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🧵 To put into perspective the war crimes committed by Sec. Pete Hegseth, we have to go back to Vietnam, 1968. One of the most horrific war crimes in history was committed. (cont)
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🧵 To put into perspective the war crimes committed by Sec. Pete Hegseth, we have to go back to Vietnam, 1968. One of the most horrific war crimes in history was committed. (cont)
#ProudBlue
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#USDemocracy
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On March 16, 1968, U.S. soldiers of Charlie Company, 23rd Infantry Division, entered the hamlet of My Lai in South Vietnam. Expecting Viet Cong fighters, they instead encountered civilians. Soldiers murdered between 347–504 civilians, including women, children, and the (cont) 
elderly. Many were raped, tortured, or mutilated. Helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson (below) tried to stop the killings, even threatening to fire on U.S. troops to protect villagers. Hugh Thompson IMO is one of the unsung heroes of the Vietnam War. (cont)
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🚨 The LBMA “Silver Surge”: What the Numbers Really Tell Us
Over the past three months, LBMA claims its silver vaults have suddenly gained 83.7 million ounces.
That’s 2,600 metric tons.
To put this in perspective:
That is the equivalent of two large silver mines magically appearing — without a single miner, refinery, or logistics company noticing.
In real commodity markets, that simply does not happen.
Below is what the data actually tells us.
Over the past three months, LBMA claims its silver vaults have suddenly gained 83.7 million ounces.
That’s 2,600 metric tons.
To put this in perspective:
That is the equivalent of two large silver mines magically appearing — without a single miner, refinery, or logistics company noticing.
In real commodity markets, that simply does not happen.
Below is what the data actually tells us.
1. Such a massive “increase in inventories” is statistically impossible
83.7 million ounces is not a rounding error.
It’s a global-scale event — the kind that would hit mining news, industrial procurement channels, and bullion trade desks everywhere.
Yet the global market saw zero corresponding physical flows.
When numbers leap like this without real-world evidence, it’s not supply — it’s accounting.
83.7 million ounces is not a rounding error.
It’s a global-scale event — the kind that would hit mining news, industrial procurement channels, and bullion trade desks everywhere.
Yet the global market saw zero corresponding physical flows.
When numbers leap like this without real-world evidence, it’s not supply — it’s accounting.
2. The physical market shows the exact opposite trend
While LBMA vaults supposedly ballooned:
SGE inventories continue to fall by tens of tonnes per week
India is importing record volumes of silver
The US Mint is struggling to source blanks
Industrial users report shortages of high-purity silver
A real surplus would ease physical stress across all these channels.
Instead, physical supply is tightening globally.
While LBMA vaults supposedly ballooned:
SGE inventories continue to fall by tens of tonnes per week
India is importing record volumes of silver
The US Mint is struggling to source blanks
Industrial users report shortages of high-purity silver
A real surplus would ease physical stress across all these channels.
Instead, physical supply is tightening globally.
🧵When metal prices are at record highs
but CAPEX is down 86%…
something is coming.
This should be impossible — and yet it’s happening.
Here’s the part of the story nobody talks about.
but CAPEX is down 86%…
something is coming.
This should be impossible — and yet it’s happening.
Here’s the part of the story nobody talks about.
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Gold at $4,200
Silver at nearly $60
… and mining CAPEX is still at one of the lowest levels in history.
Yes — this is how a supply crisis looks before it gets priced in.
Via @TaviCosta
Gold at $4,200
Silver at nearly $60
… and mining CAPEX is still at one of the lowest levels in history.
Yes — this is how a supply crisis looks before it gets priced in.
Via @TaviCosta
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Adjusted for gold prices, miners are spending –86 % vs peak levels.
In normal cycles, record prices = record spending.
Not this time.
Adjusted for gold prices, miners are spending –86 % vs peak levels.
In normal cycles, record prices = record spending.
Not this time.
