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So, a shipment of crickets for the lizard arrived via FedEx today. It was my first time ordering bulk crickets off the internet, and I naively assumed that they would be in like, a bag or some other contraption to facilitate easy transfer to another container. They were not.

They were in a cardboard box. And I cut the tape and opened the box and SURPRISE! Crickets everywhere. It was the middle of the workday and I didn't have time to deal with cricket logistics, so I put the tape back on the box.

And then I put the box in the upstairs bathroom, the only semi-contained place in the house where I knew the kids and the cats and the dogs wouldn't be able to get at the box and tear it open and unleash 250 hungry crickets into our warm, semi-humid environment.

#Dhar dynasty of #kashmiri brahmins who ruled jammu for more than 400 years🧵
Suraj dhar was the founder of Dhar dynasty.
.
Chronology of Jammu as a state in the earlier times is not traceable down to the 10th century. Ignoring the bardic history,we will see recorded reference+

The events pertain to 10th Century and relate to a war between Sahil Verman of Chamba & the attacking force of Kiras (surely a force from South-East Kashmir-Kamraz, Anantnag and Kashtwar region) in asso-ciation with Lord of Durgara (?)-Jammu-? Ballawar or Babbapur-? or Sumarta-?

Babbapur attains the name of Babba Nila or Nilpura because of its beautiful geographical location as is still evident from the ruins of Babor temples which are said to bear Kashmirian Architectural influence. So it is clear that jammu was built & ruled by kashmirians

The famous Sun☀️ Temple of Multan-
Jibawin a kashmiri brahmin who was chief of the city and a descendant of the Rai of Kashmir, who made a reservoir, on the eastern side of Multan, which was 100 Yards square. In the middle of it he built a temple 50 yards square+

under it was a chamber in which he concealed 60 copper jars, each of which was filled with a fine gold dust. Over it there is a temple in which there is an idol made of red gold, and trees are planted round the reservoir+

Kasim went there and found an idol made of gold, and its two eyes were bright red rubies. He had it taken up and obtained 13,200 mans of gold.
#kasim #multan #jibawin #raiofkashmir #kashmiribrahmin #aditya

EXCLUSIVE:

🚨SECRETARY OF THE ARMY’S OFFICE PLOTTING COUP AT THE PENTAGON TO REMOVE @SecWar PETE HEGSETH AND REPLACE HIM WITH @SecArmy DAN DRISCOLL 🚨

Individuals in the office of US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll have been orchestrating a Coup against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth in an effort to have him removed by President Trump and replaced by Dan Driscoll.

Over the last 2 weeks, the legacy media, which is incredibly hostile to Hegseth, has been posting puff pieces about Dan Driscoll and how he is a “rising star” at the Pentagon. Sources have told me that Jake Sullivan @jakejsullivan, the former National Security Advisor of the United States under Joe Biden, is very close friends with Dan Driscoll, and they have been friends since they both attended Yale Law School. Driscoll and Vice President Vance also met at Yale Law School, which is how Driscoll was nominated as Army Secretary.

High level sources at the Pentagon have confirmed to me that Sullivan has been planting stories in support of Driscoll because Sullivan wants Hegseth removed and replaced by Driscoll. Sullivan is worried Hegseth and President Trump are going to take action against the seditious 6, the 6 Democrat lawmakers who are now facing federal inquiries and an FBI investigation after they recorded a video in November 2025 urging US military service members not to follow “unlawful” orders, a message President Trump and Pete Hegseth have called “seditious."

One of the seditious 6 is Democrat Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander @RepGoodlander (D-NH), the wife of Jake Sullivan who goes by a different last name to hide the fact that she is married to Jake Sullivan. It is worth noting that Goodlander is a Naval Reserve Intelligence Officer, which means she could possibly face disciplinary action by Hegseth for her seditious behavior.

Goodlander and Sullivan got married in 2015. Some of guests at their wedding include Hillary Clinton, Lisa Monaco, Huma Abedin, Samantha Power, Victoria Nuland, and Antony Blinken, all of whom are anti-Trump Deep State operatives.

