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๐€๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ซ ๐‰๐จ๐ก๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‚๐ž๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐Ÿ€๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ A look back as AJ opened up on the intense pressure of playing for Celtic and how it affected his performances. Interestingly it was through Canada he got help speaking to their sports psychologist. With MoN confirming ๐‚๐š๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐จ ๐ƒ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ง, the Colombian will need to handle that same Glasgow pressure to succeed. ๐–๐ก๐จ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ก๐š๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐ญ ๐‚๐ž๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข๐œ โ€” ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐› ๐๐จ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐š๐๐š๐ฉ๐ญ?

๐‚๐ž๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐„๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐Ÿ€

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๐ƒ๐„๐€๐‘ ๐†๐Ž๐Ž๐ƒ ๐…๐‘๐ˆ๐„๐๐ƒ๐’ ๐Ž๐”๐“ ๐“๐‡๐„๐‘๐„!! ๐ˆ ๐๐„๐„๐ƒ ๐˜๐Ž๐”๐‘ ๐‡๐„๐‹๐ ๐ˆ๐ ๐’๐๐‘๐„๐€๐ƒ๐ˆ๐๐† ๐“๐‡๐ˆ๐’ ๐Œ๐„๐’๐’๐€๐†๐„!! ๐๐‹๐„๐€๐’๐„ ๐ƒ๐Ž ๐˜๐Ž๐”๐‘ ๐Œ๐€๐†๐ˆ๐‚ ๐‹๐ˆ๐Š๐„ ๐˜๐Ž๐” ๐€๐‹๐–๐€๐˜๐’ ๐ƒ๐Ž!! ๐–๐ก๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ–๐ญ๐ก? ๐‘๐ž๐š๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐... #Swachhagrahis On November 8, 2014, a sight on the #Assighat in #Kashi left a lasting impact on our nationโ€™s conscience. Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji, spade in hand, began clearing a mound of hardened silt alongside sanitation workers, not from a podium or raised stage, but in the trenches, shoulder to shoulder. The scene was clear: this wasnโ€™t symbolic. It was a real act, and it spoke volumes. He didnโ€™t just talk about change; he exemplified it. He showed us, through action, that '๐ฌ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ญ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž ๐๐ข๐ ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ.' In his own words from the Red Fort, he asked each of us to โ€œ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ โ€˜๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ž๐š๐ง ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ž?โ€™ ๐š๐ง๐ โ€˜๐ฐ๐ก๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ˆ ๐›๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ?" His question resonates as strongly today:โ€œHas your action safeguarded the interests of the country or not? Has it worked for the welfare of others?โ€ PM Modiโ€™s actions inspired a wave of change, setting off a transformation from dirt-ridden banks to bustling, clean spaces that today attract countless visitors to #Assighat. November 8th reminds us to honor the legacy of Swachhagrahis - those frontline warriors of cleanliness, who stood between us and the COVID pandemic, and continue to work tirelessly each day. Letโ€™s make this a day where our respect for them isnโ€™t only expressed but truly felt. ๐‡๐ž๐ซ๐žโ€™๐ฌ ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐›๐ข๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ:: 1. ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ง๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐œ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ง๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐š๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ - the ones who keep your streets, public spaces, and homes clean. Learn their names, get to know them as individuals, and remember that our PM himself has shown respect by washing their feet, honoring their invaluable work. 2. ๐•๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐ก๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ž๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐š๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐๐จ. This act will spread a message of respect, inspiring communities to see their contributions with fresh, appreciative eyes. 3. ๐’๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐š ๐ฆ๐ž๐š๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ - whether in a restaurant or their home, and treat it as you would a family gathering. This simple gesture of kindness reinforces that they are part of the larger family of our nation. 4. ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐ฉ๐ก๐จ๐ญ๐จ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ซ ๐›๐š๐ง๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ in your community, with a heartfelt *thank you* message. Allow your neighbors to write their appreciation and recognize their efforts visibly and proudly. These are only a few ideas โ€” but whatever you choose, ๐๐จ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ง๐ž๐. These unsung heroes donโ€™t ask for acknowledgment; they donโ€™t demand praise. But it is "our duty" to extend it. Letโ€™s honor their work and recognize the sacrifices they make every day. November 8th is a day to give back the dignity and pride our #Swachhagrahis deserve. Letโ€™s make this a collective movement.

Temsutula Imsong #SwachhagrahiSammanDiwas #08th

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๐‡๐จ๐ง'๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐Œ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐’๐ก๐ซ๐ข ๐๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐๐ซ๐š ๐Œ๐จ๐๐ข ๐จ๐ง ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐จ๐œ๐œ๐š๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ก๐š๐ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š๐ง ๐‘๐‘ ๐“๐š๐ฑ (๐‘๐š๐ก๐ฎ๐ฅ-๐‘๐ž๐ฏ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ก) ๐›๐ž๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฏ๐ข๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐“๐ž๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐ ๐š๐ง๐š. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐‘ ๐“๐š๐ฑ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง. Now, Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has shamelessly admitted that he will give Rs. 1,000 crore from Telangana to the Sonia-Rahul family. Why is Revanth Reddy so worried about the economic condition of the Gandhi family instead of his own state where the 6 guarantees and 420 promises have not seen the light of the day? The truth is because for the past two years, Telanganaโ€™s RR Tax has become an ATM for the Congress party. After the BRS went on a borrowing spree pushing the state into a deficit, the Congress has now ensured that the Telangana Debt burden reaches Rs. 10 Lakh crores and still have not managed to show anything of worth that has been built in the state. The CM himself confessed publicly in a TV interview that Telangana doesn't have money to invest even Rs. 500 crores every month for Capital expenditure projects. Then how does he have 1,000 crores for the Sonia-Rahul Family? The RR Tax can be seen in several projects that the Congress government is executing in Telangana including in the demolishing of houses of the poor in the name of HYDRAA, taking away the land of tribals in Lagacharla in the name of industry, trying to forcibly seize the land of University of Hyderabad and Maulana Azaad universities, and taking away the land of industries in the name of HILT policy. All they are doing is looting Telangana like gangsters and keeping it for themselves. The Telangana Congress regularly travels to Delhi carrying gunny bags of RR Tax collections to protect their own positions.

G Kishan Reddy

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๐‡๐Ž๐”๐’๐„ ๐Ž๐•๐„๐‘๐’๐ˆ๐†๐‡๐“ ๐ˆ๐’ ๐๐Ž๐– ๐ˆ๐๐•๐„๐’๐“๐ˆ๐†๐€๐“๐ˆ๐๐† ๐‡๐€๐’๐€๐ ๐๐ˆ๐Š๐„๐‘ ๐€๐๐ƒ ๐‚๐Ž๐ƒ๐„๐๐ˆ๐๐Š ๐Ž๐•๐„๐‘ ๐“๐‡๐„ โ€œ๐‡๐”๐Œ๐€๐๐ˆ๐“๐€๐‘๐ˆ๐€๐โ€ ๐‚๐”๐๐€ ๐“๐‘๐ˆ๐ ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐‡๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐Ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ž has opened a formal investigation into far-left streamer ๐‡๐š๐ฌ๐š๐ง ๐๐ข๐ค๐ž๐ซ and the co-founders of ๐‚๐จ๐๐ž๐๐ข๐ง๐ค over their March trip to Cuba โ€” billed as a humanitarian aid mission, but which prosecutors and congressional investigators now allege functioned as a propaganda operation on behalf of the Cuban communist regime, in violation of U.S. sanctions law. Per the report, Piker and his fellow activists used the trip to promote the regime and protest the U.S. embargo, while staying in luxury hotels and meeting with communist officials even as ordinary Cubans grappled with the regime's deepening economic collapse. Piker's on-camera position throughout has been that the Cuban people's hardship is the fault of โ€” who else โ€” President Trump. This now stacks on top of the Treasury Department's OFAC subpoena to Piker and CodePink's Medea Benjamin over the same trip. Add the Asra Nomani Fox investigation into the Singham nonprofit network funding most of the protest infrastructure these activists work inside, and you have four federal touchpoints converging on one operation. Read what that means. The federal government is no longer treating the CodePink-Piker-Singham apparatus as ordinary activism. It is treating it as ๐š ๐ฌ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐œ๐š๐ฌ๐ž, a foreign-influence case, and a nonprofit-fraud case โ€” in parallel. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฒ-๐ก๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐›๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ญ ๐š๐ง ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ง ๐ก๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐€๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐š. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐€๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ. ๐˜๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ @๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜บ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ด