The Six-Day War: Why it Started and How Israel Defeated the Arab Armies in Six Days - a thread 🧵
In the spring of 1967, Israel faced an unmistakable cascade of existential threats from a coalition of Arab states openly committed to its destruction. Egypt, under Gamal Abdel Nasser, expelled the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) that had served as a buffer in the Sinai and Gaza since 1957, an act that directly violated international agreements and removed the sole international guarantee of peace along Israel’s southern border. Simultaneously, Egyptian armored divisions and over 100,000 troops poured into the Sinai Peninsula, reaching the very edge of Israel’s frontier in a blatant preparation for offensive warfare. Nasser’s public boasts on Cairo Radio that “our goal is the destruction of Israel” and his declaration that Egypt was ready for “total war which will result in the liquidation of Israel” left no ambiguity about his intentions. When Egypt then imposed a naval blockade on the Strait of Tiran, closing Israel’s only southern shipping route to Asia and East Africa, Israel’s Supreme Court and government unanimously recognized this as a clear act of war under international law, strangling the young nation’s access to vital oil supplies and effectively placing it under siege.
In the spring of 1967, Israel faced an unmistakable cascade of existential threats from a coalition of Arab states openly committed to its destruction. Egypt, under Gamal Abdel Nasser, expelled the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) that had served as a buffer in the Sinai and Gaza since 1957, an act that directly violated international agreements and removed the sole international guarantee of peace along Israel’s southern border. Simultaneously, Egyptian armored divisions and over 100,000 troops poured into the Sinai Peninsula, reaching the very edge of Israel’s frontier in a blatant preparation for offensive warfare. Nasser’s public boasts on Cairo Radio that “our goal is the destruction of Israel” and his declaration that Egypt was ready for “total war which will result in the liquidation of Israel” left no ambiguity about his intentions. When Egypt then imposed a naval blockade on the Strait of Tiran, closing Israel’s only southern shipping route to Asia and East Africa, Israel’s Supreme Court and government unanimously recognized this as a clear act of war under international law, strangling the young nation’s access to vital oil supplies and effectively placing it under siege.
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Surrounded on all fronts, Israel watched Syria relentlessly shell civilian communities from the Golan Heights while sponsoring waves of Fatah terror attacks across the northern border, and Jordan signed a mutual defense pact with Egypt that placed its British-trained Arab Legion under Egyptian command. False Soviet intelligence deliberately fed to Egypt and Syria claiming an imminent Israeli attack inflamed the situation further, giving Nasser the pretext he needed to mobilize the entire Arab world. With Arab radio broadcasts daily proclaiming the coming “final battle” to drive the Jews into the sea, and with Egyptian MiG-21s flying mock strafing runs over Israeli cities, Israel’s civilian population spent weeks in bomb shelters while its tiny standing army confronted a combined Arab force more than twice its size. Faced with the credible, imminent threat of annihilation and with no realistic diplomatic off-ramp (every appeal to the United Nations and Western powers having been ignored) Israel exercised its inherent right of self-defense on June 5, 1967, launching a preemptive strike that averted what would otherwise have been a coordinated multi-front invasion designed to erase the Jewish state from the map.
Surrounded on all fronts, Israel watched Syria relentlessly shell civilian communities from the Golan Heights while sponsoring waves of Fatah terror attacks across the northern border, and Jordan signed a mutual defense pact with Egypt that placed its British-trained Arab Legion under Egyptian command. False Soviet intelligence deliberately fed to Egypt and Syria claiming an imminent Israeli attack inflamed the situation further, giving Nasser the pretext he needed to mobilize the entire Arab world. With Arab radio broadcasts daily proclaiming the coming “final battle” to drive the Jews into the sea, and with Egyptian MiG-21s flying mock strafing runs over Israeli cities, Israel’s civilian population spent weeks in bomb shelters while its tiny standing army confronted a combined Arab force more than twice its size. Faced with the credible, imminent threat of annihilation and with no realistic diplomatic off-ramp (every appeal to the United Nations and Western powers having been ignored) Israel exercised its inherent right of self-defense on June 5, 1967, launching a preemptive strike that averted what would otherwise have been a coordinated multi-front invasion designed to erase the Jewish state from the map.
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The War Begins - June 5:
At 7:15, the call was sounded: The IAF Commander, Major General Motti Hod, announced the beginning of Operation Focus. IAF aerially attacked the Egyptian Air Force, attacking plane after plane eventually destroying the Suchi, Mig, Alishon and Tupolg aircrafts. The Egyptian Air Force runway was severely destroyed as well. The IAF attack resulted in the destruction of 197 Egyptian aircrafts and 11 airports, in a manner of minutes. Six airports and eight radar stations were taken out of action as well.
