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@nasimishabnam is thoroughly confused.
This is like Islamic Iran which decimated Zoroastrianism & the Persian Empire, suddenly claiming the mantle of the Persian civilisation and ancient Zoroastrian settlements.
youtube.com/shorts/5TYiF9L…
This is like Islamic Iran which decimated Zoroastrianism & the Persian Empire, suddenly claiming the mantle of the Persian civilisation and ancient Zoroastrian settlements.
youtube.com/shorts/5TYiF9L…
The Muslims who wanted a seperate homeland Pakistan, carved out of Ma Bharat (Mother India)
* Took pride in their separateness from the majority Hindus of Bharat
* Changed their history and taught their children that they had nothing to do with the despicable Hindus.
* Took pride in their separateness from the majority Hindus of Bharat
* Changed their history and taught their children that they had nothing to do with the despicable Hindus.
* Denied against all reason and evidence that the vast majority of them were descended from Converted Hindu ancestors.
* So it is pathetic and laughable that THEY ARE NOW, SUDDENLY TRYING TO CLAIM descent from the forebears [Indus Valley/Mohenjo Daro/Rakigarhi) of the continuing
* So it is pathetic and laughable that THEY ARE NOW, SUDDENLY TRYING TO CLAIM descent from the forebears [Indus Valley/Mohenjo Daro/Rakigarhi) of the continuing
They Opposed It, and History Forgot (1/4)
Opening
There's a familiar narrative: Jews in Arab lands waited for Zionism, welcomed it joyfully, and fled to Israel at the first opportunity. That narrative is convenient. It's also, for the most part, not true.
Jewish leaders in Iraq, in Egypt, and elsewhere — rabbis, lawyers, philanthropists — opposed Zionism actively, publicly, and at times with remarkable courage. They didn't do this out of betrayal of the Jewish people. They did it out of a deep conviction that their home already existed — and that it was in Baghdad, in Cairo, not in Palestine.
First Figure: Menachem Saleh Daniel
[Image: Menachem Saleh Daniel]
On September 8, 1922, Menachem Saleh Daniel — Iraq's first Jewish senator, the wealthiest man among Iraqi Jews, the man who hosted King Faisal I in his own home when the king's palace was destroyed by flooding — sat down and wrote a letter to the secretary of the Zionist Organization in London.
He didn't write in anger. He wrote with great respect, almost apologetically: he began by expressing his admiration for their noble ideal. Then came the "but." In Iraq, he explained, Zionism was not an entirely ideal matter — it represented a problem, with aspects requiring careful consideration, circumstances that no European Jewish community faced. In all Arab lands, he warned, the Zionist movement was seen as a serious threat to Arab national life.
This wasn't a theoretical position. Daniel knew exactly what he was talking about: Jews had lived in Iraq for some 3,500 years. They would not emigrate, he argued, unless forced to — and if forced, it would be the fault of government policy, not genuine desire.
His son, Ezra Daniel, inherited his seat in the Senate — and was the only one among Iraq's Jewish community leaders who spoke out openly, in his Senate speeches, against the government's discriminatory policies. His speeches weren't published in the press. They were echoed by word of mouth, precisely because they came from someone who wasn't a Zionist.
According to the Iraqi historian Nabil al-Rubaie, the graves of Menachem and Ezra Daniel in the city of Kifl were removed.
Opening
There's a familiar narrative: Jews in Arab lands waited for Zionism, welcomed it joyfully, and fled to Israel at the first opportunity. That narrative is convenient. It's also, for the most part, not true.
Jewish leaders in Iraq, in Egypt, and elsewhere — rabbis, lawyers, philanthropists — opposed Zionism actively, publicly, and at times with remarkable courage. They didn't do this out of betrayal of the Jewish people. They did it out of a deep conviction that their home already existed — and that it was in Baghdad, in Cairo, not in Palestine.
