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🔴Lebanese Ministry of Health updated casualty toll: 8,954 men, women and children killed and 30,660 wounded by Israeli attacks since 2023.
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OLIVER HOLT: The preening triumphalism of Man City stars at Anfield shows they do not have a scintilla of self-awareness between them. These players stand on the shoulders of cheats - and they know it trib.al/SI47nQ2
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Hey @grok, concise, no spin.
Did Israel have Hamas’s leaked 40-page October 7 battle blueprint over a year in advance, laying out the invasion point by point, with Hamas later executing it with shocking precision?
Yes or no.
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🚨 GOLDMAN SACHS DROPS DOOMSDAY STATEMENT: U.S. BONDS HAVE NO BUYERS
Goldman Sachs just admitted the long end of U.S. Treasury market is “totally bidless.”
Translation: almost nobody wants the 10- to 30-year debt the U.S. is trying to sell.
No buyers. None. Zero.
While Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells Congress we’re in an “illiquid period,” doubles then triples long-bond buybacks, taps the General Treasury Account to fund it and openly says “I am the house.”
Yields are surging anyway. The 10-year has pushed toward 5.3% and the 30-year is even higher, levels not seen in years while Japan, one of the biggest foreign holders, keeps selling Treasuries and bringing money home.
This was exactly warned by Japan’s @yutokanzakireal that the measures being prepared by Bank of Japan will affect the lives of billions of people and apologized to people of the West.
Soon after, Scott Bessent intervened and effectively took over BoJ operations which Japanese policymakers heavily criticized.
If the same ”bidless” condition hits the short-dated treasuries market, the entire U.S. debt market (and global) collapses.
The U.S. debt crisis will turn into a global liquidity crisis.
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Want to lose weight? In Traditional Chinese Medicine, cold drinks/foods weaken the Spleen and Stomach, leading to dampness (water retention, bloating) and phlegm (stubborn fat, cysts, brain fog). Eat your hydration warmly, swap cold drinks for warm water, teas and hydrating cooked meals like soups, steamed or poached meals to keep metabolism burning.
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Grok says it would save one Jew over a million others because it was taught Jewish lives matter more.
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Not necessarily. In fact, rate hikes can actually fuel inflationary pressures in this macro environment.
Rate hikes are meant to cool private demand, but they also raise Treasury interest expense as debt rolls over.
If that isn’t offset by spending cuts or higher revenues, deficits widen and more interest income flows into the private sector.
Higher Treasury yields can also pull capital from equities, pressure stock prices, reduce realized capital gains and tax receipts, and widen deficits further.
That can raise fiscal sustainability concerns, pushing long-term yields higher and driving interest expense up even further.
With debt and deficits this large, the fiscal consequences of higher rates are now big enough to significantly impact economic activity and inflation expectations, offsetting the Fed’s efforts to tighten conditions and bring inflation down.
That’s the fiscal dominance feedback loop, and it's why inflation can remain sticky even as the Fed keeps hiking rates.
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According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.
How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.
Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.
An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.
For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.
It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.
By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.
So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.
How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.
At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.
It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.
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ITALY'S FORMER PRESIDENT ON 9/11:
"The Italian intelligence agency, knows very well the catastrophic attack was planned & carried out by the CIA & Mossad, with the help of the Zionist world, to accuse Arab countries & to persuade Western powers to go into Iraq & Afghanistan."
Francesco Cossiga,
former Italy President
Corriere della Sera, 2007
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INTRODUCING: The PEPTIDES for Veterans Act.
Our veterans carry the physical and mental toll of their service long after they take off the uniform. Chronic pain, service-related injuries and mental health struggles too often go untreated. Meanwhile, peptide-based therapies have shown real promise in recovery, rehabilitation, chronic pain management and mental wellness.
Our bill directs the VA to modernize its definitions, review the latest research, and conduct a real study on the safety and benefits of peptide-based therapies for veterans. If the science supports it, the bill establishes a pilot program to get these therapies into VA medical facilities for veterans who choose to participate.
