A life-changing surgery was questioned.
A genuine claim denied.
The insurer held on to a clause.
Nilesh held on to the truth.
Find out what happened next in today’s #ClaimStories S01E101 👇
Nilesh Gala, his wife and daughter were covered under a health insurance policy.
One day, Nilesh underwent an ear surgery to fix his hearing Left Ear Ossiculoplasty with Titanium Chain Prosthesis under general anaesthesia.
The surgery cost ₹42,431.
He filed a claim.
The insurer didn’t reject the claim entirely but they didn’t pay in full either.
They deducted ₹18,000 the cost of the Titanium Chain Prosthesis.
Their reason?
They pointed to a clause saying the policy doesn’t cover external aids like spectacles, contact lenses, wheelchairs, hearing aids or similar devices.
Beyond harming relationships, consuming porn rewires the brain itself.
Brain scans show troubling changes eerily similar to drug addiction.
The good news—it can be undone.
One proven method helped users slash their porn use by 92%.
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What begins as a choice to watch pornography can evolve into a neurological and physical battle, with new research showing that frequent viewing rewires the brain in ways that mirror drug addiction.
The new study, published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, gives insights into how frequent pornography use may rewire the brain’s reward and control circuits, leading to neurological arousal, behavioral changes, and possible dependency, comparable to that observed in opioid addicts.
Obsession-Led Brain Rewiring
Conducted at Chengdu Medical College in China, the study involved 21 healthy college students who watched pornographic content to varying degrees and had no history of substance use. The participants were split into two groups: occasional, low-frequency pornography use, and those with a chronic obsession.
A 10-minute pornography video was selected for the experiment. Before and after watching the video, researchers measured participants’ cognitive functioning and reaction times. Further, while participants watched the video, their real-time neural activity, vital body signs, and facial expressions were also recorded.
The findings revealed that frequent pornography consumption creates three distinct changes in how our brains and bodies respond.
Debrief of shipwreck attack by Ranking Member of House Armed Services Adam Smith:
"The idea is supposed to be that if they could get assistance, they could get back 'in the fight,' ...But Smith said the officials confirmed...they have no recording of these communications." 1/
2/ “Smith said the video shows two men, sitting without shirts, atop a portion of a capsized boat that was still above water. ...
... He called it a 'highly questionable decision that these two people on that obviously incapacitated vessel were still in any kind of fight.'”
3/ Rep. Smith:
“The broader assumption that they were operating off of was that the drugs could still conceivably be on that boat, even though you could not see them ... and it was still conceivable that these two people were going to continue on their mission.”
The National Security Strategy was just released. Here is all the China-related content in one 🧵. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…
"President Trump single-handedly reversed more than three decades of mistaken American assumptions about China: namely, that by opening our markets to China, encouraging American business to invest in China, and outsourcing our manufacturing to China, we would facilitate China’s entry into the so-called “rules-based international order.” This did not happen. China got rich and powerful, and used its wealth and power to its considerable advantage. American elites—over four successive administrations of both political parties --were either willing enablers of China’s strategy or in denial."
"China adapted to the shift in U.S. tariff policy that began in 2017 in part by strengthening its hold on supply chains, especially in the world’s low- and middle-income (i.e., per capita GDP $13,800 or less) countries—among the greatest economic battlegrounds of the coming decades. China’s exports to low-income countries doubled between 2020 and 2024. The United States imports Chinese goods indirectly from middlemen and Chinese-built factories in a dozen countries, including Mexico. China’s exports to low-income countries are today nearly four times its exports to the United States. When President Trump first took office in 2017, China’s exports to the United States stood at 4 percent of its GDP but have since fallen to slightly over 2 percent of its GDP. China continues, however, to export to the United States through other proxy countries. Going forward, we will rebalance America’s economic relationship with China, prioritizing reciprocity and fairness to restore American economic independence. Trade with China should be balanced and focused on non-sensitive factors. If America remains on a growth path—and can sustain that while maintaining a genuinely mutually advantageous economic relationship with Beijing—we should be headed from our present $30 trillion economy in 2025 to $40 trillion in the 2030s, putting our country in an enviable position to maintain our status as the world’s leading economy. Our ultimate goal is to lay the foundation for long-term economic vitality."
