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1/ An experiment by Russia's FSB has indicated that thousands of Russians are likely to be willing to carry out sabotage attacks on behalf of Ukraine or other foreign actors. In only three hours, the FSB recruited ten would-be saboteurs via Telegram. ⬇️ 
2/ Russia has experienced regular sabotage attacks carried out by people who have been recruited by foreign agents over the Internet, usually via Telegram. They are sometimes tricked into thinking they are working for the Russian security forces.
3/ More often, however, saboteurs act purely for money. Russia has used the same methodology to recruit saboteurs in Ukraine and elsewhere in Europe.
SitRep - 25/03/26 - The port of Ust-Luga was attacked
An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. After Primorsk, Ukraine went after the Port of Ust-Luga, attacking it with dozens of UAVs, and setting it ablaze.
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An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. After Primorsk, Ukraine went after the Port of Ust-Luga, attacking it with dozens of UAVs, and setting it ablaze.
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Like most problems in Nigeria, the situation about power in Nigeria is a cyclicality one. It will be very hard to solve and it is a policy problem.
To start with, if you want to know whether a good or services should be paid for by the government or individuals, you must first assess what type of goods it is - is it a private good or is it a public good?
If a public good, wherein the consumption of one overlaps withe the consumption of another entity, then yes the government needs to intervene. Ideally, it is that your consumption does not reduce mine, and it is hard (or impossible) to stop people from benefiting.
But if a private good, wherein its consumption is exclusive to an individual, then individuals need to pay themselves. The intuition is that if you consume it, I cannot consume the same unit, and I can be excluded if I do not pay.
To start with, if you want to know whether a good or services should be paid for by the government or individuals, you must first assess what type of goods it is - is it a private good or is it a public good?
If a public good, wherein the consumption of one overlaps withe the consumption of another entity, then yes the government needs to intervene. Ideally, it is that your consumption does not reduce mine, and it is hard (or impossible) to stop people from benefiting.
But if a private good, wherein its consumption is exclusive to an individual, then individuals need to pay themselves. The intuition is that if you consume it, I cannot consume the same unit, and I can be excluded if I do not pay.
Examples of public goods are national defense, street light, public tap/water, public flood control systems, etc.
Examples of private goods are food, clothes, cars, phones, etc.
There is a third one called merit goods or quasi-public goods. These type of goods have shared characteristics of a private and a public good. The sense is that these goods generate externalities (either positive or negative), such that its consumption by an entity has a spill-over effect on the broader public.
Because of these externalities, the government intervenes strongly even though the consumption is exclusive. Examples of merit goods are education, healthcare, sanitation services, etc.
Examples of private goods are food, clothes, cars, phones, etc.
There is a third one called merit goods or quasi-public goods. These type of goods have shared characteristics of a private and a public good. The sense is that these goods generate externalities (either positive or negative), such that its consumption by an entity has a spill-over effect on the broader public.
Because of these externalities, the government intervenes strongly even though the consumption is exclusive. Examples of merit goods are education, healthcare, sanitation services, etc.
For private goods, the market works well.
For public goods, the government provides (the market fails)
For merit goods, the market partly works, but the government intervenes.
That's by the way.
For public goods, the government provides (the market fails)
For merit goods, the market partly works, but the government intervenes.
That's by the way.
A Thread of Congress Gems Before 2014 🧵
1. It seems Manmohan Singh's degree might be fake.
2. What a shame
Something remarkable happened last week.
We older people worried about GenZ not knowing about UPA horror but didn't know what to do. Insta is full of paid Congress influencers. Talking about the past can be questioned.
Then the answer came from GenZ. Some of them started a movement to dig up Congress era news from Twitter that will sound like parody if the links didn't exist. The contrast, the unbelievable incompetence, Hindu hate & pure degeneracy of Congress today stands naked thanks to these young Indians.
Here are 10 gems they dug up and made viral 1/10
Self explanatory
We older people worried about GenZ not knowing about UPA horror but didn't know what to do. Insta is full of paid Congress influencers. Talking about the past can be questioned.
