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1/16 The 60/40 portfolio & target-date constructs are relics of a bygone era.
Rigid, fragile models linearly optimized for a system that no longer exists. #SharpeWorld
We are entering a period of non-linear change, & the old playbooks are breaking
Enter: The Pillars of Power. 🧵
Rigid, fragile models linearly optimized for a system that no longer exists. #SharpeWorld
We are entering a period of non-linear change, & the old playbooks are breaking
Enter: The Pillars of Power. 🧵
2/16 If you study geostrategic history from first principles, a pattern emerges
The hegemon who controls the World Order always has leadership in 3 interconnected spheres:
1️⃣ Asymmetric Technology
2️⃣ Low-cost, abundant Energy
3️⃣ Fully-controlled Money
The hegemon who controls the World Order always has leadership in 3 interconnected spheres:
1️⃣ Asymmetric Technology
2️⃣ Low-cost, abundant Energy
3️⃣ Fully-controlled Money
3/16 This framework is rooted in Nature.
Just like water flows through a river, money flows through the complex adaptive system of the stock market.
To understand markets, you must understand the stock and flow of energy
Just like water flows through a river, money flows through the complex adaptive system of the stock market.
To understand markets, you must understand the stock and flow of energy
Here's a special release for EVA fans!
Enjoy the first episode, complete with our revised translation (with many options) and a curated collection of audio mixes. More to come soon.
And yes, Fly Me To The Moon is back!
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Enjoy the first episode, complete with our revised translation (with many options) and a curated collection of audio mixes. More to come soon.
And yes, Fly Me To The Moon is back!
Cmh0dHBzOi8vbnlhYS5zaS92aWV3LzIwOTI2OTU=
The best of the best for video with more audio options than you would believe.
Subtitle translations and timing have been reviewed extensively with choices to match either Japanese audio track.
Apollo smiles. Artemis rides her namesake home.
Hymn to the Twin Lights
The full poem in replies. #ArtemisII
Hymn to the Twin Lights
The full poem in replies. #ArtemisII
O radiant twins of Leto, born beneath the Delian palm,
Apollo of the golden lyre, whose arrows pierce the dawn,
And Artemis, swift huntress, silver-bowed, queen of the night,
Whose crescent crowns the wilds and draws the tides in measured rite.
Apollo of the golden lyre, whose arrows pierce the dawn,
And Artemis, swift huntress, silver-bowed, queen of the night,
Whose crescent crowns the wilds and draws the tides in measured rite.
Once thou, bright sister, roamed the shadowed glades and mountain heights,
While brother kindled heaven’s flame against the gathering nights.
Yet ever linked in blood and fate, thy realms in balance turned
His sunlit chariot, thy silent orb where mortal eyes have yearned.
While brother kindled heaven’s flame against the gathering nights.
Yet ever linked in blood and fate, thy realms in balance turned
His sunlit chariot, thy silent orb where mortal eyes have yearned.
DEALERS MARK UP EVERY CAR BY $2,000 TO $7,000
THEY BANK ON YOU NOT KNOWING THE REAL NUMBERS
I SAVED $4,300 ON MY LAST CAR USING NOTHING BUT CHATGPT
COPY THESE 7 PROMPTS BEFORE YOU STEP ON ANY LOT:
THEY BANK ON YOU NOT KNOWING THE REAL NUMBERS
I SAVED $4,300 ON MY LAST CAR USING NOTHING BUT CHATGPT
COPY THESE 7 PROMPTS BEFORE YOU STEP ON ANY LOT:
1/ True Market Value Research
Paste to ChatGPT: "Act as an automotive pricing analyst. I'm looking to buy a [year, make, model, trim] in [your city/state]. Research the true market value, invoice price, and average transaction price. Tell me exactly what this car should cost and what the dealer likely paid for it."
Paste to ChatGPT: "Act as an automotive pricing analyst. I'm looking to buy a [year, make, model, trim] in [your city/state]. Research the true market value, invoice price, and average transaction price. Tell me exactly what this car should cost and what the dealer likely paid for it."
