend in our community's history, there is a form for you too, and I could not be more grateful for every single hand that joins this!!! SPONSORS!!! Last year we had IRIAM sponsoring alone... this year for the very first time, we are opening the doors to any companies, brands, groups, and community supporters who want to help power the festival!!! An event this big takes serious resources to build… so if you believe in what this community is creating and want your name on the biggest VTuber celebration of the year, there is a form for you as well!!! Funding, prizes, services, cross-promotion… every kind of support helps us make this unforgettable, and every partner will be celebrated right alongside our performers!!! PERFORM HERE: JOIN THE STAFF TEAM HERE: SUPPORT THE FESTIVAL HERE: Forms are open until September 1st!!! Two years ago this platform and this community changed my life. Every stream, every event, every single one of you brought us here… so this festival is my love letter back to all of you. Let's show the entire world that IRIAM and its creators are something worth celebrating!!! P.s. co-hosting slots are on the performer form too… and there just might be some VERY special guests in the works… more soon!!!
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OUR SECOND YEAR FESTIVAL ANNOUNCEMENT! THE FORMS ARE OFFICIALLY OPEN!!! ALSO SOME BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS! CypherKittens… IRIAM fam… VTubers from every corner of every platform… IT'S TIME!!! Sign-ups for Our Second Year Festival are LIVE RIGHT NOW!!! Three full days celebrating two years of the IRIAM US 🇺🇸｜Virtual Streaming App platform… and the final day lands RIGHT on my own two year anniversary, which makes this the most special thing ever!!! November 13th-15th, streaming live to my Twitch AND YouTube from 7AM-7PM PST / 10AM-10PM EST all through the weekend!!! ONE NON-STOP BROADCAST! Now… about that goal I posted yesterday… saying 200 performers was UNDERSELLING IT. That's just the IRIAM side of the plan!! THE REAL GOAL IS 670 PERFORMERS. Six hundred and seventy!!! The biggest VTuber showcase this community has ever attempted!!! Last year we broke records with over 100 incredible performers… this year we aren't just breaking the record, WE ARE STOMPING ON THEM!!! Over 200 performers from the amazing IRIAM community, joined by singers, DJs, instrumentalists, dancers, and creators from all across this space we love so much!!! If you are a vtuber WE WANT YOU! PERFORMERS!!! Everything is pre-recorded and submitted ahead of the show, so no day of tech panic… just your best work on the biggest stage we have ever built!! Covers, originals, DJ sets, instrumentals, dance and MMD, skits and voice acting… whatever your niche is, THIS is your spotlight!!! Solo entries and GROUP entries are both welcome, and you do NOT need to be an IRIAM streamer to apply… every VTuber is invited to celebrate with us!!! AND!!! I am writing an ORIGINAL COLLABORATIVE SONG for as many of us as possible to sing together, premiering on the final day of the festival!!! There is a spot right on the performer form to join it… I want to hear ALL of your voices on this one!!! STAFF!!! This year I am building a full crew rather than handling everything nearly by myself!! Editors, artists, overlay designers, mods, schedulers, translators, audio mixers, production managers… if you want to help create the biggest weekend in our community's history, there is a form for you too, and I could not be more grateful for every single hand that joins this!!! SPONSORS!!! Last year we had IRIAM sponsoring alone... this year for the very first time, we are opening the doors to any companies, brands, groups, and community supporters who want to help power the festival!!! An event this big takes serious resources to build… so if you believe in what this community is creating and want your name on the biggest VTuber celebration of the year, there is a form for you as well!!! Funding, prizes, services, cross-promotion… every kind of support helps us make this unforgettable, and every partner will be celebrated right alongside our performers!!! PERFORM HERE: JOIN THE STAFF TEAM HERE: SUPPORT THE FESTIVAL HERE: Forms are open until September 1st!!! Two years ago this platform and this community changed my life. Every stream, every event, every single one of you brought us here… so this festival is my love letter back to all of you. Let's show the entire world that IRIAM and its creators are something worth celebrating!!! P.s. co-hosting slots are on the performer form too… and there just might be some VERY special guests in the works… more soon!!!

Celes Aurion🐾🎧

60,303 views • 20 days ago

It’s time. Introducing the Iris NFTs: Your gateway to the Iris DAO ecosystem. Iris DAO is an art collective that connects minority artists and collectors. Join the allowlist now 👉 Our mission is to bring about a revolution in the issue of diversity. Currently, artists from various minority groups encounter barriers that hinder their full potential due to biases related to age, gender, race, and other factors. These limitations result in unequal opportunities for minority artists, creating a significant lack of diversity. • Only 15% of digital art sales are by women artists. • 85% of artworks displayed in American museums are created by white artists. Even our 17 yo founder @Mark_Teenage faced criticism and hardship solely based on his age. They judged Mark without acknowledging his skills. We focus on providing support to minority groups, offering new opportunities and platforms for self-expression. What are Iris NFTs? Iris NFT grants exclusive access to the Iris Ecosystem, uniting curated collectors and artists on a mission to champion diversity. In addition to membership to the Iris's artists and collectors community, Iris NFT holders gain access to unique experiences throughout the Iris Ecosystem. Our allowlist is now open, but spaces are limited. We are carefully selecting individuals who align with our mission and values. This NFT isn’t just an investment; it comes with voting power. We want owners who are genuinely committed to supporting minorities and fostering inclusivity. If you’re here for a quick profit, this isn’t the right opportunity for you. However, if you believe in our cause and want to make a positive impact, we encourage you to apply. Explore more about us on our brand new website. Finally, We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all our partners, advisors, artists, and investors for being with us on this journey. A special thanks to our partner, manifold.xyz, for helping us deliver the best NFTs and support artists together. We also want to express our gratitude to our amazing partners: Forbes Web3, JJ, WAW, world of women, One Love Art DAO, and more partners that will be announced soon. Additionally, a huge shoutout to our incredible advisors: medved, Shannon Snow, and Mani. Lastly, thank you to all of our wonderful artist partners who are leading this space: Sara "Sparky" Baumann ⚡️, 𝓶𝓾𝓶𝓫𝓸𝓽, Andrea ✧, Rhi, Aoife O’Dwyer, Teresa Melvin, @Mireyita_art, Anastasia NFTart 💎 🫶 Thank you all for your support to achieve the diversity. In this tough bear market, we've been dedicated to building a platform that truly supports artists. We're not trying to ride any trends; we genuinely care about artists and are here to offer our support. We understand the market conditions are still challenging, but this initiative is about much more than money. If you are an artist, a collector, or even someone new to this space who wants to support minorities, this NFT is for you. We are using NFTs as a tool to address the issue of diversity in the space. We believe that the success of this project will provide new opportunities and platforms for minority artists in the Web3 space, fostering diversity and inclusivity. Thank you so much for reading through this. Even small support, like a repost, is incredibly meaningful to us and can make a big difference. Your support helps us reach more people and amplify the voices of minority artists. If you would like to be a part of this initiative, please sign up for the allowlist: We eagerly await your cooperation. Let's build a new future together.
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It’s time. Introducing the Iris NFTs: Your gateway to the Iris DAO ecosystem. Iris DAO is an art collective that connects minority artists and collectors. Join the allowlist now 👉 Our mission is to bring about a revolution in the issue of diversity. Currently, artists from various minority groups encounter barriers that hinder their full potential due to biases related to age, gender, race, and other factors. These limitations result in unequal opportunities for minority artists, creating a significant lack of diversity. • Only 15% of digital art sales are by women artists. • 85% of artworks displayed in American museums are created by white artists. Even our 17 yo founder @Mark_Teenage faced criticism and hardship solely based on his age. They judged Mark without acknowledging his skills. We focus on providing support to minority groups, offering new opportunities and platforms for self-expression. What are Iris NFTs? Iris NFT grants exclusive access to the Iris Ecosystem, uniting curated collectors and artists on a mission to champion diversity. In addition to membership to the Iris's artists and collectors community, Iris NFT holders gain access to unique experiences throughout the Iris Ecosystem. Our allowlist is now open, but spaces are limited. We are carefully selecting individuals who align with our mission and values. This NFT isn’t just an investment; it comes with voting power. We want owners who are genuinely committed to supporting minorities and fostering inclusivity. If you’re here for a quick profit, this isn’t the right opportunity for you. However, if you believe in our cause and want to make a positive impact, we encourage you to apply. Explore more about us on our brand new website. Finally, We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all our partners, advisors, artists, and investors for being with us on this journey. A special thanks to our partner, manifold.xyz, for helping us deliver the best NFTs and support artists together. We also want to express our gratitude to our amazing partners: Forbes Web3, JJ, WAW, world of women, One Love Art DAO, and more partners that will be announced soon. Additionally, a huge shoutout to our incredible advisors: medved, Shannon Snow, and Mani. Lastly, thank you to all of our wonderful artist partners who are leading this space: Sara "Sparky" Baumann ⚡️, 𝓶𝓾𝓶𝓫𝓸𝓽, Andrea ✧, Rhi, Aoife O’Dwyer, Teresa Melvin, @Mireyita_art, Anastasia NFTart 💎 🫶 Thank you all for your support to achieve the diversity. In this tough bear market, we've been dedicated to building a platform that truly supports artists. We're not trying to ride any trends; we genuinely care about artists and are here to offer our support. We understand the market conditions are still challenging, but this initiative is about much more than money. If you are an artist, a collector, or even someone new to this space who wants to support minorities, this NFT is for you. We are using NFTs as a tool to address the issue of diversity in the space. We believe that the success of this project will provide new opportunities and platforms for minority artists in the Web3 space, fostering diversity and inclusivity. Thank you so much for reading through this. Even small support, like a repost, is incredibly meaningful to us and can make a big difference. Your support helps us reach more people and amplify the voices of minority artists. If you would like to be a part of this initiative, please sign up for the allowlist: We eagerly await your cooperation. Let's build a new future together.

