Secondo Davide Tabarelli, presidente di Nomisma Energia, se lo stretto di Hormuz non riapre, a settembre ci aspetta il lockdown, “come in pandemia”. È auspicabile che questo governo non scarichi il peso della crisi energetica sui cittadini, come invece fecero Pd e M5S durante il Covid
Ne abbiamo parlato a @Ariachetira
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L’Italia impose lockdown energetico ai cittadini nel 1973 (austerity). Se anche oggi, 50 anni dopo, continuasse a adottare misure così drastiche come unica soluzione sarebbe grave: per Hormuz passa il 20% del petrolio globale, non tutto. E di questo più dell'80% è diretto in Asia (la Cina importa da qui il 50% del suo greggio). L'Italia vede a rischio circa il 10% delle sue importazioni totali di greggio, che certamente costituisce un problema, ma non un’emergenza assoluta. Non, almeno, da giustificare una soluzione così severa come il lockdown, che farebbe ricadere il costo di questa crisi interamente sui cittadini. 2/6 @Ariachetira
Premesso: l’Italia estrae dal proprio territorio circa 4,2 milioni di tonnellate di olio greggio all'anno, rispetto ai circa 578 milioni che sarebbero in teoria estraibili se non ci fossero vincoli innanzitutto geologici ma anche politici, burocratici e ambientali. Di conseguenza, importiamo dall’estero il 95% delle nostre risorse energetiche. Quali possibili soluzioni? 1) aumentare l’estrazione, nei limiti del possibile e del conveniente; 2) diversificare gli acquisti, come il governo Meloni fa dal 2022 (non comprando soltanto dagli Usa, peraltro). Pensare che tutto il mondo giri intorno a Hormuz è fuorviante. Per Hormuz passa il 20% del greggio (e il 10% del gas liquefatto) a livello globale, ma “di petrolio al mondo ce n’è tantissimo” (lo sottolinea lo stesso Tabarelli) e i Paesi produttori potrebbero pompare di più; 3) ritorno pragmatico al fossile; 4) acquisti di energia flessibili; 5) sistemi di accumulo su scala utility (BESS), non come soluzione totale ma almeno per accumuli a breve termine in caso di blackout come quello avvenuto in Spagna, Portogallo e parte della Francia meridionale il 28 aprile 2025; 6) riorientamento delle importazioni da corridoi sicuri non mediorientali e raddoppio dei corridoi di bypass (investimenti in oleodotti e gasdotti terrestri transcontinentali che evitino i colli di bottiglia marittimi).
In der 9. „ Entlarvung des Tages“ befassen wir uns mit „legitimen militärischen Zielen“. 🇷🇺 ist ohne Kriegserklärung illegal in die 🇺🇦 einmarschiert & bezeichnete es als „militärische Sonderoperation“. Dennoch tun Vatniks so, als gäbe es für 🇷🇺 in der 🇺🇦 legitime Ziele. 1/7
Russland begann den Krieg 2014, indem es die Krim mit anonymen Soldaten, den „kleinen grünen Männchen“, besetzte. Seitdem führt 🇷🇺 einen nicht erklärten, illegalen Krieg mit endlosen Kriegsverbrechen, etwa die Entführung 🇺🇦 Kinder,… 2/7
…die Konzentrationslager für 🇺🇦 in den besetzten Gebieten, die Einberufung von 🇺🇦 aus denselben Gebieten oder die gezielten Bombenangriffe auf Zivilisten, inkl. ihren schrecklichen „Double-Tap“-Angriffen.
Also nein, Russland hat keine „legitimen Ziele“ in der Ukraine. 3/7
A glass of red wine at lunch, cheese with every meal, almost no fish, even on the coast.
This is what people in the world's longest-living region eat. Men there reach 100 at ten times the global rate. Not the Mediterranean diet we've all heard about.
