How long have the @bbcnews @BBCNewsbeat @cbbc been promoting the concept of a trans child, and both social & medical transition for very young children?
What role did the @cbbc documentary ”I Am Leo" play in all this?
A 🧵 spanning 2014-2017
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June 2014
@BBCNewsbeat - 'I am six and I'm a transgender kid. I am a cool kid'
"When the family dies, I will cut my hair so I can be a boy"
Girls can obviously have short hair. @BBCNewsbeat's remit is to provide news tailored for young people.
Nov 2014
@cbbc broadcasts "I am Leo". Aimed at children, it peddles the incoherent, unscientific myth that you can be born in the wrong body, and that some girls, like Leo, have boy brains.
JAPAN JUST KILLED THE GLOBAL MONEY PRINTER AND NOBODY NOTICED
The most dangerous number in finance right now is 1.71%.
That’s Japan’s 10-year bond yield. Highest since 2008. Here’s why your retirement just got obliterated:
For 30 years, Japan printed infinity money at 0% rates and exported it worldwide. $3.4 trillion flowed into US Treasuries, European debt, emerging markets. This invisible bid kept YOUR mortgage cheap, YOUR stocks inflated, YOUR government solvent.
November 10th, 2025: The bid disappeared.
Japan’s yield hit 1.71%. They’re pumping $110 billion stimulus into their economy while debt sits at 263% of GDP. The math just became impossible. At 1.7% rates, Japan pays $27 billion MORE in interest. Every. Single. Year.
Here’s the extinction event nobody sees coming:
Japanese pension funds are pulling $1.1 trillion OUT of US Treasuries right now because keeping money in America LOSES them money after hedging costs. The largest foreign buyer of American debt is becoming a seller.
When Japan stops buying, interest rates don’t stay flat. They explode. US 10-year yields will jump 40 basis points minimum from flow dynamics alone. Your 7% mortgage becomes 8%. Corporate debt refinancing costs spike 60%. Zombie companies holding $3 trillion in junk bonds start defaulting in waves.
The yen carry trade just reversed. $1.2 trillion in borrowed yen funding crypto, stocks, emerging markets must unwind. Every hedge fund, every momentum trade, every leveraged bet built on free Japanese money is getting margin called simultaneously.
This breaks in three places:
Stock valuations were built for 2% bond yields forever. At 3.5% yields, the S&P 500 fair value drops 35%. Emerging market currencies collapse without Japanese capital inflows. Europe’s debt crisis returns because Italy and Spain lose their silent buyer.
December 18th the Bank of Japan meets. 50% chance they hike again. If they do, sell everything not nailed down.
Your 401k doesn’t price this in yet. The Fed can’t stop this. No central bank can.
The world’s biggest piggy bank just cracked open and the money is flowing backwards.
Position accordingly or get destroyed.
Twenty years of free money just reversed in 72 hours.
Japan’s bond yield hit 1.73% yesterday. The gap between US and Japanese rates collapsed to 2.4%. The most crowded trade in financial history is now underwater and unwinding at algorithmic speed.
Here’s what’s actually happening while you sleep:
The yen carry trade is $1 trillion of borrowed Japanese money at zero percent flooding into everything. US stocks. Emerging market bonds. Crypto. Real estate. Commodities. For two decades, this invisible river of capital inflated every asset you own.
November 10th the river reversed direction.
The math is brutally simple:
Borrow yen at 0.5%. Invest in US Treasuries at 4.14%. Pocket 3.64% risk free. Leverage it 10 times. Make 36% annually doing nothing.
That trade just became: Borrow at 0.5%. Invest at 4.14%. But now the yen is strengthening 5% against the dollar. Your 3.64% profit becomes a 25% loss when you have to pay back stronger yen. At 10x leverage, you’re bankrupt.
The unwind is already accelerating. Japanese institutions are pulling $200 billion out of foreign markets in the next 90 days. Not because they want to. Because they have to. The mathematics force liquidation.