At 09:34, a second wave of attacks began in which 107 grounded Egyptian planes were bombed. At 15:00 hours, after Israel was already awash with rumors of the Egyptian Air Force defeat, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan called for a press conference. He warned the press not to publish the amount of Arabic planes Israel destroyed, which numbered over 400 hundred.
At 02:00 hours, the Chief of General Staff, Lieutenant General Yitzchak Rabin broadcasted from nationwide radio: 400 enemy planes were destroyed. Major General Hod broadcasted that the IAF had lost 19 pilots. The following day the GOC Central Command issued a combat pamphlet amongst the soldiers stating, "Never have so few pilots downed so many planes in such a short period of time."
The War Begins - June 5:
At 7:15, the call was sounded: The IAF Commander, Major General Motti Hod, announced the beginning of Operation Focus. IAF aerially attacked the Egyptian Air Force, attacking plane after plane eventually destroying the Suchi, Mig, Alishon and Tupolg aircrafts. The Egyptian Air Force runway was severely destroyed as well. The IAF attack resulted in the destruction of 197 Egyptian aircrafts and 11 airports, in a manner of minutes. Six airports and eight radar stations were taken out of action as well.
At 09:34, a second wave of attacks began in which 107 grounded Egyptian planes were bombed. At 15:00 hours, after Israel was already awash with rumors of the Egyptian Air Force defeat, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan called for a press conference. He warned the press not to publish the amount of Arabic planes Israel destroyed, which numbered over 400 hundred.
At 02:00 hours, the Chief of General Staff, Lieutenant General Yitzchak Rabin broadcasted from nationwide radio: 400 enemy planes were destroyed. Major General Hod broadcasted that the IAF had lost 19 pilots. The following day the GOC Central Command issued a combat pamphlet amongst the soldiers stating, "Never have so few pilots downed so many planes in such a short period of time."
@grok @NiohBerg @threadreaderapp @grok Would you bring the Original Jewish song of this video clip?
@grok @NiohBerg @threadreaderapp And grok does not work because the police of Poland don't register crimes and close all of the cases to falsely claim there is not a single crime in this country!
For examle a person cut the head of a lady in the Warsaw university but it wasn't a crime but it was a small problem.
For examle a person cut the head of a lady in the Warsaw university but it wasn't a crime but it was a small problem.
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The Wrapped effect on Spotify (December 3 data):
📱 App downloads (iOS & Android)
• 2.71M downloads
• +53.75% vs. previous day
• -2.5% vs. last year’s release day
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📱 App downloads (iOS & Android)
• 2.71M downloads
• +53.75% vs. previous day
• -2.5% vs. last year’s release day
>>
👥 Daily Active Users (DAUs)
• 334.77M DAUs
• +16.05% vs. previous day
• +1.25% vs. last year’s release day
>>
• 334.77M DAUs
• +16.05% vs. previous day
• +1.25% vs. last year’s release day
>>
🌐 Website visits
• 28.87M visits
• +55% vs. previous day
• -3.1% vs. last year’s release day
• 28.87M visits
• +55% vs. previous day
• -3.1% vs. last year’s release day
Few of us expected the DPRK to shut down it's borders to travel for close to six years now when COVID hit, but now there is finally a chance for regular people to visit the country despite the tourism shutdown.
How? Continue reading for more info 🧵
How? Continue reading for more info 🧵
Here's a little recap of the situation. Yes, tourism is open to Russians. Yes, tourists did go to Rason in late February and early March, and other foreigners have gone in since. But with the exception of the few Rason tourists, everything else was a delegation, not tourism.
The next opportunity for foreigners to visit the country while tourism remains closed is a five day trip to Pyongyang for the Pyongyang Marathon, which finally resumed this year.
None of the catastrophic climate predictions have come to pass. Emperor Ed Miliband has been left alone, shivering half-naked on the rapidly shrinking net zero iceberg. Time to follow the science and ditch Net Zero. A thread (1/n)
The Climate Change Act contains important safeguards that allow for emissions reduction targets and carbon budgets to be altered if The Science™ changes (2/n)
The Inconvenient Truth is that none of the catastrophic predictions about climate change have come to pass. Manhattan & the Maldives are still above water; the Arctic ice has stopped shrinking (3/n)
On 7 December 2025 Ru🇷🇺 launched:
Missiles:
■ 2/3 Kh-47M2 "Kinzhal" aeroballistic missiles (launch areas: Tambov Oblast – RF);
■ 2/2 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles (launch areas: Kursk Oblast – RF).