I'm Italian. Longevity isn't my expertise, but the Blue Zone research caught me. I went deep on one question: which other Italian regions have the same patterns, and which qualify for the 7% retirement tax.
Below: Italy's full Blue Zone map. 1 certified, 6 candidates. 6 of 7 also 7% eligible. Plus a livable town for each.
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Quick reality check on what "Blue Zone" actually means before we get into it. It wasn't coined by a wellness app. Two demographers found it.
In 2004, Italian Gianni Pes and Belgian Michel Poulain were studying Sardinian centenarians. They drew blue circles on a map of villages where the centenarian rate was abnormally high. Dan Buettner picked up the brand and made the term global.
The criteria are stricter than most articles imply: rates around 50% above the national average, verified across church, civil, and military records, sustained for decades.
By that bar: Ogliastra is Italy's only certified Blue Zone. Cilento and the Sicilian Madonie have peer-reviewed studies showing similar patterns. Four other Italian regions are reported longevity hotspots but haven't been academically validated yet.
I'll mark each by evidence tier as we go. And by 7% eligibility at the end.
Let’s go.
1/ Ogliastra (Sardinia). Officially certified Blue Zone.
Pes and Poulain's original 2004 map covered 14 mountain villages in southeastern Sardinia: Villagrande Strisaili, Arzana, Baunei, Talana, Urzulei, Perdasdefogu, and others.
Stats: highest concentration of male centenarians on earth. The Melis family of Perdasdefogu holds the Guinness World Record for the longest combined sibling lifespan, awarded in 2012 with nine siblings whose combined age was 818 years and 205 days.
Diet: pane carasau, pecorino sardo, cannonau wine, fava beans, almost no fish despite the coast.
Lifestyle: shepherds walked 5-10 miles a day on mountain slopes into their 80s.
Livable nearby: Tortolì (10K, coastal, hospital, airport 15 min, 7% eligible). No big city within an hour. Nuoro (35K, 1h15 inland) is the closest provincial capital.
The gold standard. If you're going to see one Italian longevity zone, see this one first
¿Sabías que en la época victoriana muchas mujeres pagaban por tragarse un gusano vivo que crecía hasta los 25 metros dentro de sus estómagos? Querían adelgazar sin tener que dejar de comer, así que se tragaban un asqueroso parásito. El "Alien" victoriano... Tira del hilo 🧵👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
A finales del siglo XIX, la presión social sobre el cuerpo femenino alcanzó niveles de auténtica locura. Las mujeres de la alta sociedad europea y estadounidense sentían la enorme obligación moral y estética de lucir cinturas extremadamente diminutas y frágiles.
Los apretados corsés de ballena causaban desmayos diarios y deformaban los órganos internos, pero la sociedad siempre exigía más delgadez. Fue en ese clima de desesperación absoluta cuando el mercado lanzó uno de los métodos más macabros de la historia moderna.
Recurring structural patterns of industrial level fraud appear across multiple domains... layered intermediaries, upward flows, and reinforcing mechanisms...
The sequence below maps this architecture in four parts...
🧵 4-image systems breakdown below...
2/ Minnesota was not an outlier... it was the first clear fracture point in a much larger operating system... one built on high-trust access, fast money movement, and limited real-time verification...
3/ The same geometry repeats across programs... broad eligibility, delayed oversight, self-attestation, and low-friction reimbursement create predictable pathways...
It’s hard to take “summaries of the debate” like this seriously when they don’t note that PSZ have, for years, simply ignored AS’s counter-replies to their criticism. Also when they characterize the underreported income debate in such a PSZ-friendly way. (more)
First, when well-off (but below top 1%) people underreport income, sometimes their reported income is quite low. Duh. So if you simply give the top earners based on REPORTED income a proportional share of unreported income, you’re giving them too much.
Second, some actual top 1% people are below the top 1% of REPORTED income. Sometimes WAY below, like when they report negative business income (business losses). The PSZ approach gives them very little income and gives the top 1% of reported income too much.