Three places this detonates:
Emerging markets get destroyed first. Thirty percent of capital inflows into developing economies came from yen carry trades. Indonesia, Brazil, South Africa, Turkey just lost their largest buyer. Currencies will collapse 15% in weeks. Their central banks can’t stop it.
Crypto gets cut in half. Twenty percent of all crypto buying was funded with borrowed yen. As carry trades unwind, forced selling hits Bitcoin, Ethereum, everything. No bid appears until leverage clears. That means 40% to 60% drawdowns from current levels.
US equities enter a violent deleveraging spiral. The VIX already spiked from 12 to 18 in 48 hours. Hedge funds used yen borrowing to run leveraged equity strategies. Margin calls trigger systematic selling regardless of fundamentals. The S&P 500 drops 8% before anyone realizes why.
Here’s what nobody is connecting:
Japan is pumping $110 billion stimulus into their economy while simultaneously raising rates. This creates maximum chaos. More government bonds hit the market exactly when Japanese buyers are pulling money home. Yields spike further. The yen strengthens more. The unwind accelerates.
This is a positive feedback loop with no natural brake until something breaks.
The Bank of Japan meets December 18th. Markets are pricing 50% odds they hike again to 0.75%. If they do, the yen jumps to 145 per dollar overnight. Every carry trade still open loses another 6% instantly. Forced liquidations cascade globally.
The 2008 parallel nobody wants to discuss:
Last time yen carry trades unwound violently was October 2008. The yen appreciated 20% in eight weeks. Global equities fell 35%. Credit markets froze. The financial system nearly collapsed.
Difference now: The position is twice as large. Leverage is higher. And it’s unwinding into a world where central banks have no ammunition left. The Fed can’t cut rates to zero. The ECB is already underwater on their bond portfolio. Nobody can print their way out because that’s what caused this.
Three scenarios, 90 days out:
Controlled burn: Yen moves to 148 per dollar gradually. Carry trades unwind over six months. Markets chop violently but don’t crash. Global growth slows 0.5%. Probability 30%.
Disorderly unwind: Yen hits 145 by year end. Forced liquidations trigger circuit breakers. Emerging markets see capital flight and currency crises. S&P falls 12%. Credit spreads blow out. Probability 55%.
Full contagion: Yen breaks below 140. Systematic deleveraging becomes self reinforcing. A major hedge fund or bank fails on yen exposure. Counterparty risk spreads. Markets down 20% plus. Financial system stress requires intervention. Probability 15%.
Buenos días. Hilo del día 1.363 de la guerra entre Rusia y Ucrania. Kiev resiste. Y las 'viudas negras' se propagan en Rusia como un negocio lucrativo. Todos los detalles en 'Crónicas de la estepa rusa'. ¡Retuitea y dale like al video, deja un comentario!
Ayer por la noche, los ataques ucranianos dejaron a Donetsk capital y otras ciudad como Makiivka y Gorlovka sin luz. La causa preliminar: un ataque a una subestación eléctrica y a una central térmica.
1/ There is now strong reason to think that British people are starting to aggressively curtail their own reproduction. At the same time the government is increasing immigration to prevent the country from bankruptcy. Britain is in a phase of self-euthanisation. 🧵
2/ The abortion and birth data tell the story. Since 2022 overall conceptions are roughly the same as in previous years but the British people are opting for abortions. There is a massive reluctance to carry the babies to term.
3/ The 2022 data is official, but the 2023 and 2024 is based on bottom up estimates from Percuity. The data seems robust to me. But so long as the 2022 jump remains, as it has in Scottish data, the self-euthanisation interpretation holds.
Hoy os voy a hablar de la corriente de interiorismo prevalente en nuestra época:
El Neopaquismo
Para entender el Neopaquismo, primero hay que entender un poco lo que es el Paquismo.
El Paquismo es básicamente el diseño de interiores de los pisos Paco del Franquismo y la Transición (aprox. 1965-1985), las casas de los Boomers y early Generación X.
Se caracteriza por gotelé (para disimular defectos de construcción de las casas baratas), muebles durables de madera maciza, fotos de la familia (comuniones, bautizos, la boda) y displays de vajillas para las visitas.