First Figure: Menachem Saleh Daniel
[Image: Menachem Saleh Daniel]
On September 8, 1922, Menachem Saleh Daniel — Iraq's first Jewish senator, the wealthiest man among Iraqi Jews, the man who hosted King Faisal I in his own home when the king's palace was destroyed by flooding — sat down and wrote a letter to the secretary of the Zionist Organization in London.
He didn't write in anger. He wrote with great respect, almost apologetically: he began by expressing his admiration for their noble ideal. Then came the "but." In Iraq, he explained, Zionism was not an entirely ideal matter — it represented a problem, with aspects requiring careful consideration, circumstances that no European Jewish community faced. In all Arab lands, he warned, the Zionist movement was seen as a serious threat to Arab national life.
This wasn't a theoretical position. Daniel knew exactly what he was talking about: Jews had lived in Iraq for some 3,500 years. They would not emigrate, he argued, unless forced to — and if forced, it would be the fault of government policy, not genuine desire.
His son, Ezra Daniel, inherited his seat in the Senate — and was the only one among Iraq's Jewish community leaders who spoke out openly, in his Senate speeches, against the government's discriminatory policies. His speeches weren't published in the press. They were echoed by word of mouth, precisely because they came from someone who wasn't a Zionist.
According to the Iraqi historian Nabil al-Rubaie, the graves of Menachem and Ezra Daniel in the city of Kifl were removed.
Second Figure: Yosef al-Kabir (2/4)
Yosef al-Kabir was no ordinary lawyer. He was deputy chairman of the Iraqi Bar Association — an unprecedented achievement for a member of the Jewish minority at the time — and a member of the team of jurists who drafted independent Iraq's constitution in the 1920s. His brother, Ibrahim al-Kabir, served as deputy director-general of the Iraqi Ministry of Finance.
On November 5, 1938, al-Kabir published a letter in the Iraq Times, Baghdad's leading English-language newspaper. He didn't write as an enemy of Zionism out of hatred — he wrote as a lawyer examining the problem closely. The Balfour Declaration, he argued, had attempted to solve a European problem — and would remain one, in both its origin and the scope of its impact. He warned that the Declaration was a dangerous formula for political acrobatics, built on a partnership that could not actually be realized.
This wasn't the writing of an isolated man. A fully independent, secular Iraqi-Arab source, published decades later by a researcher with no Jewish affiliation, quoted this very letter precisely — evidence that this position was etched into Iraqi historical memory itself, not only in Jewish sources.
Two years later, in 1941, when the Farhud pogrom struck Baghdad, al-Kabir did not stand aside. He served on the official commission of inquiry, and insisted that the violence had not been a spontaneous mob outburst — it had been an organized plan, led by pro-Nazi figures within the government, headed by Minister of Information Yunis al-Sabawi.
Al-Kabir believed the Jews' future lay in equal citizenship in Iraq — "sons of the faith of Moses," not a separate people. Only in his later years, as discriminatory legislation tightened its grip, did he come to understand that this vision had failed. He emigrated to London, where he continued working for the rights of Iraqi Jews who had been forced to leave everything behind.
Yosef al-Kabir was no ordinary lawyer. He was deputy chairman of the Iraqi Bar Association — an unprecedented achievement for a member of the Jewish minority at the time — and a member of the team of jurists who drafted independent Iraq's constitution in the 1920s. His brother, Ibrahim al-Kabir, served as deputy director-general of the Iraqi Ministry of Finance.
On November 5, 1938, al-Kabir published a letter in the Iraq Times, Baghdad's leading English-language newspaper. He didn't write as an enemy of Zionism out of hatred — he wrote as a lawyer examining the problem closely. The Balfour Declaration, he argued, had attempted to solve a European problem — and would remain one, in both its origin and the scope of its impact. He warned that the Declaration was a dangerous formula for political acrobatics, built on a partnership that could not actually be realized.
This wasn't the writing of an isolated man. A fully independent, secular Iraqi-Arab source, published decades later by a researcher with no Jewish affiliation, quoted this very letter precisely — evidence that this position was etched into Iraqi historical memory itself, not only in Jewish sources.