#Shahed-type & attack UAV:
■ 241 (Kursk, Oryol, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Chauda)
■ 175 downed & lost [EW, decoy, malfunction] reported by UA🇺🇦
■ 66 hits reported by UA🇺🇦
■ 73% neutralization ratio
■ 150 Shahed launched (aproximately)
As a result of the Ru🇷🇺. Hits by 65 strike UAVs were recorded in 14 locations.
UAV count for December 2025 that Ru🇷🇺 launched:
■ 1431 launched by Ru🇷🇺
■ 1139 downed & lost [EW, decoy, malfunction] reported by UA🇺🇦
■ 292 hits reported by UA🇺🇦
■ 80% average neutralization ratio
■ 775 Shahed launched (aproximately)
Missiles:
■ 2/3 Kh-47M2 "Kinzhal" aeroballistic missiles (launch areas: Tambov Oblast – RF);
■ 2/2 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles (launch areas: Kursk Oblast – RF).
#Shahed-type & attack UAV:
■ 241 (Kursk, Oryol, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Chauda)
■ 175 downed & lost [EW, decoy, malfunction] reported by UA🇺🇦
■ 66 hits reported by UA🇺🇦
■ 73% neutralization ratio
■ 150 Shahed launched (aproximately)
As a result of the Ru🇷🇺. Hits by 65 strike UAVs were recorded in 14 locations.
UAV count for December 2025 that Ru🇷🇺 launched:
■ 1431 launched by Ru🇷🇺
■ 1139 downed & lost [EW, decoy, malfunction] reported by UA🇺🇦
■ 292 hits reported by UA🇺🇦
■ 80% average neutralization ratio
■ 775 Shahed launched (aproximately)
UA🇺🇦 counter attack
Result of UA🇺🇦 counter attack
■ Ryazan Oil Refinery in Russia. A hit to the low-temperature isomerization unit was recorded.
■ Alchevsk Metallurgical Combine in the occupied territory of Luhansk.
■ Engels, Saratov Region. Locals report that an oil depot is on fire. Engels is one of Russias most important air field.
■ Ryazan Oil Refinery in Russia. A hit to the low-temperature isomerization unit was recorded.
■ Alchevsk Metallurgical Combine in the occupied territory of Luhansk.
■ Engels, Saratov Region. Locals report that an oil depot is on fire. Engels is one of Russias most important air field.
SitRep - 06/12/25 - Russian airstrikes throughout Ukraine
An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Overnight, Russia used a mix of missiles and drones to further destroy Ukraine's gas- energy and logistics infrastructure.
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An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Overnight, Russia used a mix of missiles and drones to further destroy Ukraine's gas- energy and logistics infrastructure.
REPOST=appreciated
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Australian Influenza update:
It became clear during November that a unusual second wave is underway in Australia, driven by the new "clade K" (H3N2 clade 2a.3a.1, subclade K).
Tasmania, New South Wales and South Australia are currently the hardest-hit.
#Influenza #Australia
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It became clear during November that a unusual second wave is underway in Australia, driven by the new "clade K" (H3N2 clade 2a.3a.1, subclade K).
Tasmania, New South Wales and South Australia are currently the hardest-hit.
#Influenza #Australia
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Western Australia had been spared the worst of this second wave until the last week or so. But now there’s a signal of a sharp change in case momentum there also.
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The latest Australian Respiratory Surveillance Report confirms my earlier speculation that the new "clade K" (H3N2 clade 2a.3a.1, subclade K) is driving the "unusual" second wave of influenza in Australia.
🧵 health.gov.au/resources/publ…
🧵 health.gov.au/resources/publ…
If Europe can’t find the will to stand up to Putin, Musk, and Trump, America won’t either. The survival of the American project is in Europe’s hands. And Europe can’t survive without America.
Our fates are bound together, and it is folly to believe otherwise.
Our fates are bound together, and it is folly to believe otherwise.
The Cheka (KGB/FSB) figured out how to seize total power in Russia via ‘political technology.’ And they’ve exported the same tactics to the US and EU: build up opposing factions, foment discord, taint elections, capture with capital, and destroy institutions.
There is no fairytale ending here where things revert to the mean and Europeans can zone out and assume things will work out, which is the normal stance. We are facing bleak timelines with gangsters and thugs in charge, which is already well underway in the US.
