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May 18
Supreme Court/PM/ FM/IBA/ Bank Management/ Bank Unions will be responsible for abetting murder of Bank pensioners for decade delaying M C Singla case. 231000 pensioners died from 2008 to 2025. Another 4000 may die from 13.6.2026 to 22.07.2026@56 persons/day for 40 days. Numerous Image
Adjournments/ court dates only have wiped home/ life of Bank pensioners.pension corpus is much higher to take care of pension load. Some banks mis utilised pension corpus. Supreme Court has turned deaf ear to precarious conditions of Living bank ispensioners.PM
Distributing freebies in name of election stunt but why denying our own fund. Is SC has become 3 famous monkeys of Mahatma Gandhi ji. Whether any accountability of SC for numerous dates. What action on IBA for giving false data to SC on pension funds/ loads. Why not CBI enquiry
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May 18
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Something very interesting is happening in silver right nowโ€ฆ and most people still donโ€™t see it. ๐Ÿฅˆ
India just restricted silver imports.

Not tariffs.
Not taxes.

Restrictions.
That changes the game.

Special thanks to @BankerWeimar for the valuable information and research on this developing situation. ๐Ÿซก๐ŸฅˆImage
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A tariff only makes silver more expensive.
A restriction means imports now require permission.

Read that again carefully.

India is no longer simply pricing silverโ€ฆ

it is starting to CONTROL the physical flow of silver into the country.
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Now hereโ€™s the part stackers should pay attention to:
Silver in India was recently trading at a DISCOUNT of nearly $6/oz to global prices.

After the restrictions?

That discount rapidly narrowedโ€ฆ

and traders now expect a PREMIUM of $1.5โ€“$2/oz.
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May 18
10 AI tools recommended by 10 billionaires in 2026.

1) Elon Musk โ†’ Grok

Musk built xAI and ships Grok inside X for free. The AI with a sense of humor and real-time access to X posts. Free for every X user.

Site โ†’ x.aiImage
2) Sam Altman โ†’ ChatGPT

The man who built it uses it daily. Free version answers most questions. 800M weekly users. The fastest way into the AI conversation.

Site โ†’ chatgpt.comImage
3. Dario Amodei โ†’ Claude

The Anthropic CEO uses Claude to write everything from internal memos to public essays. Free tier is genuinely useful for daily work.

Site โ†’ claude.aiImage
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May 18
1/ Could Yevgeny Prigozhin have become Russia's equivalent of Ukraine's Robert 'Madyar' Brovdi if he had been allowed to live? A provocative Russian commentary suggests that Wagner's 'civilian-controlled military' operating model could have been applied more widely by Russia. โฌ‡๏ธ Image
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2/ 'Russian Engineer' writes:

"The answers to the questions are about what changes allowed the enemy to halt the downward trend in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which was clearly evident throughout 2025."
3/ "And now they're striking along the Novorossiya highway, and simultaneously in Moscow and Sevastopol.
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May 18
1) Independent researcher Paolo Maccalini published an impressive paper implicating synaptic function in various brain regions in the pathology of ME/CFS. Itโ€™s based on three major genetic studies, including DecodeME.

The most replicated signal was for glutamatergic synapses. Image
2) He used the DNA results of more than 15.000 ME/CFS patients from DecodeME, but managed to add genetic data on 3891 ME/CFS cases from the Million Veteran Program (MVP) using a meta-analysis.
3) Paolo wanted to add cases from other genetic databases as well, such as the UK Biobank or FinnGen, but this gave the issue that some of the controls overlapped.

So for now, DecodeME + MVP was the best he could do, totalling around 19.000 patients.
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May 18
Eight years.

From two founders with a vision for Southeast Asian payment infrastructure in 2018, to a live protocol with 1 million+ active users, $60M+ in institutional capital, and BlackRock BUIDL integration.

Most people found $VELO late. Here is the full timeline. Every milestone, every decision point, every proof that the build is real.

VELO Bible Series Vol. 2. The Timeline ๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ“…Image
2018. Foundation year.

Both Lightnet Group and Evrynet are founded simultaneously by the same leadership team. Two companies. Two distinct functions. One long-term plan.

Lightnet was built for the commercial remittance layer. The licensed, regulated, bank-facing business that would sign corridor agreements and process real money flows.

Evrynet was built for the technical infrastructure layer. Specifically the cross-chain bridging architecture that would eventually become foundational to Binance Smart Chain's BEP-20 ecosystem.