Two years later, in 1941, when the Farhud pogrom struck Baghdad, al-Kabir did not stand aside. He served on the official commission of inquiry, and insisted that the violence had not been a spontaneous mob outburst — it had been an organized plan, led by pro-Nazi figures within the government, headed by Minister of Information Yunis al-Sabawi.
Al-Kabir believed the Jews' future lay in equal citizenship in Iraq — "sons of the faith of Moses," not a separate people. Only in his later years, as discriminatory legislation tightened its grip, did he come to understand that this vision had failed. He emigrated to London, where he continued working for the rights of Iraqi Jews who had been forced to leave everything behind.
Third Figure: Chaim Nahum Effendi — A Leader Between Two Pressures (3/4)
[Image: Chaim Nahum Effendi]
Not all opposition looked the same. Chaim Nahum Effendi represents an entirely different kind of standing firm — cautious, sophisticated, not always heroic, but real.
Born in Turkey, a descendant of Spanish exiles, Nahum served as Chacham Bashi (chief rabbi) of the entire Ottoman Empire, and then, from 1925, as chief rabbi of Egyptian Jewry. He was an extraordinarily prolific scholar: he wrote a book on Babylonian Jewry, a book on Karaite Judaism, and even translated into French every Ottoman decree sent to Egypt over nearly 400 years. He was a familiar presence at the courts of two Egyptian kings and served in the Egyptian Senate.
When the War of Independence broke out in 1948, Nahum found himself caught between two impossible pressures. The Egyptian government demanded he publicly denounce Zionism — and he complied, but with notable caution: the "condemnation" he issued was described at the time as weak. At the same time, when that same government demanded he add a prayer for Egypt's victory in the war to synagogue services, he refused.
This was a delicate, deliberate balance: giving the government the minimum it demanded, without mobilizing religion itself for a war that wasn't his own.
Nahum was not a man of revolution. He was a man trying to keep an entire community alive one more day, one more year — hundreds of Jews arrested and interrogated for "Zionist activity," businesses seized, bank accounts frozen. At age 78, he lost his eyesight. He died in 1960, after 35 years in office.
Not everyone who resisted did so loudly. Some did it through calculated silence that couldn't easily be read — one refusal, one compliance, a hundred small choices that determined where the line was drawn.
[Image: Chaim Nahum Effendi]
Not all opposition looked the same. Chaim Nahum Effendi represents an entirely different kind of standing firm — cautious, sophisticated, not always heroic, but real.
Born in Turkey, a descendant of Spanish exiles, Nahum served as Chacham Bashi (chief rabbi) of the entire Ottoman Empire, and then, from 1925, as chief rabbi of Egyptian Jewry. He was an extraordinarily prolific scholar: he wrote a book on Babylonian Jewry, a book on Karaite Judaism, and even translated into French every Ottoman decree sent to Egypt over nearly 400 years. He was a familiar presence at the courts of two Egyptian kings and served in the Egyptian Senate.
When the War of Independence broke out in 1948, Nahum found himself caught between two impossible pressures. The Egyptian government demanded he publicly denounce Zionism — and he complied, but with notable caution: the "condemnation" he issued was described at the time as weak. At the same time, when that same government demanded he add a prayer for Egypt's victory in the war to synagogue services, he refused.
This was a delicate, deliberate balance: giving the government the minimum it demanded, without mobilizing religion itself for a war that wasn't his own.
Nahum was not a man of revolution. He was a man trying to keep an entire community alive one more day, one more year — hundreds of Jews arrested and interrogated for "Zionist activity," businesses seized, bank accounts frozen. At age 78, he lost his eyesight. He died in 1960, after 35 years in office.
Not everyone who resisted did so loudly. Some did it through calculated silence that couldn't easily be read — one refusal, one compliance, a hundred small choices that determined where the line was drawn.
🚨 Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan sharply refuses to stay her ruling dismantling DHS's expanded SAVE system, leaving the agency caught between two directly conflicting federal court orders after a Florida judge ordered the same features restored.
