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Ok guys, I’ve been looking into Malala Yousafzai’s charity, the Malala Fund and I have some questions.
According to its 2024–2025 financial reports:
Revenue: $16.48 MILLION
Expenses: $23.34 MILLION
Net assets: $42.97 MILLION
That means the charity spent approximately $6.86 MILLION MORE than it brought in‼️
And then there are the executive compensation figures:
CEO: Approximately $372,000
Chief Adviser: Approximately $320,000
COO: Approximately $241,000
The charity’s tax filings also disclose FIRST CLASS or PRIVATE travel for officers or key employees. ✈️ WTF?!
But here’s what I’d like to know:
How much of that $18.94 MILLION in program spending actually reaches girls and local educational organizations?
How much goes toward salaries, consultants, advocacy campaigns, and travel?
What measurable educational results can donors independently verify?
And why did a charity with $16.48 million in annual revenue spend over $23 million that year?!? 🤯
When you’re raising millions in the name of educating vulnerable girls, I don’t think asking where the money goes is unreasonable.
Charity should be about the cause, not the celebrity attached to it.
It now makes sense why Malala looked so comfortable dining at Claridge’s. Malala lives a life like a rockstar.
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Best post from that horrible incident
@MarkHalperin
@megynkelly
I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired.
The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass.
A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed.
Everything else was improvised.
I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76.
What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation.
I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one.
She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure.
The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet.
The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent.
That's priority.
The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago.
A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced.
That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details.
I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column.
I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously.
188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken.
A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.
This is brilliant in a heartbreaking way for all those that @POTUS has betrayed.
@megynkelly
@MarkHalperin
@TuckerCarlson
Thank you for finally speaking truth to Trump's madness @megynkelly
Trump's "Civilization Will Die Tonight" Iran Warning, and Tucker's Harsh Critique, with @ggreenwald
WATCH:
I've asked the same question of @elonmusk, but there is no response yet. Thought he was truly fearless speaking truth to power...?
How is it that the power of @POTUS in pursuing an illegal war, unsupported by its citizens, is going unchecked by the other branches of government/congress/courts? Legal minds must address this for the US to be a true democracy.
@megynkelly @MarkHalperin
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🇨🇳 Professor Jiang — the man nicknamed “The Professor” because he is truly one of the most dangerous geopolitical minds in the world — revealed to Tucker Carlson words you will not hear anywhere else:
Iran’s war is an American quagmire with no bottom… China is the biggest long-term loser… and the UAE will be affected in a way no one expected.
This man is not an ordinary analyst. He predicted Trump’s victory years ago — and he won. He predicted America entering a war with Iran — and it did. And today, he speaks about the future with the same confidence.
1. Iran War = Second Ukraine
The war will be long and exhausting. No side will admit defeat.
America is stuck between two bad options: withdrawal = collapse of prestige… continuation = endless bleeding.
My view: this is exactly what happened in Ukraine. Americans have no exit strategy, only an entry strategy.
2. Why can’t America exit?
Iran will demand $1 trillion in compensation + complete US withdrawal from the region.
If America withdraws:
Gulf states will become clients of Iran.
Petrodollar will collapse.
America — with $39 trillion in debt — will face a real economic collapse.
The point no one talks about: America is not fighting for Iran… it is fighting so it does not collapse itself.
3. Iran’s smart plan — $800 billion per year
Iran plans to impose a 10% passage fee on every ship crossing the Strait of Hormuz.
Expected revenue: $800 billion per year.
This amount will rebuild Iran stronger than before.
If this is correct — and I see it as not far-fetched — Iran will emerge from the war richer than it entered.
4. The biggest loser is not America — but China
China imports 40% of its energy from the Gulf.
Its economy is entirely built on cheap energy.
Even artificial intelligence — which everyone talks about — requires cheap energy.
Any disruption in energy supplies will hit China more than any other country.
And what no one notices: the war in Iran is not just an American war — it is a war on China’s future as a great power.