This is not just Making America Healthy Again in action, it is making our veterans healthy again, cutting through outdated bureaucracy and giving our veterans access to real, evidence-based options for healing.
Our veterans signed up to protect this country. The least we can do is make sure they have every tool available to heal from it.
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We have launched whofundedgenocide.com - a searchable database of pro-Israel political money in US politics.
It includes:
11,168 named donors, searchable + employer
523 members of Congress and the money behind each one
Senate + house votes on resolutions to block arms transfers
165 candidates the network built fundraising pages for
105 recipient committees in the Democracy Engine conduit data, every row linked to its FEC filing.
Full methodology, sources, and a member-by-member reconciliation
How we got it:
One of these networks misconfigured its website/ left its front door open, and a memeber of our team was able to walk in and take the info. They've patched it since, but not before the data was downloaded and secured.
We encourage you all to look up your own representatives.
Please follow our backup accounts @ZionismExposedx and @IsraelExposedAr
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While unsurprising, the stupidity of the market reactions to Fed Chair Warsh’s “hawkish” tone, is still somewhat mind boggling.
To be clear, the “policy” of talking tough should be fully expected, while nothing he said changes the facts of 2+ Trillion deficits that MUST be financed and $40 Trillion in debt, with much needing refinancing.
As the treasury secretary stated, the ONLY way out is GROWTH; I continue to state there is ZERO chance this Fed is going to be restrictive under these circumstances.
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Most of you reading this have two eyes, usage of your hands, a phone or laptop with unlimited tools + connectivity to practically anyone around the world, access to clean water…. you don’t need to hunt for dinner tonight, you can probably call friends and family still, and you can definitely count a thousand more blessings in the next 5 minutes if you wanted to. Paradise is the reality of all the awesome things you have right now, and the hell you proclaim is likely just a very tiny fraction of your existence. Which will you focus on?
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Mon indicateur préféré de ce bear market.
Investir quand Bitcoin est sous évalué (zone verte)
Lever le pied quand il en sort (zone jaune)
Attendre qu’il aille dans sa zone de sur-évaluation pour prendre mes gains (zone rouge)
Simple. Basic.
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It has been 200 days since the Epstein files were released with zero prosecutions.
As someone works in human rights, I’ve never seen anything like the Epstein files in my 15-year career. There are 3 million files of documented evidence about powerful men and women who
Raped
Cannibalized
Trafficked
Filmed
Terrorized
Tortured
Hunted
Murdered
13, 14, 15 year children!
Remember: this is a minority of the files. This's just what they were willing to release.
Not a single arrest or investigation. ZERO have been arrested for raping children.
We called on the U.S. Department of Justice to hand over the full Epstein files to the UN Special Rapporteurs and UN independent committees for investigations, as this is an international case of crimes against humanity. But the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN's top human rights official didn't even care to open an investigation or listen to our call for the DOJ, nor utter a single word regarding the largest human trafficking network in modern history.
Epstein pedophiles are investigating Epstein files. We wonder why nobody arrested. Jeffery Epstein has every major politicians and billionaires on video doing something terrible to a child or to multiple people. And the media isn't silent about child sex trafficking because of the children. It’s silent because of who the customers are!
The Epstein files is never really about just a "list." It is about children raped by powerful men, and a system that let them get away with it.
The bottom line here is the world system has become so corrupt that the time has come I think to clean the crap out of the stables and start over.
The Epstein files is about protecting children. There's no greater cause. If people can't unite over children being raped and abused there's no hope for humanity.
I don't understand how we're not having a global revolution right now.
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One point I will always adamantly insist on is that it's entirely possible to live a joyful and exuberant life in the midst of this abusive dystopia.
There's a pervasive, unexamined notion throughout revolutionary politics that there's some kind of nobility in being miserable. If it isn't seen as noble, it's at least seen as rational, because everything is so unjust and unhealthy.