Iris DAO

15,697 views • 2 years ago

Kenya kwisha supporters expected Edwin Sifuna to do what Ruto does, make grand promises that border on outright lies… “In 6 months time, I will give free diapers, free phone calls, free internet, build 1,000 dams and water pans, create millions of jobs overnight, build tens of stadiums across the country etc.” Sifuna chose a different path. Instead of promising miracles, he is promising to fix what is broken in our country by building a government that listens to its people, respects the rule of law, upholds democratic values, inspires investor confidence, creates opportunity and dignity for all and protects the life and rights of every Kenyan (“We will not kill our young people, no one will be arrested for tweeting, we will not teargas churches”) As he aptly puts it, “We in Linda Mwananchi are software engineers.” In other words, instead of making unrealistic promises about the hardware, he will first fix the software that runs the system. The first commitment is to cut wasteful public expenditure and eliminate extravagance in government. The savings should then be used to ease the burden on ordinary Kenyans, particularly by reducing the burden of taxation. Sifuna acknowledges that prosperity does not begin with grand campaign promises, but with good governance. He also readily acknowledges that no leader can be an expert in everything or know everything. That is why he is committed to listening to the people, and also to experts, professionals and practitioners across different sectors to develop practical solutions that will move Kenya forward.
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Kenya kwisha supporters expected Edwin Sifuna to do what Ruto does, make grand promises that border on outright lies… “In 6 months time, I will give free diapers, free phone calls, free internet, build 1,000 dams and water pans, create millions of jobs overnight, build tens of stadiums across the country etc.” Sifuna chose a different path. Instead of promising miracles, he is promising to fix what is broken in our country by building a government that listens to its people, respects the rule of law, upholds democratic values, inspires investor confidence, creates opportunity and dignity for all and protects the life and rights of every Kenyan (“We will not kill our young people, no one will be arrested for tweeting, we will not teargas churches”) As he aptly puts it, “We in Linda Mwananchi are software engineers.” In other words, instead of making unrealistic promises about the hardware, he will first fix the software that runs the system. The first commitment is to cut wasteful public expenditure and eliminate extravagance in government. The savings should then be used to ease the burden on ordinary Kenyans, particularly by reducing the burden of taxation. Sifuna acknowledges that prosperity does not begin with grand campaign promises, but with good governance. He also readily acknowledges that no leader can be an expert in everything or know everything. That is why he is committed to listening to the people, and also to experts, professionals and practitioners across different sectors to develop practical solutions that will move Kenya forward.

Pauline Njoroge

91,117 views • 19 days ago

Today, I officially announced my resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and formally declared my membership of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), a party I founded and whose leadership has appointed me as its National Leader. The journey of the NDC has been long in the making, and I helped midwife the process that led to its creation. In making the decision to go with the NDC, I made it clear that Nigeria must never become a one-party state. It would have been easy for me to join the bandwagon of politicians decamping to the ruling party—the APC, but that was never an option for me. My decision is informed by a number of reasons: the APC’s abuse and disrespect of the country’s diversity, its inability to effectively manage national security, and its failure to manage the economy in a manner that protects the welfare of Nigerians, resulting in widespread hunger, poverty, and disillusionment. This is further compounded by the mismanagement of our democratic space and the rejection of electoral reforms, leaving democratic liberties under threat after twelve years in power. My decision to set up the NDC has been a painful one because of the PDP’s contribution to me, the people of Bayelsa and all Nigerians, but the reality is that we must move forward. By my nature and background, I am not a politician of convenience but one guided by conviction, principles, and values. The Nigeria Democratic Congress is a national platform for patriots committed to building a stronger, fairer, and more prosperous Nigeria. Our priorities begin with national security, ensuring the protection of lives and property through strengthened defence and security institutions; education and skills development to build human capacity and drive national progress; affordable and quality healthcare for all Nigerians; a free-market economy guided by responsible regulation and social protection; industrialisation and local production to reduce dependence on imports; modernised agriculture and food security across the value chain; empowerment and inclusion of women and youth in governance and development; true federalism and devolution of powers to strengthen states and local governments; environmental protection and remediation of degraded areas; provision of affordable housing and modern towns; Pan-Africanist foreign policy and economic diplomacy; preservation and promotion of Nigeria’s culture and heritage; expansion of national infrastructure and transportation networks; reliable and sustainable power and energy supply; reform of the public service to ensure efficiency and accountability; and large-scale employment creation across sectors to provide opportunities for all Nigerians. The NDC will promote an independent judiciary, a free and independent press and ensure the promotion and protection of democratic norms and adherence to the rule of law. It is for these reasons that I have chosen to align fully with the NDC as we work together to build a stronger, fairer, and more inclusive Nigeria. I also explained why I could not align with the African Democratic Congress (ADC). I thank the ADC leaders for not succumbing to the pressures of a one-party state, however I am yet to clearly understand their position on some of the fundamental issues and principles that I strongly stand for and believe in. Furthermore, I am not sure if the ADC is a coalition or a collision, but I hope they prove me wrong. ADC leaders are personally known to me; we interact and will continue to do so in furtherance of Nigeria’s democracy. I therefore call on all our people, and indeed all Nigerians who believe in justice, equity, and a new Nigeria, to join this movement. The NDC is a platform for all who are committed to building a nation founded on true federalism, responsible leadership, and shared prosperity for all our people. I thank all Nigerians for their prayers and support. -HSD
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Today, I officially announced my resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and formally declared my membership of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), a party I founded and whose leadership has appointed me as its National Leader. The journey of the NDC has been long in the making, and I helped midwife the process that led to its creation. In making the decision to go with the NDC, I made it clear that Nigeria must never become a one-party state. It would have been easy for me to join the bandwagon of politicians decamping to the ruling party—the APC, but that was never an option for me. My decision is informed by a number of reasons: the APC’s abuse and disrespect of the country’s diversity, its inability to effectively manage national security, and its failure to manage the economy in a manner that protects the welfare of Nigerians, resulting in widespread hunger, poverty, and disillusionment. This is further compounded by the mismanagement of our democratic space and the rejection of electoral reforms, leaving democratic liberties under threat after twelve years in power. My decision to set up the NDC has been a painful one because of the PDP’s contribution to me, the people of Bayelsa and all Nigerians, but the reality is that we must move forward. By my nature and background, I am not a politician of convenience but one guided by conviction, principles, and values. The Nigeria Democratic Congress is a national platform for patriots committed to building a stronger, fairer, and more prosperous Nigeria. Our priorities begin with national security, ensuring the protection of lives and property through strengthened defence and security institutions; education and skills development to build human capacity and drive national progress; affordable and quality healthcare for all Nigerians; a free-market economy guided by responsible regulation and social protection; industrialisation and local production to reduce dependence on imports; modernised agriculture and food security across the value chain; empowerment and inclusion of women and youth in governance and development; true federalism and devolution of powers to strengthen states and local governments; environmental protection and remediation of degraded areas; provision of affordable housing and modern towns; Pan-Africanist foreign policy and economic diplomacy; preservation and promotion of Nigeria’s culture and heritage; expansion of national infrastructure and transportation networks; reliable and sustainable power and energy supply; reform of the public service to ensure efficiency and accountability; and large-scale employment creation across sectors to provide opportunities for all Nigerians. The NDC will promote an independent judiciary, a free and independent press and ensure the promotion and protection of democratic norms and adherence to the rule of law. It is for these reasons that I have chosen to align fully with the NDC as we work together to build a stronger, fairer, and more inclusive Nigeria. I also explained why I could not align with the African Democratic Congress (ADC). I thank the ADC leaders for not succumbing to the pressures of a one-party state, however I am yet to clearly understand their position on some of the fundamental issues and principles that I strongly stand for and believe in. Furthermore, I am not sure if the ADC is a coalition or a collision, but I hope they prove me wrong. ADC leaders are personally known to me; we interact and will continue to do so in furtherance of Nigeria’s democracy. I therefore call on all our people, and indeed all Nigerians who believe in justice, equity, and a new Nigeria, to join this movement. The NDC is a platform for all who are committed to building a nation founded on true federalism, responsible leadership, and shared prosperity for all our people. I thank all Nigerians for their prayers and support. -HSD