M.A. Rothman

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๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ’ด The Post-1971 Dollar System Is Finished Alastair Crooke (Alastair Crooke) on Bessentโ€™s โ€œBail out Japanโ€ note: pure market signalingโ€”front-run the intervention. Using euros, not dollars, to prop the yen exposes the dollarโ€™s underlying frailty. Japanโ€™s 14-15% zombie firms already cannot cover interest; any rate rise detonates them and cascades into the U.S. Treasury market. Rates are climbing regardless. This is the post-1971 floating-rate system devouring itself. โ€œThey are desperately trying to mount a rescue of Japan, even to the extent of the old trick of letting CNN or someone film a note on the desk of Bessent as heโ€™s making a statement that says, โ€™Bail out Japan.โ€™ Look, I mean, itโ€™s so obviousโ€”a message to the market. Come on, get in there quickly. Help me bail it out because Iโ€™m going to do that so you can front-run it and you can make money on front-running it. But, I mean, the key giveaway about how dangerous this is: what was he using to bail out the Japanese yen? What was he using? He was using euros. He wasnโ€™t printing dollars to do it or selling dollars. He was selling euros to buy the yen to strengthen the currency. And that means that heโ€™s very worried that the dollar is very weak, that he has to use the euro to help support it. And I think heโ€™s very worried because if interest rates go up in Japan, big trouble for Japan because many of the companiesโ€”a large portion, 14-15%, I donโ€™t know what it is exactlyโ€”are zombie companies. Their profits donโ€™t cover the interest that they need to pay on their debt. In other countries, it would be called being bankrupt, but theyโ€™re called zombie companies. They just donโ€™t have the money to pay. So, if interest rates go up in Japan, bang, this is a major crisis in Japan and therefore a major crisis in the bond market in America. Interest rates are already going up. Iโ€™m sure weโ€™ll see them going up further this morning even though the marketsโ€”the usual algosโ€”reacted to Trump saying, โ€™Oh, no, the Iranians asked for talks,โ€™ which they did not. And โ€™weโ€™re close to finalizing an agreement on Hormuz with Oman.โ€™ Yes, further, further deep right down the end of the line when the warโ€™s finished and everythingโ€™s agreed, then thereโ€™ll be an agreement with Oman.โ€ This is the post-1971 floating-rate system devouring itself. The dollar is weaker than the system can admit. The zombie companies are the product. The U.S. Treasury market is the vulnerable point. The system cannot be reformed. It must be replaced.

๐Ÿ…ฐpocalypsis ๐Ÿ…ฐpocalypseos ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ ๐Ÿ…‰

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Host: Tim, youโ€™re a Chelsea fan. What is your view on Enzo Fernรกndez? Tim: This season, Iโ€™ve been a big fan of what he has given us on the pitch. He is always popping up with one of those classy goals from just outside the box, or making a run into the area and smashing it in. Itโ€™s lovely to see, and I canโ€™t complain. However, the way he conducted himself during the World Cup was absolutely disgusting. Iโ€™m thoroughly embarrassed that he plays for my club. The way he was flying into tackles, the incident in the final when he was sent off and him dancing around on the pitch with the Falklands bannerM it was disgraceful. I want him gone. Host: Tim, I completely understand your point, especially regarding the Argentina incidents. However, considering everything that has happened at Chelsea this season, when the team has sometimes looked a little soft and become a bit of a laughing stock, is it wise to get rid of one of the few players who has some bite and aggression, despite all the other things youโ€™ve mentioned? Tim: I completely understand what youโ€™re saying. Itโ€™s a really good point, and I have to admit that itโ€™s quite difficult to answer. I guess it would all depend on who Chelsea replaced him with. Host: You did really well there, Tim. Tim: Yeah, all right, mate. Youโ€™ve punched me right in the soft spot. Thereโ€™s no coming back from that. Host: I think youโ€™ve lost that one, Tim. You need to defend yourself. Second caller: How are you doing, boys? Are you all right? Host: Yeah, weโ€™re good, man. Youโ€™ve got a good voice. Second caller: Letโ€™s bring it back to Chelsea quickly. Just to give you some context, my boy is sitting in the car with me now. He is eight years old, and we have followed Chelsea home and away across Europe. Last season, we travelled to Paris, Italy and Azerbaijan. The season before that, we attended all the Conference League games apart from the final. Even though Enzo didnโ€™t play in many of those matches, what he does off the ball for Chelsea is unbelievable. You donโ€™t always notice it when youโ€™re sitting at home watching on television. His work rate is incredible, and youโ€™re right what football is missing now is bite, aggression and that side of the game. When youโ€™re playing against a team like Arsenal, you need that kind of player.

SHAYEE ๐’€ญ

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๐•๐ˆ๐‚๐“๐Ž๐‘ ๐ƒ๐€๐•๐ˆ๐’ ๐‡๐€๐๐’๐Ž๐ ๐“๐Ž ๐„๐”๐‘๐Ž๐๐„: โ€œ๐Ž๐‡, ๐˜๐Ž๐” ๐–๐€๐๐“๐„๐ƒ ๐”๐’ ๐“๐Ž ๐†๐Ž ๐ˆ๐๐“๐Ž ๐”๐Š๐‘๐€๐ˆ๐๐„ ๐“๐Ž ๐ƒ๐„๐…๐„๐๐ƒ ๐˜๐Ž๐”? ๐๐”๐“ ๐”๐Š๐‘๐€๐ˆ๐๐„โ€™๐’ ๐๐Ž๐“ ๐€ ๐๐€๐“๐Ž ๐๐Ž๐–๐„๐‘. ๐“๐‡๐ˆ๐’ ๐ˆ๐’ ๐˜๐Ž๐”๐‘ ๐๐‘๐Ž๐๐‹๐„๐Œ. ๐“๐‡๐ˆ๐’ ๐ˆ๐’ ๐Ž๐ ๐˜๐Ž๐”๐‘ ๐ƒ๐Ž๐Ž๐‘๐’๐“๐„๐. ๐๐€๐“๐Ž ๐ƒ๐Ž๐„๐’๐โ€™๐“ ๐Œ๐„๐€๐ ๐Œ๐”๐‚๐‡ ๐€๐๐˜๐Œ๐Ž๐‘๐„ โ€” ๐๐”๐“ ๐–๐„ ๐–๐ˆ๐‹๐‹ ๐‡๐€๐•๐„ ๐€ ๐’๐๐„๐‚๐ˆ๐€๐‹ ๐‘๐„๐‹๐€๐“๐ˆ๐Ž๐๐’๐‡๐ˆ๐ ๐–๐ˆ๐“๐‡ ๐˜๐Ž๐”.โ€ In about 90 seconds, Victor Davis Hanson โ€” classicist, military historian, Hoover Institution senior fellow โ€” walked through the end of the ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ-๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ— ๐€๐ญ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ž๐ซ and the beginning of what replaces it. He did it by ventriloquizing the exact conversation American leaders are no longer willing to have with European capitals. โ€œ๐˜–๐˜ฉ, ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ถ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜จ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜œ๐˜ฌ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ? ๐˜‰๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜œ๐˜ฌ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ข ๐˜•๐˜ˆ๐˜›๐˜– ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ. ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ 5. ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ. ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ.โ€ โ€œ๐˜–๐˜ฉ, ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ถ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜จ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜š๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ข? ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜š๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฃ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ถ๐˜ฑ ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ? ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ตโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ข ๐˜•๐˜ˆ๐˜›๐˜– ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ. ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜บโ€™๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜บ ๐˜•๐˜ˆ๐˜›๐˜– ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ.โ€ โ€œ๐˜ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ถ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜จ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ข, ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ด, ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜๐˜ด๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜Š๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ? ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ตโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ. ๐˜–๐˜ฉ, ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฌ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ณ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜จ๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ฌ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ด ๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฌ ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜บ? ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ตโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ.โ€ Hanson is not being flip. He is describing a real shift in the American strategic posture. For 75 years, the deal was simple: ๐€๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐š ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ, ๐„๐ฎ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ. Europe spent its peace dividend on 32-hour work weeks, free college, and a carbon regime that deindustrialized its own economy. Meanwhile ๐จ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ ๐๐€๐“๐Ž ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ currently hit the agreed ๐Ÿ% ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐†๐ƒ๐ ๐๐ž๐Ÿ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐  floor (NATO Secretary Generalโ€™s Annual Report, 2025). Germany spends ๐Ÿ.๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ•%. Spain spends ๐Ÿ.๐Ÿ๐Ÿ–%. Italy spends ๐Ÿ.๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ—%. And then European diplomats show up in Washington and ask where the American aircraft carriers are. Hansonโ€™s prescription is not isolationism. It is the exact opposite: โ€œ๐˜ž๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ-๐˜ฐ๐˜ง-๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ-๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฑ๐˜ด. ๐˜ž๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜Š๐˜ป๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ด, ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜—๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด, ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜บ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ, ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต, ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆโ€™๐˜ฅ ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ป๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด. ๐˜ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ข ๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต? ๐˜‰๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜•๐˜ˆ๐˜›๐˜– ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ฏโ€™๐˜ต ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜บ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ.โ€ In other words: ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐ณ๐ž๐œ๐ก ๐‘๐ž๐ฉ๐ฎ๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐œ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐š๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ฌ, ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ ๐š๐ฅ โ€” ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ž๐Ÿ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ get the American security umbrella. Germany, France, and Spain get to fund their own defense or talk to Moscow directly. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐€๐ญ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐ . ๐ˆ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐›๐ž๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ซ๐ž๐ฐ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐Ÿ๐š๐ฏ๐จ๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐„๐ฎ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐ง๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ค๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐š๐ซ๐ ๐š๐ข๐ง. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ ๐ž๐ญ ๐š ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐œ๐š๐ซ๐. ๐๐š๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฉ๐ข๐œ๐ค ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐š ๐ซ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐ž.