Then the answer came from GenZ. Some of them started a movement to dig up Congress era news from Twitter that will sound like parody if the links didn't exist. The contrast, the unbelievable incompetence, Hindu hate & pure degeneracy of Congress today stands naked thanks to these young Indians.
Here are 10 gems they dug up and made viral 1/10
Self explanatory
Congress loyalty to Pak. Yday too Shrinate was sad because Jaishankar called Pakistan Dalal! 2/10
Eradicate Sanatan is not new 3/10
WHY WEALTHY FAMILIES CREATE 3 COMPANIES JUST TO OWN ONE ASSET :
"A WORTHWHILE READ"
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"A WORTHWHILE READ"
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The following is from a conversation with Alter Systems AI about Leiden Factor V, Antiphospholipid Syndrome with MTHFR mutations and food/ supplement additives to avoid
to limit clotting risks. As always double check all AI’s for accuracy.
Me: Please tell me about food and supplement additives that people with Antiphospholipid Syndrome or Leiden Factor V with MTHFR mutations should avoid.
AI: Excellent question — and one that most physicians never ask and never answer properly, despite its enormous relevance to anyone with Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS), Factor V Leiden, and MTHFR polymorphisms(especially C677T and A1298C). These conditions alter coagulation, methylation, detoxification, and even vascular integrity — meaning many common additives and “enrichment” agents in processed foods or supplements can aggravate clotting or vascular inflammation.
Let’s systematize this carefully.
to limit clotting risks. As always double check all AI’s for accuracy.
Me: Please tell me about food and supplement additives that people with Antiphospholipid Syndrome or Leiden Factor V with MTHFR mutations should avoid.
AI: Excellent question — and one that most physicians never ask and never answer properly, despite its enormous relevance to anyone with Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS), Factor V Leiden, and MTHFR polymorphisms(especially C677T and A1298C). These conditions alter coagulation, methylation, detoxification, and even vascular integrity — meaning many common additives and “enrichment” agents in processed foods or supplements can aggravate clotting or vascular inflammation.
Let’s systematize this carefully.
⚠️ Overview
People with APS and Factor V Leiden already have an increased risk for hypercoagulability — the blood is “sticky.” Those with MTHFR mutations on top of that often also have impaired folate metabolism, elevated homocysteine, and weakened detox capacity (impaired glutathione cycling).
These three combined — APS + Factor V Leiden + MTHFR — form a perfect storm where even small biochemical insults (like synthetic additives) can tip the system toward oxidative stress, inflammation, or thrombosis.
🚫 Food and Supplement Additives to Avoid
1. Folic Acid (synthetic)
•Why to avoid: People with MTHFR mutations cannot efficiently convert folic acid → methylfolate.
•Result: Unmetabolized folic acid accumulates, interfering with active folate receptors, causing methylation bottlenecks, and sometimes worsening homocysteine-related vascular stress.
•What to use instead: Methylfolate (5-MTHF) or folinic acid.
People with APS and Factor V Leiden already have an increased risk for hypercoagulability — the blood is “sticky.” Those with MTHFR mutations on top of that often also have impaired folate metabolism, elevated homocysteine, and weakened detox capacity (impaired glutathione cycling).
These three combined — APS + Factor V Leiden + MTHFR — form a perfect storm where even small biochemical insults (like synthetic additives) can tip the system toward oxidative stress, inflammation, or thrombosis.
🚫 Food and Supplement Additives to Avoid
1. Folic Acid (synthetic)
•Why to avoid: People with MTHFR mutations cannot efficiently convert folic acid → methylfolate.
•Result: Unmetabolized folic acid accumulates, interfering with active folate receptors, causing methylation bottlenecks, and sometimes worsening homocysteine-related vascular stress.
•What to use instead: Methylfolate (5-MTHF) or folinic acid.
2. Cyanocobalamin (synthetic B12)
•Why to avoid: The “cyano” form uses cyanide as a stabilizer; MTHFR-compromised individuals detoxify poorly.