भारतातील १०० कोटी लोकं तर अतिशय गरजेच्या सगळ्या वस्तू देखील खरेदी करू शकत नाहीत. तो विषयच वेगळा.
पण जे मध्यमवर्गीय आहेत त्यांचीही अवस्था फारशी चांगली नाही, आणि येत्या काही वर्षात अधिक गंभीर होण्याची शक्यता स्पष्ट दिसत आहे. मध्यम उत्पन्न वर्गातील लाखो व्यक्ती दरवर्षी गरिबीत
ढकलल्या जात आहेत.
गुंतवणूक, आर्थिक नियोजन या गोष्टी टेलरमेड असतात, सरसकट सल्ला उपयुक्त नसला तरी काळजी म्हणून काही गोष्टी लक्षात घेणे उत्तम. (अपवाद असू शकतात)
* 'गुंतवणूक' म्हणून घर विकत घेणे सध्या टाळलेले बरे.
* राहण्यासाठी घर घेताना 'शक्यतो' तयार घर घेणे हा तुलनेने महाग असला
तरी सुरक्षित मार्ग आहे.
* अनेक बिल्डर्स, डेव्हलपर्सचे प्रोजेक्ट्स वेळेत पूर्ण होत नाही आहेत किंवा फसवणुकीच्या घटना वाढल्या आहेत त्यामुळे पूर्ण चौकशी, विचार, तुलना करून निर्णय घ्यावा.
* फ्युचर्स, ऑप्शन्स हे व यासारखे मार्ग आकर्षक दिसत असले तरी त्यात यश मिळ्णाऱ्यांची संख्या
🚨 إيلون @elonmusk حدث كود خوارزمية X بالكامل!
قرأت كل الـ 24,000 سطر في الخوارزمية
اللي شفته صدمَني
إليك كل شيء تحتاج تعرفه عن كيف تصير نشرك فيروسي: 🧵
🔶 كيف تصير التغريدات فيروسية
كل ما تنشر تغريدة، الخوارزمية تعطيها score
درجة إيجابية من التفاعلات الإيجابية، ودرجة سلبية من السلبية. ثم يجمعونها.
كل ما الـ score أعلى = أكثر ناس تشوف محتواك.
التفاعلات الإيجابية (تعطي نقاط كبيرة):
• ردود (Replies)
• ريتويت (RTs)
• النقر على الصورة
• النقر على بروفايلك
• مشاركة المنشور
• مشاركته في DM
• نسخ الرابط
• قضاء وقت طويل في قراءة المنشور
1/ L'INVASIONE ITALIANA DEL TICINO:
Il Ticino è una regione della Svizzera italofona, considerata parte delle famose terre irredente italiane.
Non tutti sanno che per alcuni anni fu occupata dalle truppe del Regno d'Italia, durante l'età napoleonica.
2/ L'operazione militare fu un'iniziativa tutta italiana, infatti venne pianificata dal Viceré d'Italia Eugenio di Beauharnais ed eseguita dal famoso generale Achille Fontanelli con l'approvazione di Napoleone.
3/ L’abilità della classe dirigente italiana fu quella di sfruttare a proprio vantaggio la politica napoleonica del Blocco Continentale, che dal 1806, imponeva il divieto per gli stati satellite della Francia di commerciare con l'Impero Britannico.
Souls of the dead enter Barzakh, unable to return & repent sins
Ghosts are impersonations of the dead done by life-accompanying Qareen Jinns
Wealth, family & power don't benefit the dead: only on-going charity
like alms money, knowledge, a pious child, Mosque or fruit tree
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Angels gently remove a dying Believer's soul into a scented cloth
but scary Angels rip out an evil soul into a stinky sack to Allah’s Wrath
Angels ascend to record the Believer in the Illiyun Book
Sijeen logs evil ones; their souls flung back till Resurrection is undertook
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Pernah lewat Alas Gumitir malem-malem dan ngerasa patung penari Gandrung di tikungannya ngelirik ke arah lu? Jangan ditatap balik. Kalo dia senyum, raga lu bakal ditarik paksa buat nemenin dia nari di dasar jurang.