2/ Hidden Fee Detector
Paste to ChatGPT: "List every hidden fee and markup a car dealership might add to a final purchase price. For each one, tell me if it's negotiable, unnecessary, or legally required. Give me the exact words to say to get each one removed."
Paste to ChatGPT: "List every hidden fee and markup a car dealership might add to a final purchase price. For each one, tell me if it's negotiable, unnecessary, or legally required. Give me the exact words to say to get each one removed."
Gen. Caine announced Tuesday that after 30 days of strikes, B-52s are now flying overland missions over Iran. Is that a sign it's becoming harder to achieve air superiority against US adversaries? Yes. A 🧵.
war.gov/News/Transcrip…
war.gov/News/Transcrip…
2/ Desert Storm in 1991 provides a useful baseline. According to the Air Force History and Museums Program's Decisive Force, B-52s on night 1 made "shallow penetrations" into southern Iraq at less than 400 ft, hitting forward airfields. apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA43…
3/ Now, that wasn't deep Iraq. Still, B-52s were flying overland combat missions from the start.
That matters. Even limited penetrations suggest coalition had already degraded enough of Iraq’s air defenses to allow non-stealth aircraft into contested airspace, within hours.
That matters. Even limited penetrations suggest coalition had already degraded enough of Iraq’s air defenses to allow non-stealth aircraft into contested airspace, within hours.
@HowleyReporter You know what Aziz Ansari is doing now.
@HowleyReporter babe.net/2018/01/13/azi…
@HowleyReporter nytimes.com/2018/01/15/opi…
Guys, think from the perspective of an Egyptian diplomat, not a defender of ethnic cleansing for one second, and tell me, from that perspective, who was “massacred” by the Mongols and the Crusaders?
The Zionist interpretation of Azzam’s quote is hugely contested, mostly because, as Israeli historian Benny Morris states, it is an outlier - no other quotes like this exist from Arab leadership. In fact, Morris himself doubts that it is even authentic
This is because of several reasons. Firstly, bc Zionists sources have purposely re-dated it to 15 May 1948 ie on the eve of invasion - likely to fabricate a gotcha scenario. Even Morris gets the date wrong as he contests the quote’s reliability
If you're under 53 years old, you have never once been alive while a human was farther than 250 miles from Earth. Tonight, four astronauts are heading 252,000 miles out. That's a thousand times farther than any person has gone in your lifetime.
The 250-mile ceiling is where the International Space Station floats. Every astronaut since December 1972 has been stuck in that zone. Spacewalks, science experiments, cool photos from orbit, sure. But nobody left the neighborhood.
The last crew to go farther was Apollo 17. December 1972. Nixon was president. The internet didn't exist. Cell phones were 11 years away. The youngest member of that crew is now 90 years old.
The farthest any human has ever been from Earth is 248,655 miles. The Apollo 13 crew set that number in 1970, and they didn't mean to. Their oxygen tank blew up, and the emergency route home took them farther out than anyone before or since. Tonight's crew will break that record on purpose.
And the crew itself. Victor Glover becomes the first Black astronaut to leave Earth's neighborhood. Christina Koch becomes the first woman. Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian fighter pilot, becomes the first non-American to do so. When they come home, they'll slam into the atmosphere at 25,000 mph, faster than any human has ever traveled.
The Moon's south pole has ice. Water ice, sitting in craters so deep that sunlight hasn't hit them in billions of years. A 2024 NASA study found way more of it than anyone expected. You can split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which gives you rocket fuel, breathable air, and drinking water, all made on the Moon instead of hauled up from Earth. George Sowers at Colorado School of Mines calculated that Moon-made fuel could shave $12 billion off a single trip to Mars. The Moon is a gas station on the road to Mars.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced last week a $20 billion plan to build a permanent base at the South Pole over the next seven years, with landings every six months. China is developing its own lunar lander and spacesuit, aiming for a crewed landing by 2030. The Artemis program has burned through $93 billion so far, and the first actual surface landing is penciled in for 2028. There's a real question of who gets there first this time around.
Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon in December 1972 as part of Apollo 17. He's 90. Asked about it this week, he sounded pretty relaxed. "Mars is attainable," he said. "We're humans. That's what we've always done."
The 250-mile ceiling is where the International Space Station floats. Every astronaut since December 1972 has been stuck in that zone. Spacewalks, science experiments, cool photos from orbit, sure. But nobody left the neighborhood.
The last crew to go farther was Apollo 17. December 1972. Nixon was president. The internet didn't exist. Cell phones were 11 years away. The youngest member of that crew is now 90 years old.
The farthest any human has ever been from Earth is 248,655 miles. The Apollo 13 crew set that number in 1970, and they didn't mean to. Their oxygen tank blew up, and the emergency route home took them farther out than anyone before or since. Tonight's crew will break that record on purpose.
And the crew itself. Victor Glover becomes the first Black astronaut to leave Earth's neighborhood. Christina Koch becomes the first woman. Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian fighter pilot, becomes the first non-American to do so. When they come home, they'll slam into the atmosphere at 25,000 mph, faster than any human has ever traveled.
The Moon's south pole has ice. Water ice, sitting in craters so deep that sunlight hasn't hit them in billions of years. A 2024 NASA study found way more of it than anyone expected. You can split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which gives you rocket fuel, breathable air, and drinking water, all made on the Moon instead of hauled up from Earth. George Sowers at Colorado School of Mines calculated that Moon-made fuel could shave $12 billion off a single trip to Mars. The Moon is a gas station on the road to Mars.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced last week a $20 billion plan to build a permanent base at the South Pole over the next seven years, with landings every six months. China is developing its own lunar lander and spacesuit, aiming for a crewed landing by 2030. The Artemis program has burned through $93 billion so far, and the first actual surface landing is penciled in for 2028. There's a real question of who gets there first this time around.
Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon in December 1972 as part of Apollo 17. He's 90. Asked about it this week, he sounded pretty relaxed. "Mars is attainable," he said. "We're humans. That's what we've always done."
Godspeed.
I write deep dives like this daily. If this one earned your attention, following @anishmoonka keeps them coming.
1/ Seymour claimed 150,000 more kids attending school regularly. John Gerritsen @RNZeducation checked the math. Actual number: ~135,000. But even that's misleading. The school roll grew so ~65,000 of the "improvement" is just more kids existing. But wait, there's (a lot) more 🧵
2/ It gets worse. Seymour's baseline is Term 4 2022 (48.7%). He calls it the low point. It wasn't. It was the BEST term of the worst year. Term 2 2022 was 39.6%. He picked the comparison that makes the gap look biggest. Classic cherry-pick.
3/ His pre-COVID benchmark? Term 2 2019 (57.7%). Also cherry-picked. That was a horrific flu year — attendance crashed 6% from 2018, with 3/4 of absences illness-related. Term 1 2019 was 73.1%. Nobody in govt quotes that number because Term 1 2025 is still 7.2% below it.
🧵🇺🇸⚔️🇨🇳🇮🇷🇷🇺 EXPLAINING MULTIPOLARITY AND DEBUNKING THE COMMON MYTH OF ITS ROLE IN WW1
The claim that multipolarity was responsible for World War I is one that’s commonly perpetuated by a wide variety of political categories from both the left and the right on the regular. Yet it is unequivocally and demonstrably false. And it’s pretty simple as to the how and why.
When a small handful of countries from one region of the world, that being Europe, fight amongst themselves as to who’s going to divide the whole world into colonies, that is different from regional powers from every corner of the globe emerging and giving expression to their own authentic civilizational, cultural and historical development, often times going back thousands of years.
So when the Allied and Central Powers of World War I are fighting amongst each other for control of the world’s colonies, that’s not the same thing as the rise of BRICS and the multipolar world order of the 21st century which reflects civilizations indigenous to these specific regions becoming regional (key word) polarities specific to their geographic position on the globe.
Multipolarity is a reflection on the fact that there is neither one unipolar global hegemon or multiple global hegemons fighting for total control of the world. The inter-imperialist wars, including WW1 were competitions among different global (key word) empires over who will become the sole premier unipolar global power.