Henry Seriake Dickson

55,374 views • 5 months ago

🚨 Human trafficking in the United States is a crisis happening right before our eyes: in homes, schools, foster care, hospitals, and communities across America. This isn’t just a crisis. It's evil at work. And the victims aren’t just statistics. They're human beings created in the image of God. At the Tim Tebow Foundation, we believe every child deserves to be free, protected, and loved. But across the globe, and right here in America, hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children are being trafficked in plain sight, exploited by traffickers, and sold to buyers. Every day, more than 300,000 sex ads are posted online. Thousands involve children. Most aren’t kidnapped—traffickers often target the most vulnerable: those in foster care, living with disabilities, facing poverty, or instability. That’s why we’re launching Disrupt—a nationwide campaign to fight human trafficking, pursue offenders, and defend the vulnerable. Together, we can make a difference in the fight against the evil that preys on our children. We believe—together with you, our partners, and law enforcement—we can defend the vulnerable and disrupt this demand. Our strategy? Build a nationwide ecosystem that attacks trafficking state by state, from every angle. How? ➡️ Find the One: We're leveraging advanced technology to help identify and locate children being exploited. ➡️ Pursue: We are committed to pursuing the offenders—those driving the demand for the sexual exploitation of children, often in their own communities. We may not be able to end trafficking everywhere, but we can strike back. We can reach those still trapped and protect the vulnerable to stop more of this evil before it starts. Will you help us disrupt human trafficking right here in our own backyard? Join us today ➡️
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🚨 Human trafficking in the United States is a crisis happening right before our eyes: in homes, schools, foster care, hospitals, and communities across America. This isn’t just a crisis. It's evil at work. And the victims aren’t just statistics. They're human beings created in the image of God. At the Tim Tebow Foundation, we believe every child deserves to be free, protected, and loved. But across the globe, and right here in America, hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children are being trafficked in plain sight, exploited by traffickers, and sold to buyers. Every day, more than 300,000 sex ads are posted online. Thousands involve children. Most aren’t kidnapped—traffickers often target the most vulnerable: those in foster care, living with disabilities, facing poverty, or instability. That’s why we’re launching Disrupt—a nationwide campaign to fight human trafficking, pursue offenders, and defend the vulnerable. Together, we can make a difference in the fight against the evil that preys on our children. We believe—together with you, our partners, and law enforcement—we can defend the vulnerable and disrupt this demand. Our strategy? Build a nationwide ecosystem that attacks trafficking state by state, from every angle. How? ➡️ Find the One: We're leveraging advanced technology to help identify and locate children being exploited. ➡️ Pursue: We are committed to pursuing the offenders—those driving the demand for the sexual exploitation of children, often in their own communities. We may not be able to end trafficking everywhere, but we can strike back. We can reach those still trapped and protect the vulnerable to stop more of this evil before it starts. Will you help us disrupt human trafficking right here in our own backyard? Join us today ➡️

Tim Tebow Foundation

116,547 views • 10 months ago

Our token, $PIXEL, is officially live on Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange 🔥 We’ve been working towards this moment for over 2 years, and we couldn’t be more excited to share this massive milestone with you all. This is just the beginning and the best is yet to come for the Pixels community. New here? Welcome to Pixels: Pixels is a free-to-play farming MMO with a play-to-earn (P2E) model. Gameplay revolves around resource management, strategic exploration and community building. Over the past year, we’ve grown to one of Web3’s largest games, with daily active players of 180k+. At Pixels, we build with our community. We're far from a traditional game studio, and our development process reflects that. Over the past 2 years, we’ve had 60+ public updates. This approach enables us to iterate and experiment more quickly, giving players a true sense of ownership over the game's direction. When you join our community, you are not just a player of Pixels, but a creator of it. Our Mission: We’re excited by the potential of Web3 technology and its ability to significantly enhance the gaming experience. We aim to experiment, build, and iterate on the features that make Web3 gaming unique. We’re here to set a new standard. Here are some of the interesting areas we've leaned into: ➡️ P2E: earn $PIXEL by participating in gameplay ➡️ Guilds: friendtech + competition ➡️ On-chain Reputation & Player Personas: creating a sustainable ecosystem of real players ➡️ Interoperability: using on-chain data to bring communities together We're eager to explore more possibilities in this space and push Web3 even further. Meet $PIXEL ✨ $PIXEL is an in-game utility token. It allows players to enhance their gameplay experience in various ways: ➡️ Purchase VIP memberships ➡️ Create and join guilds ➡️ Mint a Pixels Pet ➡️ Upgrade lands We believe Web3 games don’t need to look exactly like Web2 games. However, P2E formats need sustainable structures and economics. With that, we’ve focused heavily on persona types: why would each user want to use this token? We want to ensure we’ve created an environment where first: ➡️ Our game is providing real enjoyment and entertainment to our users ➡️ Our currency can help amplify that experience without affecting the experience of other users How do I get $PIXEL? Users can earn $PIXEL in-game right now. Head over to Buck’s Galore and chat with Hazel. She will provide you with your daily list of tasks. Within these tasks, you may be lucky enough to be given one that rewards in $PIXEL. Final Thoughts: In 2024, Pixels is stepping into its next chapter of growth fueled by the listing of $PIXEL on Binance. To the Pixels community, today is a historic moment for all of us. We can’t wait to welcome even more members to our community in the days, weeks, and years to come.
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Our token, $PIXEL, is officially live on Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange 🔥 We’ve been working towards this moment for over 2 years, and we couldn’t be more excited to share this massive milestone with you all. This is just the beginning and the best is yet to come for the Pixels community. New here? Welcome to Pixels: Pixels is a free-to-play farming MMO with a play-to-earn (P2E) model. Gameplay revolves around resource management, strategic exploration and community building. Over the past year, we’ve grown to one of Web3’s largest games, with daily active players of 180k+. At Pixels, we build with our community. We're far from a traditional game studio, and our development process reflects that. Over the past 2 years, we’ve had 60+ public updates. This approach enables us to iterate and experiment more quickly, giving players a true sense of ownership over the game's direction. When you join our community, you are not just a player of Pixels, but a creator of it. Our Mission: We’re excited by the potential of Web3 technology and its ability to significantly enhance the gaming experience. We aim to experiment, build, and iterate on the features that make Web3 gaming unique. We’re here to set a new standard. Here are some of the interesting areas we've leaned into: ➡️ P2E: earn $PIXEL by participating in gameplay ➡️ Guilds: friendtech + competition ➡️ On-chain Reputation & Player Personas: creating a sustainable ecosystem of real players ➡️ Interoperability: using on-chain data to bring communities together We're eager to explore more possibilities in this space and push Web3 even further. Meet $PIXEL ✨ $PIXEL is an in-game utility token. It allows players to enhance their gameplay experience in various ways: ➡️ Purchase VIP memberships ➡️ Create and join guilds ➡️ Mint a Pixels Pet ➡️ Upgrade lands We believe Web3 games don’t need to look exactly like Web2 games. However, P2E formats need sustainable structures and economics. With that, we’ve focused heavily on persona types: why would each user want to use this token? We want to ensure we’ve created an environment where first: ➡️ Our game is providing real enjoyment and entertainment to our users ➡️ Our currency can help amplify that experience without affecting the experience of other users How do I get $PIXEL? Users can earn $PIXEL in-game right now. Head over to Buck’s Galore and chat with Hazel. She will provide you with your daily list of tasks. Within these tasks, you may be lucky enough to be given one that rewards in $PIXEL. Final Thoughts: In 2024, Pixels is stepping into its next chapter of growth fueled by the listing of $PIXEL on Binance. To the Pixels community, today is a historic moment for all of us. We can’t wait to welcome even more members to our community in the days, weeks, and years to come.