M.A. Rothman

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Caleb Banks, DT, Florida Age: 23.1 Height: 6'6" Weight: 335 lbs Arms: 35" Current Consensus Rank: 24th ๐ŸŸจ Market Share Adjusted Production: 67th percentile 34 Games 929 Career Snaps 60 Career Pressures 7 Sacks 48 Tackles 10.5 Tackles For Loss 1 batted pass 4 penalties ๐ŸŸง Career PFF Grade: 47th Percentile ๐ŸŸฉ Career PFF Pass Rush Grade: 77th Percentile 10.6% Career Pass Rush Win Rate 10.7% PRWR Last 2 Seasons ๐ŸŸฉ Win Rate: 83rd Percentile ๐ŸŸจ Career Pass Rush Grade on True Pass Sets: 66th Percentile 18.0% Career Win Rate on TPS 17.7% PRWR on TPS Last 2 Seasons ๐ŸŸฆ True Pass Set Win Rate: 88th Percentile ๐ŸŸฅ PFF Career Run Defense Grade: 25th Percentile ๐ŸŸฅ 3.2% Career Run Stop Rate: 1st Percentile ๐Ÿšฉ ๐ŸŸฅ 25.5% Missed Tackle Rate: 0.7 percentile ๐ŸŸฅ PFF Tackling Grade: 4th Percentile ๐ŸŸฅ Tackles For Losses: 8th Percentile Player Analysis: Caleb Banks has flashes of a super star. He can move laterally and jump a gap at the snap in a blink or he can bull rush right through blockers with ease. The high-end plays are truly incredible. Rare to see a player of that size move so fluidly and then come back with the raw power he possesses on the next play. The flashes are what will sell teams, but Banks has a ways to go before he's that player on a consistent basis. Too often, Banks plays with poor leverage and conditioning (foot injury and weight played a factor). When he's playing too tall, his get-off and power are robbed. Then you've got inconsistent hand usage. He will swing wildly and hit nothing. Leaving his chest open and making himself easy to block. The combination of inconsistent pad level and hand usage leads to having trouble against double teams as he can be displaced and moved down the line. Banks' profile shows pass rush upside with inconsistent run defense and one of the worst tacklers we've ever seen. Banks leaves his feet and lunges or will completely stop his feet and reach for the ball carrier (around the shoulders) and both lead to big missed tackles. These misses have severely affected his overall production. Banks has never played more than 422 snaps in a season and if he's going to become a full time starter in the NFL, he's going to need to stay healthy and improve at the little things. He's a 'Home Run or Strikeout' player right now and at age 23 on Draft Night, he's one of only 4 players in the current consensus top 32 that'll be over that mark. If he pans out, it'll be easy to see why. If his highlights were the whole story, Banks would be a top 12 lock. Instead, you have to wonder if he'll ever reach those heights.

Goodberry

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One of the worst aspects of the last 40 years, accelerated in the dark turn after 2016, the commencement of utter gutter unfiltered news on Bukedde (one has to actively avoid ALL Ugandan so-called blogs/vlogs and kidandali TikTokkers to ensure they have a semblance of sanity as they pursue dreams in tandem with the rest of other civilizations that are allowed to dream), is the unrelenting damage occasioned to the Ugandan psyche. A country that just seems to OFFICIALLY revel in its stagnation, shabby statecraft, an intentional disrespect for all sacred rituals of state (which would be forgivable if there was an attempt at a substitute to the same, but it is malevolence for malevolence's sake, like a playground bully, who just spits on a kid's piece of pancake, because they can) and constant regression in some areas. It is why many can accept national news to be dominated by deaths and reports of health outbreaks. Our Crude Death Rate is still amongst the lowest in Africa, but you wouldn't tell that from the mainstream news. Our newspapers compete with medical journals elsewhere, but in a terrorizing format. We are the best 3rd World WHO and Big Pharma colony. If you want chaos at our Health Ministry headquarters, suggest something to end the Malaria menace once and for all. The benefits of supplying mosquito nets every year, to those that get the contracts, far outweigh, in their warped minds, a wiping out of the scourge. I digress. The result is that many people are genuinely shocked when they visit Uganda to find pockets of happiness and an overall, albeit brow beaten, hopeful populace. This INTENTIONAL demoralization of UGANDANS serves a purpose. It is easy to control the doses of hope to a hopeless people, through a pig here, a duck there, an emaciated, sick goat somewhere. A dollop of mud to fix a pothole. A rotting electric pole to transfer electricity to a village, etc. We should, for the children and our sake, reject this normalization of a bastardized feudal Marxist peasant and murder enforced tyranny of a pretend civilization. We shouldn't fall into the 5 monkey experiment trap. We should constantly hammer it home that in 1951, Entebbe International Airport was the largest and best in Africa when it opened. That we once had the largest middle class in Eastern Africa. The best urban and regional roads. That street lighting was so common place, even Budaka had street lighting. That public libraries are normal. That the Uganda Transport Corporation provided organized, orderly public transportation. That a university graduate who has a job in the CBD, but stays in Bulenga shouldn't get to office wet and dusty, because he used a Boda to get to work instead of a bus, etc. That it is in our DNA to have clean, urban spaces and not sewage and garbage ridden streets.

DBwambale

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โš ๏ธ ๐Œ๐”๐’๐“ ๐–๐€๐“๐‚๐‡โš ๏ธ ๐€๐๐Ž๐“๐‡๐„๐‘ ๐–๐€๐‘๐๐ˆ๐๐† ๐…๐Ž๐‘ ๐“๐‡๐„ ๐€๐๐‘๐ˆ๐‹ ๐Ÿ–๐“๐‡ ๐’๐Ž๐‹๐€๐‘ ๐„๐‚๐‹๐ˆ๐๐’๐„, ๐๐Ž๐’๐’๐ˆ๐๐‹๐„ ๐„๐€๐‘๐“๐‡๐๐”๐€๐Š๐„๐’ ๐€N๐ƒ ๐๐Ž๐– ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ Maero๐• ๐€๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐‹๐จ๐œ๐ค๐ฐ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฒ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐๐š๐ฒ ๐Ÿ‘/๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐˜๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ ๐…๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐›๐ž๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฌ ๐š ๐›๐ข๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ. ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ง๐ž๐ ๐š๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ โ€œ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญโ€ ๐จ๐œ๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ข๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’ ๐›๐ž๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ. โŒ ๐๐ž ๐š๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐จ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฒ โŒ ๐•๐ข๐๐ž๐จ ๐‚๐ซ๐ž๐๐ข๐ญ: ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ: The sheriff called me yesterday and after he got done telling me everything inside this meeting that was happening, I pretty much was nerve rattled after what I heard. But I'm gonna tell you what the emergency, what's behind this emergency for the solar eclipse, what's the deeper intel? And not only that, how they want emergency communication systems to be implemented, what specific groups they're gonna be targeting. We're about to get into all that right here and information that I did separate research to try to link up and confirm more on this scenario. So he gets on the phone with me yesterday after they have this meeting. Who was this meeting with? It is with Homeland Security. So, and he said there were New York instructors there. I have a list right here. I took notes of every single thing that he said because I couldn't record his voice. Obviously he's trying to stay discreet. ๐‡๐ž ๐ฌ๐š๐ข๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ข-๐ฏ๐š๐œ๐œ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐ฉ๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž, ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ข-๐ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž, ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ, ๐“๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฉ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ. He even goes into deeper in the scenario of what we're gonna get to here in a second. But he said they didn't want the public to have any communication between each other, any communication at all. And we told you yesterday that sheriff that came on and said it could be a potential terror attack. Well we got more intel on what could actually happen in the solar eclipse. But just listen to this 23 second clip really quick. But that's not all that he's concerned about. That people want to do us harm. Use an event like this where a lot of people are gathered to do some type of terror event. The director of the Lake County Emergency Management Agency told me they've been preparing for the solar eclipse now for about two years. They've been preparing for this for two years. Imagine that for two years. That sounds like a lot of preparation going into that. And in the video yesterday, I told you the military is getting into a building that they won the Allied War in World War ii, which is idabell, which you can find that video after this video. But let's get into this right now. So they don't want any communications between us and what is the big event that they're doing? This is what he told me inside of Homeland Security yesterday They were talking about, he said during the solar eclipse, while people are all out there looking, they're planning the intel that they've got is a possible biological attack on people while the solar eclipse is freaking happening? Yes, I just said that. While the solar eclipse is happening and you're like, okay, well where are they gonna do that? Well, all the people out for the solar eclipse I'm potentially believing could be targets. Okay, so this is not speculation. This is totally inside information about what they said.