Sullivan previously served as Director of Policy to President Barack Obama, National Security Advisor to then-Vice President Biden and Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary @HillaryClinton at the U.S. State Department. Sullivan also served as senior advisor for the Iran nuclear negotiations and as a senior policy advisor to Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign against Donald Trump.

Hegseth has accused these 6 Democrat lawmakers of committing sedition, and he is even considering court marshaling Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly, one of the seditious 6.

According to FEC records, Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander, the wife of Jake Sullivan, donated a max donation of $2,800 to Dan Driscoll when he ran for Congress in 2020 in North Carolina.

Why would an anti-Trump, Democrat Congresswoman married to Jake Sullivan, one of the architects of the Russia Collusion hoax, donate to a Republican candidate for Congress who would later move on to be President Trump’s Army Secretary?

Jake Sullivan played a central role in the Clinton campaign's efforts to promote the Trump-Russia collusion story, including feeding journalists details about the fabricated Alfa Bank–Trump server allegations and linking the campaign to the discredited Steele dossier—claims that triggered years of investigations and were ultimately exposed as a partisan hoax. Additionally, as I previously reported, Driscoll posted a photo of himself earlier this year hanging out with Eugene Vindman, who collaborated with his brother Alexander Vindman to impeach President Trump over false allegations.

Now, Sullivan is working with high level Army officials in Army Secretary Dan Driscoll’s office to force Pete Hegseth out and install Dan Driscoll as Secretary of War, despite the fact that President Trump loves Pete Hegseth.

I will be asking about this attempted coup on Pete Hegseth at the upcoming Pentagon Press Briefing this week.

RECEIPTS 👇🏻

Everyone who went to Yale Law School:

Dan Driscoll, Jake Sullivan and Maggie Goodlander. Maggie Goodlander graduated from Yale Law School 2 years after Dan Driscoll.

VP JD Vance also went to Yale Law School, where he met Dan Driscoll.

37signals open-sourced Fizzy, their Kanban tracker for issues & ideas. @dhh

I went through the code and stole 10 patterns you can reuse in your own Rails / SaaS app 👇

github.com/basecamp/fizzy

1️⃣ Account slug multi-tenancy (no namespaced controllers)

Fizzy uses a rack middleware (AccountSlug::Extractor) that:

Pulls the numeric account id from the URL
Rewrites SCRIPT_NAME / PATH_INFO
Wraps the request in Current.with_account

Result: the whole app is effectively mounted at /{account_id} and controllers stay clean & non-multi-tenant-aware.

2️⃣ Base36 UUIDv7 primary keys

They store UUIDv7 in binary columns but expose them as 25-char base36 strings:

Ordered by time
Short enough to copy/paste
Still globally unique

It’s a great pattern if you want “nice” IDs without giving up UUID semantics.

I just read the Trump administration's National Security Strategy. Five initial thoughts:

1) Where's the geographic focus? A little all over the place...
- Western Hem is discussed first
- Europe gets the most mentions
- Asia gets the most pages, but nearly all about China

2) Language on allies is a big shift:
- Allies are depicted as a means to an end
- Days of "propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over"
- Allies must "assume primary responsibility for their regions"

3) China is by far the biggest focus in Asia (and elsewhere):
- Trump team clearly seeing all of Asia through the lens of China
- Southeast Asia? Almost completely absent
- US treaty ally Philippines isn't even mentioned!
- Pacific Islands also nowhere to be seen

自律的18个法则：

1. 绝不休息。

2. 履行你说过的承诺。

自尊来自履行对自己的承诺。

停止违背它们。

3. 赢下早晨，赢下一天。

你如何开始决定如何结束。

掌控你的清晨。

The American Retreat and the Birth of a Multipolar World: A Eurasian Reading of Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS). China is now downgraded to an Economic Competitor!

The United States has just published the most honest national-security document of the past eighty years. In thirty-three sober pages, Washington has admitted what Moscow, Beijing and much of the Global Majority have been saying for two decades: the unipolar era is over, liberal hegemony is dead, and the United States is returning home to its own hemisphere. The rest of the world is now explicitly invited – or rather instructed – to take responsibility for its own security.

This is Buck-Passing on a continental scale.

