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I’d like to report that 800,000 Americans were defrauded of more than $2 billion through their investment in a $TRUMP meme coin. And Trump made off with hundreds of millions in fees.
Trump announces "fraud whistleblower incentive program" -- "All Americans will now be able to go to fraud dot gov and report cases of corruption and theft of taxpayer dollars in their communities ... if you turn somebody in and you find $1 billion, we're giving a commission of 1%. That's a lot of money"
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This is hilarious. I am just glancing across my bookshelves of Christian classics.
Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost are gothic and read like horror to a modern audiences even if theological.
Beowulf (Christian-Pagan syncretism) is essentially a ghost story about a guy fighting a demon.
Decameron is series grim gothic tales mostly featuring killing
Crime and Punishment centers on a grisly murder
The works of Flannery O’Connor are as gruesome as Pulp Fiction
But heck, what do those great Christian authors know about art? Real Christian art is Pure Flicks and the Hallmark channel with more references to Jesus.
“I just don’t get it guys. Why can’t Christian’s create art???”
Christians shouldn’t be a fan of horror.
You shouldn’t be reading books, or watching movies, or listening to true crime podcasts that make you scared.
How many times do we read throughout Scripture: “Do not fear.”
And yet, we purposefully consume content that makes us scared. This is a direct contradiction of Jesus’ commands to not be fearful or be anxious about anything.
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Circular financing fuels the AI Bubble
The Bank for International Settlements has something to say about this arrangement:
They call it endogenous demand.
“When a chip maker or cloud provider finances a model developer or data-center operator that then buys its products, the supplier’s revenue growth reflects its own capital deployment as much as (or more than) independent customer demand. This obscures how much of the “boom” is organic versus self-reinforcing.” - My paraphrasing part of their recent bulletin on circular AI financing
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READ BETWEEN THE LINES HERE:
Trump could have done this on DAY ONE of his Presidency, and ended the war within weeks. Instead he allowed the Christian brother war slaughter to continue.
Trump gave UNNECESSARY CPR to the war in Ukraine.
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USE CASH!!!!
🚨BREAKING: A POWER OUTAGE at Google's London Cloud data center triggers WIDESPREAD disruptions across UK banking and online services, BBC reports.
Major services, including Revolut, HSBC, and Royal Mail, were affected, alongside court video links, raising concerns over reliance on cloud infrastructure.
Google ($GOOG) says the power issue has been mitigated, but full service recovery is still underway.
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There are 7 major undersea cables under the Strait of Hormuz.
The IRGC priced them: $ 2 trillion.
Attack Iran again - and they're gone.
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The denial of what has happened with the Covid vaccines and continues to happen is just insane.
Clotting disorder new claims in UK from our 2023 study👇. Do we know for sure in this anecdotal story?…no but the fact that the authorities won’t even look at signals and data is despicable. phinancetechnologies.com/Hum…
“I don’t know what caused the blood clot in his leg, but I know it definitely wasn’t an experimental gene product that causes coagulopathies”
#flyeaglesfly
sports.yahoo.com/nfl/breakin…
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How did they allow this to happen? How did the White House NOT make sure before this call was recorded, that Netanyahu understood NOT to insinuate (THREE TIMES) that the Iran War escalates after midterms?
BARIS: Americans don’t believe Iran was an imminent nuclear threat. The WH has seen the polling, yet continues pushing the same narrative.
Support for the Iran war has cratered to 27%.
And Netanyahu has now said THREE TIMES that there’s a job to finish, meaning the war will continue after the election.
How did anyone in the WH allow this? This is political malpractice.
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🇦🇱 ALBANIAN CROWDS KEEP HOLDING the line in Tirana night after night as the protests refuse to die
What began as anger over the development of the Kushner resort in the coastal area and the flamingos there has turned into bigger street battles, with students and others joining in, demanding the government step down.
The longer it runs, the harder it gets to call this a small local dispute.
Writer: Lucas
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I'm fully aware that I'm going to catch heat for this post. The pro-Ukrainian crowd is going to accuse me of being a Russian bot.
Sorry to disappoint, but I'm just a 48 year old American dad from North Carolina trying to spread some truth.
I don't GAF about Putin or Russia. But these are the facts.