{Matt} $XRPatriot

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I WENT TO SPEAK at Chinaโ€™s incredible Tsinghua University. Amazing place: You can see why itโ€™s zooming up the global academic charts. Iโ€™m with a very dynamic group of people at an international workshop at a place which has speedily become one of the worldโ€™s top places of learning. In some ways itโ€™s like Harvard or Cambridge โ€“ big gardens interspersed with big old buildings. But itโ€™s much less politicized and more strongly education-focusedโ€”no wonder it makes so many breakthroughs. . THE CAST Let me introduce you to a few people at this gathering. - Thatโ€™s Yan Hairong and thatโ€™s Barry Sautman. They are professors who know more about China and its ethnic minorities than all the journalists I know put together. Literally. - Thatโ€™s Daniel Dumbrill, a businessman who shot to fame in 2019 when he went on YouTube to tell the truth about the Hong Kong unrest. - Thatโ€™s Sun Yan, a New York professor who gave us an interesting perspective from the United States. - Thatโ€™s Jaq James, an Australian lawyer whose gobsmacking work comparing Chinese and western laws reveals which side really deserves to be called โ€œauthoritarianโ€. Her reports are a must-read. - Also present were Tibetan scholar Kalsang Drolma, commentator Ben Norton, and others; all fine people doing great work. One of the ways you can tell that Tsinghua University is full of smart people is that everyone goes everywhere by bicycleโ€”and the fact that most of it is green. Wish the whole world was like that! . YEARS OF RESEARCH The great thing about academic conferences is that peopleโ€™s work is based on research. Itโ€™s not like in journalism, where the CIA make up a story and reporters obediently make it front page news. [video shows examples] No. In academia, you need to do actual research, gather original data, and then do statistical analysis and comparative studies on it. You spend months or years doing this. The result is that you end up with the truthโ€”which is very often diametrically opposite to what politicians and journalists tell you. . FICTION VS FACT Iโ€™m just going to give you one example. In the US a few days ago senators launched a motion that accused the Chinese of committing genocide on the people of who live in Tibet, thatโ€™s the area known as Xizang in the southwest of China. Genocide is of course the worst crime of all, trying to wipe out an entire ethnicity, so they would need an extraordinary amount of evidence to show that. But the Senators have literally none at all. They just made it up. Compare that to academics. Here they have raw data about Tibet from people who live there and who spend literally years researching it. And what do we find? Tibetans have the fastest expansion rate of any ethnic community in China. Between the 2010 census and the 2020 census the population of Tibet grew 21.5 percentโ€”the exact opposite of a genocide. And that, boys and girls, is the difference between the mediaโ€”and the facts. So, stay smart. Stay skeptical. Peace. .

Nury Vittachi

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I've been saying that China isn't just represented by huge cities like Beijing and Shanghai; we still have a vast population living in the countryside, and China's "Countryside Revitalisation" initiative is making remarkable strides and deserves your attention. Today a video of a village little girl showing off the little cake her grandmother ordered her online and had delivered to her village home in no time has gone viral online, with many Chinese netizens praising the efforts made by countless officials and cadres stationed in the villages to assist the villagers in overcoming poverty. In the video, the little girl told the audience that her grandmother got her a tiny cake for only 9.9 RMB, and that she can now order Mixue milk tea and other food and drink online, with fast and reliable delivery to her village. The girl then happily told the audience, "Comrade!" "Look what we have here." Quick food delivery in a rural area is not an easy feat. It would require the elderly have smartphones and know how to use all the apps, that the village has good roads that lead to the town or cities, that the internet coverage and electricity in the villages are sufficient, and that the delivery guy knows the roads and residents in the village (most likely the delivery guy himself is a villager, and the internet industry has provided villagers with more job opportunities), all of which are the outcome of China's decades-long program of โ€œCountryside Revitalisation.โ€ Here are some facts regarding Chinaโ€™s โ€œCountryside Revitalisationโ€ initiatives: ๐Ÿ”ต Broadband connectivity in all administrative villages in China has achieved 100%, while 4G and 5G network coverage rates are 99% and 90%, respectively. Rural broadband users climbed from 93.77 million in 2017 to 200 million in 2024. As of June 2025, China had 322 million rural internet users, with an internet penetration rate of 69.2% in rural areas, helping to close the urban-rural digital divide. Over the past few decades, China has constructed 337,800 integrated postal and logistics service stations at the village level. The country has also heavily promoted the "postal + rural e-commerce + agricultural specialties + farmers (cooperatives)" model. Meanwhile, the country's telemedicine service network has expanded beyond cities and counties to reach rural grassroots levels and communities, greatly enhancing the quality of life and productivity of rural residents. The use of digital technologies in rural production, such as smart farmland monitoring and livestock risk management, has expanded. The "Agricultural Affairs Helpline" app has assisted 1.06 million entities. ๐Ÿ”ต The Chinese grassroots officials are dispatched to the poor villages to help the residents by living and working alongside them. Their work performance in the village will be considered for future promotions. Every poor village would have a resident work team, as well as a designated official for each poor household. At its second plenary meeting in March 2014, the State Council Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development resolved to integrate resident work teams' efforts with the CPC's program to educate Party members on the need of maintaining tight relationships with villages. Based on a summary of working experience, capable and experienced officials who understood poverty alleviation and were skilled at connecting with farmers were assigned to each poor village in the first half of 2014. In 2015, all poor villages had resident work teams, and every poor household a contact official in charge of poverty elimination. By the end of 2020, 255,000 resident work teams and more than 3 million officials had been dispatched as first secretaries and resident officials to poor villages, fighting on the front line of poverty alleviation alongside nearly 2 million township officials and millions of village officials.

Eivor

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Gad Saad warns โ€˜suicidal empathyโ€™ is pushing the West toward collapse | Rachel Wolf, Fox News From reactions to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks to gender ideology and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), author and scholar Gad Saad warns that Western civilization is on the brink of collapse. In his new book, "Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind," Saad argues that the West has taken compassion to a dangerous place by prioritizing ideological virtue-signaling over truth and common sense. "I'm not in the least bit arguing that empathy is a bad thing, but just like Aristotle explained to us several millennia ago, all good things in moderation," Saad told Fox News Digital. "If you're not in the least bit empathetic, you're likely to be a psychopath, if you are too empathetic, if it hyperactivates, if it targets the wrong people in the wrong circumstances, then that becomes suicidal empathy," he explained. Saad points to the West's reaction after Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre in Israel as an example of the phenomenon, noting that sympathy quickly shifted away from Israeli victims as criticism of Israel's military response in Gaza grew. "You would have thought that the orgiastic depraved killing of 1,200 mainly Jewish people... the worst single day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust would have afforded the world an opportunity to exhibit empathy towards the Jews. Well, alas, as we very quickly found out, October 7th was forgotten," Saad said. For Saad, the backlash against Israel in the aftermath of the Hamas attacks reflected ideological shifts that had been taking place in the West for decades. He argued that misplaced empathy eventually morphs into what he calls "civilizational seppuku," referring to a ritual suicide historically associated with Japanese samurai. According to Saad, many of these ideas began on university campuses and later spread into politics, the media and culture. The result, he said, is a culture that is increasingly uncomfortable with objective definitions of what were once considered to be basic concepts, such as gender. "Once you are fully parasitized, you end up with your most recent addition to the US Supreme Court, not having the self-assuredness to say, โ€˜Oh, of course I know what a woman is,โ€™" he said, referring to an infamous moment from Justice Katanji Brown Jackson's 2022 confirmation hearing. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., asked Jackson to define the word "woman." Jackson refused, stating that "I'm not a biologist." When speaking with Fox News Digital, Saad mocked Jackson's answer, saying that ordinary people routinely recognize obvious realities without seeking specialized expertise. "By that logic, when I next have to choose which type of Belgian shepherd to bring into my home, I better seek the help of a veterinarian. Because I might simply choose a giraffe to be my Belgian shepherd, because I don't have the expertise to distinguish between the quadrupedal giraffe and the quadrupedal dog." While Saad views the debate as absurd on its face, he believes the worldview behind it can have serious real-world consequences, such as antisemitism. "A society that normalizes Jew hatred is exhibiting huge signs of moral decay," he told Fox News Digital. Saad, who is Jewish, was born in Lebanon but fled the country with his family in 1975 during the civil war and eventually settled in Canada. He told Fox News Digital that while in Canada, he did not experience much antisemitism until 1998, adding that since then "it has been accelerating at a rather breathtaking rate." While working as a professor at Concordia University, Saad announced that he was taking a leave of absence in 2024. "It became very, very difficult for, you know, a high-profile Jewish professor who's outspoken in his defense of the Jewish people to just walk in on campus," Saad said. He added that the atmosphere became serious enough that he felt compelled to "read the warning on the proverbial walls." "If you permit for such open, genocidal hatred of a group, it never results in a good outcome," he said. Saad currently serves as a scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi and will be a distinguished professor there next year. With the election of President Donald Trump, many thought that the ideas behind DEI and gender theory were dead, but Saad warned there is only so much one president can do and emphasized the importance of medium and long-term solutions. He noted that while political momentum can shift quickly, true cultural change takes time. Even with the apparent backlash against these ideologies, Saad still encounters professors who are afraid to speak out. He told Fox News Digital that he's seen a slight increase in the number of professors who email him praising his work, but many of them end their messages by asking for anonymity if he chooses to share them. "The fact that you write such a cowardly last sentence to your email suggests that very few people are yet willing to pick up the mantle and actually fight this battle," he said.