Eye problems are one of the most common after-effects of covid infections, and one of the most common issues of Long Covid - but they're not talked about much.
This is part two of my thread working through eye conditions that have become *much more common* since Covid struck.
La decisión del ministro @ernesturtasun de borrar a Ignacio Sánchez Mejías del homenaje a la Generación del 27 no es un descuido: es un disparate maquiavélico y un gesto mezquino. Un error con la maldad de quien antepone sus ideales a la verdad...🧵
Porque ningunear a Sánchez Mejías es como celebrar el Guernica sin Picasso o un gol de Iniesta sin Iniesta. Una ruptura con la realidad que solo se explica por prejuicio o ignorancia… o ambas.🧵
Porque Ignacio Sánchez Mejías fue mucho más que un gran torero o un hombre de cultura, fue el mecenas, anfitrión y motor de aquella reunión en Sevilla en 1927. Sin él, la Generación del 27 no existiría tal como la conocemos. Eso es irrebatible @ernesturtasun.🧵
The oil that makes the world's financial markets operate.
Unaffordable for 99% of us.
A profit center for countless Wall Street firms.
Fight back.
Here are the 12 Python libraries that give it to you free:
yfinance
Data for stocks (historic, intraday, fundamental), FX, crypto, and options. Uses Yahoo Finance so any data available through Yahoo is available through yfinance.
pandas-datareader used to be part of the pandas project. Now an independent project. Includes data for stocks, FX, economic indicators, Fama-French factors, and many others.
No more delays. Judge Boasberg must be suspended immediately.
Impeachment is underway. He should not get to hear another case—this afternoon I led the effort to make that suspension happen.
My letter to Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan of the D.C. Circuit. 🧵
On November 4, articles of impeachment were filed against U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia—following my call for his impeachment.
🛑 Thread: The Plated Table of Fear – Before the Storm (30 Tweets)
Scenario: The Kremlin, before 2021. The war in Ukraine has not yet begun.
1/30 The Cynical View of the Russian Populace
⚠️ WESTERN MISCONCEPTION CORRECTED: We must stop believing that 80% of Russians follow Putin out of love or deep loyalty. This thread shows: Putin and the inner circle at the luxurious table fear their own people more than NATO. The alleged "loyalty" is pure, fragile pragmatism—a wager on stability and personal profit. The fear of the day when Russians demand their own price is the true motive for the war. #RussiaPragmatic #KremlinContrast #FearOfFreedom
2/30: Putin's Deep Paranoia
Vladimir P. compulsively polishes a glass. Yevgeny Prigozhin discreetly serves wine. The report about the "West's freedom infecting the youth" confirms Putin's greatest fear. The fear of his own people is his true currency. He realizes: He must act now, before the youth unrest turns into a revolution and destroys his system of patronage.
3/30: The Banker as Propaganda Shield (Kovalchuk)
Yuri K. (Media Tsar) puts down a document—the latest polls on internal dissatisfaction. The propaganda is failing, he thinks in a panic. He must double down on the lies. The narrative must become so terrifying that Russians choose the regime out of fear of the West, rather than questioning the elite's corruption.
Con el NO a la Consulta perdió el #Ecuador NO el Gobierno‼️
@DanielNoboaOk
@NielsOlsenP
@JohnReimberg
@GianCarloLoffredo
@gabisommerfeld
🧵1️⃣/10
Ustedes cumplieron con lo q como pueblo pedimos antes d elegirles como Gobierno “Convocar a Consulta para cambiar la Constitución”
2️⃣ Uds dentro del complicado marco han ido avanzando y tienen logros que apreciamos, en negociaciones internacionales, y eliminación d aranceles 🇺🇸 para más d 💯productos, desmantelar mafias d narcos y minería ilegal, atrapar bandidos y empezar a trasladarlos a alta seguridad.
3️⃣Sigan su trayectoria aunque la ignorancia les ponga trabas en sus acciones, ÁNIMO❣️
Reflexionando sobre el por qué del NO se puede perfeccionar el rumbo a seguir.