The dispute centers on DHS's expanded SAVE system, which let states use Social Security numbers and bulk searches to verify citizenship and immigration status for voter rolls and certain other lawful purposes. Judge Sooknanan ruled those changes violated federal law.
But Florida had already settled a separate lawsuit with DHS requiring those same SAVE features. After DHS disabled them to comply with Judge Sooknanan's ruling, a federal judge in Florida ordered the agency to restore them, creating a direct conflict between two federal courts.
⚠️What does BlackRock own in Scotland?
Because the answer is more than most people realise.
Start with ports.
BlackRock holds a 30% stake in Peel Ports, which operates Scotland's west coast infrastructure through Clydeport, King George V Dock in Glasgow, Greenock Ocean Terminal, Hunterston, and Ardrossan. Scottish ports, American shareholders.
Because the answer is more than most people realise.
Start with ports.
BlackRock holds a 30% stake in Peel Ports, which operates Scotland's west coast infrastructure through Clydeport, King George V Dock in Glasgow, Greenock Ocean Terminal, Hunterston, and Ardrossan. Scottish ports, American shareholders.
Then wind energy.
BlackRock has direct exposure to Tormywheel wind farm in West Lothian and Glens of Foudland in Aberdeenshire.
It also holds a stake in Iberdrola, which owns Scottish Power, giving it indirect exposure to Whitelee, the UK's largest onshore wind farm.
BlackRock has direct exposure to Tormywheel wind farm in West Lothian and Glens of Foudland in Aberdeenshire.
It also holds a stake in Iberdrola, which owns Scottish Power, giving it indirect exposure to Whitelee, the UK's largest onshore wind farm.
Then the operational base.
Edinburgh has been BlackRock's first international office since 1995.
In 2025 it expanded to 140,000 sq ft at Dundas House, with a capacity for 1,400 staff.
It is now one of BlackRock's largest offices globally.
Edinburgh has been BlackRock's first international office since 1995.
In 2025 it expanded to 140,000 sq ft at Dundas House, with a capacity for 1,400 staff.
It is now one of BlackRock's largest offices globally.
🔥🔥It’s Game Over Omidyar! The destruction of capitalism is a part of a Pierre Omidyar package deal that includes censorship legislation targeting the speech of the people that could stop it!
They are also linked to the new surge of anti capitalist candidates! And equity and digital identity was part of the package deal too.
They claim that they want to “build more equitable economies”. Yeah socialism and communism..
♦️It’s no coincidence that both the inception of Omidyar’s censorship legislation forming org called “RESET” and “Reimagine Capitalism” programs started at the SAME EXACT TIME.
The first mention I saw of fighting Capitalism was not in 2020 like others think, but inside the Digital Deceit 2 which included Omidyar’s Ben Scott which set off their global censorship legislation work together with Carnegie Uk.
“We are experiencing the greatest concentration of wealth in capitalism in a
century, and it is built on the value of aggregated personal data. We need bold proposals for change.”
So, I did a little bit more looking around and found a DELETED Oct 17, 2018 Mike Kubzansky article on their new strategies. He was the managing partner of the Omidyar Network.
“First, we will focus on a core set of the pressing, difficult, and deeper issues that have emerged in society across four broad areas: reimagining capitalism; promoting the beneficial use of technology; building bridges in a pluralistic world; and fostering individual capabilities and empowerment.”
Bridge Building 🤔
He also brought up GIIN which is the New Capitalism Project. And mentioned wanting to change the economies of the entire world. Hello Lex Luther.
“We will support efforts to build more equitable economies that rebalance the social contract among business, the state, and the individual.”
♦️Then Mike brought up making the rules of the Tech Bro world.
“Next, we will seek to promote the use of technology for beneficial purposes.
We will address RULES and norms and build resilience and capacity to address and manage the risks, unintended consequences, or unforeseen negative outcomes that new technologies may create.”
‼️Welcome to the beginning of Global Censorship laws and Anti Capitalism!
♦️And of course, equity came up in their new strategies too.