Owen Gregorian

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In 2002, Elon Musk flew to Moscow three times to buy a refurbished missile. He couldn't close the deal. On the flight home, he asked himself: "When's the last time you bought something Russian that wasn't vodka?" He started SpaceX instead. 1 year later, he stood in front of Stanford students and spent 45 minutes explaining everything he'd learned about building companies: On starting Zip2: This was 1995. Most VCs on Sand Hill Road hadn't even heard of the internet. "I thought it would be a pretty huge thing. It was one of those things that only came along once in a very long while." He got a deferment from Stanford to start the company. "When I talked to my professor and told him this, he said, 'Well, I don't think you'll be coming back.' That was the last conversation I had with him." The problem: he had no money. "I couldn't afford a place to stay and an office. So I rented an office instead, because I got a cheaper office than I could get a place to stay." "I slept on the futon and showered at the YMCA on Page Mill and El Camino." "I was in the best shape I've ever been. Go to shower, work out, and you're good to go." There was an ISP on the floor below them. "We drilled a hole through the floor and connected a null modem cable. That gave us our internet connectivity for like 100 bucks a month." "We had an absurdly tiny burn rate. And we also had a really tiny revenue stream. But we actually had more revenue than we had expenses." They sold Zip2 to Compaq in early 1999 for over $300 million. "In cash. That's a currency I highly recommend." On starting PayPal: "I didn't really take any time off." He was looking for what remained in the internet. Financial services hadn't seen much innovation. "When you think about it, money is low bandwidth. You don't need some big infrastructure improvement. It's really just an entry in a database." They built a platform that combined banking, brokerage, and insurance in one place. That took enormous effort. Then they added a little feature that took one day: the ability to email money from one customer to another. "Whenever we demonstrated these two sets of features, we'd say, 'Look how you can see your bank statement and your mutual funds and insurance, all on one page. Look how convenient that is.'" "And people would go, 'Ho hum.'" "Then we'd say, 'And by the way, we have this feature where you can enter somebody's email address and transfer funds.'" "And they'd go, 'Wow.'" "So we focused the company's business on email payments." On viral growth: "PayPal is really a perfect case example of viral marketing." "One customer would essentially act as a salesperson for you. They would send money to a friend and essentially recruit that friend into the network." "So you had this exponential growth. The more customers you had, the faster it grew." "It was like bacteria in a Petri dish. It just goes like this S-curve." The results: "I ran PayPal for about the first two years of its existence. We launched after year one. By the end of year two, we had a million customers." "We didn't have a sales force. We didn't have a VP of sales. We didn't have a VP of marketing. And we didn't spend any money on advertising." On why product matters: "The essence of viral marketing is: do you have something where one customer is going to sell another customer without you having to do anything?" "Product matters incredibly. Because if you're going to recommend something to somebody, you've got to really love the product experience. Otherwise you're not going to recommend it." "You don't want to burn your friend." On company culture: "We had a pretty flat hierarchy. Everybody had a roughly similar cube. Anyone could talk to anyone." "We had a philosophy of best idea wins. As opposed to the person proposing the idea winning because they are who they are." "Even though there were times when I thought that should have been the way to go." On decision-making: "If there were two paths and one wasn't obviously better than the other, rather than spend a lot of time trying to figure out which one was slightly better, we would just pick one and do it." "Sometimes we'd be wrong and pick the suboptimal path. But often it's better to pick a path and do it than to just vacillate endlessly on a choice." On focus: "We didn't worry too much about intellectual property, paperwork, legal stuff." "We were very focused on building the best product we possibly could." "We were incredibly obsessive about how to build something that is really going to be the best possible customer experience." "That was a far more effective selling tool than having a giant sales force or thinking of marketing gimmicks or 12-step processes." On why he started SpaceX: "I was trying to figure out why we had not made more progress since Apollo." "In the 60s, we went from basically nothing to putting people on the moon. Yet in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, we've kind of gone sideways." "The computer you could have bought in the early 70s would have filled this room and had less computing power than your cell phone. Just about every sector of technology has improved. Why has this not improved?" He thought maybe public support was the problem. So he planned a privately funded Mars mission: put plants growing on Mars for $15-20 million. But the cheapest US rocket was $50 million. So he flew to Moscow. Three trips. Couldn't close the deal. "When I got back from the third trip, I thought: why is it the Russians can build these low-cost launch vehicles? It's not like we drive Russian cars, fly Russian planes, or have Russian kitchen appliances." "When's the last time you bought something Russian that wasn't vodka?" "I think the US is a pretty competitive place. We should be able to build a cost-efficient launch vehicle." On why rockets are expensive: "The energy and velocity required to get into orbit is so substantial that you have almost no margin to play with." "A launch vehicle will get about 2% of its liftoff mass to orbit." "If you're wrong by 2%, you're not going to get anything to orbit. It'll come crashing down in the Pacific somewhere." "That means all of your calculations have to be right. If you miscalculate something, it blows up." On how SpaceX got costs down: Their rocket: $6 million. Nearest competitor: $25 million for less capability. "There's no silver bullet. It's been really hundreds of small innovations and improvements." "We've done improvements in the propulsion system, the structure, the avionics, and the launch operations." "Our overhead in a 30-person company is an order of magnitude less than Lockheed or Boeing. Just for starters." "Every decision we've made has been with consideration to simplicity. Because simplicity both improves reliability and reduces cost." "If you've got fewer components, that's fewer components to go wrong and fewer components to buy." On being an entrepreneur: "I think really an obsessive nature with respect to the quality of the product is very important." "Being obsessive-compulsive is a good thing in this context." "Really liking what you do is important. If you don't like it, life is too short." "If you like what you're doing, you think about it even when you're not working. Your mind is drawn to it." "If you don't like it, you just really can't make it work." On parallelization: "Try not to serialize dependencies. Put as many elements in parallel as possible." "A lot of things have a gestation period. There's really nothing you can do to accelerate that gestation period." "If you can have all those things gestating in parallel, that is one way to substantially accelerate your timeline." "People tend to serialize things too much." On space as a business: Someone asked if SpaceX was a good first company to start. "No. I would not recommend it." "This is advanced entrepreneuring." "You know how many people have said: the fastest way to make a small fortune in the aerospace industry is to start with a large one." This 45 minute Stanford lecture will teach you more about building companies than every startup book combined. Bookmark & give it 45 minutes today, no matter what.

Jaynit

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Caleb Durbin immediately jumps off the page as yet another breakout candidate acquired by Boston this offseason. On the surface, Durbin's production isn't necessarily eye-popping. As a rookie in '25: โšพ๏ธ .721 OPS โšพ๏ธ 6% BB / 10% K โšพ๏ธ .312 xwOBA โšพ๏ธ 105 wRC+ โšพ๏ธ 2.6 fWAR So, what stands out regarding Durbin? I. Elite Swing Decisions & Whiff-Ability. Facing major league pitching for the first time in his career, Durbin registered the 5th-best K% (10%) in MLB last year. His 94% zCon rate (T-5th in MLB) is also elite. Durbin's whiff% and chase% also ranked inside the 95th percentile (or better). We're talking about a bat with some similar contact traits like we see in Jacob Wilson, for example, but with far less chase and a bit more pullside thump. He squares up the ball well (33% โ€” 95th PCTL) and pairs that ability with taking a steady amount of walks. Point blank, the 25-year-old is a demon at limiting whiff. II. Power Surge? It's All in the Pull Air%. A gigantic reason it's so easy to pencil Durbin in as a breakout candidate is his fantastic park fit at Fenway. As a rookie, Durbin turned in an above-average 41% pull rate, plus an even-better 20% pull air rate. Utilizing that approach with a big target in left field will work wonders for his OPS. I don't expect Durbin to mash 20+ HR out of nowhere, but I'd certainly bank on seeing a number of flyouts simply turn into doubles or homers at home. III. Quality Defense. Breslow talked a lot about upgrading defense, and this move certainly does that. I've been very vocal since the start of the offseason that Mayer at 2B, not 3B, would be my preference for a multitude of reasons. Durbin (who can play all over the infield), enters the building as a plus defender at 3B. As a rookie, Durbin turned in 2 OAA, 5 DRS, 5 rPM, and 1 FRV at the hot corner. Sliding Mayer over to second base allows for easier platoon management with Romy Gonzalez โ€” who saw an increase in his defensive production at 2B a year ago โ€” and yes, is an upgrade over Alex Bregman's 1 DRS in 2025. IV. Handling Velo. Something that shouldn't get overlooked is Durbin's ability to handle velocity โ€” a department the Red Sox obviously needed to upgrade in after last season. In '25 vs. FA-types 94+ mph: โšพ๏ธ .258 BA โ†’ .275 xBA โšพ๏ธ .350 SLG โ†’ .375 xSLG โšพ๏ธ .319 wOBA โ†’ .337 xwOBA โšพ๏ธ 8% whiff rate โ€” โ€” โ€” Overall, I'm really ecstatic about the Durbin acquisition. This is FAR better than signing Suarez and calling it a day, imo. Can't forget Durbin is a guy the Red Sox have under team control for a while now (2032 UFA!). Utilizing Harrison โ€” who's name has been yanked around between trade talks or a move to the bullpen โ€” is a great piece of business. The comp pick is also massive, but we'll talk more about that soon. I think at his best, Durbin could lead off for the Red Sox by the end of '26. A legit breakout candidate and bag stealing threat with a high floor thanks to limited swing-and-miss and good defense. Really looking forward to see him more in camp.