Nobody in the public crypto market knows either company exists yet.
2019. Stealth development.

The Federated Credit Exchange (FCX) architecture is designed from scratch. The team develops the mathematical models for the Digital Reserve System (DRS), which automatically rebalances VELO token collateral pools to maintain 1:1 pegging between issued digital credits and their fiat counterparts.

Stellar is selected as the primary settlement layer. A deliberate choice over Ethereum or Bitcoin, prioritising 3 to 5 second finality, sub-cent transaction costs, and energy efficiency.

Regulatory engagement begins. Early discussions with the Bank of Thailand and Singapore's MAS. The team understands from day one that institutional adoption requires regulatory approval, not just technical excellence.

Most of crypto is still chasing ICOs. VELO is building infrastructure.
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May 18
SitRep - 17/05/26 - Moscow region was attacked massively

An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. At night and early morning, Ukrainian (jet-powered) drones attacked the Moscow region. Several targets were hit.

REPOST=appreciated

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As usual we start with Russian losses
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May 18
China's power generation from coal and gas increased 3% on year in March, the 4th month of increase in a row, due to underperformance of wind, solar & nuclear. Wind conditions in March-April have been extraordinarily bad, solar bad too; nuclear has seen long refueling outages. Image
Unfavorable weather doesn't account for all of the weakness in clean power generation this year - grid congestion due to inflexible operation of coal plants and transmission lines plays a role too, especially in Jan-Feb when weather conditions were actually better than last year.
Grid congestion doesn't affect just wind&solar - nuclear gets curtailed too! China's largest nuclear operator CGN reported one of its plants getting curtailed in Q1, and in China it's usually a safe bet that more curtailment happens than gets reported.
www1.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listcโ€ฆImage
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May 18
Supreme Court grants bail to suspended DSP Pooja Pandey, the main accused in the Madhya Pradesh hawala robbery case

CJI Surya Kant: The petitioner is a woman of 22 years of age. She is a single mother with a child of two-three years old, who is also in jail with the petitioner. Image
CJI: Taking into consideration the antecedents, all the antecedents of the co-accused, namely the period spent in custody, the time likely to be taken in the trial, the petitioner is a woman offender, she is a single mother with a child of two-three years old, and there is no likelihood of absconding from the trial proceedings or tampering with the evidence, we deem it appropriate to grant bail to the petitioner.
It is hereby made clear that we have not expressed any opinion on the merits of the case, except for the observations so called for the purpose of considering the bail plea of the petitioner.
Sr Adv Sidharth Luthra appeared for the suspended police officer.
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May 18
#BREAKING Supreme Court transfers petitions challenging Bar Council of Delhi election irregularities to a special bench of the Delhi High Court. Counting of ballot papers stayed till HC decides finally. CJI Kant-led bench directs day-to-day hearing Image
A confidential letter dated May 2 from former Delhi HC Judge Justice Talwant Singh has been received by the Supreme Court in the Bar Council of Delhi election case. The bench directed the Registry to re-seal it and forward to the Delhi HC Chief Justice for "necessary action."
Supreme Court stays counting of ballot papers in Bar Council of Delhi election dispute, transfers case to a special Delhi HC bench.

Advocate Shobha Gupta mentions the case and flags "tampered ballot papers being counted."

A sealed letter from former HC Judge Justice Talwant Singh forwarded to HC Chief Justice.
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May 18
The Truth About ATP

In most biology research ATP is referred to as the main energy currency in living organisms, but this actually isn't quite true

In this thread I'll break down ATP's deeper functions, and the impact it has on human biology

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The energetic resources of mitochondria revolve entirely around the electron transport chain

In the simplest sense this is a series of electron donating/accepting protein complexes, named complex I through IV

These complexes carry an electron current across the membrane Image
Now the interesting thing is that mitochondria actually have two membranes

The inner membrane wrinkles and folds back in on itself, maximizing its surface area, while the outer membrane has minimal surface area creating an "intermembrane space" with a minimal volume Image
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May 18
#SupremeCourt pronounces judgement in bail plea of man accused of narco-terror activities who has been in custody for over 5 years.

Bench: Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan. Image
J Bhuyan: this case raises an important question concerning interface between section 43 of the UAPA and constitutional guarantee of personal liberty under the Article 21.
Court: more particularly the issue concerns propriety of smaller benches progressively hollowing out the constitutional force of a larger bench decision without ever expressly disagreeing with it
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