“Fourth, and perhaps most importantly, we will to continue to foster individuals’ capabilities. Strong, inclusive, and equitable societies exist only when individuals have the ability and opportunity to realize their full potential and are able to advocate for and drive their own empowerment.”
♦️ And we can’t forget the digital Id push.
“We were the first investor in MOSIP, a modular and
open-source identity platform that has worked with seven countries (and counting) to
implement a digital, foundational ID in a cost-effective way.”
♦️Here’s some of their partners for their anti capitalist efforts:
*Let me remind you that the Obama partnered More Perfect Union is pushing the communist left.
- More perfect union
- Tides
- Demos
- Center for Popular Democracy
- Center for American Progress
- Working families org
- GIIN – New Capitalism Project
- Brookings
- Main steeet alliance
- Reuters
- Roosevelt
- Groundwork action (Arabella sixteen thirty fund)
- Horizon project
- Community Change Action
- Poynter
- Swiss Philanthropy FNDN
- Windward fund
- Share action - global
- Novato - GLOBAL
- Economic Change Unit - EU
- State - Global
- Plus tons more
♦️Also working with Omidyar on Reimagine Capitalism is Hewlett Foundation and it’s Larry Kramer. This was for destroying neoliberalism (capitalism) at universities.
When Kramer left, he said he was talking the work to the London School of Economics.👀
First Grants from Hewlett Fndn & Omidyar to fund centers around the world:
- Harvard University
- Howard Univ
- Johns Hopkins Univ
- MIT
- Santa Fe Institute
- Ford
- Open Society
Sources and much more info to follow.
They are also linked to the new surge of anti capitalist candidates! And equity and digital identity was part of the package deal too.
They claim that they want to “build more equitable economies”. Yeah socialism and communism..
♦️It’s no coincidence that both the inception of Omidyar’s censorship legislation forming org called “RESET” and “Reimagine Capitalism” programs started at the SAME EXACT TIME.
The first mention I saw of fighting Capitalism was not in 2020 like others think, but inside the Digital Deceit 2 which included Omidyar’s Ben Scott which set off their global censorship legislation work together with Carnegie Uk.
“We are experiencing the greatest concentration of wealth in capitalism in a
century, and it is built on the value of aggregated personal data. We need bold proposals for change.”
So, I did a little bit more looking around and found a DELETED Oct 17, 2018 Mike Kubzansky article on their new strategies. He was the managing partner of the Omidyar Network.
“First, we will focus on a core set of the pressing, difficult, and deeper issues that have emerged in society across four broad areas: reimagining capitalism; promoting the beneficial use of technology; building bridges in a pluralistic world; and fostering individual capabilities and empowerment.”
Bridge Building 🤔
He also brought up GIIN which is the New Capitalism Project. And mentioned wanting to change the economies of the entire world. Hello Lex Luther.
“We will support efforts to build more equitable economies that rebalance the social contract among business, the state, and the individual.”
♦️Then Mike brought up making the rules of the Tech Bro world.
“Next, we will seek to promote the use of technology for beneficial purposes.
We will address RULES and norms and build resilience and capacity to address and manage the risks, unintended consequences, or unforeseen negative outcomes that new technologies may create.”
‼️Welcome to the beginning of Global Censorship laws and Anti Capitalism!
♦️And of course, equity came up in their new strategies too.
“Fourth, and perhaps most importantly, we will to continue to foster individuals’ capabilities. Strong, inclusive, and equitable societies exist only when individuals have the ability and opportunity to realize their full potential and are able to advocate for and drive their own empowerment.”
♦️ And we can’t forget the digital Id push.
“We were the first investor in MOSIP, a modular and
open-source identity platform that has worked with seven countries (and counting) to
implement a digital, foundational ID in a cost-effective way.”
♦️Here’s some of their partners for their anti capitalist efforts:
*Let me remind you that the Obama partnered More Perfect Union is pushing the communist left.