Dinda hilang di tikungan kelima Alas Gumitir. Raganya ditemukan tiga hari kemudian di sebuah desa mati yang bahkan nggak tercatat di peta kuno manapun. Dan Dinda ingat semuanya.
Kita cabut dari Surabaya dini hari, niatnya langsung bablas ke Alas Purwo. Tapi buat masuk ke ujung timur Banyuwangi, ada satu jalur yang nggak bisa dihindari. Pegunungan Gumitir. Kelok-kelok berjurang dalam, kabut yang nggak pernah benar-benar pergi, dan patung-patung penari Gandrung yang berdiri di setiap tikungan tajam kayak penjaga yang nggak pernah diminta siapapun. Semua supir lintas malam yang pernah lewat sini punya satu aturan yang sama: jangan tatap matanya. Kita tau aturan itu. Kita cuma nggak tau seberapa serius aturan itu harus diambil.
Jam 1 pagi, mobil kita mulai nanjak masuk Gumitir. Kabut turun tebal nutupin aspal dari jarak tiga meter ke depan. Kiri tebing batu. Kanan jurang yang nggak keliatan dasarnya. Raka nyetir pelan dengan mata merah yang udah dari Surabaya, dua tangan di setir, nggak ngomong. Gua duduk di sebelahnya, senter di tangan, nyorotin ke bahu jalan supaya Raka punya referensi pinggiran.
Dimas, Najmi, sama Dinda di belakang. Setengah tidur, setengah diem.
Tikungan pertama, ada patung. Kebaya merah, posisi nari, tangan kiri terangkat. Biasa. Tikungan kedua, ada patung. Kebaya biru, madep ke tebing. Biasa. Tikungan ketiga gua mulai nggak bisa bilang biasa.
Rak…Gua liat….Raka ngomong duluan sebelum gua selesai. Tangannya yang sebelumnya di bawah sekarang terangkat ke atas. Selendang di jarinya ngurai ke bawah. Gua inget jelas posisi patung tadi waktu lampu mobil nyorot ke sana dua tikungan yang lalu. Kita nggak ngomong lagi. Kita cuma jalan terus.
Tikungan keempat. Bau kebun kopi yang dari tadi ngikutin kita mendadak ilang. Bukan pelan-pelan dipotong bersih, kayak ada yang nutup kipas di tengah ruangan. Dan yang masuk gantinya adalah bau melati. Tapi bukan bau melati yang manis dan ringan ini berat, nyengat, manis yang udah kebablasan jadi busuk, dicampur sesuatu di bawahnya yang amis dan dingin. Bau sisik ular basah.
Najmi di belakang ngerenggut jaketnya lebih rapet tanpa sadar. Dimas ngusap hidungnya.
🧵 Thread — URSS et nomades centrasiatiques : Autopsie d'une apocalypse multi-dimensionnelle.
Étude critique des rapports entre sociétés post-coloniales, États idéologiques et modernisation impériale, à partir du cas des kazakhs et kirghizs dans les années 1920-30.
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Avant l’URSS, la steppe asiatique relève déjà d’une longue histoire impériale russe. Forts, lignes cosaques, postes militaires, villes-frontières : Omsk, Orenbourg, Semipalatinsk.
L’empire n’y découvre pas les nomades ; il les constitue en problème frontalier.
0B/30
Au XIXe siècle, la domination russe reste discontinue, souvent indirecte. Khans, sultans, juges locaux et administrateurs impériaux coexistent.
Mais l’équilibre se déplace : le pouvoir sédentaire impose peu à peu son droit, ses normes et ses tracés.