Buck-passing is a strategy in Offensive Realism where a great power attempts to shift the responsibility for deterring or fighting a dangerous rising state onto another power. The buck-passer avoids the costs and risks of direct confrontation, hoping the "buck-catcher" and the aggressor will weaken each other through bloodletting, thereby maximizing the buck-passer's relative power.

The NSS of November 2025 does not merely downgrade China from “pacing threat” to “economic competitor”; it quietly demotes the entire Indo-Pacific to fourth place, after (1) homeland defence, (2) the Western Hemisphere [the Americas], and (3) economic re-industrialisation [focus on American industrial renewal]. Europe and the Middle East barely merit a subsection each. The message could not be clearer: the American security blanket is being pulled back, and regional powers are expected to step forward.

Why is China downgraded to only an Economic Competitor? See 2/2

East Asia: Japan’s Moment of Truth

In Asia, the beneficiary – and the new buck-catcher – is obviously Japan.

By openly stating that defending Taiwan is merely “a priority” (not a vital interest) and that it is “ideal” to preserve military overmatch but no longer guaranteed as China is too strong militarily), the United States is effectively telling Tokyo: “If you want the First Island Chain to hold, you will have to do much of the holding yourselves.” Which explains PM Takaichi brash statement that a potential Chinese military attack or blockade against Taiwan could constitute a "survival-threatening situation" for Japan – she is trying to step up to say Japan can hold the First Island Chain on its own.

The document repeatedly insists that “our allies must step up and spend – and more importantly do – much more for collective defence.” Translation: the post-war arrangement in which Japan enjoyed security at American expense while remaining constitutionally and politically castrated is finished.

This creates an historic opportunity for Japan to become a fully sovereign great power for the first time since 1945. The grey zones deliberately left in the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty and the 1972 Okinawa Reversion Agreement – under which Japan regained only administrative control of Okinawa while the United States retained exclusive use of the bases – can now be renegotiated. If Japan is to become the eastern anchor of any serious containment policy toward China, it will need genuine command authority over the 31 U.S. military installations on its soil, especially the strategic hub at Kadena.

Whether Washington will voluntarily surrender these extraterritorial privileges is doubtful. More likely, Tokyo will have to force the issue – and that, in turn, will require the acquiescence of Beijing and Moscow. Why? Because the legal foundation for the original American seizure of Okinawa rests on the 1943 Cairo Declaration and the 1945 Potsdam Proclamation, both of which promised that all territories “stolen” from China by Japan would be returned to the Republic of China. Russia, as co-signatory to Potsdam and as the successor to the Soviet seat on the Allied Council, retains a theoretical veto over any final settlement of Okinawa’s status. So Taiwan has to be returned to China?

In other words, Japan’s path to full sovereignty over its own territory now runs through Beijing and Moscow, not Washington. The irony is exquisite: the very powers Japan is supposed to help contain may hold the keys to its liberation from the post-war order.

Europe: Abandonment in Slow Motion

Across the Eurasian landmass, the same logic applies. The 2025 NSS mentions Russia exactly twice – once in passing, once to say that Europe must restore its “civilisational self-confidence and Western identity.” There is no mention of NATO’s Article 5 as the cornerstone of American strategy, no pledge to defend every inch of Allied soil, no promise to keep 100,000 troops in Europe indefinitely. The message to Paris, Berlin and Warsaw is unmistakable: if you wish to manage the Russian frontier, you will do it largely with your own money and your own blood.

The Europeans, predictably, are in denial. But the mathematics are brutal. Without the American security subsidy, the combined GDP of the EU plus UK is still larger than Russia’s, but their collective defence spending remains anaemic and their arms industries are decades behind. The coming years will be a frantic, and probably unsuccessful, attempt to create a European pillar capable of deterring Moscow on its own. The more likely outcome is a Finnish-style accommodation with Russia or, in the case of Germany and France, a reluctant drift toward Eurasian economic integration once the American shield is visibly lowered.

The Gulf: An Arab-Israeli Condominium over Energy

In the Middle East, the strategy is equally revealing. The United States will no longer police the region with occupation forces or regime-change adventures. Instead, it will rely on the expanded Abraham Accords framework – effectively an Israeli-Saudi-Emirati-Qatari condominium – to ensure that no single power (i.e., Iran) can close the Strait of Hormuz or Bab el-Mandeb. American naval power will remain over the horizon, ready to intervene only if the regional balance collapses entirely. This explains why Trump sold F-35 to Saudi Arabia as now the Saudi will have to police the Middle East with Israel-Emirati-Qatari. How Iran will react to this is anyone’s guess?