Biden met with Putin during the summer of 2021. After that meeting, Biden said that he was optimistic of having a good relationship with Putin.
After that meeting, Putin again said that his redline was Ukraine joining NATO.
Two months after meeting with Putin, Biden invited Zelensky to the White House to discuss a new missile system for Ukraine and to discuss Ukraine joining NATO. That happened.
After the Biden/Zelensky meeting, Putin continued saying publicly that his redline was Ukraine joining NATO.
After Russia invaded Ukraine, Biden went on TV and declared that Ukraine would be joining NATO and that Russia had already lost the war.
I don't give a damn about Putin or Russia. I'm not arguing that Putin was in the right. The purpose of this post is to show that the Biden Administration absolutely knew what they were doing when they were provoking Putin to start this war. They knew what they were doing when they invited Zelensky to the White House to discuss Ukraine joining NATO. Wake up people.
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War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
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USE CASH!!!!
🚨 Google lost power in London this morning and Revolut, a bank with 80 million customers, went down with it.
I've spent the morning reading what Revolut users went through. It's wild.
People stranded at petrol stations, unable to pay for fuel or a taxi to the airport.
One traveller couldn't get out of a train station in Japan.
A 71-year-old woman stood at a supermarket till for an hour. Her kid had to drive 30km to bring her cash.
Card payments, transfers, ATM withdrawals, currency exchange, share trading. All down.
Revolut's statement said "all our customers' money and data are safe."
Safe. You just can't touch it.
Google's explanation so far is a "power event" in one zone of its London cloud region. Its advice to affected customers was to move their workloads to another zone or region "if feasible."
Must be nice. Revolut customers couldn't even move £10.
In July the UK government put Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft and Oracle under direct Bank of England oversight, because one outage at any of them could shake the entire financial system.
12 days ago the Bank of England ran a drill with the UK's 38 biggest banks and market operators. The scenario they practised was a global cloud outage.
And exactly one year ago today, AWS went down and took Lloyds and Halifax with it.
Same date. Different cloud. Lloyds was having problems again this morning.
Revolut spent five years earning a UK banking licence.
Bitcoin has been running for almost 18 years. It doesn't have a London region.
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There are zero adults walking around who got the current pediatric schedule. Most of us had fewer shots by 18 than a 6-month-old gets now.
That should make people pause instead of calling every question “misinformation.”
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It all comes down to the fact that Zelensky has no real war strategy, and neither do the Europeans.
The previous strategy, aimed at maintaining a “stalemate on the front line,” is no longer working because of several factors coming together. Let's list them:
1. The war in Iran and high oil prices.
2. Diesel shortages and rising energy prices.
3. Jet-powered Geran drones and Russia's expanding range of cruise missiles (on top of glide bombs).
4. A lack of air defense systems and the ability to counter Russian ballistic missiles.
5. US actions to ease sanctions pressure on Russia.
6. Ukraine's reduced access to American military technology and weapons.
7. Ukraine's exhausted mobilization potential and worsening social and economic conditions.
These are the key factors. And they show that the strategy of containing Russia at Ukraine's expense has run its course.
What comes next is either a move toward real negotiations, going through the stages of anger, denial, bargaining, and acceptance, or a growing number of imbalances that threaten to cause the collapse of Ukraine's defenses.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia has STOCKED UP thousands of drones and missiles for a hard winter push on Ukraine.
Ukrainian intelligence says Moscow holds around 6,200 attack drones and is building thousands more monthly, alongside hundreds of ballistic and cruise missiles.
The goal is to keep pounding Ukraine’s energy and infrastructure targets through the cold months.
That kind of firepower makes sustained strikes a serious threat heading into winter.
Writer: Lucas
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Former Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has praised Moscow’s transformation, accusing Russian liberals of refusing to acknowledge the government's role in the city’s development.
“I watched Moscow develop, the speed at which it grew, and the enormous sums of money being invested in the city,” he said. “Moscow has already overtaken half the cities in Europe in terms of quality, and you don’t even acknowledge it.”
Recalling conversations with liberal Muscovites, Vucic added:“there will always be people who oppose it because they weren’t part of Moscow’s success, ecause it was achieved by someone called Putin, and they don’t want to acknowledge that Putin did it.”