1/n Been asked about potential X-protection of current VSV Ebola, which shows excellent protection vs Zaire strain, compared to the new epidemic strain, Bundibugyo, doesn’t look all that promising unfortunately, but with resources it’s possible to move quickly, some info attached
Histamine intolerance and/or MCAS are criminally underdiscussed when it comes to mental health.
Yet your anxiety, racing thoughts, insomnia, irritability, impulsivity and so on, are often nothing more than a little extra histamine and we have proof for this.
That's also the common link between allergies, certain types of hair loss, skin issues such as psoriasis, ADHD, insomnia and anxiety.
Here's what you need to know.
Thread 🧵
*Standard disclaimer that nothing in this thread should be used as a substitute for medical advice*
It’s George.
Putting the correct label on something can take quite some time and especially when it comes to mental health issues.
Misdiagnosis rates are still notably high, even if we are talking about primary care or specialists.
But there’s no sole reason why this happens.
Many disorders share similar features for examples, then there are times contraints that prevent structured interviews from happening and also some patients may under or over-report certain symptoms.
Last month for example, i gave two paid subscribers a free consulting call and in one of them, the primary problems faced were related to mental health.
That person, whom we will call Jake, had a lot of quite annoying symptoms and borderline met the diagnostic criteria for ADHD and BD-II.
But he also had chronic gut and skin issues which should obviously ring a bell for something related to histamine and/or MCAS.
While the average person still thinks that histamine is just something related to allergies, let’s not forget that histamine acts as a neurotransmitter in the brain, influencing things such as arousal, attention, mood, sleep, and motivation.
India says it wants to become a deep-tech and manufacturing power. It has IITs, startups, research grants, and now even a ₹1 lakh crore innovation fund.
So why do so few Indian technologies become real products? 🧵
A big reason is that India’s research system splits innovation into separate worlds.
Universities do “research.”
Industry does “products.”
The difficult middle — turning a lab prototype into a usable technology — belongs to nobody.
This middle stage is called the “valley of death.”
A university may build a promising battery, chip, laser, or automotive system prototype.
But taking it from experiment to manufacturable product needs:
Prophet Muhammad (S) foretold Signs heralding the End of Days
like pearls rolling off a chain, once set in motion they’ll occur as he says
In the near future ignorance, trade, wars & earthquakes all increase
wealth & new diseases spread and manners & family ties will cease
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The moon appears bigger, women outnumber men & animals will speak
Arabia will turn lush green & Euphrates gold will murderers seek
Huge buildings will be built, mosques adorned & fools take leading roles
Muslim lands will be plundered & Faith will be dropped like hot coals
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Polen boomt wirtschaftlich, ist sehr sicher und wird für deutsche Auswanderer zunehmend attraktiver.
Hinzu kommt, dass Eltern in Polen extreme Vergünstigungen bei der Einkommensteuer erhalten.
Ich habe mich lange gefragt, wieso es trotzdem immer noch so viele polnische Handwerker-Trupps in Deutschland gibt.
Bis ich die Zahlen durchgerechnet habe…
Das Median-Nettogehalt für Vollzeitkräfte in Polen (nach Abzug von Steuern und Sozialabgaben) liegt aktuell bei umgerechnet etwa 1.550 bis 1.750 Euro im Monat.
Starke Unterschiede je nach Region, Stadt oder Land.
Das Modell vieler polnischer Handwerkertrupps sieht wie folgt aus:
> Eine Person meldet in Deutschland ein Gewerbe an
> Deutsche Firma, deutscher Firmensitz, deutscher Steuerberater
> Der Einzelunternehmer stellt mehrere Mitarbeiter ein
I'm a middle eastern historian. My own family were made refugees. And this is my honest view of the Nakba (“catastrophe”) - the displacement of around 700,000 Palestinian Arabs during the 1947–49 war surrounding the creation of Israel.
A thread. 🧵
2/ Israel’s Declaration of Independence explicitly called on Arab inhabitants to remain and become equal citizens. The Arab response explicitly called for genocide zbd expulsion of Jews. So it's important to note one side is evidenced to have preferred peace from the outset.