- More perfect union
- Tides
- Demos
- Center for Popular Democracy
- Center for American Progress
- Working families org
- GIIN – New Capitalism Project
- Brookings
- Main steeet alliance
- Reuters
- Roosevelt
- Groundwork action (Arabella sixteen thirty fund)
- Horizon project
- Community Change Action
- Poynter
- Swiss Philanthropy FNDN
- Windward fund
- Share action - global
- Novato - GLOBAL
- Economic Change Unit - EU
- State - Global
- Plus tons more
♦️Also working with Omidyar on Reimagine Capitalism is Hewlett Foundation and it’s Larry Kramer. This was for destroying neoliberalism (capitalism) at universities.
When Kramer left, he said he was talking the work to the London School of Economics.👀
First Grants from Hewlett Fndn & Omidyar to fund centers around the world:
- Harvard University
- Howard Univ
- Johns Hopkins Univ
- MIT
- Santa Fe Institute
- Ford
- Open Society
Sources and much more info to follow.
Forword:
The DELETED web page was the holy grail and I found this today. So ruminating on things isn’t such a bad idea.
Also, @CCDHWatch showed me another web page a couple of days ago. I said the reason you are sharing this is not why it’s important. So thanks to him, I had a new area of interest to investigate. The relationship between Omidyars anti capitalism and censorship.
Who better to stop communism and all of Omidyar’s other plans, but republicans. The obvious targets of his censorship.
The DELETED web page was the holy grail and I found this today. So ruminating on things isn’t such a bad idea.
Also, @CCDHWatch showed me another web page a couple of days ago. I said the reason you are sharing this is not why it’s important. So thanks to him, I had a new area of interest to investigate. The relationship between Omidyars anti capitalism and censorship.
Who better to stop communism and all of Omidyar’s other plans, but republicans. The obvious targets of his censorship.
🔥This webpage was deleted for a good reason. It outlines Lex Luther’s, er I mean Omidyar’s plans. This covers just about everything so I’ll provide a handful of juicy quotes.
This includes censorship, digital identity, equity, and anti capitalism.
♦️A New Approach for a New Frontier
October 17, 2018
By: Mike Kubzansky Managing Partner
“We will focus on a core set of the pressing, difficult, and deeper issues that have emerged in society across four broad areas: reimagining capitalism; promoting the beneficial use of technology; building bridges in a pluralistic world; and fostering individual capabilities and empowerment.”
“First, we’ll seek to reimagine capitalism.
Capitalism and markets remain the best option we know to deliver broad benefits to individuals and to society, but without the right guardrails in place, they produce serious inequities and profound negative consequences well beyond the economic realm alone. We will support efforts to build more equitable economies that rebalance the social contract among business, the state, and the individual.”
“Second, we will seek to promote the use of technology for beneficial purposes.
We will support positive efforts for technology to improve societal outcomes, to enable people to assert their identities online, claim their land rights, and improve their educational outcomes. We also will work to ensure that the fundamental drivers of responsible technological innovation are human well-being and respect for individual liberty.
We will address rules and norms and build resilience and capacity to address and manage the risks, unintended consequences, or unforeseen negative outcomes that new technologies may create.”
“Fourth, and perhaps most importantly, we will to continue to foster individuals’ capabilities.
Strong, inclusive, and equitable societies exist only when individuals have the ability and opportunity to realize their full potential and are able to advocate for and drive their own empowerment.”
“Similarly, we will maintain the Digital Identity initiative’s work to support innovative companies, inform policies, engage with governments, and promote technologies that establish privacy safeguards around the trails left by one’s interaction in the digital world.”
Read more at the link.👇🏻
archive.is/ZD7Di
This includes censorship, digital identity, equity, and anti capitalism.
♦️A New Approach for a New Frontier
October 17, 2018
By: Mike Kubzansky Managing Partner
“We will focus on a core set of the pressing, difficult, and deeper issues that have emerged in society across four broad areas: reimagining capitalism; promoting the beneficial use of technology; building bridges in a pluralistic world; and fostering individual capabilities and empowerment.”
“First, we’ll seek to reimagine capitalism.