And how did that end? The United States eventually emerged as the sole unipolar hegemon by the end of WW2 as the British and French empires decline and the US Treasury gets ownership of most of the world’s gold reserves, allowing the US Dollar to gain global reserve currency status with the rise of Bretton Woods. The Soviet Union and the communist world exist as a sort of counter to this new what Michael Hudson described as Super-Imperialism. Those who resist will face military confrontation, sanctions, and “containment.”
And World War II served the primary purpose of attempting to destroy the Soviet Union and force Russia into submission with this new global system which is why you saw a lot of American and British big business and financial interests allying themselves with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. When the Axis Powers were defeated, NATO and the European Union became the new anti-Soviet bloc backed by the same big business and financial interests allying with fascism in Europe. That was the ultimate and primary basis of the Cold War.
Then in 1991, the Soviet Union collapses so all that remains is American unipolarity and dollar hegemony weaponized through the IMF, World Bank, G7 and European Union with NATO being their military wing and the latter’s foundations being based in the Marshall Plan. Multipolarity is not a regression to WW1 times based on inter-imperialist conflict but a force that emerges from the contradictions of unipolarity.
It is defined by a situation where regionally and geographically specific civilizational and cultural polarities like Russia, China and Iran are fighting to assert their independence from the unipolar US-led global world order. No one is fighting to control the entire world or become a unipolar hegemon, except for the US which seeks to maintain its status.
They’re fighting to assert their own sovereignty (basic anti-imperialism) and beyond that — because sovereignty is still within the frame of classic bourgeois legalism, being I’m a sovereign state and you have no right to control me as it’s an affront to my democratic rights — in addition to fighting for sovereignty, you have an assertion of a specific civilizational polarity that shares a common cultural identity and way of life.
It’s not just sovereignty but also the right to be a regional polarity within your own geographical position on the globe.
The claim that multipolarity was responsible for World War I is one that’s commonly perpetuated by a wide variety of political categories from both the left and the right on the regular. Yet it is unequivocally and demonstrably false. And it’s pretty simple as to the how and why.
When a small handful of countries from one region of the world, that being Europe, fight amongst themselves as to who’s going to divide the whole world into colonies, that is different from regional powers from every corner of the globe emerging and giving expression to their own authentic civilizational, cultural and historical development, often times going back thousands of years.
So when the Allied and Central Powers of World War I are fighting amongst each other for control of the world’s colonies, that’s not the same thing as the rise of BRICS and the multipolar world order of the 21st century which reflects civilizations indigenous to these specific regions becoming regional (key word) polarities specific to their geographic position on the globe.
Multipolarity is a reflection on the fact that there is neither one unipolar global hegemon or multiple global hegemons fighting for total control of the world. The inter-imperialist wars, including WW1 were competitions among different global (key word) empires over who will become the sole premier unipolar global power.
And how did that end? The United States eventually emerged as the sole unipolar hegemon by the end of WW2 as the British and French empires decline and the US Treasury gets ownership of most of the world’s gold reserves, allowing the US Dollar to gain global reserve currency status with the rise of Bretton Woods. The Soviet Union and the communist world exist as a sort of counter to this new what Michael Hudson described as Super-Imperialism. Those who resist will face military confrontation, sanctions, and “containment.”
And World War II served the primary purpose of attempting to destroy the Soviet Union and force Russia into submission with this new global system which is why you saw a lot of American and British big business and financial interests allying themselves with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. When the Axis Powers were defeated, NATO and the European Union became the new anti-Soviet bloc backed by the same big business and financial interests allying with fascism in Europe. That was the ultimate and primary basis of the Cold War.
Then in 1991, the Soviet Union collapses so all that remains is American unipolarity and dollar hegemony weaponized through the IMF, World Bank, G7 and European Union with NATO being their military wing and the latter’s foundations being based in the Marshall Plan. Multipolarity is not a regression to WW1 times based on inter-imperialist conflict but a force that emerges from the contradictions of unipolarity.