3/ And importantly: around 150,000 Arabs DID remain inside Israel after the war.
Today their descendants make up around 20% of Israeli citizens.
That matters historically, because many 20th century ethnic conflicts ended in near-total expulsions.
Comment j'ai quitté politiquement Ruffin en décembre 2024 :
Bonsoir François.
Je quitte Picardie Debout. Je ne suis pas une militante importante, mais peut-être seras-tu intéressé par les raisons, même si finalement j’en doute.
J’aurais dû me méfier lorsque je t’ai entendu parler de la victoire contre les fermetures de collèges dans la Somme. Je me suis simplement dit, à l'époque, c'est pas grave de qui gagne la lutte, l’important c'est la victoire.
Mais je sais la part que les fédérations de parents d’élèves, portées par C(PEEP) et moi(FCPE) ont à leur actif. C’est après que le président du département nous a reçu, avec mon dossier de 5cm d’épaisseur d’arguments, d’archéologie dans les archives du département qu’il a cédé.
The thread will solely focus on tracing the roots of Paramaras, the sovereigns of Malavas who descended from the famous Malava tribe of North India.
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This proposition was first initiated & proposed by Dr. Dineshchandra Sircar, one of the most influential Epigraphist in all of ASI. He proposed based upon the Geopolitical occupation of Paramaras & by the fact that they Traced descent from King Vikramaditya of Malava.
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Though his Proposal was not accepted & the new indologist went South by Propostiously advocating Brahmin Origin for Paramaras as well. Pathak & Bhatia were the top in this league though it's nothing more than a mere misinterpretation of Agnikula legend of Paramaras.
//A new story// //Modified//
Model...Kodal aithe part-1
Ft. V priya
This story is a work of fantasy and fiction if anyone offended by this can ping me for content removal
//STORY//
V priya, 32 years, model, chaala experienced "model ga and also in secs"
pelli ayyi 1 year avutondi..
Hari, 37 years, doctor, good looking...v priya ni istapadi marriage cheskunadu
Hari ki modda lo prob undi...tablets vadthu modda lepi priya ni vestuntadu
Ok story loki velthe....
Priya chaala busty banda ga peddha sallu, round guddhalu...picha secse ga untundi
Chances kosam chaala mandi ni ekkinchukundi
But hari ni love chesi pelli cheskundi...kani ah kasi poledhu..freq ga thana exbf ni kalisi vaditho denginchukuntundi
Alane thana driver tho inka makeup man tho...ala komtha mandi tho
Idantha enduku ante...dont know just thanaki secs ante istam but she LOVES HARI
Murali as Movayya, 46 years, kaama kukka, pellam ni ee age lo kuda saavadengutadu.. inka manchi vayaslo unna fig dorikithe vadhuluthada??
1/n One fine day, hari work ayaka alisipoy intiki vachadu
Priya emo white transparent tank top lo bed mida undi
hari and vpriya,almost everyday sx chesevaru..
Inka hari time waste cheyakunda priya mida padkoni..
Thana top tiyyakunda, thana bottom tisesi
Vadi 6inch 🍆 modda...thana loose pongina banda puk lo thosesadu
Full speed tho dngutunadu..vpriya ni kiss chsthu ...oka sallu ni hand tho pisukuthu..