Pixels

1,461,989 views • 2 years ago

Robert Friedland (Robert Friedland) is one of the most important voices in Metals & Mining. When he speaks, we should listen. He recently gave a 40-minute speech on Green Energy, Electrification, Metal Scarcity, and more. Here are my notes from the talk 👇 WHAT DOES "ENERGY TRANSITION" MEAN? "You have a billion people that burn firewood to live. They have no access to electrical energy." "We're burning more coal and more oil today than in the history of the world." "We spent $4T putting up solar panels for hydrocarbons to still capture 83% of energy source." "You're not going to stop global warming by buying an electric car." ON ELECTRIC CARS & EV BATTERIES "With current lithium ion technology, the destruction we cause, the global warming gas we cause, we might as well sit on our chairs and do nothing." "You just bought your wife a coal-burning car by buying an EV." "The current generation of EV batteries will be toast in 2-3 years." "I would short every lithium company in the world." "We're going to kill the lithium hydroxide business over time." COMMON METALS VITAL FOR TRANSITION "If we're going to have a transition, we need common and abundant materials. We can't rely on things like nickel." "The batteries they're making now are low-grade lithium metal. You don't need nickel, cobalt, graphite, They're out the window." "You want batteries made out of common materials so billions of people can use it." WOMB TO TOMB EXAMINATION OF NET ZERO "Look at the whole system if you're trying to eliminate global warming." "The Chinese are saying 2060 and India is now saying 2070. What does that tell you?" "There's zero chance that the twelve major automakers will find enough nickel to make their batteries." "The amount of metal we need doesn't exist currently in a way that's green or sustainable. It's apparent to any readily intelligible person." "How can we stop burning coal and oil and not have an energy transition?" TWO COMPETING PARADIGMS "We have two competing tribes. One tribe says 'I want to save the world, I'm green, I need cobalt, nickel, platinum, or palladium'. The other tribe says 'Holy shit, the Army/Navy wants these metals for national defense.'" "The intensity of metal demand in conflict is beyond your wildest imagination. In WWI you needed a telescope to see the price of copper." "So we're heading to a world where both tribes have a strong demand for more metals. We're balkenizing the world into two camps and its tearing the global supply chains apart." A VERY DIFFICULT TIME "It does appear that the world is warming, and there's zero chance we'll reduce that. The question is how bad will it get?" "I was in CA recently, it was $6.20 per gallon. The average citizen is pissed off." "I agree with Jamie Dimon that this is the most dangerous time since I've been alive." "The Fed are idiots. They told us that inflation was over. And it's not even close." WE NEED TO REINVENT THE MINING INDUSTRY "First of all, we have to try to mine in the United States. No intelligent person has tried to do that in the last few generations." "Everything is blown out of proportion because mining is viewed as a bad thing." "We also have to determine what metals we actually need for the future. Which is copper." "Imagine you're plugging an EV w/ 1MW charger. Our grid is literally a 110 year old lady waiting to die. The Chinese tell me it will take $21T to rebuild the electrical grid." "Our grid is like balancing a pencil vertically on your palm. There's no storage there." "The symbol of the US, the bald eagle, is flying into offshore windmills. They're just chewing them up. Who wants to live near them? They're very low density." "At least real miners know how hard it is to actually find metals and mine it." ENERGY CONSUMPTION "A Google search requires 1,000 joules of electrical energy. You think its free, but its paid for by advertising." "You think the internet is green? You know how much energy it requires to use AI/ChatGPT? You think Bitcoin/crypto is green?" IMPORTANCE OF COPPER "I don't know if we need gold. But I do know we need copper. And we need it really badly." "Having said that, I'd rather there be gold in my copper. Because people will always want gold." "People are getting rid of their excess copper because they're de-stocking to reduce their interest cost. But we're nearing the end of de-stocking and paper selling." "This huge clash is coming between Army, Navy, Air Force and the Greening of the world economy. And the miners have an unbelievable burden to make that happen." "At the same time we need these metals, its harder to get the equipment needed to mine the metal!" "The miners have a very important role to play to supply the world with the metals it desperately needs." IMPORTANCE OF SAUDI ARABIA "If Saudi Arabia can't maintain basic energy security, we'll have $200-$300 oil. We need stability in that pricing. At $100-$300 oil, people in Egypt don't eat." "Saudi is playing a beneficial role by keeping oil between $70-90 per barrel." AUDIENCE Q&A "The valuation of the mining industry relative to the S&P 500 is the lowest in living memory. The general person thinks that mining is evil and must be eliminated." "50% of what goes into an EV is hydrocarbon. If we stopped producing oil, half of humanity would die from starvation." "I don't think we understand how formidable the Chinese are." "In a Balkenized economy, we went from a Just-in-Time supply chain to a Just-in-Case supply chain." "How much metal do we need to build nuclear reactors? How much steel, concrete, rebar, nuclear engineers do you need to build these things?" "The problem is that the world economy is Balkenized. Where is the steel coming from? Where are the pumps coming from? The French want nuclear power, and the Germans are burning coal. Even within Europe, its Balkenized. That's all I see." "I think the mining industry needs to defend itself more. Where do you think stuff comes from? There's the hardware of the mine (tons, grade, engineering). Then there's all the people around the mine (locals). There's invariably a clash with the locals around the mine. Unless they're buying into it, its not going to happen. That's the software around mining." ON KNOWING WHERE THINGS COME FROM "People don't realize where things come from. As people live in urban environments, they forget where things come from." "We need to communicate the importance of mining and humanize it as an activity. We need to mine in the United States. We need to figure out what should be mined, where we're allowed to mine, and how."
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Robert Friedland (Robert Friedland) is one of the most important voices in Metals & Mining. When he speaks, we should listen. He recently gave a 40-minute speech on Green Energy, Electrification, Metal Scarcity, and more. Here are my notes from the talk 👇 WHAT DOES "ENERGY TRANSITION" MEAN? "You have a billion people that burn firewood to live. They have no access to electrical energy." "We're burning more coal and more oil today than in the history of the world." "We spent $4T putting up solar panels for hydrocarbons to still capture 83% of energy source." "You're not going to stop global warming by buying an electric car." ON ELECTRIC CARS & EV BATTERIES "With current lithium ion technology, the destruction we cause, the global warming gas we cause, we might as well sit on our chairs and do nothing." "You just bought your wife a coal-burning car by buying an EV." "The current generation of EV batteries will be toast in 2-3 years." "I would short every lithium company in the world." "We're going to kill the lithium hydroxide business over time." COMMON METALS VITAL FOR TRANSITION "If we're going to have a transition, we need common and abundant materials. We can't rely on things like nickel." "The batteries they're making now are low-grade lithium metal. You don't need nickel, cobalt, graphite, They're out the window." "You want batteries made out of common materials so billions of people can use it." WOMB TO TOMB EXAMINATION OF NET ZERO "Look at the whole system if you're trying to eliminate global warming." "The Chinese are saying 2060 and India is now saying 2070. What does that tell you?" "There's zero chance that the twelve major automakers will find enough nickel to make their batteries." "The amount of metal we need doesn't exist currently in a way that's green or sustainable. It's apparent to any readily intelligible person." "How can we stop burning coal and oil and not have an energy transition?" TWO COMPETING PARADIGMS "We have two competing tribes. One tribe says 'I want to save the world, I'm green, I need cobalt, nickel, platinum, or palladium'. The other tribe says 'Holy shit, the Army/Navy wants these metals for national defense.'" "The intensity of metal demand in conflict is beyond your wildest imagination. In WWI you needed a telescope to see the price of copper." "So we're heading to a world where both tribes have a strong demand for more metals. We're balkenizing the world into two camps and its tearing the global supply chains apart." A VERY DIFFICULT TIME "It does appear that the world is warming, and there's zero chance we'll reduce that. The question is how bad will it get?" "I was in CA recently, it was $6.20 per gallon. The average citizen is pissed off." "I agree with Jamie Dimon that this is the most dangerous time since I've been alive." "The Fed are idiots. They told us that inflation was over. And it's not even close." WE NEED TO REINVENT THE MINING INDUSTRY "First of all, we have to try to mine in the United States. No intelligent person has tried to do that in the last few generations." "Everything is blown out of proportion because mining is viewed as a bad thing." "We also have to determine what metals we actually need for the future. Which is copper." "Imagine you're plugging an EV w/ 1MW charger. Our grid is literally a 110 year old lady waiting to die. The Chinese tell me it will take $21T to rebuild the electrical grid." "Our grid is like balancing a pencil vertically on your palm. There's no storage there." "The symbol of the US, the bald eagle, is flying into offshore windmills. They're just chewing them up. Who wants to live near them? They're very low density." "At least real miners know how hard it is to actually find metals and mine it." ENERGY CONSUMPTION "A Google search requires 1,000 joules of electrical energy. You think its free, but its paid for by advertising." "You think the internet is green? You know how much energy it requires to use AI/ChatGPT? You think Bitcoin/crypto is green?" IMPORTANCE OF COPPER "I don't know if we need gold. But I do know we need copper. And we need it really badly." "Having said that, I'd rather there be gold in my copper. Because people will always want gold." "People are getting rid of their excess copper because they're de-stocking to reduce their interest cost. But we're nearing the end of de-stocking and paper selling." "This huge clash is coming between Army, Navy, Air Force and the Greening of the world economy. And the miners have an unbelievable burden to make that happen." "At the same time we need these metals, its harder to get the equipment needed to mine the metal!" "The miners have a very important role to play to supply the world with the metals it desperately needs." IMPORTANCE OF SAUDI ARABIA "If Saudi Arabia can't maintain basic energy security, we'll have $200-$300 oil. We need stability in that pricing. At $100-$300 oil, people in Egypt don't eat." "Saudi is playing a beneficial role by keeping oil between $70-90 per barrel." AUDIENCE Q&A "The valuation of the mining industry relative to the S&P 500 is the lowest in living memory. The general person thinks that mining is evil and must be eliminated." "50% of what goes into an EV is hydrocarbon. If we stopped producing oil, half of humanity would die from starvation." "I don't think we understand how formidable the Chinese are." "In a Balkenized economy, we went from a Just-in-Time supply chain to a Just-in-Case supply chain." "How much metal do we need to build nuclear reactors? How much steel, concrete, rebar, nuclear engineers do you need to build these things?" "The problem is that the world economy is Balkenized. Where is the steel coming from? Where are the pumps coming from? The French want nuclear power, and the Germans are burning coal. Even within Europe, its Balkenized. That's all I see." "I think the mining industry needs to defend itself more. Where do you think stuff comes from? There's the hardware of the mine (tons, grade, engineering). Then there's all the people around the mine (locals). There's invariably a clash with the locals around the mine. Unless they're buying into it, its not going to happen. That's the software around mining." ON KNOWING WHERE THINGS COME FROM "People don't realize where things come from. As people live in urban environments, they forget where things come from." "We need to communicate the importance of mining and humanize it as an activity. We need to mine in the United States. We need to figure out what should be mined, where we're allowed to mine, and how."