It is defined by a situation where regionally and geographically specific civilizational and cultural polarities like Russia, China and Iran are fighting to assert their independence from the unipolar US-led global world order. No one is fighting to control the entire world or become a unipolar hegemon, except for the US which seeks to maintain its status.
They’re fighting to assert their own sovereignty (basic anti-imperialism) and beyond that — because sovereignty is still within the frame of classic bourgeois legalism, being I’m a sovereign state and you have no right to control me as it’s an affront to my democratic rights — in addition to fighting for sovereignty, you have an assertion of a specific civilizational polarity that shares a common cultural identity and way of life.
It’s not just sovereignty but also the right to be a regional polarity within your own geographical position on the globe.
Now what is a polarity? Well if you’re an economic reductionist, a polarity in political economic terms is an engine of a geographically specific internal and civilizational economic development.
So in the Bretton Woods unipolar system and later neoliberalism after the collapse of the Gold Standard, the United States considered itself the sole central engine of global economic development. However, this was a giant pyramid scheme to enrich the same financial capitalist interests, through debt slavery and bondage carried out by the IMF and World Bank. And that form of capital accumulation was its own extension of imperialism.
Every single multipolar hegemon that has risen in the 21st century has one thing in common which is that they are not disguising the interests of a ruling financial capitalist class in the form of economic development and in most of these countries, like China, Russia and Iran, the big business interests do not constitute a ruling class.
Regional polarities are precisely and primarily about economic development, growth, modernization and industrialization. Now there are many ways to think about what that means but a lot of it has to do with investment. Differentials in capital accumulation which give rise to regional powers having the ability to invest in things that peripheral states, if you follow Immanuel Wallerstein’s approach, don’t.
Take Ukraine for example. Russia, because of its state-centric oil export-based economy, can invest in Ukrainian economic development.
On the other hand, the United States would rather have Ukraine become a debt slave to the IMF, World Bank, G7 and/or even worse the European Union so they can under-develop Ukraine and destroy their economy under the guise of reconstruction loans, as was the case with Halliburton in Iraq and is also what Washington has planned for Venezuela, sending in Blackrock to restructure debt linked to the PDVSA.
The US uses debt traps to turn countries like Ukraine into permanent slaves that serve the purpose of enriching the pedophile cabal of financial oligarchs headquartered on Wall Street and in the City of London. And this is precisely what drives NATO expansion up to Russia’s border and US support for Ukrainian Azov Nazi regime as they wage the proxy war against Russia and carry out genocide against the people of the Donbass.
In fact, in the case of Libya, this was one of the only cases where we saw enslavement to the dollar as a goal get explicitly stated as Hillary Clinton’s reasoning was to prevent Gaddafi from using his 143 tons of gold reserves to create a Pan-African currency that would challenge the Petrodollar. IMF loans in the 1980s after the death of Tito would create the grounds for the breakup of Yugoslavia. With Serbia remaining the lone holdout, the US goal was to take out Slobodan Milosevic and open the Balkans to mass liberalization and financialization.
Multipolarity is ultimately referring to the fact that these regional civilizational polarities are not coming at the expense of the sovereignty of other countries but want the right and ability to form bilateral relationships with surrounding countries, sometimes even on a global scale as we see with China’s Belt & Road Initiative and the BRICS New Development Bank, which come at the expense of the master-slave relationship that those countries have to the US-led unipolar global financial system.
So in the Bretton Woods unipolar system and later neoliberalism after the collapse of the Gold Standard, the United States considered itself the sole central engine of global economic development. However, this was a giant pyramid scheme to enrich the same financial capitalist interests, through debt slavery and bondage carried out by the IMF and World Bank. And that form of capital accumulation was its own extension of imperialism.
Every single multipolar hegemon that has risen in the 21st century has one thing in common which is that they are not disguising the interests of a ruling financial capitalist class in the form of economic development and in most of these countries, like China, Russia and Iran, the big business interests do not constitute a ruling class.
Regional polarities are precisely and primarily about economic development, growth, modernization and industrialization. Now there are many ways to think about what that means but a lot of it has to do with investment. Differentials in capital accumulation which give rise to regional powers having the ability to invest in things that peripheral states, if you follow Immanuel Wallerstein’s approach, don’t.