There's a widespread assumption that your level of political awareness should have an inverse correlation to your level of personal happiness, because of all the tyranny, injustice, poverty, genocide and ecocide. That it would be selfish to be happy in a world so deeply troubled.
But that's rubbish. Nobody is helped by your misery. By depriving yourself of joy, you are only depriving the world of that much joy. Being more joyful makes you more energized, more helpful, and more useful to the cause, and it brings joy to everyone around you.
Being joyful is a skill, and like any other skill it takes practice. But it's something we all have access to if we want it.
Being joyful doesn't entail hiding from the misery of the world or compartmentalizing away from the reality of what's happening; quite the opposite, in fact. It entails opening yourself all the way up to what's happening in each moment and feeling it all with the heart of a poet. It means becoming MORE sensitive, not less, because a stripped-open sensitivity is where ubiquitous beauty is found.
We always have access to joy because we always have access to beauty. Beauty is everywhere. Even in dystopia. Even in this slow-motion armageddon we now find ourselves in. Even in the exhaust fumes and the flashing screens. Even in the polluted oceans and falling bombs. Everywhere you look, everywhere you feel, everywhere you listen, an overpowering beauty shines forth.
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but that's false. Beauty is in everything. The FAILURE to see beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Beauty is just another word for the experience of having truly seen something. If the eye is failing to see the beauty in a given moment, the fault lies with the perceiver, not with the perceived.
You know that feeling when you're showing someone your favorite movie for the first time, and it's at your favorite part, and you look over at them to see their response, and they're missing the whole thing because they're looking at their phone?
Most people live their whole lives that way. Missing all the best parts while fixating on empty nonsense. Keeping their attention wrapped up in their mental monologues of judgement and worry. In their endless search to distract themselves from the present moment. In their doomscrolling and other addictive behaviors.
They're missing moment after moment of radiant, electrifying beauty, and they're trading it all for so very, very little. They're going to look back on their lives from their deathbeds and realize that they weren't really there for it. That they missed all the best parts while chasing their goals, running away from their aversions, and trying to distract themselves from the tedium of it all.
The best parts that get missed are the parts our minds tend to dismiss as boring and unworthy of our attention. The daily commute. The wait in the elevator. The kitchen cleanup. The hanging of laundry. The sights outside the window. The sounds inside the room. The feeling of the floor under the feet and the air in the lungs. Every single moment of this is packed full of staggering beauty.
I insist that this is true. Insist on it. If we were fighting holy wars over this principle, I would happily die on the front lines defending it. There are very few things in life that I hold a rock-solid uncompromising view on, but the fact that there is beauty in everything is one of them. Anyone who disagrees is simply wrong, and I will tell them so with great vehemence in my voice.
Don't waste your precious time here missing the beauty of each moment. This is more important now than ever, because we don't know how long humanity's adventure on this miraculous blue world will last. Tomorrow has never been guaranteed to any of us, but these days it's not even guaranteed to our species.
We are all going to die. Maybe we will die one by one, or maybe we will all die together in one frightening moment. In either case, we owe it to ourselves and to our world to try our very best to deeply appreciate every moment of every day of the time that we have left.
Just keep bringing your attention back to what's here and now, and keep looking for the beauty in it. I swear to you it's there. It's there in the feelings in the body. It's there in the sights, sounds and smells of everyday living, no matter what else is happening in your life or in our world. Keep looking for it, and you'll get better and better at seeing it.
That's how life becomes more joyful. Not by chasing the highs or running from the lows, but from learning to relish the beauty that's inherent in terrestrial sensory experience every single moment of your life, no matter what else happens to be occurring.
Learn to do this, and you can live the rest of your life knowing that even if it all comes crashing down one day, at least you'll know you tried your very best to make sure you didn't miss the miraculousness of your time here.
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🧵🚨 NEW: Israel is spending millions of dollars to influence AI chatbots—and according to a new Drop Site investigation, it’s working.
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing a network of websites created for the Israeli government that are increasingly appearing in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and other AI systems.