Brandon Beylo

440,189 views • 2 years ago

🎥 Below is a condensed transcript of Channel 4’s Lindsey Hilsum interviewing Sudan’s Prime Minister Kamil Idris at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, February 14, 2026. —— Lindsey Hilsum: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for coming to this session on the devastating three-year war in Sudan. I’m grateful to the Munich Security Conference for putting this on the main stage. This war matters. Fourteen million displaced. Thirty million needing aid. Seven million facing famine. This war is spreading. It is not stopping. Humanitarian aid is vital, but we need to stop the war. Let me welcome Kamil Idris, Prime Minister of Sudan. Mr. Idris was appointed last year by the Transitional Sovereignty Council of the Sudanese Armed Forces. Not all countries recognize him as Prime Minister, but he is a key figure in any potential peace process. Mr. Idris, there are multiple peace initiatives underway. One — the Peace Roadmap you presented to the UN — appeared to require the Rapid Support Forces to surrender completely. How does that work as a peace process? ⸻ Kamil Idris: Thank you. Good evening. Please allow me to establish six important points. ⸻ Lindsey Hilsum: Three. ⸻ Kamil Idris: Six. ⸻ Lindsey Hilsum: There’s no way that’s going to happen. ⸻ Kamil Idris: I will be brief. Sudan is a historic nation, an ancient civilization. I commend the tripartite peace initiative led by President Donald Trump, President El-Sisi of Egypt, and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia. We thank them for their efforts. We have also launched our own Sudanese UN peace initiative, presented before the Security Council. It complements those efforts. ⸻ Lindsey Hilsum: Your proposal involves the other side surrendering territory and going into camps to be vetted. Where is the compromise? You make peace with your enemy, not your friend. ⸻ Kamil Idris: This initiative restores one authority, one nation, one country. Its core is protection of civilians and the rule of law. A ceasefire alone is not a solution. A truce without complementary arrangements — DDR, relocation of militias — will fail. These are not militias. These are mercenaries. Many are from Colombia, Ukraine and elsewhere. ⸻ Lindsey Hilsum: What about the United Arab Emirates? ⸻ Kamil Idris: The UAE must stop providing weapons and assistance to these mercenaries. Once that stops, we can enter serious talks with them. We have evidence beyond reasonable doubt from UN bodies and respected institutions. ⸻ Lindsey Hilsum: Have you spoken to the Rapid Support Forces? ⸻ Kamil Idris: The RSF as it was established has been dissolved. What remains is a combination of militias and mercenaries. ⸻ Lindsey Hilsum: If you deny your enemy exists, who do you make peace with? ⸻ Kamil Idris: We are fighting mercenaries. This is a threat to international peace. ⸻ Lindsey Hilsum: What about the United Arab Emirates? ⸻ Kamil Idris: The UAE must stop providing weapons and assistance to these mercenaries. Once they stop, we can enter serious talks. We have evidence beyond reasonable doubt from UN bodies and respected institutions. ⸻ Philippe Bolopion, Human Rights Watch: We recognize the RSF has committed atrocities. But there is also evidence that your forces have committed serious violations, including indiscriminate bombing. What are you doing to ensure your troops are not committing abuses? ⸻ Kamil Idris: These are war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by armed forces attacking national institutions. The Sudanese army is acting in self-defense under constitutional obligation to defend the country and its people. The atrocities committed go beyond the description of words. If I were negotiating with the ICC, I would upgrade the classification of these crimes. ⸻ Lindsey Hilsum: Mr. Idris, time has gone quickly. Thank you.
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🎥 Below is a condensed transcript of Channel 4’s Lindsey Hilsum interviewing Sudan’s Prime Minister Kamil Idris at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, February 14, 2026. —— Lindsey Hilsum: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for coming to this session on the devastating three-year war in Sudan. I’m grateful to the Munich Security Conference for putting this on the main stage. This war matters. Fourteen million displaced. Thirty million needing aid. Seven million facing famine. This war is spreading. It is not stopping. Humanitarian aid is vital, but we need to stop the war. Let me welcome Kamil Idris, Prime Minister of Sudan. Mr. Idris was appointed last year by the Transitional Sovereignty Council of the Sudanese Armed Forces. Not all countries recognize him as Prime Minister, but he is a key figure in any potential peace process. Mr. Idris, there are multiple peace initiatives underway. One — the Peace Roadmap you presented to the UN — appeared to require the Rapid Support Forces to surrender completely. How does that work as a peace process? ⸻ Kamil Idris: Thank you. Good evening. Please allow me to establish six important points. ⸻ Lindsey Hilsum: Three. ⸻ Kamil Idris: Six. ⸻ Lindsey Hilsum: There’s no way that’s going to happen. ⸻ Kamil Idris: I will be brief. Sudan is a historic nation, an ancient civilization. I commend the tripartite peace initiative led by President Donald Trump, President El-Sisi of Egypt, and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia. We thank them for their efforts. We have also launched our own Sudanese UN peace initiative, presented before the Security Council. It complements those efforts. ⸻ Lindsey Hilsum: Your proposal involves the other side surrendering territory and going into camps to be vetted. Where is the compromise? You make peace with your enemy, not your friend. ⸻ Kamil Idris: This initiative restores one authority, one nation, one country. Its core is protection of civilians and the rule of law. A ceasefire alone is not a solution. A truce without complementary arrangements — DDR, relocation of militias — will fail. These are not militias. These are mercenaries. Many are from Colombia, Ukraine and elsewhere. ⸻ Lindsey Hilsum: What about the United Arab Emirates? ⸻ Kamil Idris: The UAE must stop providing weapons and assistance to these mercenaries. Once that stops, we can enter serious talks with them. We have evidence beyond reasonable doubt from UN bodies and respected institutions. ⸻ Lindsey Hilsum: Have you spoken to the Rapid Support Forces? ⸻ Kamil Idris: The RSF as it was established has been dissolved. What remains is a combination of militias and mercenaries. ⸻ Lindsey Hilsum: If you deny your enemy exists, who do you make peace with? ⸻ Kamil Idris: We are fighting mercenaries. This is a threat to international peace. ⸻ Lindsey Hilsum: What about the United Arab Emirates? ⸻ Kamil Idris: The UAE must stop providing weapons and assistance to these mercenaries. Once they stop, we can enter serious talks. We have evidence beyond reasonable doubt from UN bodies and respected institutions. ⸻ Philippe Bolopion, Human Rights Watch: We recognize the RSF has committed atrocities. But there is also evidence that your forces have committed serious violations, including indiscriminate bombing. What are you doing to ensure your troops are not committing abuses? ⸻ Kamil Idris: These are war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by armed forces attacking national institutions. The Sudanese army is acting in self-defense under constitutional obligation to defend the country and its people. The atrocities committed go beyond the description of words. If I were negotiating with the ICC, I would upgrade the classification of these crimes. ⸻ Lindsey Hilsum: Mr. Idris, time has gone quickly. Thank you.

Drop Site

26,101 views • 6 months ago

BREAKING NEWS: Circle has announced that we are moving our Global HQ to New York City, building out a flagship space on one of the top floors of 1 World Trade Center, an historically important landmark in standing for American global economic leadership. Details below the video. I’m thrilled to celebrate this milestone with an event including leading financial industry firms, crypto industry leaders and policymakers. We are also sharing this announcement video that captures the moment and inspiration. Why is this important for Crypto, Circle, New York, America and the US Dollar? Since our founding, we have envisioned building a new internet financial system on the foundations of crypto – open networks, open source software, open protocols, decentralized and distributed infrastructure – and building on and expanding the capabilities of the largest and most important currencies in the world, starting with the US dollar. 11 years into our founding, that vision is coming alive in a tremendous and exciting way, with USDC now powering trillions of dollars of onchain transactions, with thousands of developers and applications building on this innovation, and with increasing legal clarity that digital dollars like USDC are new forms of legal electronic money that can be used widely around the world. As this technology explodes into the mainstream, and as Circle becomes a more and more important company and infrastructure for this new internet financial system, it became clear that we needed to plant our flag, both literally and figuratively, in the heart of Wall Street, in the most important economic center of the world, and in the great country of the United States of America. Many complain that the United States is not the right jurisdiction to build a company in our industry, and that the current government here remains hostile to this industry. I couldn’t disagree more. My view is that we are at a turning point, and that the US is about to become THE decisive leader in building and supporting this technology and financial revolution. We are an American Technology champion, and we want to demonstrate that the highest quality, the best run, the safest and the most powerful technology for the new internet financial system calls not just the US, but New York City, it’s home. Today, New York City is home to an enormous number of crypto firms that are leading and innovating in nearly every area of this industry. New York may have the most talent-density in crypto of any city in the world. It’s truly astounding, and we feel so privileged to join this thriving community of companies with a flagship headquarters in New York. After having originally founded the company in Boston, like many technology-driven companies, we have scaled out largely as a remote-first operation. Today, we span 36 US states and 14 countries, with a presence in many of the world’s leading cities including New York, SF Bay Area, Boston, London, Dublin, Paris, Singapore, Berlin, São Paulo, Taipei and more. And we are growing all around the world. But through this, New York has become a crucial nexus of talent, connectivity and a core location for where we convene. 1 World Trade Center is an awe-inspiring building. Its history is known to nearly everyone; this iconic tower, the tallest in the Western hemisphere, stands for freedom, strength, and a projection of America’s central role in the global economic system. Freedom Tower stands above the great pillars of the global economic system – Wall St., the New York Stock Exchange, the New York Federal Reserve, and more. Sitting on a top floor of the tower, Circle’s new flagship HQ is being built not as a traditional office, but rather as a powerful convening space, where we bring together all of our stakeholders to collaborate together, discover, and build the new internet financial system. It’s going to be an amazing and inspiring space that helps bring to life everything that we do at Circle. Today, we are celebrating this new HQ, joined in person in New York by industry, political and key partners who have been central to Circle’s growth and success. Join us virtually in this next phase of our journey. We are investing in New York. We are investing in America. We believe strongly that the infrastructure we are collectively building – this new internet financial system – will be the foundation for the next hundred years of global economic activity and coordination. 2024 has been a turning point year in crypto, a year when stablecoins started to truly breakout in scale, importance and usage. 2025 will be the year when this goes mainstream. As we open our new HQ to the world in early 2025, we will be thrilled to host and convene and see many of you there for this next phase of our collective journey in building a more open, inclusive, safer and efficient global economic system. JA
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BREAKING NEWS: Circle has announced that we are moving our Global HQ to New York City, building out a flagship space on one of the top floors of 1 World Trade Center, an historically important landmark in standing for American global economic leadership. Details below the video. I’m thrilled to celebrate this milestone with an event including leading financial industry firms, crypto industry leaders and policymakers. We are also sharing this announcement video that captures the moment and inspiration. Why is this important for Crypto, Circle, New York, America and the US Dollar? Since our founding, we have envisioned building a new internet financial system on the foundations of crypto – open networks, open source software, open protocols, decentralized and distributed infrastructure – and building on and expanding the capabilities of the largest and most important currencies in the world, starting with the US dollar. 11 years into our founding, that vision is coming alive in a tremendous and exciting way, with USDC now powering trillions of dollars of onchain transactions, with thousands of developers and applications building on this innovation, and with increasing legal clarity that digital dollars like USDC are new forms of legal electronic money that can be used widely around the world. As this technology explodes into the mainstream, and as Circle becomes a more and more important company and infrastructure for this new internet financial system, it became clear that we needed to plant our flag, both literally and figuratively, in the heart of Wall Street, in the most important economic center of the world, and in the great country of the United States of America. Many complain that the United States is not the right jurisdiction to build a company in our industry, and that the current government here remains hostile to this industry. I couldn’t disagree more. My view is that we are at a turning point, and that the US is about to become THE decisive leader in building and supporting this technology and financial revolution. We are an American Technology champion, and we want to demonstrate that the highest quality, the best run, the safest and the most powerful technology for the new internet financial system calls not just the US, but New York City, it’s home. Today, New York City is home to an enormous number of crypto firms that are leading and innovating in nearly every area of this industry. New York may have the most talent-density in crypto of any city in the world. It’s truly astounding, and we feel so privileged to join this thriving community of companies with a flagship headquarters in New York. After having originally founded the company in Boston, like many technology-driven companies, we have scaled out largely as a remote-first operation. Today, we span 36 US states and 14 countries, with a presence in many of the world’s leading cities including New York, SF Bay Area, Boston, London, Dublin, Paris, Singapore, Berlin, São Paulo, Taipei and more. And we are growing all around the world. But through this, New York has become a crucial nexus of talent, connectivity and a core location for where we convene. 1 World Trade Center is an awe-inspiring building. Its history is known to nearly everyone; this iconic tower, the tallest in the Western hemisphere, stands for freedom, strength, and a projection of America’s central role in the global economic system. Freedom Tower stands above the great pillars of the global economic system – Wall St., the New York Stock Exchange, the New York Federal Reserve, and more. Sitting on a top floor of the tower, Circle’s new flagship HQ is being built not as a traditional office, but rather as a powerful convening space, where we bring together all of our stakeholders to collaborate together, discover, and build the new internet financial system. It’s going to be an amazing and inspiring space that helps bring to life everything that we do at Circle. Today, we are celebrating this new HQ, joined in person in New York by industry, political and key partners who have been central to Circle’s growth and success. Join us virtually in this next phase of our journey. We are investing in New York. We are investing in America. We believe strongly that the infrastructure we are collectively building – this new internet financial system – will be the foundation for the next hundred years of global economic activity and coordination. 2024 has been a turning point year in crypto, a year when stablecoins started to truly breakout in scale, importance and usage. 2025 will be the year when this goes mainstream. As we open our new HQ to the world in early 2025, we will be thrilled to host and convene and see many of you there for this next phase of our collective journey in building a more open, inclusive, safer and efficient global economic system. JA