G.G.

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//The Wire//1800Z August 12, 2026// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: OIL CRISIS CONTINUES TO DETERIORATE AS STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE DROPS BELOW 300 MILLION BARRELS. WAR IN MIDDLE EAST REMAINS COMPLICATED, SHIPPING REMAINS STAGNANT. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESULTS IN MURDERS AT DAYCARE IN MINNESOTA.// -----BEGIN TEARLINE----- -International Events- Middle East: Around the region the war remains as before, with no major strikes being reported overnight. The war between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia has continued to increase in complexity following the Houthi strikes on the Jazan refinery last week. Saudi Arabia has stepped up efforts to fund and supply the official Yemeni government, which was outcast by the Houthis capturing and holding the capital city years ago. Analyst Comment: For the past decade, the Saudis have tried to undermine the Houthi control of Yemen by funding the exiled government forces which still control pockets of influence around the country. A few days ago, a strike was reported in the city of Mocha in Yemen, which was originally reported as being of Saudi origin. Turns out, it was the Houthis themselves striking the sector of the city that still remains in government control, targeting a collection of Saudi advisors which were working with the Yemeni government. -HomeFront- Washington D.C. - This morning a suspicious device was discovered in the vicinity of the Engine Company 20 fire station. One device comprised of a thermos container with wires wrapped around it was discovered by authorities, prompting a lockdown of the area. EOD responded to the scene and stated that the device was not a threat. Minnesota: This morning a stabbing attack was reported at a child care facility in Hopkins. Local authorities state that two adults and one child were stabbed at Brown Bear Childcare, a private residence converted to a daycare. All three individuals are reported deceased. Throughout the day, official sources have indicated that this was a domestic violence incident between the owners of the daycare, which resulted in one of the adults murdering the other, before murdering their child, and then themselves. The attack was witnessed by six other children, as well as a parent who had arrived at the residence to drop off their child. Analyst Comment: This attack took place at 236 Tyler Ave North. The business itself is registered with the state and has an active childcare license, with no violations or concerns being readily available online. Reviews are very positive, and the business appeared to be a small and wholesome daycare run out of a private residence. Prior to the murders this morning, this address had been listed on a local garage sale page. The listing claiming that the daycare had been scheduled to close at the end of the month, but how (or if) this fits in is unclear at the moment. As a result, this horrifically brutal attack is very out of the ordinary for Hopkins, and further analysis will be required to determine why this happened. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: Concerning the impact of the Gulf War on global energy markets, the situation is still desperate. Oil transits through Hormuz are very minimal, with the NAVCENT-run reporting sources no longer publicly disclosing all of the Iranian strikes on tanker vessels. Many observers visually seeing a burning hull on the horizon, or crude oil washing ashore, is about as "confirmed" as it can get, and over the past few weeks several strikes have taken place that have not been reported by the UKMTO. In terms of what this is doing to the oil markets, Hormuz is back to very minimal oil flows. The constant Houthi targeting down in the Red Sea region has also resulted in the Saudi's cutting production at many oil terminals and processing facilities, and the Omanis are quietly trying to export more oil from their terminals which bypass the Strait...efforts which get derailed when a tanker gets struck by a drone/cruise missle. Where we go from here is hard to say, but the situation has been slow to develop. If a person is watching a car crash in slow motion, and it takes 6 months for the impact, people get bored. This appears to be what's happened as this war has dragged on for almost half a year. This has resulted in complacency, even though the overall situation is incredibly serious. The United States has continued to drain the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) at a breakneck pace, to the point that we are approaching the physical limits of how much oil can be withdrawn from storage. This oil is not really being processed within the US, but rather sold on the international market so as to keep the price of oil artificially low globally. Last week, the SPR dropped to 298.7 million barrels of oil in storage, all total. This is the first time that the SPR has dipped this low since the 1980's, when the demand was 20-30% lower than it is today. More broadly, this is also a major milestone in terms of how close we're getting to tank bottom. There is debate regarding how low the SPR can be drawn down. A common figure over the years has been that the US can theoretically drain the SPR down to 70 million barrels. There is also a legal floor as well, with 42 USC ยง 6241 mandating that the SPR cannot be drawn below 252 million barrels for national security reasons. Of course, this is a law that can be reliably ignored by both the White House and Congress itself, but it is a number to work from...and we're getting close to it. Last year the Government Accountability Office conducted a large-scale study on the SPR, which found that due to infrastructure degradation over the years, the entire system can only pump out a fraction of what it was previously capable of. The report did not explicitly state the magic number of how low we can go, but the report did state that regardless of where the bottom of the tank actually is, we can only pump it out at a rate that is 61% of what it was designed for. This means that not only are our tanks scraping bottom, but we are also limited in how fast we can drain what's left. Like a broken record, the story has constantly repeated since the war began...demand remains the same, but supply is down. The basics of that fact can only be concealed, manipulated, and talked-down for so long before supply itself runs out. As the SPR cruises past the 300 million barrel milestone, more motivation is stacking up to re-enter the diplomatic phase once again, before the energy crisis gets much worse. Analyst: S2A1 Research: NomadNet: 5fa68c88be727a0e1a250a75e5e79269 Disclaimer: No LLMs were used in the writing of this report. //END REPORT//