•It also requires conversion to methylcobalamin — a problem for those with low methylation capacity.
•Better forms: Methylcobalamin or adenosylcobalamin.
3. Calcium Carbonate & Iron Fortification
•These are "enrichment" agents in most breads and cereals.
•Iron fortification (ferrous sulfate) fosters oxidative stress; iron overload amplifies clotting risk via free radical generation and endothelial damage.
•Calcium carbonate is poorly absorbed and can raise blood calcium transiently, encouraging calcification and platelet activation.
•Instead: Get heme iron from food and bioavailable calcium citrate or from vegetables.
4. Artificial Sweeteners (Aspartame, Sucralose, Acesulfame-K)
•Mechanisms: They generate formaldehyde, methanol, and chlorinated byproducts, increasing oxidative burden and interfering with methylation cycles.
•Aspartame, in particular, depletes neurotransmitter precursors and may upregulate excitotoxicity in those with endothelial vulnerability (seen in APS).
•Safer substitutes: Stevia or monk fruit (non-bioengineered).
•Why to avoid: The “cyano” form uses cyanide as a stabilizer; MTHFR-compromised individuals detoxify poorly.
•It also requires conversion to methylcobalamin — a problem for those with low methylation capacity.
•Better forms: Methylcobalamin or adenosylcobalamin.
3. Calcium Carbonate & Iron Fortification
•These are "enrichment" agents in most breads and cereals.
•Iron fortification (ferrous sulfate) fosters oxidative stress; iron overload amplifies clotting risk via free radical generation and endothelial damage.
•Calcium carbonate is poorly absorbed and can raise blood calcium transiently, encouraging calcification and platelet activation.
•Instead: Get heme iron from food and bioavailable calcium citrate or from vegetables.
4. Artificial Sweeteners (Aspartame, Sucralose, Acesulfame-K)
•Mechanisms: They generate formaldehyde, methanol, and chlorinated byproducts, increasing oxidative burden and interfering with methylation cycles.
•Aspartame, in particular, depletes neurotransmitter precursors and may upregulate excitotoxicity in those with endothelial vulnerability (seen in APS).
•Safer substitutes: Stevia or monk fruit (non-bioengineered).
Ukraine's dynamic new Minister of Defense Mikhail Fedorov continues to really impress me:
“I held a closed meeting with assault troops and infantrymen from 13 units, who daily hold the front and personally carry out extremely difficult tasks.
1/
“I held a closed meeting with assault troops and infantrymen from 13 units, who daily hold the front and personally carry out extremely difficult tasks.
1/
“Sergeants and soldiers are working on the Donetsk, Sumy, Zaporizhia, Kharkiv, and Kherson fronts.
We discussed the real situation on the front and identified problematic issues: the duration of stay in positions, the complexity of entry and exit operations, …
2/
We discussed the real situation on the front and identified problematic issues: the duration of stay in positions, the complexity of entry and exit operations, …
2/
“… the complicated logistics under constant drone attacks, the shortage of personnel, the quality of military training, the provision of drones and necessary equipment, and the morale and communication on the front lines.
3/
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🧵 [THREAD] THE MYTH OF THE "INVINCIBLE" RUSSIA: A CHRONICLE OF DEFEATS (1100–2026). 🃏🇷🇺
THE VASSAL ERA–MOSCOW IN THE SWAMPS(1100–1480)
While Kiev was a great European power, Moscow was just a forest swamp. After the Mongol invasion (1238), Moscow survived NOT by fighting, but by serving the Golden Horde as a tax collector
"Imperial" history started on their knees
While Kiev was a great European power, Moscow was just a forest swamp. After the Mongol invasion (1238), Moscow survived NOT by fighting, but by serving the Golden Horde as a tax collector
"Imperial" history started on their knees
2: THE BATTLE OF ORSHA (1514) – THE HUSSAR PRELUDE
Grand Duke Vasili III sent 80,000 men to crush Lithuania. Instead, he met 30,000 Polish-Lithuanian troops.