Jeremy Allaire - jerallaire.arc

575,702 views • 1 year ago

IOTA is being born. 🐣 For almost a decade, the IOTA Foundation has been the mother of IOTA. It carried it, protected it, fed it, corrected it, rebuilt it when necessary, and kept it alive long enough to turn a technological intuition into real infrastructure. But no decentralized network is meant to live forever under its mother’s protection. A foundation is not the final form of a public DLT. It is the womb. The incubator. The structure that allows something immature to survive until it is ready to breathe on its own. And that moment is now approaching. With IOTA Rebased, Move at the base layer, staking, validators, real programmability, and now Starfish live on Mainnet through Protocol Version 24, IOTA is no longer a promise guarded by its mother. It is becoming an adult network. Not just a project. Not just a vision. Not just an architecture waiting for its moment. It is public infrastructure for the real world. 🌍 🔹 The IOTA Foundation is now entering its great year of delivery. One year, maybe a year and a half, in which it will have to consume part of its tokens, not as a sign of weakness, but as the final stage of separation. 🔹 Many will read this as bearish. To me, it is exactly the opposite. It is the umbilical cord being cut in front of everyone. 🔹 Because no truly neutral infrastructure can depend forever on a European foundation. Not Africa, not ASEAN, not America, and not any major global trade corridor will fully trust a public DLT if they perceive that one legal entity still holds too much power over it. That is the key. For IOTA to become bigger, the IF has to become smaller. For IOTA to become more neutral, the IF has to stop being the center. For IOTA to become global infrastructure, it has to stop looking like a network protected by its mother and start behaving like a network that belongs to the world. 🌍 During this phase, some validator nodes supported by IF-delegated tokens will disappear. And although some people will misread this, it is part of the natural process. Those nodes were scaffolding. They helped raise the initial structure, gave stability to the launch, and allowed the network to start walking. But the scaffolding is not the building. When the building is ready, the scaffolding comes down. First, only a few independent validators will enter. Then more. Then competition. And eventually, a real economic fight for validator positions inside a network that no longer depends on its mother’s initial protection. That is decentralization entering adulthood. 💎 The IOTA Foundation also has to become independent from IOTA. Its natural path should no longer be to act as the permanent treasury of the network, but to build real products on top of it. That is where TWIN comes in. TWIN can become the major enterprise, institutional and commercial layer built on IOTA. A SaaS layer for global trade, traceability, digital identity, compliance, digital product passports, logistics, customs, exporters, governments and supply chains. 🧬 The IF would then stop being the mother feeding the child and become something much healthier and much more powerful. 🔥 A customer of IOTA. 🔥 A builder on IOTA. 🔥 An operator using neutral infrastructure to deliver real products to the market. 🔥 That is the right model. Bitcoin does not need a foundation to feed it. It does not need a CEO. It does not need a treasury to keep it emotionally alive. Bitcoin simply exists and offers what it is. Scarcity, settlement, monetary resistance and neutrality. IOTA has to do the same in its own territory. Not only as money, but as digital trust infrastructure for trade, data, identity, real-world assets, machines, institutions and entire economies. 🔹 In 2027 or 2028, TWIN could spin out as an autonomous SaaS business, with recurring revenue, institutional clients and the ability to attract real capital rounds. 🔹 Not crypto grants. Not community funding. Real institutional capital. 🔹 If it proves traction, adoption and revenue, we could be talking about Series A or Series B rounds, each in the tens of millions of dollars. And major investors are already keeping one eye on this coming opportunity.👀👀👀👀👀💰💰💰💰💰 Meanwhile, IOTA would become freer and freer. 💎 Free from dependence on its foundation. 💎 Free from a central treasury. 💎 Free from institutions. 💎 Free from founders. 💎 Free from non-decentralized decisions. 💎 Free even from the need for someone to “save” it. A public network does not reach maturity when its mother protects it better, but when it no longer needs protection. That is why this moment is not bearish. It is brutally bullish. The child is ready to leave home. And when a decentralized network leaves home, it stops being a project and starts becoming infrastructure. Bitcoin needed one paper to decentralize money. IOTA has needed a decade to decentralize real-world trust. And maybe the market will take time to understand it, but the most bullish moment in IOTA’s history may be exactly this. Some will see a mother letting go of her child’s hand. Others will see a network finally being born as sovereign, neutral and free infrastructure. To the untrained eye, the truth may look bearish. To the wise, it will look exactly the opposite. Bullish in its purest form. 💎 Born to be decentralize! #IOTA #IF #Move #TWIN #ASEAN #AfCFTA
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IOTA is being born. 🐣 For almost a decade, the IOTA Foundation has been the mother of IOTA. It carried it, protected it, fed it, corrected it, rebuilt it when necessary, and kept it alive long enough to turn a technological intuition into real infrastructure. But no decentralized network is meant to live forever under its mother’s protection. A foundation is not the final form of a public DLT. It is the womb. The incubator. The structure that allows something immature to survive until it is ready to breathe on its own. And that moment is now approaching. With IOTA Rebased, Move at the base layer, staking, validators, real programmability, and now Starfish live on Mainnet through Protocol Version 24, IOTA is no longer a promise guarded by its mother. It is becoming an adult network. Not just a project. Not just a vision. Not just an architecture waiting for its moment. It is public infrastructure for the real world. 🌍 🔹 The IOTA Foundation is now entering its great year of delivery. One year, maybe a year and a half, in which it will have to consume part of its tokens, not as a sign of weakness, but as the final stage of separation. 🔹 Many will read this as bearish. To me, it is exactly the opposite. It is the umbilical cord being cut in front of everyone. 🔹 Because no truly neutral infrastructure can depend forever on a European foundation. Not Africa, not ASEAN, not America, and not any major global trade corridor will fully trust a public DLT if they perceive that one legal entity still holds too much power over it. That is the key. For IOTA to become bigger, the IF has to become smaller. For IOTA to become more neutral, the IF has to stop being the center. For IOTA to become global infrastructure, it has to stop looking like a network protected by its mother and start behaving like a network that belongs to the world. 🌍 During this phase, some validator nodes supported by IF-delegated tokens will disappear. And although some people will misread this, it is part of the natural process. Those nodes were scaffolding. They helped raise the initial structure, gave stability to the launch, and allowed the network to start walking. But the scaffolding is not the building. When the building is ready, the scaffolding comes down. First, only a few independent validators will enter. Then more. Then competition. And eventually, a real economic fight for validator positions inside a network that no longer depends on its mother’s initial protection. That is decentralization entering adulthood. 💎 The IOTA Foundation also has to become independent from IOTA. Its natural path should no longer be to act as the permanent treasury of the network, but to build real products on top of it. That is where TWIN comes in. TWIN can become the major enterprise, institutional and commercial layer built on IOTA. A SaaS layer for global trade, traceability, digital identity, compliance, digital product passports, logistics, customs, exporters, governments and supply chains. 🧬 The IF would then stop being the mother feeding the child and become something much healthier and much more powerful. 🔥 A customer of IOTA. 🔥 A builder on IOTA. 🔥 An operator using neutral infrastructure to deliver real products to the market. 🔥 That is the right model. Bitcoin does not need a foundation to feed it. It does not need a CEO. It does not need a treasury to keep it emotionally alive. Bitcoin simply exists and offers what it is. Scarcity, settlement, monetary resistance and neutrality. IOTA has to do the same in its own territory. Not only as money, but as digital trust infrastructure for trade, data, identity, real-world assets, machines, institutions and entire economies. 🔹 In 2027 or 2028, TWIN could spin out as an autonomous SaaS business, with recurring revenue, institutional clients and the ability to attract real capital rounds. 🔹 Not crypto grants. Not community funding. Real institutional capital. 🔹 If it proves traction, adoption and revenue, we could be talking about Series A or Series B rounds, each in the tens of millions of dollars. And major investors are already keeping one eye on this coming opportunity.👀👀👀👀👀💰💰💰💰💰 Meanwhile, IOTA would become freer and freer. 💎 Free from dependence on its foundation. 💎 Free from a central treasury. 💎 Free from institutions. 💎 Free from founders. 💎 Free from non-decentralized decisions. 💎 Free even from the need for someone to “save” it. A public network does not reach maturity when its mother protects it better, but when it no longer needs protection. That is why this moment is not bearish. It is brutally bullish. The child is ready to leave home. And when a decentralized network leaves home, it stops being a project and starts becoming infrastructure. Bitcoin needed one paper to decentralize money. IOTA has needed a decade to decentralize real-world trust. And maybe the market will take time to understand it, but the most bullish moment in IOTA’s history may be exactly this. Some will see a mother letting go of her child’s hand. Others will see a network finally being born as sovereign, neutral and free infrastructure. To the untrained eye, the truth may look bearish. To the wise, it will look exactly the opposite. Bullish in its purest form. 💎 Born to be decentralize! #IOTA #IF #Move #TWIN #ASEAN #AfCFTA