S2 Underground

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MrBeast: "If you knew what I knew, you could get 10 million subscribers in six months" "Your videos suck. You think your videos are good, but they suck. They just do. And the sooner you learn how to make good, great videos that people actually want to watch, the sooner you'll get views." MrBeast shares his early reality: "When I was 14, I thought my videos were the best in the world. They weren't, they were terrible. To be successful, you kind of have to have a little bit of that ego where you think your content's great. But also, if you have sub-1,000 subscribers, there's a good probability your videos just suck. They just do." He explains what to do about it: "You need to make hundreds of videos. Improve something every time. And just get to the point where they don't suck. When you make good content, you'll blow up. It's not the algorithm. It's not anything. Most people who are in my position just made terrible videos, and that's okay. Because you've got to make a bunch of videos and improve over time to be great." MrBeast uses an analogy: "You don't just pick up a baseball and become an MLB-level athlete within a year. It takes many, many, many years. YouTube's kind of the same way." On analysis paralysis: "A lot of people get analysis paralysis. They'll sit there and plan their first video for three months. If you have zero videos on your channel, your first video is not gonna get views. Period. Your first 10 are not gonna get views. I can very confidently say that. So stop sitting there and thinking for months and months on end. Just get to work and start uploading." He gives the formula: "All you need to do is make 100 videos and improve something every time. Do that, and then on your 101st video, we'll start talking. Maybe you can get some views. But your first 100 are gonna suck." How to improve something each time: "The second video: put more effort into the script. The third one: learn a new editing trick. The fourth one: figure out a way to have better inflections in your voice. The fifth one: study a new thumbnail tip and implement it. The sixth one: figure out a new title. There's infinite ways. The coloring, the frame rate, the editing, the filming, the production, the jokes, the pacing, every little thing can be improved. There's literally no such thing as a perfect video." On the algorithm: "What YouTube wants is for people to click on a video and watch it. That's what it is at its core. By studying the algorithm, you'll learn that you're more studying human psychology. What do humans want to watch?" MrBeast shares a simple reframe: "Anytime you say the word 'algorithm,' just replace it with 'audience' and it works perfectly. 'The algorithm didn't like that video?' No, the audience didn't like that video. Literally, that's it. If people are clicking and watching, it gets promoted more. The algorithm just reflects what the people want." On titles: "Short, simple, and just so freaking interesting that you have to click. If someone reads it, are they like, do they have to watch it? Is it just so intrinsically interesting that it's gonna haunt them if they don't click?" He adds nuance: "Keep it below 50 characters. Above 50 characters, on certain devices it goes dot, dot, dot, and that's the worst thing because then people don't even know what they're clicking on." MrBeast shares the extremity principle: "The more extreme the opinion, typically the higher the click-through rate. 'Fiji water sucks', that'd do fine. But 'Fiji water is the worst water I've ever drank in my life', way more extreme, would do way better. But then you have to deliver. The more extreme you are, the more extreme you have to be in the video." On the first 5 seconds: "Before you film a video, what is the thumbnail? What is the title? Then what's the first 5 seconds? Then what's the first 30 seconds?" He explains why autoplay changed everything: "On YouTube now, videos automatically play. So many people don't even see the thumbnail because it autoplays so quickly. The thumbnail is irrelevant for them. I have to visually convince you to click on the video in the first 5 seconds. Before, the hook was important because you had to convince people to watch. Now you have to convince people to click and watch at the same time, with the first 5 seconds." On matching expectations: "Your title and thumbnail set expectations. At the very beginning of the video, to minimize drop-off, you want to assure them that those expectations are being met. If you click on a video called 'Tether is a scam' and at the very beginning, he starts talking about literally anything else, you're like, 'Oh, this is BS. This isn't what I clicked on.' But if at the very start you go, 'Tether is a scam and I'm gonna teach you why,' then it's like, okay, you match the expectations. Then you want to exceed them." He emphasizes the importance: "The thing people undervalue the most is literally the first 10 seconds of the video. That 15% difference in viewership between losing 35% of viewers in the first 30 seconds versus losing 20%, that really does make the difference between 2 million views and 10 million views. You just had a more strategic intro that hooked them." On removing dull moments: "You basically want to remove every dull moment. Find the 10 most critical people you know, make them watch the video, and just roast it. If I talk to a camera for 10 seconds without a cut, a lot of people will get bored. Having a B-cam and C-cam three seconds in, cutting to a different angle, now it's more interesting even though it's essentially the same thing." On keeping viewers watching: "Give them why they clicked. Tell them why they should watch. Then just stick on topic. That right there isn't even super complex, but I would already put you in the upper echelon of YouTube. A lot of people drag it out. It's like, 'I'm going to eat $100 ice cream, but first...' and then it's them birthday shopping for their mom. That's not why I came here." On quality over quantity: "It's much easier to get 5 million views on one video than 50,000 views on 100 videos. A lot of small YouTubers just post videos that aren't bad but aren't great, and none of them ever pop off, so they never get an audience. It might be better to upload half or a third or even a fifth of the videos, but make the videos you upload so freaking good that the algorithm has to promote it." He warns against the consistency trap: "When you set a consistent schedule and you're constantly having to upload videos that aren't as good as you'd like because you gotta hit 'Oh, this Monday I said I'd upload', that's a dangerous trap. The viewers notice the quality isn't as good and it makes them less likely to watch. I think it hurts your longevity." On the real metric that matters: "A big thing that everyone underestimates, what was your experience with your last video? If people loved the last video of yours that they watched, they're more likely to watch your next one. When people watch your video, you don't want them to go, 'Okay, that was good, but that's enough of you for the day.' What you want is them to go, 'Holy crap, that was crazy! Oh my god, what's that?' and they watch 10 videos. That's how you get high view counts. People watch 10 videos, not one." On thumbnails: "You want it to be simple. When they're scrolling, you want them to instantly understand what you're conveying and feel some type of emotion. Make it so interesting, or spike their curiosity so much, that if they don't click it, they'll wonder before they go to bed what happened?" He gives an example: "If you uploaded 'I rode a skateboard with 1,000 other people on it', and people are falling off the side, it's about to go off a big ramp if you don't click that, you're gonna be so curious. Later in the day, when you're daydreaming, you'll think, 'What happened to those 1,000 people on that skateboard?' That's the mindset you should have when making thumbnails." On knowledge being the only barrier: "It's all knowledge. It really is. I could start a new channel tomorrow without using my face or my voice, without ever promoting it, and in six months have 20 million subscribers. I just could. It's purely knowledge. If you knew what I knew, you could get 10 million subscribers no matter where you are right now within six months." He addresses the skeptics: "90% of the people watching don't agree with that. Everyone has excuses. 'Nah, YouTube just doesn't work like that, Jimmy.' But I mentor a lot of people. I see it all the time. It is possible. It is simply knowledge. The second you accept that it is knowledge and you start your journey of learning figuring out what makes a good video, what does my audience want, how can I elevate and then you take that knowledge and just assume 'I will never understand what the perfect video is' and every single day be devoted to learning and improving as much as possible there you go." On money not being the barrier: "There are tons of viral ideas that don't require money. It does not require money to go viral. One of my most-viewed videos was spending 24 hours in a desert, we just grabbed a tent and some stuff and went to the desert. It got 60-70 million views. People say, 'I could be MrBeast if I had money.' A, I didn't start off with money; I was poor, I had no money. It took me seven years just to buy a camera saving up from YouTube. And B, some of our most-viewed videos literally anyone can do." On why no one will outwork him: "No one's ever gonna do what I do better than me. It's just not humanly possible. I reinvest every penny I make. I work every hour I'm awake. I devote every atom in my brain to solving this. I hire the best people on the planet. I've been doing this for 14 years. And I think in decades, not years. I'm gonna be doing this for another 20-30 years. If I thought someone was doing better than me, I'd just start sleeping less so I could work even more." But he doesn't recommend it: "I don't have a life. I don't have work-life balance. My personality, my soul, my being is making the best videos possible. That is why I exist on this planet. And I don't recommend it. You should have work-life balance. You should not devote your entire life to this one thing. I have a mental breakdown every other week because I push myself so hard. I don't recommend it." The only question that matters: "Subscribers don't matter. Views don't matter. I mean, they do. But everything you want as a creator comes from making the best videos possible and thumbnails. The video part's the hard part. Ask: 'How can I make my videos better?' Do that every single day for years. And then you'll probably get views."

Jaynit

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My last post about starting a stump removal business went viral, and my DMs filled up with the same question: how do I actually get started in this business? This is a great blue collar hedge against AI if you are worried about losing your white collar job in tech or otherwise. I've made $12,000 in the first 3 months and here's everything I have learned in that time: The machine is the big check. Everything else is small. I bought a Bandit SG-40 tracked stump grinder for $33k and financed it at about $1k/month. The catch is the interest, roughly $100/month at a high rate, so I'm just paying it off next month to make the interest go away. I also have a $1M general liability policy that costs about $100 per month. Plus the finance company made me get insurance on the machine for about $100 per month. You need a way to haul it. That's a trailer, not a new truck. I got a Big Tex trailer for $4,000. I already had a 4Runner, so I didn't need a truck to start. I'm buying an F-350 diesel with the 7.3L for $6k, but only because a close friend is selling it to me and that's an insane deal. Do not go buy a $60k truck to start a stump business. Haul it with something cheap if you have to buy a truck just to get things started. Pricing: $5โ€“$8 per inch, and you feel it out. I charge $5 to $8 per diameter inch and I read each job. A stump sitting high off the ground or one they want ground deep costs more. A flush little stump in soft dirt costs less. Measure the diameter, pick your per-inch number based on difficulty. And set a minimum. Mine is $200 for me to even show up. Below that it's not worth the drive and setup. Referrals from tree services are the whole game. Tree companies cut trees down. They usually don't grind the stump. That leftover stump is your job, and they're standing right next to it. Go build relationships with every tree service in your area. When they hand you their stumps, you have a pipeline you didn't have to advertise for. But try every channel, because they all work. I've landed a paying job from every single marketing channel I've tried so far. Not one dud yet: Flyers on community boards Business cards I hand out locally at the cafe and the dog park Posts in the local Facebook groups Nextdoor Yelp Google Business Profile Corrugated cardboard road signs None of it is fancy. It's just showing up where people already look when they've got a stump in the yard. The next one I'm testing: post office mailers. You make a flyer, pick a route, and the post office lets you see the demographics of that route, age, household income, how many people live there. Then it's about 27 cents to mail each one. You aim it at neighborhoods that own homes with yards. I'll report back on how it does. Support local, and local supports you. Use the local businesses. Buy from them, show up, be a regular. They turn around and send business your way. A small town runs on who knows you, and stump removal is a local business. Yes, it's a one-man job. Yesterday I ran two jobs, made $300 and $375. From leaving my house to pulling back in was about 4 hours, and I burned maybe $20 in fuel between my car and the machine. That's a good day when you've got two small ones. Three months in I've made $12,000, averaging about $4k/month. I expect that to climb as more people in the area know my name. The math is simple: low overhead, cash jobs, work that has to be done in the real world. Bonus: this is a business AI can't take from you. I spent 10 years in an office. With everything up in the air around AI and jobs, there's something I like about owning a business where the work physically has to happen. A stump doesn't grind itself. You show up, it's there, you leave, it's gone. And after a decade at a desk, I forgot how good it feels to see exactly what you accomplished at the end of the day. I've shared a vid of a job I did yesterday ๐Ÿ‘‡