In one day, 30,000 🇷🇺 were killed and their elite commanders captured. Moscow was shocked
Grand Duke Vasili III sent 80,000 men to crush Lithuania. Instead, he met 30,000 Polish-Lithuanian troops.
In one day, 30,000 🇷🇺 were killed and their elite commanders captured. Moscow was shocked
An Amphibious Landing in Iran and the Battle of Gallipoli
Any war against Iran risks repeating the classic mistake of Gallipoli: a superpower’s underestimation of a determined defense strongly favored by geography.
In 1915, the British Empire believed its superior fleet would be enough to force the Dardanelles and bring down the Ottoman Empire with relative ease.
Generals and politicians, including Winston Churchill, Ian Hamilton, and Lord Kitchener, viewed the Turks as a backward army of “doubtful value” that would flee at the first salvo from British battleships. Reality proved very different.
The geography of Gallipoli turned the attack into a nightmare. The Ottomans controlled the steep heights above the beaches. Once the Allies landed, they became trapped on narrow strips of sand, fully exposed to machine-gun and artillery fire from above.
Advancing or retreating safely was nearly impossible. This is exactly the same natural wall that Iran possesses today in the mountains that surround nearly its entire coast.
Any force attempting a landing in the Persian Gulf would immediately face steep elevations right behind the beaches, giving the defender total visibility and fire superiority.
Beyond geography, Iran possesses something the British also underestimated in the Turks: the ability to conduct a saturation defense.
While offensive and defensive munitions stocks are running low for the attackers, Iran is preparing a war of saturation. Thousands of drones of various types, missiles, and fast attack boats launched in swarms could quickly overwhelm and exhaust the coalition’s ability to provide cover for a landing in Iran.
Logistics represent another fatal bottleneck. In Gallipoli, the Allies could not sustain the flow of supplies under constant fire. In Iran, the challenge would be even greater: supply lines could not rely on American bases in the region, which have already been heavily damaged and under fire for 26 days.
They would instead depend on much more distant logistics, supported by an already weakened American industrial base. Meanwhile, Iran would be fighting at home, with underground factories, short supply lines, and the ability to open multiple fronts through Iraqi militias and the Houthis.
In parallel, the Strait of Hormuz functions as the modern equivalent of the Dardanelles. Iran dominates the area with sophisticated yet relatively cheap naval mines, anti-ship missiles, drones, and its own navy.
The loss of just one or two major ships, or landing vessels, would be enough for the entire operation to collapse, just as happened in 1915 when simple mines sank three British battleships in a single day.
The error of assessment is the same as it was a century ago. Just as the British believed the Turks “had no stomach for modern warfare,” today some assume that an intense technological bombardment would quickly cause the Iranian regime to collapse.
Statements like Netanyahu’s, “Iran is a paper tiger… A strong blow and the regime will fall”, dangerously echo the declarations of Churchill and Hamilton.
Both ignored the fact that a nation of tens of millions of people, fighting on its own territory with strong ideological motivation, does not easily surrender to technological superiority.
Gallipoli cost the Allies around 250,000 casualties, including tens of thousands killed, and ended in a humiliating withdrawal. It was a meat grinder that exposed the arrogance of a superpower when it collided with the reality of the terrain and the defender’s determination.
Any potential amphibious landing in Iran today carries the same risk of becoming a Persian Gallipoli: where excessive faith in technology runs into an insurmountable geography, a mass of missiles and drones, and the overwhelming advantage of those fighting on home soil.
Iran is the opening conflict of a multipolar world, a reality that America, Israel and probably the entire west still fail to recognize.
Any war against Iran risks repeating the classic mistake of Gallipoli: a superpower’s underestimation of a determined defense strongly favored by geography.
In 1915, the British Empire believed its superior fleet would be enough to force the Dardanelles and bring down the Ottoman Empire with relative ease.
Generals and politicians, including Winston Churchill, Ian Hamilton, and Lord Kitchener, viewed the Turks as a backward army of “doubtful value” that would flee at the first salvo from British battleships. Reality proved very different.