This is classic offshore balancing: let the local heavyweights fight the limited wars, sell them the weapons, secure the insurance policy, but refuse to pay the premium forever.

The New Geometry of Power

What we are witnessing is the orderly (for now) dissolution of the American world order and its replacement by a multipolar system organised around continental spheres of influence:

- The United States consolidates an expanded Monroe Doctrine in the entire Western Hemisphere.
- China dominates mainland East Asia and the South China Sea.
- Russia re-establishes privileged influence in the post-Soviet space and the Arctic.
- India emerges as the swing power in South Asia and the Indian Ocean.
- A reluctant European bloc, possibly led by a Franco-German directorate, tries to find a modus vivendi with Russia while keeping the Americans at arm’s length.
- An Israeli-Arab coalition polices the greater Middle East.

Japan, the eternal outlier, faces the most consequential choice. It can cling to the fading American protectorate and remain a political dwarf with American bases on its soil forever, or it can seize the moment, negotiate with its continental neighbours, and finally become a normal great power – sovereign in Tokyo and sovereign in Naha (capital city of Okinawa)

The 2025 NSS is a plan for American Restraint and Renewal. It is the strategic re-orientation document of a power that has accepted its limits. The age of ideological crusades is over; the age of pragmatic spheres of influence has begun. America will have to invest in itself if it wants to renew its industrial and manufacturing base. The only question left is whether the former hegemon will manage its decline with grace – or whether its former dependents will force the issue themselves.

It will also open the question of the structure of the UN Security Council where you have 3 Western powers – US, France and UK where France and UK are small countries that may have to make way for India, one Muslim and one African country to be UNSC permanent member – but the new members may not have a regular veto power like the original members US, Russia and China.

We are living in interesting time.

1/2
whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…

2/2

China’s Scale Is Decisive

China’s 1.41 billion people (vs. America’s 345 million) create an unbridgeable advantage in the 21st-century technology race. By 2050, even if China merely reaches today’s South Korean or Portuguese GDP-per-capita (PPP), its total economy will be $60–75 trillion – roughly double the projected U.S. economy.

Emerging technologies (AI, quantum, biotech, 6G, hypersonics, space industry) are characterised by enormous fixed costs and powerful network effects. The country that spreads those costs across four times the population, trains models on four times the data, and sells into four times the domestic market will set global standards and price everyone else out.

The 2025 NSS tacitly admits this: the tariff war failed, and the U.S. now needs a coalition to achieve the scale it no longer has alone. Yet the coalition partners (ageing Japan, shrinking Europe, still-developing India) cannot close the gap in time.

Result: if the United States does not maintain leadership or co-leadership in the defining technologies, China becomes the global economic hegemon and standard-setter. The U.S. will remain the unchallenged regional hegemon of the entire Western Hemisphere – rich, secure, and powerful – but only a regional superpower in a Eurasian-centred world.

In short, the 2025 NSS is America’s quiet acceptance that, without technological parity at Chinese scale, it faces a future as the Britain of the 21st century: splendid, respected, and peripheral.

Australia has spent the last 20 years treating China like an enemy and the political elites repeat every lie that the Americans invented about China. It bought A$368 Bil in AUKUS nuclear submarines over 30 years to be able to confront China in the West Pacific, it agreed to be the lead in Indo-Pacific to confront China who has a navy that is bigger than the US when Australia only has less than 50 naval vassals that are designed for coastal defence! With the US retreating to the Western Hemisphere - AUSTRALIA IS FXCKED!

x.com/Ignis_Rex/stat…

My goal as a journalist is to report carefully on the best, most practical social policy ideas that can change the world, and this is easily the most exciting one I’ve had the opportunity to cover this year.

I hope you'll read it 🧵↓

In Bogotá they're trying to do something tricky: elevate both care work and caregivers, while also saying, “You shouldn’t have to be doing this so much — you deserve a full life beyond caring for kids, for aging relatives, for your partner."

vox.com/policy/469634/…

Bogotá has opened 25 "care blocks" since 2020 — neighborhood hubs where women can hand off laundry, see a therapist, finish their education, join a fitness class or just rest, while their kids or elderly relatives are cared for nearby.