Capitalism and markets remain the best option we know to deliver broad benefits to individuals and to society, but without the right guardrails in place, they produce serious inequities and profound negative consequences well beyond the economic realm alone. We will support efforts to build more equitable economies that rebalance the social contract among business, the state, and the individual.”
“Second, we will seek to promote the use of technology for beneficial purposes.
We will support positive efforts for technology to improve societal outcomes, to enable people to assert their identities online, claim their land rights, and improve their educational outcomes. We also will work to ensure that the fundamental drivers of responsible technological innovation are human well-being and respect for individual liberty.
We will address rules and norms and build resilience and capacity to address and manage the risks, unintended consequences, or unforeseen negative outcomes that new technologies may create.”
“Fourth, and perhaps most importantly, we will to continue to foster individuals’ capabilities.
Strong, inclusive, and equitable societies exist only when individuals have the ability and opportunity to realize their full potential and are able to advocate for and drive their own empowerment.”
“Similarly, we will maintain the Digital Identity initiative’s work to support innovative companies, inform policies, engage with governments, and promote technologies that establish privacy safeguards around the trails left by one’s interaction in the digital world.”
Read more at the link.👇🏻
archive.is/ZD7Di
During @SenMcConnell's ongoing health crisis, his wife, former Transportation Secretary @ElaineChao, was meeting with CCP officials in China.
Her reasoning for not returning sooner? “The Senator’s health did not warrant an immediate return to the U.S.”
🧵
Her reasoning for not returning sooner? “The Senator’s health did not warrant an immediate return to the U.S.”
🧵
Who did Chao meet with during her June trip? Chinese state news & university records indicate three public meetings:
• 6/12: Shanghai Jiao Tong University – an institution that boasts a hall named after her late mother & houses a military-tied naval architecture program.
• 6/16: Wu Ken, President of Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA) - a designated “United Front” group by Congress.
• 6/17: Chinese Vice President Han Zheng – recently served on the Politburo Standing Committee
While on @SeanStations I discussed this with @jasoninthehouse. 👇
• 6/12: Shanghai Jiao Tong University – an institution that boasts a hall named after her late mother & houses a military-tied naval architecture program.
• 6/16: Wu Ken, President of Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA) - a designated “United Front” group by Congress.
• 6/17: Chinese Vice President Han Zheng – recently served on the Politburo Standing Committee
While on @SeanStations I discussed this with @jasoninthehouse. 👇
This news isn’t shocking to us at the @Govt_Acct_Inst. I documented the McConnell-Chao family’s ties to Beijing in my 2018 book 'Secret Empires.'
Foremost Group, owned by Chao’s family, has received CCP funding since McConnell, Chao, and her father met with the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) in 1993.
Foremost Group, owned by Chao’s family, has received CCP funding since McConnell, Chao, and her father met with the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) in 1993.
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In this photo, an old Japanese man laughs with a US Navy fighter squadron aboard an American aircraft carrier, the two of them clutching their heads and joking that they are going bald together.
The other guests had no idea who he was.
He was Saburo Sakai, one of the deadliest fighter pilots Japan ever produced.
This is his story..🧵1/7
The other guests had no idea who he was.
He was Saburo Sakai, one of the deadliest fighter pilots Japan ever produced.
This is his story..🧵1/7
🧵 2/7
Saburo Sakai was born in 1916 into a family with samurai ancestry, though by his time they were poor farmers. His father died when he was young, and Sakai struggled in school. At sixteen, looking for a way out, he enlisted in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
He found his calling in the air. Accepted into naval pilot training, he graduated at the very top of his class and was presented with a silver watch by the Emperor himself.
By the time the Pacific war began, Sakai was flying the legendary Mitsubishi Zero, and he was extraordinarily good at it.
Over China, the Philippines, and the islands of the South Pacific, he became one of Japan's deadliest fighter pilots, later claiming around 64 aerial victories, and remembered as one of the greatest aces his country ever produced.
But it was a single day in 1942 that would make him a legend.