Take Ukraine for example. Russia, because of its state-centric oil export-based economy, can invest in Ukrainian economic development.
On the other hand, the United States would rather have Ukraine become a debt slave to the IMF, World Bank, G7 and/or even worse the European Union so they can under-develop Ukraine and destroy their economy under the guise of reconstruction loans, as was the case with Halliburton in Iraq and is also what Washington has planned for Venezuela, sending in Blackrock to restructure debt linked to the PDVSA.
The US uses debt traps to turn countries like Ukraine into permanent slaves that serve the purpose of enriching the pedophile cabal of financial oligarchs headquartered on Wall Street and in the City of London. And this is precisely what drives NATO expansion up to Russia’s border and US support for Ukrainian Azov Nazi regime as they wage the proxy war against Russia and carry out genocide against the people of the Donbass.
In fact, in the case of Libya, this was one of the only cases where we saw enslavement to the dollar as a goal get explicitly stated as Hillary Clinton’s reasoning was to prevent Gaddafi from using his 143 tons of gold reserves to create a Pan-African currency that would challenge the Petrodollar. IMF loans in the 1980s after the death of Tito would create the grounds for the breakup of Yugoslavia. With Serbia remaining the lone holdout, the US goal was to take out Slobodan Milosevic and open the Balkans to mass liberalization and financialization.
Multipolarity is ultimately referring to the fact that these regional civilizational polarities are not coming at the expense of the sovereignty of other countries but want the right and ability to form bilateral relationships with surrounding countries, sometimes even on a global scale as we see with China’s Belt & Road Initiative and the BRICS New Development Bank, which come at the expense of the master-slave relationship that those countries have to the US-led unipolar global financial system.
A good example of this beyond Ukraine would also be the countries of Southeast Asia and members of the SCO and ASEAN, which are generally speaking part of China and Russia’s regional polarities and even countries in Latin America and Africa for that matter as part of Beijing and Moscow’s global sphere of influence through BRICS and the BRI.
China and Russia are trying to assert that through bilateral, mutually beneficial trade relations and cooperation between sovereign countries, giving Beijing and Moscow a central role. The communist bloc during the Cold War had the exact same role through COMECON, the Warsaw Pact and their relationships with newly independent countries in the Global South.
That comes at the expense of the Global South’s dependence on the unilateral global financial system created and enforced by the US Treasury, the State Department and the Pentagon.
That’s what drives US policy in regards to NATO expansion in Europe and the Ukraine proxy war to a second extent, but is also the main reason for the China containment policy, especially in the South China Sea, and also the US-Israeli wars of aggression on Iran and Venezuela, and covert regime change attempts in the Sahel region.
The United States wants to solve the problem unilaterally on their own terms rather than bilaterally. And forget about Europe because they are by no means a sovereign continent. The Euro is basically the dollar and was engineered in a lab at the University of Chicago. Germany alone has thousands US troops stationed on their territory and their Chancellor is a former BlackRock chairman. And the EU gave up its energy security and industrial capacity by imposing 20 sanctions packages on Russia at the behest of NATO and allowing the CIA and MI6 to bomb the Nord Stream pipelines connecting Germany to Russia. They’re vassals of the United States, nothing more and nothing less.
Inter-imperialist competition referred to a handful of European colonial empires who controlled different parts of the world fighting amongst themselves for total global control. Multipolarity means we are entering into a new era in which no single power controls the world and regional powers are emerging which represent centers of development on an economic, cultural, civilizational, political, historical, historical, soft power and defensive military power for their respective geographic locations.
But that’s not imperialism. An important feature of imperialism is that its not a civilizational relationship like in the case of the Mongol Empire and its various dynasties such as the Yuan or the Tsardom of Muscovy under Ivan the Terrible or the various Persian dynasties under Cyrus and Ismail or the Qing Dynasty prior to the the Opium Wars and the Century of Humiliation, or even the early Ottoman Empire.