What India and Russia didn’t announce today is far bigger than what they did.
Here’s the full 7-signal defence blueprint hidden in plain sight —
from co-production to tech-transfer to UAV manufacturing. 🇮🇳🇷🇺👇
Read this before the headlines catch up.

🧵 1/7 — Reading Between the Diplomatic Lines

The summit didn’t announce defence deals — it signalled them.
Rostec, Putin, Modi, and MEA pushed the same message:
co-production, tech-transfer, and India building jets, engines & UAVs at home.
The quiet parts were the loudest. 🇮🇳🇷🇺
#IndiaRussia #ModiPutin #DefenceCooperation #MakeInIndia

2/7 — Rostec: The Industrial Signal

Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov set the tone:
“Whatever India requires, we are here to support.”
Then came the substance:
• Su-57 tech-transfer
• Licensed fighter production in India
• Engines, AESA, stealth materials, avionics
• Local manufacturing of Lancet-style UAVs
Industrial intent ✔️
#Rostec #Su57 #UAVs

Buenas! A veces, no es que no vea las cosas, si no que me tomo el tiempo suficiente para responder con Argumentos para que quede lo SUFICIENTEMENTE claro, el nivel de idioteces que dice mi Marxcota. y para que usted entienda este hilo le pido de favor que vea el siguiente video👇

De entrada decir que es el personaje más atacado por @RicardoBSalinas, cuando, el que inició esa batalla fue el RÉGIMEN COMPLETO contra el , es ridículo. Todo el aparato del Estado y la presión fiscal, ha funcionado para eso así que colocar a este personaje como Víctima es ABSURDO COMPLETAMENTE.

Y más que evidente cuando lo que dices es que vas a hablar de @Azteca y su campaña negra, ¿Mintió la gente de Ventaneando? la verdad es que no.

En México, para el ciclo escolar 2025-2026, las vacaciones de invierno inician el lunes 22 de diciembre de 2025, siendo el viernes 19 de diciembre el último día de clases para preescolar, primaria y secundaria, regresando a clases el lunes 12 de enero de 2026 tras unos 23 días de descanso que incluyen Navidad y Año Nuevo, según el calendario de la SEP.

@hoaxeye @Shayan86 1).
The emblem of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine depicts two crossed batons on a black background – a historical symbol of Cossack of command authority on Ukrainian territory [1] [2].

@hoaxeye @Shayan86 2).
Whereas the emblem of the 36th Waffen-Grenadier-Division der ϟϟ depicts two crossed grenades [3] [4] [5] [6] [7].

@hoaxeye @Shayan86 3).
[1] @GazetaRu gazeta.ru/social/news/20…

[2] @radiosvoboda radiosvoboda.org/a/kozacki-symv…

[3] commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dirl…

[4] de.wikipedia.org/wiki/36._Waffe…

[5] pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/36_Dywizj…

[6] uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/36-%D1%82…

Gedanken zur Tageslosung für Samstag, den 06.12.2025

Losungswort
O HERR, hilf! O HERR, lass wohlgelingen!
Psalm 118,25

Lehrtext
Der heilige Geist sprach: Bestimmt mir den Barnabas und den Saulus für das Werk, zu dem ich sie berufen

habe. Da fasteten und beteten sie, legten ihnen die Hände auf und ließen sie gehen.
Apostelgeschichte 13,2-3

Die Losungen der Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine

„Lass wohlgelingen“

Im heutigen Losungswort bittet der Psalmist, Gott möge ihm helfen und es ihm wohlgelingen lassen. Was aber

sollte ihm wohlgelingen? Nun, der Psalmist schrieb: „Feindliche Völker hatten mich umzingelt … sie bedrängten mich und griffen mich an … sie umschwärmten mich wie die Bienen, sie wüteten gegen mich wie lodernde Flammen.“(1) Diesen Bedrohungen

Want to live longer, think clearer, age slower, and dodge chronic disease?

Build muscle.

Not because it looks good,
but because every extra kilogram of muscle literally makes you harder to kill.