Saburo Sakai was born in 1916 into a family with samurai ancestry, though by his time they were poor farmers. His father died when he was young, and Sakai struggled in school. At sixteen, looking for a way out, he enlisted in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
He found his calling in the air. Accepted into naval pilot training, he graduated at the very top of his class and was presented with a silver watch by the Emperor himself.
By the time the Pacific war began, Sakai was flying the legendary Mitsubishi Zero, and he was extraordinarily good at it.
Over China, the Philippines, and the islands of the South Pacific, he became one of Japan's deadliest fighter pilots, later claiming around 64 aerial victories, and remembered as one of the greatest aces his country ever produced.
But it was a single day in 1942 that would make him a legend.
🧵 3/7
On August 7 1942, over Guadalcanal, Sakai spotted what he thought was a formation of enemy fighters and dove to attack.
They were not fighters. They were American dive bombers with rear-facing gunners, and as he closed in, one of those gunners opened fire.
A bullet struck Sakai in the head. It tore across his skull, blinded him in one eye, and left one entire side of his body paralyzed. His canopy shattered, blood poured into his good eye, and his Zero rolled over and fell toward the sea.
Somehow, half-blind and half-paralyzed, Sakai pulled the aircraft out of its dive.
And then he faced an almost impossible task.
He was more than 500 miles from his base at Rabaul, bleeding from a head wound, able to see out of only one eye that kept filling with blood.
On August 7 1942, over Guadalcanal, Sakai spotted what he thought was a formation of enemy fighters and dove to attack.
They were not fighters. They were American dive bombers with rear-facing gunners, and as he closed in, one of those gunners opened fire.
A bullet struck Sakai in the head. It tore across his skull, blinded him in one eye, and left one entire side of his body paralyzed. His canopy shattered, blood poured into his good eye, and his Zero rolled over and fell toward the sea.
Somehow, half-blind and half-paralyzed, Sakai pulled the aircraft out of its dive.
And then he faced an almost impossible task.
He was more than 500 miles from his base at Rabaul, bleeding from a head wound, able to see out of only one eye that kept filling with blood.
🚨 In an extraordinary move, the full 7th Circuit took over a case from a three-judge panel before any merits decision, allowing Florida to resume its lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics that alleges it misled families about treatments for transgender minors.
Florida sued the American Academy of Pediatrics in state court, alleging it misled families about medical treatments for gender dysphoria in minors through its clinical guidance, policy statements, and advocacy. A Chicago federal judge later blocked that lawsuit.
The Chicago federal judge found the case likely fell within the "bad faith" exception to the normal rule requiring federal courts to stay out of pending state proceedings, ruling Florida likely brought the case to retaliate against the AAP's protected First Amendment advocacy.
had a crazy idea on Friday: port Quake to Roblox. After a /goal, $3000 of Fable tokens and four sleepless nights, meet Robloquake, a function-by-function port of Quake, Quakeworld and mods to luau. Open source and playable in Roblox today
Live roblox game link . Mad props to the librequake folks for having such a permissive license for assets roblox.com/games/10388039…
Fulfilling my GPL obligations to @ID_AA_Carmack, repo available here github.com/turtlesoupy/ro…
@justfactstruth @LDiscernment I think the bear case is more nuanced than you posit here. The bear case is (1) the MRO business is really a CFM56 trading business in disguise and thus has had secular tailwinds for the last few years and (2) there is BTM oversupply in a few years and FTAI is marginal supplier.
@justfactstruth @LDiscernment On (1) FTAI missed margin in Q1 & walked back 40% plus margin tgt - how does this make sense (maybe expensive inventory flowing thru COGS? Where is USM uplift?). And then (2) on BTM the CFM56 isn’t as efficient as the LM6000 for BTM; thus FTAI not comparable to pro-energy.
@justfactstruth @LDiscernment So I think a bear argues (a) multiples should be much lower given longevity of opportunity and (b) earnings themselves may be lower, particularly in the MRO biz (and to some extent in the power biz depending on how successful their tests actually are)