Historically, the CIA used the International Rescue Committee (IRC) as part of its covert network during the Cold War, involving refugee screening for intelligence purposes, covert operations, and some funding via foundations.
📰AN ABSURD WAY TO SPEND MONEY via CIA reading room (link in comment below)
AN ABSURD WAY TO SPEND MONEY via CIA reading room re the International Rescue Committee (IRC) cia.gov/readingroom/do…
1/ The new US National Security Strategy blames 'undemocratic' European governments for failing to make peace with Russia, takes a pro-Russian position on NATO, reflects white nationalist views on European demographics, and pledges overt support for far-right parties. ⬇️
2/ While the strategy states that "it is a core interest of the United States to negotiate an expeditious cessation of hostilities in Ukraine", it says that "the Trump Administration finds itself at odds with European officials who hold unrealistic expectations for the war…
3/ …perched in unstable minority governments, many of which trample on basic principles of democracy to suppress opposition."
(This is likely a reference to European regulation of social media and the 2024 annulment of the Romanian election due to Russian interference.)
🇺🇸🇪🇺 La obsesión de la administración Trump *contra* (no por) Europa ha cristalizado en este documento, que se conoció anoche. Y hay todos los motivos para preocuparse. La agenda de la Casa Blanca ya es cristalina y deja claro sus objetivos. Un hilo largo. (1/)
EEUU ve como su misión "cambiar la trayectoria" actual de Europa, y "recuperar su identidad occidental". Para ello, sin tapujos, habla de "cultivar resistencia (...) desde dentro de las naciones europeas". Confesión de la interferencia directa en la política nacional. (2/)
Como parte de ello, explica, la administración americana ve "una causa de gran optimismo" la "creciente influencia de partidos patrióticos europeos". De nuevo, no es ninguna sorpresa, pero ahí está escrito: EEUU va a ayudar a los partidos de extrema derecha en Europa. (3/)
Everyone thinks the Clarity Act + Genius Act are just “crypto regulation.”
They’re not.
They’re the early blueprint for the next global monetary system — and almost nobody sees the second-order effects coming.
Here are the real surprises.
Surprise #1: The U.S. just unlocked a Eurodollar 2.0 system.
Not DeFi.
Not meme tokens.
A regulated, institutional stablecoin engine that can scale globally.
This will grow far faster than analysts, politicians, or banks expect.
Surprise #2: AI will become the biggest user of stablecoins.
Not traders.
Not retail apps.
AI agents executing micro-transactions across thousands of networks.
The Genius Act quietly created the monetary substrate for the AI century.
Your cult is interconnected as socially challenged imbeciles, comprised of half home schooled and half Christian schooled libertarian political accounts. Care to explain why it's such a stark contrast between journalism;what your media capture friends do?
@rothschildmd That Google search wasn't even anything to do with you... jar full of Jim. When asked what "stewanon" is Shelby who uses the name online on her grift podcast with Steven and Taylor and Nic...Shelby cites you...
Nach zwei Jahren Prüfung - ▶️ EU-Kommission verhängt Millionenstrafe gegen Elon Musks
Plattform X
Die EU-Kommission macht Ernst:
Elon Musks Online-Plattform X verstößt nach ihrer Auffassung in mindestens drei Fällen gegen europäisches Recht und soll deshalb 120 Millionen Euro
zahlen.
Das teilte die Behörde am Freitag in Brüssel mit.
Es ist das Ergebnis einer zweijährigen Prüfung,
die von scharfen Drohungen aus den USA begleitet wurde.
Die Kommission sieht es als erwiesen an, dass die blauen Häkchen bei X – einst Zeichen der Verifizierung
und heute käuflich – Nutzer in die Irre führen.
▶️ „Das ist eine Täuschung, da sie im Glauben gelassen werden, dass sich verifizierte Personen hinter Konten mit blauem Häkchen verbergen“, erklärte ein hochrangiger EU-Beamter.