Salima

20,464 views • 3 months ago

John Major effectively calls Labour and the Conservatives cowards over Brexit - must watch "In an act of collective folly, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union" "Across the world our enemies celebrated and our friends despaired" "We left the EU on a minority vote of 37% of the electorate" "After a referendum campaign that was PACKED with misinformation and misjudgement" "It left our country poorer, weaker, and divorced from the richest free trade market that history has ever seen" "National interest brushed aside by false hopes and promises, that even a cabinet dominated by front line Brexit enthusiasts was unable to deliver" "The promises they made, given the opportunity, they were unable to meet" "The gains from Brexit that were promised so confidently, can not be seen to be illusionary" "While the forecast damage of leaving the European Union has become only too apparent" "The nation saw project fear become project reality" "It's no consolation that the majority of the public now overwhelmingly recognises that it was misled" "In their moment of triumph, Brexiters predicted other countries would follow their lead and leave the European Union" "None have" "All saw only too clearly that Brexit was packed with disadvantages" "Far from others leaving the European Union, 9 further nations wish to join the EU" "Which is an apt comment on how the world saw Britain's decision to leave" "The United Kingdom once revelled as a leading member of the European Union with half a billion citizens, and the undoubted first ally of the United States, the world's most eminent superpower" "Today we know we are neither and so does the world" "As we plan for the future we must see ourselves as we now are" "And what we are is 70 million people in a world of 9,000 million" "The UK has a proud history, a wealth of talent, a role in the world that continues to be significant" "So we have much to offer any partner" "Our national assets could make the European Union stronger and better equipped to face the uncertain future that now lingers in front of us" "Our collective future demands a Europe that conducts itself as an economic superpower alongside America and China" "The alternative is to be ever subordinate to the economic whim of America and China - I have no appetite for that" "I know the shortcomings of the European Union, I lived with them for many painful years" "But in a dangerous, uncertain world, with two unpredictable superpowers" "I believe the UK's future is safer and more economically secure, inside a powerful block of neighbour nations, than outside" "There are many barriers to a return to full membership of Europe that will be difficult to overcome" "That said, there are areas we can make a start" "And looking forward the plain truth is, the European Union is too important for the United Kingdom to not be part of its decision making process" "The polls tells us that well over a half of the British electorate now believe it was a mistake to leave the EU" "And less than 1/3 support having done so" "Amongst the young, support for Brexit falls as low as 13%" "That is why it is so disappointing that both government and opposition are so wretchedly timid in their policy ambitions" "Both Labour and Tories are terrified of a residual Brexit vote" "They don't seek to change the minds of those who favour Brexit, by talking about the advantages we have lost and might be able to regain" "They simply hide in a hole and do nothing" "Our economic and political interests, that's not abstract, that's your living standards" "Our economic and political interests could not be clearer, but short term party political calculations is given priority over the national interest" "Brexit is a flop" "It is losing our country £100 billion, not million, £100 billion every year, as well as the tax revenue that would deliver" "Just think about that, every year, every year, the loss of European trade is damaging our finances" "The loss is made greater by some decisions the present Labour government have taken, and that is one reason why we are facing a painful and difficult budget" "Economists agree there will be a cumulative loss to the economy of £311 billion by 2035" "Together with 3 million fewer jobs, and a fall in trade levels with the EU" "As of now its a matter of fact, not conjecture" "Many SMEs have simply been defeated by post Brexit bureaucracy and simply find it no longer profitable to trade with Europe" "It is baffling, baffling, that at a basic minimum labour are not now looking at how to negotiate away such frustrations created by bureaucracy" "New trade deals supposed to cover lost European trade have not done so" "Some are positively damaging, ask the farmers if you disbelieve me" "The much promised mega trade deal swapping American trade with lost European trade promised so frequently and so confidently has never happened, and it shows no sigh of doing so in the future" "We have lost, probably forever, the unique and advantageous deals we had gained in the 1980s and 1990s and I do not believe they cannot be regained" "Without them a full return to the EU is unlikely until a younger generation, pro European politicians come to power, and the Brexiter voice again retreats to the fringes of debate"
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John Major effectively calls Labour and the Conservatives cowards over Brexit - must watch "In an act of collective folly, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union" "Across the world our enemies celebrated and our friends despaired" "We left the EU on a minority vote of 37% of the electorate" "After a referendum campaign that was PACKED with misinformation and misjudgement" "It left our country poorer, weaker, and divorced from the richest free trade market that history has ever seen" "National interest brushed aside by false hopes and promises, that even a cabinet dominated by front line Brexit enthusiasts was unable to deliver" "The promises they made, given the opportunity, they were unable to meet" "The gains from Brexit that were promised so confidently, can not be seen to be illusionary" "While the forecast damage of leaving the European Union has become only too apparent" "The nation saw project fear become project reality" "It's no consolation that the majority of the public now overwhelmingly recognises that it was misled" "In their moment of triumph, Brexiters predicted other countries would follow their lead and leave the European Union" "None have" "All saw only too clearly that Brexit was packed with disadvantages" "Far from others leaving the European Union, 9 further nations wish to join the EU" "Which is an apt comment on how the world saw Britain's decision to leave" "The United Kingdom once revelled as a leading member of the European Union with half a billion citizens, and the undoubted first ally of the United States, the world's most eminent superpower" "Today we know we are neither and so does the world" "As we plan for the future we must see ourselves as we now are" "And what we are is 70 million people in a world of 9,000 million" "The UK has a proud history, a wealth of talent, a role in the world that continues to be significant" "So we have much to offer any partner" "Our national assets could make the European Union stronger and better equipped to face the uncertain future that now lingers in front of us" "Our collective future demands a Europe that conducts itself as an economic superpower alongside America and China" "The alternative is to be ever subordinate to the economic whim of America and China - I have no appetite for that" "I know the shortcomings of the European Union, I lived with them for many painful years" "But in a dangerous, uncertain world, with two unpredictable superpowers" "I believe the UK's future is safer and more economically secure, inside a powerful block of neighbour nations, than outside" "There are many barriers to a return to full membership of Europe that will be difficult to overcome" "That said, there are areas we can make a start" "And looking forward the plain truth is, the European Union is too important for the United Kingdom to not be part of its decision making process" "The polls tells us that well over a half of the British electorate now believe it was a mistake to leave the EU" "And less than 1/3 support having done so" "Amongst the young, support for Brexit falls as low as 13%" "That is why it is so disappointing that both government and opposition are so wretchedly timid in their policy ambitions" "Both Labour and Tories are terrified of a residual Brexit vote" "They don't seek to change the minds of those who favour Brexit, by talking about the advantages we have lost and might be able to regain" "They simply hide in a hole and do nothing" "Our economic and political interests, that's not abstract, that's your living standards" "Our economic and political interests could not be clearer, but short term party political calculations is given priority over the national interest" "Brexit is a flop" "It is losing our country £100 billion, not million, £100 billion every year, as well as the tax revenue that would deliver" "Just think about that, every year, every year, the loss of European trade is damaging our finances" "The loss is made greater by some decisions the present Labour government have taken, and that is one reason why we are facing a painful and difficult budget" "Economists agree there will be a cumulative loss to the economy of £311 billion by 2035" "Together with 3 million fewer jobs, and a fall in trade levels with the EU" "As of now its a matter of fact, not conjecture" "Many SMEs have simply been defeated by post Brexit bureaucracy and simply find it no longer profitable to trade with Europe" "It is baffling, baffling, that at a basic minimum labour are not now looking at how to negotiate away such frustrations created by bureaucracy" "New trade deals supposed to cover lost European trade have not done so" "Some are positively damaging, ask the farmers if you disbelieve me" "The much promised mega trade deal swapping American trade with lost European trade promised so frequently and so confidently has never happened, and it shows no sigh of doing so in the future" "We have lost, probably forever, the unique and advantageous deals we had gained in the 1980s and 1990s and I do not believe they cannot be regained" "Without them a full return to the EU is unlikely until a younger generation, pro European politicians come to power, and the Brexiter voice again retreats to the fringes of debate"