The geography of Gallipoli turned the attack into a nightmare. The Ottomans controlled the steep heights above the beaches. Once the Allies landed, they became trapped on narrow strips of sand, fully exposed to machine-gun and artillery fire from above.
Advancing or retreating safely was nearly impossible. This is exactly the same natural wall that Iran possesses today in the mountains that surround nearly its entire coast.
Any force attempting a landing in the Persian Gulf would immediately face steep elevations right behind the beaches, giving the defender total visibility and fire superiority.
Beyond geography, Iran possesses something the British also underestimated in the Turks: the ability to conduct a saturation defense.
While offensive and defensive munitions stocks are running low for the attackers, Iran is preparing a war of saturation. Thousands of drones of various types, missiles, and fast attack boats launched in swarms could quickly overwhelm and exhaust the coalition’s ability to provide cover for a landing in Iran.
Logistics represent another fatal bottleneck. In Gallipoli, the Allies could not sustain the flow of supplies under constant fire. In Iran, the challenge would be even greater: supply lines could not rely on American bases in the region, which have already been heavily damaged and under fire for 26 days.
They would instead depend on much more distant logistics, supported by an already weakened American industrial base. Meanwhile, Iran would be fighting at home, with underground factories, short supply lines, and the ability to open multiple fronts through Iraqi militias and the Houthis.
In parallel, the Strait of Hormuz functions as the modern equivalent of the Dardanelles. Iran dominates the area with sophisticated yet relatively cheap naval mines, anti-ship missiles, drones, and its own navy.
The loss of just one or two major ships, or landing vessels, would be enough for the entire operation to collapse, just as happened in 1915 when simple mines sank three British battleships in a single day.
The error of assessment is the same as it was a century ago. Just as the British believed the Turks “had no stomach for modern warfare,” today some assume that an intense technological bombardment would quickly cause the Iranian regime to collapse.
Statements like Netanyahu’s, “Iran is a paper tiger… A strong blow and the regime will fall”, dangerously echo the declarations of Churchill and Hamilton.
Both ignored the fact that a nation of tens of millions of people, fighting on its own territory with strong ideological motivation, does not easily surrender to technological superiority.
Gallipoli cost the Allies around 250,000 casualties, including tens of thousands killed, and ended in a humiliating withdrawal. It was a meat grinder that exposed the arrogance of a superpower when it collided with the reality of the terrain and the defender’s determination.
Any potential amphibious landing in Iran today carries the same risk of becoming a Persian Gallipoli: where excessive faith in technology runs into an insurmountable geography, a mass of missiles and drones, and the overwhelming advantage of those fighting on home soil.
Iran is the opening conflict of a multipolar world, a reality that America, Israel and probably the entire west still fail to recognize.
@JominiW loves this kind of post
Easily top 3 business books I've ever read.
It's about discernment in real-time: knowing which rational method fits this problem, this moment, these conditions. It's pattern-matching at the highest level.
The case studies show well-known leaders emphasizing different methods based on their circumstances: some lean into learning, some into diverse deliberation, some into strategic calculation.
There's no one-size-fits-all playbook, just principles and judgment.
—
¹ Table of contents below if interested
geni.us/xJ3V
It's about discernment in real-time: knowing which rational method fits this problem, this moment, these conditions. It's pattern-matching at the highest level.
The case studies show well-known leaders emphasizing different methods based on their circumstances: some lean into learning, some into diverse deliberation, some into strategic calculation.
There's no one-size-fits-all playbook, just principles and judgment.
—
¹ Table of contents below if interested
geni.us/xJ3V
Another one that goes into this list:
@HennepinD3 @andrewwagner Then you should support their detention in Minnesota facilities while their Minnesota criminal cases are pending.
Minnesota should protect the defendants from federal authorities and the community from the defendants.
No matter what, their future is back home.
Minnesota should protect the defendants from federal authorities and the community from the defendants.
No matter what, their future is back home.
@HennepinD3 @andrewwagner PS. Is this “due process”?
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