5. The real beneficiaries? Israel and Russia
Israel:
Wants “Greater Israel” from the Nile to the Euphrates.
Draining America in a long war = pushing it out of the region.
Weakening the Gulf = removing any competitor.
Russia:
America lifted sanctions on Russian oil (130 million barrels).
Russia sells its oil at record prices.
And finances its war in Ukraine from America’s pocket.
In short: America is paying for others’ wars while thinking it is winning.
6. The religious factor — the hidden power no one talks about
There are religious factions in Israel and America that genuinely believe this war is a prelude to the return of Christ.
Blowing up Al-Aqsa Mosque and building the Third Temple is part of the plan.
Netanyahu and Trump — according to Professor Jiang — are just tools in a project far older than them.
This is one of the most dangerous statements in the episode, because when political decisions are driven by end-of-the-world ideology — there is no room for rationality.
7. The ground invasion is coming — a new Vietnam
America is considering sending 2,000 Marines to control Kharg Island (90% of Iranian oil exports).
But Professor Jiang said clearly: “You can take it, but you cannot hold it.”
What begins with 2,000 soldiers could end with half a million — just like in Vietnam.
8. Weakening the UAE — the bubble is about to burst
Dubai was built on the illusion of security.
Simple Iranian strikes revealed the model’s fragility entirely.
What was a “safe haven” became a target. And the confidence upon which all those towers were built is eroding.
The UAE will not “end” — but its economic model will be severely shaken, because everything is based on the assumption of regional security — and that assumption has collapsed.
9. Japan will recover — and China will decline
Professor Jiang literally said: “If I had a billion dollars — I would put it all in Japan.”
Japan has historically risen from anything: the Mongols, World War II, nuclear bombs.
China, however: agricultural, closed, and unable to adapt to the new era.
10. The West is collapsing from within
Europe, Canada, and Australia are experiencing deliberate demographic change.
The “democracy” that emerges looks more like the “organized demolition” of Western civilization.
And the question: who is driving this? No one has a clear answer.
Conclusion
What Professor Jiang said tonight:
America is stuck in a quagmire it cannot escape.
Iran will return stronger after the war.
Israel achieves its expansionist dream.
China will be the biggest loser.
And the West destroys itself.
The remaining question:
If Professor Jiang predicted Trump’s victory and the start of the war — and he was correct…
Will his predictions today come true?
Please have more diverse international perspectives on the war @MarkHalperin or else you risk reinforcing American propaganda and echo chambers in this delicate time. Consider @tparsi @ProfessorPape @jiangarchive0 and others.
On “2WAY Tonight,” Republican strategist @MehekCooke, former Democratic Congressman @JoeCunninghamSC, and retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Clint Hinote joined me to unpack the fast-moving Iran conflict—what the U.S.–Israel operation is trying to achieve, and how Donald Trump is navigating allies who may share the concern but not the approach.
From Washington’s political pressures to the military realities on the ground, we looked at what the moment could mean for the region and the world.
Conversations rooted in peace, love, and understanding @2waytvapp
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Another murder by @POTUS and his gang
If aliens exist, now will be a good time to visit us and stop this hell that humans have created.
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I can't stop thinking of this (exceptionally well made) show i watched 10 years ago and its uncanny resemblance to the Epstein horrors (1st Season).
#epstein #pedophiles
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Does anyone have any new conspiracy theories? All my old ones turned out to be true.
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Wow. If India can do this, all countries can and should!
Well said. Over-regulation is also killing the core concept of the blockchain. But we also need a viable solution to contain the illicit use of the blockchain, and unfortunately, there is still nothing in sight to address that effectively.
This is first time in the modern history of mankind we actually have an alternative system(public blockchains) which run on shared value theortically proven to be work well in those times when we get through collapse of centralised structures, and Fiat money but the core problem is with the people who are operating those new systems have became more greedy, lost ideological ground, and they simply forgot why we created those parallel systems at the first place.