So even when there is geographic continuity, which was rarely the case, imperialism throughout history often meant a country like Britain or France going halfway across the world and establishing a colony with zero geographic relationship, dominated by London and Paris’ respective financial and big business interests.
China and Russia are trying to assert that through bilateral, mutually beneficial trade relations and cooperation between sovereign countries, giving Beijing and Moscow a central role. The communist bloc during the Cold War had the exact same role through COMECON, the Warsaw Pact and their relationships with newly independent countries in the Global South.
That comes at the expense of the Global South’s dependence on the unilateral global financial system created and enforced by the US Treasury, the State Department and the Pentagon.
That’s what drives US policy in regards to NATO expansion in Europe and the Ukraine proxy war to a second extent, but is also the main reason for the China containment policy, especially in the South China Sea, and also the US-Israeli wars of aggression on Iran and Venezuela, and covert regime change attempts in the Sahel region.
The United States wants to solve the problem unilaterally on their own terms rather than bilaterally. And forget about Europe because they are by no means a sovereign continent. The Euro is basically the dollar and was engineered in a lab at the University of Chicago. Germany alone has thousands US troops stationed on their territory and their Chancellor is a former BlackRock chairman. And the EU gave up its energy security and industrial capacity by imposing 20 sanctions packages on Russia at the behest of NATO and allowing the CIA and MI6 to bomb the Nord Stream pipelines connecting Germany to Russia. They’re vassals of the United States, nothing more and nothing less.
Inter-imperialist competition referred to a handful of European colonial empires who controlled different parts of the world fighting amongst themselves for total global control. Multipolarity means we are entering into a new era in which no single power controls the world and regional powers are emerging which represent centers of development on an economic, cultural, civilizational, political, historical, historical, soft power and defensive military power for their respective geographic locations.
But that’s not imperialism. An important feature of imperialism is that its not a civilizational relationship like in the case of the Mongol Empire and its various dynasties such as the Yuan or the Tsardom of Muscovy under Ivan the Terrible or the various Persian dynasties under Cyrus and Ismail or the Qing Dynasty prior to the the Opium Wars and the Century of Humiliation, or even the early Ottoman Empire.
So even when there is geographic continuity, which was rarely the case, imperialism throughout history often meant a country like Britain or France going halfway across the world and establishing a colony with zero geographic relationship, dominated by London and Paris’ respective financial and big business interests.
As someone who actively works in drug discovery, I want to dispel a myth.
Stimulants were not “designed for ADHD.” They were discovered by accident in the 1930s because they calmed hyperactive boys.
Also the origin story of the most prescribed psychiatric drugs in history.
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Stimulants were not “designed for ADHD.” They were discovered by accident in the 1930s because they calmed hyperactive boys.
Also the origin story of the most prescribed psychiatric drugs in history.
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The entire research pipeline - the clinical trials, the diagnostic criteria, the dosing models - was built around one phenotype: hyperactive boys who couldn’t sit still in class.
Most stimulant studies were conducted on white males. The DSM criteria? Based on young boys.
Most stimulant studies were conducted on white males. The DSM criteria? Based on young boys.
I have ADHD. I’ve had it diagnosed since I was very young. And my meds genuinely helped me. I’m not anti-medication. Stimulants changed my life in real ways. But they fixed my hyperactivity. They did NOT fix my inattentiveness.
That’s not a coincidence.
That’s not a coincidence.
Today we reveal exclusive new polling which shows support for nuclear is surging and opposition has collapsed to the lowest level ever.
Young Australians are driving the shift. Among 18–34 year olds, net support reaches +32 points — the highest of any age cohort.
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Young Australians are driving the shift. Among 18–34 year olds, net support reaches +32 points — the highest of any age cohort.
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When asked whether they would be more likely to vote for Labor or the Greens if those parties supported nuclear, 42% of young voters said yes for each party, with net support slightly higher for the Greens at 25% than for Labor at 21%.
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Among voters who currently intend to vote for the Coalition, 40% say they would be more likely to vote for @AustralianLabor and @Greens if they had a policy supporting nuclear energy.
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