What the research shows

+1 kg of muscle → lower risk of death
People with the most muscle had a lower mortality than those with the least.

Low muscle = risk of age related brain disease risk
Smaller muscles = higher dementia risk
Sarcopenia nearly triples Alzheimer’s risk.
Muscle protects the brain.

Cancer? Muscle matters
Strength training = lower cancer risk
Losing lean mass increases cancer death risk

Heart health
More muscle = lower cardiovascular events
Your biceps may be better than your blood pressure meds.

Type 2 Diabetes
Strength training = lower diabetes risk
Muscle is where glucose goes. No muscle? No glucose control.

Why muscle is a longevity organ

Muscle releases myokines hormone-like signals that:

Reduce inflammation
Protect the brain
Improve insulin sensitivity
Support blood vessels
Boost metabolic health

The more muscle you have, the more of these protective molecules your body makes.

The crazy part
You don’t need dramatic gains.
Just +1% muscle per year (totally doable with strength training) compounds into massive risk reduction over a decade.
Small improvements → huge protection.

A major 2025 study people with higher lean body mass (i.e. more muscle/lean tissue compared to fat) had a significantly lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40551720/

Muscle is more than strength, It’s a metabolic organ
Your muscles don’t just move your body they protect your metabolism. When you strength train, your muscles release special hormones and signals that help your body manage sugar, burn fat, and use energy more efficiently. That means:
More muscle = better metabolic health
Less muscle = higher risk of obesity, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes
Doctors now recommend strength training not just for athletes, but as essential medicine for ageing well.

Introducing: Strengthspan
Just like lifespan is how long you live, strengthspan is how long you stay strong and functional. The longer your strengthspan, the more likely you are to:
Live independently, Avoid lifestyle diseases
,Maintain mobility as you age
and enjoy a higher quality of life
Strength isn’t something you should start worrying about at 65, it’s something you build now, little by little, and protect for life.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40784602/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38754987/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39948829

When the body
faces illness, injury, surgery, or any major stress, it draws on muscle to supply amino acids and proteins needed to:
* Repair damaged tissues
* Support the immune system
* Fight inflammation
* Maintain vital organs
Without this reserve, the body is forced to break itself down.

Why muscle matters during illness

ICU patients can lose 15–20% of their muscle in just one week.
That’s like aging several decades in days.
This massive muscle loss leads to:
❌ slower recovery
❌ prolonged weakness
❌ higher risk of complications
❌ poorer survival rates
But here’s the good news:
Patients who enter illness, surgery, or hospitalization with more muscle recover faster and experience up to 75% less long-term impairment months later.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08…

‼️„STARS & STRIPES FÜR BRAUNE BRÜDER – WIE WASHINGTON EUROPA
IN EINE NEOFASCHISTISCHE SCHMUTZECKE SCHUBST“

Da ist es also, schwarz auf weiß:
▶️ Die Regierung in Washington entdeckt plötzlich ihre „Sorge“ um Europa – und ausgerechnet im Namen der „ZIVILISATION“

wirft sie sich schützend vor jene Kräfte, die hier seit Jahren von Verfassungsschützern, Antifaschist:innen und Demokrat:innen als das benannt werden, was sie sind:
‼️rechtsextrem, völkisch, demokratiefeindlich.

‼️Das ist KEINE Außenpolitik mehr, das ist geopolitischer KULTURKAMPF im Dienste einer RECHTEN INTERNATIONALE.
‼️Und Europa soll bitteschön die Bühne, das Versuchslabor – und im Zweifel der Kollateralschaden – sein.

If NWOG/NDOG still dey do you somehow and you've been pretending to understand.

Don't stress, this 5-minute thread will finally save you from the confusion. Read this carefully

🧵🧵🧵

If you're new in the forex market and you keep hearing NWOG and NDOG, just relax.

Those terms confuse people, not just you.
Most traders hear them every week but don't really understand how they move the market.

Let me break it down in a simple way

NWOG (NEW WEEK OPENING GAP)

It's the difference btw last week's close and the new week's open.
They're some activities that happens during the weekend like news, sentiment, etc

so when the market opens, price might jump instead of continuing normally. That jump creates the gap