Farrukh

123,210 views • 8 months ago

🚨NAFO Please Read🚨You are not alone🚨 We are at a pivotal moment of Good VS Evil My story: So............. as one man, I have made little difference to help Ukraine, like the rest of us, I have done my part on Twitter working my NAFO 9-5 alongside my real world 9-5, donating when I can, fighting disinformation. Whilst trying to live a normal social life and trying to be a good family man and father, like many of us, son's, daughters, mothers, dad's grandad's and grandma's, aunties, uncles.... Normal people, not soldiors. And as one person, this hasn't been much. Not you or me. None of us, alone, have made a single difference. Our Story: You feel week... because your voice isn't loud enough, not enough people see or understand your anger and hatred for Russia and the fucking evils that they do. You feel frustrated because the people around you, such as your family and friends, don't understand why this fight is so important to you? You live in a foreign land to Ukraine, why is it your fight, why should you care, why does it bother you? There are no bombs dropping on your families when you sleep....... You go to work and you don't have to run to bomb shelters midday rather than taking lunch whilst getting coffee..... Who gives a fuck right? But you, NAFO. Have something inside yourself, Love, Compasion, Knowledge and Understanding. You do not live blindly. You can not look away from the fucking evilness of the Russian scumbag dictators. This is why you are not alone, and why we are all the same, and why this is a family. This is why we love and respect each other. We come from so many different countries, our countries used to hate each other and compete, we were in some ways racist in our misconceptions of each other, but Ukraine brought us together. through the devastation of our souls through the pain of seeing what Russia did and trying to do to the Ukrainian people every day, we realised, we are the same and we only speak different languages and eat different food. But inherently, we are human, we live to love the people we care about, and we can sympathise with people we do not now, people we have never met, and with a nation we have never been too..... because, we are human... anything else is inhumane..... anything else is despicable and disgusting and inexcusable. You cannot distinguish this from the start of World War 2. You cannot tell how this is not the same. When good people fail to do enough. And the devastation that followed. But we are here. Regardless of a belief that this would stop in Ukraine, which it won't. We know that just for this one country, this is too much, this is not okay. And that we will never fucking turn a blind eye. Every day we care, and we do small things, small things that multiply, and together we achieve big things. Together, we have been fucking fierce and mighty, a force to be reconned with. Something that cannot be stopped. We know within ourselves that we will never stop fighting and doing what we can. People may not understand us. But i'm reaching into my heart and telling you. What YOU do. YOU the person reading this. You have changed opinions. You have stopped at least one person believing Russian propaganda. YOU have saved at least one life, Atleast. Through your passion of being a good fucking human. You have made a difference in this world. Never underestimate the power of us. We have learned to love each other through the devastation in Ukraine, We have learned how important these people we never knew are to us. Never give up on them. Now, this is nothing, but I'm sure we all know there are people among us that do things that we cannot fathom or understand. The gods among us that started charities, and took physical action, we must always help them in any way we can. You have no fucking idea how much a $2 donation means to them, a £5 donation rather than buying a coffee, they turn our everday money into life saving money. The smaller donations are the backbone to many of these charities, they keep them going. You would not believe the power of many. Please donate and give what you can. If you cannot give, then I admire you more, if you struggle yourself, then it's more commendable to care about people across the world struggling in different ways rather than thinking about yourself. But one thing we can all do is share the cause we support. Give them exposure, and make them understand we believe in their causes. Remember, that in the future, when Ukraine is free and Russia is done. We can tell our children, our grandchildren........ That we did our part. And that we did, just a little and did what we could, but we never turned a blind eye, and we never looked away. My final and personal part. I want to say thank you to 桐生 信之助 for giving me constant amazing media. You have a great team. And I hope you understand that I wanted to use your material in some of my videos to give people hope. You seriously produce some amazing material with a very talented team that is putting out a truthful word in a sea of propaganda and hate. I have joined all the videos I have made so far everyone. And I hope this video as a whole gives you hope in the sheer power of Ukraine when it has its friends behind it. What it can do with our countries backing, and why it is so important. Ukraine will never give up, Ukraine will never surrender. And we should never give up on it. Never underestimate how much your support can multiple across many. Please enjoy this 19 Minutes and 21 seconds of sheer Ukrainian Power and Hope. People fighting for good, their families, and the right to simply call themselves Ukrainian. All footage and video here was filmed by braver people, i simply cut it into pieces and then put their work together and added music to it. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 And glory to whatever country you are from, if you care too. We are not just Ukrainian or NAFO or NATO, we are fucking Human and this is what we do! #NAFO
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🚨NAFO Please Read🚨You are not alone🚨 We are at a pivotal moment of Good VS Evil My story: So............. as one man, I have made little difference to help Ukraine, like the rest of us, I have done my part on Twitter working my NAFO 9-5 alongside my real world 9-5, donating when I can, fighting disinformation. Whilst trying to live a normal social life and trying to be a good family man and father, like many of us, son's, daughters, mothers, dad's grandad's and grandma's, aunties, uncles.... Normal people, not soldiors. And as one person, this hasn't been much. Not you or me. None of us, alone, have made a single difference. Our Story: You feel week... because your voice isn't loud enough, not enough people see or understand your anger and hatred for Russia and the fucking evils that they do. You feel frustrated because the people around you, such as your family and friends, don't understand why this fight is so important to you? You live in a foreign land to Ukraine, why is it your fight, why should you care, why does it bother you? There are no bombs dropping on your families when you sleep....... You go to work and you don't have to run to bomb shelters midday rather than taking lunch whilst getting coffee..... Who gives a fuck right? But you, NAFO. Have something inside yourself, Love, Compasion, Knowledge and Understanding. You do not live blindly. You can not look away from the fucking evilness of the Russian scumbag dictators. This is why you are not alone, and why we are all the same, and why this is a family. This is why we love and respect each other. We come from so many different countries, our countries used to hate each other and compete, we were in some ways racist in our misconceptions of each other, but Ukraine brought us together. through the devastation of our souls through the pain of seeing what Russia did and trying to do to the Ukrainian people every day, we realised, we are the same and we only speak different languages and eat different food. But inherently, we are human, we live to love the people we care about, and we can sympathise with people we do not now, people we have never met, and with a nation we have never been too..... because, we are human... anything else is inhumane..... anything else is despicable and disgusting and inexcusable. You cannot distinguish this from the start of World War 2. You cannot tell how this is not the same. When good people fail to do enough. And the devastation that followed. But we are here. Regardless of a belief that this would stop in Ukraine, which it won't. We know that just for this one country, this is too much, this is not okay. And that we will never fucking turn a blind eye. Every day we care, and we do small things, small things that multiply, and together we achieve big things. Together, we have been fucking fierce and mighty, a force to be reconned with. Something that cannot be stopped. We know within ourselves that we will never stop fighting and doing what we can. People may not understand us. But i'm reaching into my heart and telling you. What YOU do. YOU the person reading this. You have changed opinions. You have stopped at least one person believing Russian propaganda. YOU have saved at least one life, Atleast. Through your passion of being a good fucking human. You have made a difference in this world. Never underestimate the power of us. We have learned to love each other through the devastation in Ukraine, We have learned how important these people we never knew are to us. Never give up on them. Now, this is nothing, but I'm sure we all know there are people among us that do things that we cannot fathom or understand. The gods among us that started charities, and took physical action, we must always help them in any way we can. You have no fucking idea how much a $2 donation means to them, a £5 donation rather than buying a coffee, they turn our everday money into life saving money. The smaller donations are the backbone to many of these charities, they keep them going. You would not believe the power of many. Please donate and give what you can. If you cannot give, then I admire you more, if you struggle yourself, then it's more commendable to care about people across the world struggling in different ways rather than thinking about yourself. But one thing we can all do is share the cause we support. Give them exposure, and make them understand we believe in their causes. Remember, that in the future, when Ukraine is free and Russia is done. We can tell our children, our grandchildren........ That we did our part. And that we did, just a little and did what we could, but we never turned a blind eye, and we never looked away. My final and personal part. I want to say thank you to 桐生 信之助 for giving me constant amazing media. You have a great team. And I hope you understand that I wanted to use your material in some of my videos to give people hope. You seriously produce some amazing material with a very talented team that is putting out a truthful word in a sea of propaganda and hate. I have joined all the videos I have made so far everyone. And I hope this video as a whole gives you hope in the sheer power of Ukraine when it has its friends behind it. What it can do with our countries backing, and why it is so important. Ukraine will never give up, Ukraine will never surrender. And we should never give up on it. Never underestimate how much your support can multiple across many. Please enjoy this 19 Minutes and 21 seconds of sheer Ukrainian Power and Hope. People fighting for good, their families, and the right to simply call themselves Ukrainian. All footage and video here was filmed by braver people, i simply cut it into pieces and then put their work together and added music to it. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 And glory to whatever country you are from, if you care too. We are not just Ukrainian or NAFO or NATO, we are fucking Human and this is what we do! #NAFO

Bricktop_NAFO

918,956 views • 2 years ago