smokey

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Has been a while since I've given an update so here's a breakdown of where Sappy is at right now and what we're focusing on going into this year. Pre-amble: With altcoins & NFTs the market is definitely not the same as it was before. I think this is obvious to everyone but I've noticed there are still japanese soldiers that are convinced old tricks and mechanics work. They don't. Liquidity is thin; people want to bid assets that feel like "real companies" not vacuous memecoins. There's still room for memecoins, social currencies, and "utility tokens" (I would say without these functions, tokens are hard to justify versus equities). I'm not part of the camp that thinks there will never be hyperspeculation in crypto again, because there will be; we all love ponzis and PvPing each other onchain. Just not with solved games -- people need something new and fresh. So the overarching plan is to continue building for users, sustainable revenues that aren't tied to directly to crypto, and doubling down on the areas that we've already found PMF / Brand Market Fit. Then leaning into crypto during cyclical periods where liquidity is sloshing around at an accelerated rate. Where we've found early PMF / what we're leaning into: Roblox: we're going to continue to go hard and accelerate here. It's our main objective to ship more seal/brainrot focused games across most genres to cast as wide of a net as we can for the brand, and to also iterate and see what works and stays sticky. Our initial incursion into Roblox was very successful peaking at 2M+ MAU and still sustaining a large portion of that player base... for all of its success, that was a relatively amateur first attempt; we've been setting up better AI pipelines for Roblox development that makes it reasonable to ship many more games and 10x those player counts in totality. It's my belief that Roblox is the sandbox whose audience will be the most valuable on the internet once they are grown up. That intense feeling you get when you see a TikTok referencing an old game you enjoyed on the PS2 or the Gamecube, or when you see a Pokemon card is the exact same feeling the youth of today will get when reminiscing on the things they enjoyed engaging with when they were younger. Fortnite and Roblox are functional equivalents to the old school consoles and exactly where that is taking place. Which is why as much as I care about scaling revenues through Roblox, the long term brand equity gained purely through being popular on the platform is totally invaluable. It also can heavily convert to merchandise sales today if all touchpoints for the brand are dialed in (which is why brands get overcharged so much by Roblox dev shops for the same ROI that only cost us a few thousand $). We have the playbook, it's just about iterating new concepts and then aggressively scaling. Brand Expansion & Merchandising: I've started to create a content pipeline that is easily repeatable, cost efficient (costs next to nothing through either AI or smart reusable concepts), while still being very tasteful and meeting our quality standards for the brand. We are mostly focusing here on reaching people where they're at through nostalgic/emotional content, or just being visually stimulating through carefully curated aesthetics. Content that isn't superficial and touches people in a memorable way. I've attached some examples to the post so you can see what I mean rather than just read it. I don't think it's long until larger brands start doing this at scale, but it's always good to be ahead of the curve and most importantly winning on taste -- knowing what will resonate with people and what won't has always been our edge. The purpose for these accounts is not only to rack up attention but also to begin converting those into sales of both of physicals (plushies & gacha collectibles) and digital avenues like our games, and any other apps we produce. Because they're offshoot accounts it's also a lot easier to be aggressive/experimental with said conversion strategies. Sappy Studio: I'm wrapping everything like Omnia, and everything else into this category because they're all tangentially related. Beginning with Omnia, our current focus is gearing up for Season 0 which involves players competing in the ranked ladder for a prize pool that has rewards through Monad Momentum as well as a player-funded prize pool. This season will be fairly simple with us mostly logging retention, deck building habits, as well as qualitatively observing how aggressively players push the combat system. Deeper monetization wont exist yet outside of the player buy-in (to be eligible for P2E rewards). Beyond that our overarching principle this year is to focus heavily on risk-to-earn mechanics where a portion of that excess value is circular i.e. revenues flow back to prize pools or other parts of the economy, treating the game almost like a protocol where the objective is to amass TVL or player liquidity. Social is also a big focus, and that means implementing the Open World hub which from an infrastructure perspective has already been built out and tested by all of you previously. Right now we are scaffolding the environment in 3D and working through how that hub should look and feel, so players are excited to hang out & idle together while they're queuing. For sappydotlol, what I'm about to say is still early days from a design perspective so a lot can change, but I'm pushing the site in the direction of being a virtual game console. An intersection between Nintendo & Myspace where users can play, trade, and socially interact in a way that's deeply personalised; a breathe of fresh air from the hostility of the current internet. If you go back to my thesis on Roblox above and the game console references, you can kind of see how this will all sequentially tie together. In essence, the strategy is to acquire a critical mass of players through traditional platforms like Roblox, and use that attention and trust to provide an onboarding funnel for web2 users into our own sandbox filled with a mixture of our own browser-based experiences as well as an aggregation of others. The aim is to make the platform a breath of fresh air & bunker from the enshittified platforms like TikTok/IG/X where users are actually served in ways that delight rather than agitate, and where self-expression is incentivised. Closing: As always everything here is subject to change but I've never felt more conviction in our direction until now; I know exactly what we need to do and how, with everything aligning with our team's strengths. Very excited and grinding through things to the point where I'm getting headaches and can't sleep from being hyperfocused for long periods of time lol. There probably has never been a better time to join the ecosystem from a price to fuck around and find out perspective.

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I have never seen the American president, Donald Trump, bootlick someone like this, literally kissing ass, as he himself likes to say. This was Trump today with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and boy oh boy, Trump was praising him like crazy. What I found interesting is what I did with this video. I first inserted a clip of Trump during his campaign days attacking and mocking China, then followed it with this latest clip of him praising and flattering the Chinese president in a way we have rarely seen before, today. It perfectly shows how power and economic strength change global power relationships. This should be a lesson for Africa and African leaders who embarrass themselves grovelling for recognition to Western leaders. In 1975, Chinaโ€™s economy was nowhere near where it is today. Back then, China was still a relatively poor developing country and nowhere close to being a global superpower. Today, depending on which economic measurement is used, China is either the largest economy in the world or the second largest after the United States. What did the Chinese do? They did not spend decades begging the West for validation or recognition. They rolled up their sleeves and went to work. They industrialised. They built infrastructure. They invested in manufacturing, education, technology, and long-term planning. And because they built something powerful, the world had no choice but to take them seriously. That is why today you can see an American president publicly flattering a Chinese leader. China now has something the world wants and needs. African leaders waste too much time begging for approval, validation, and symbolic recognition from the West instead of fixing their countries and building functional economies. You even hear leaders like Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe demanding a permanent seat or influence at the United Nations Security Council, yet he presides over a country that struggles to provide electricity for even 10 hours a day. Zimbabwe has massive unemployment, collapsing public services, hospitals without medication, broken roads, a currency that cannot be freely exchanged internationally, and widespread corruption. The list is long. The countryโ€™s biggest hospital has operated for long periods with severe shortages of equipment and functioning theatres. Citizens are heavily taxed while public services continue collapsing. How do you expect the world to place you at the top table when your own country is struggling to provide the basics for its citizens? Serious nations do not hand out respect because of liberation war slogans or revolutionary rhetoric from 50 years ago. Respect is earned through performance, stability, production, innovation, and competence. You cannot talk about sovereignty and greatness while importing maize because you failed to properly utilise some of the best agricultural land in Africa. You cannot demand global influence while your citizens depend on food aid and medical support and donations from the same international system you constantly criticise. What we are seeing with Trump and Xi Jinping is a lesson in how the world works. Hard work, economic strength, production, and strategic planning force the world to respect you. Even the most powerful country in the world cannot ignore you once you become economically indispensable. Zimbabwe has enormous potential. We have vast mineral wealth, fertile land, talented people, and strategic opportunities. We have over 80 different minerals and some of the best farming land in the region. Yet millions of Zimbabweans live in poverty and struggle to survive because of corruption, poor governance, and misplaced priorities. We even import toilet paper and tooth picks from South Africa. No serious global institution will fully respect leaders who cannot first build functioning societies at home. The world respects results, not empty slogans, rhetoric and childish propaganda. What we have also learned from this video is that Trump has a domestic audience in America that he clearly does not fully respect intellectually. He says whatever he believes will win him votes, even if it means making exaggerated or hostile statements about countries like China during campaign periods. He understands the emotions and intellectual emptiness of his audience and plays to them politically. And it does not end with his domestic audience only. Trump also has loyal but ignorant supporters and bootlickers across the world, including in Africa, people who treat him almost like a god. But politicians do not necessarily respect people simply because they worship them blindly. They respect power, leverage, influence, and results. During his campaign, Trump spoke about China in derogatory and confrontational terms because it suited his political objectives at the time. But when he came face to face with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the tone changed completely. There was respect, praise, and careful language. In Trumpโ€™s own language, he practically โ€œkissed assโ€. And that is the reality of how global politics works. You do not get respect simply because you shout loudly, insult others, or demand recognition. You get respect when you build something powerful enough that the world cannot ignore you. China earned that respect through decades of hard work, industrialisation, discipline, economic expansion, infrastructure development, and strategic planning. They built an economy and a system that the world now depends on. That is the lesson Africans and African leaders must take from this video. Stop wasting time begging for validation and recognition from the West. Stop thinking respect is something that can be demanded through slogans, liberation war rhetoric, or political noise. Respect is earned through competence, production, economic strength, innovation, and delivery to your own people. When you build a strong country, the world respects you automatically because you have something valuable to offer. When you have more than 80 minerals in your country and yet your citizens are walking on top of sewage, nobody will respect you. You become a laughing stock. The world looks at that contradiction and sees failure of leadership, not potential. You can steal as much money as you want from your people, build mansions, drive convoys, and surround yourself with praise singers, but when a clown enters a State House, it does not become a palace. It becomes a circus. Real leadership is not measured by slogans, propaganda, or how long you stay in power. It is measured by whether ordinary citizens have clean water, functioning hospitals, decent roads, electricity, jobs, dignity, and hope for the future. A country rich in minerals but poor in governance will never command real respect internationally. Respect comes when national wealth is converted into prosperity for the people, not luxury for the political elite.

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