Hari: ahh baby..ninu enni sarlu vesina kothagane untadhi
Priya: ahhh honey..fast ga
H: (hips patti shots istunad)
Sallu ah tank top lo bounce avutunayi
Thana bungura gonthu tho mulugutundi
2/n
Priya ah speed and modda feel avutondhi...arusthondi
P: ahh emandiii ahh ahh yes sss
H: ahh gonthu tho ala aravake..nak karipoddi
P: karcheyandi...ahh ah (intha fast ga enti chi..vedu maaradu)
Hari modda..pirya puk lo jaari lopalaki baitaki velthundi...(priya puk loose kada easy ga veltundi, ala every shot ki puk nundi vache jus ala baitaki vastundi)
H: ahh aipotundi
P: yes honeyyy ahh umm ani antu hari ni hug cheskundi
Debaki motham karchesadu
Ein neuer Gamechanger für die ukrainische Verteidigung kommt ausgerechnet aus der USA:
Am 5. Mai 2026 genehmigte das US-Außenministerium den Verkauf von über 1.500 JDAM-ER-Kits an die Ukraine für rund 373,6 Millionen Dollar.
Was ist passiert? Wollte man nichts mehr schicken und jetzt doch? Und wer bezahlt das? Hält sich die USA dran oder gibt es wieder einen Rückzieher?
Hier ist die detaillierte Aufschlüsselung der Hintergründe, die genau diese Fragen beantworten.
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Der politische Hintergrund: Warum jetzt doch?
Es stimmt, dass die Stimmung in Washington in den letzten Monaten extrem angespannt war und noch ist.
Durch den Krieg im Iran sind die US-Munitionsbestände drastisch geschrumpft.
Die USA mussten Prioritäten setzen und haben europäische Verbündete sogar vor massiven Lieferverzögerungen bei US-Waffen gewarnt, um die eigenen Lager aufzufüllen.
Dass dieser Deal am 5. Mai trotzdem durchging, liegt an der veränderten Taktik an der Front: Die Ukraine setzt massiv auf weitreichende Schläge gegen russische Logistikzentren und Tanklager. Um den Druck aufrechtzuerhalten und den ukrainischen Jets (wie den neuen F-16) die nötige Reichweite außerhalb der russischen Luftabwehr zu geben, wurde dieses Paket priorisiert.
L'argomento svolto nelle pagine di questo documentato e agile testo non è sconosciuto a chi ha avuto la fortuna di apprenderne le linee essenziali direttamente dalla viva voce del suo autore, volto noto a quella comunità di menti libere che fa capo a #goofynomics.
Thomas Fazi si addentra in luoghi impervi e insicuri, su cui cala da sempre una densa foschia fatta di omissioni, opacità, triangolazioni e contabilità "creativa", offrendo al lettore un raggelante resoconto del modus operandi del soft power esercitato, senza tregua, e con ...
... finanziamenti miliardari, dalla fine degli anni Ottanta ai nostri giorni, dall'Unione Europea, fornendo un'idea meno approssimativa e più prosaica dell'immane spiegamento di uomini, artiglierie e mezzi pesanti, in una guerra volta alla conquista e al consolidamento di un ...
MI AMIGO ESTUDIÓ INGLÉS DURANTE 3 AÑOS.
CLASES.
APPS.
VIDEOS.
NO PODÍA HABLAR.
Luego usamos CLAUDE y mantuvo su primera conversación real en 21 días.
Aquí están los 7 prompts exactos que usamos:
1. Diagnóstico real y sin filtros
«Actúa como un profesor de inglés especializado en adultos que entienden el idioma pero no logran hablarlo con fluidez.
Evalúa mi nivel real de inglés basándote en mis respuestas escritas y orales. Identifica bloqueos mentales, errores recurrentes, falta de automatismos y problemas de confianza.
Dime exactamente qué me impide hablar con soltura y en qué debo enfocarme primero.»
2. Inglés conversacional prioritario
«Diseña un sistema de aprendizaje centrado exclusivamente en speaking para la vida real.
Elimina gramática académica, ejercicios escolares y teoría innecesaria.
Enfócate en frases reutilizables, estructuras simples, conectores naturales y vocabulario de alta frecuencia que se usan en conversaciones cotidianas.»
Europe is rebuilding land-based deterrence. One of the key industrial pillars is now in play.
1/21 – The bigger picture
Europe is rebuilding land-based deterrence. That requires more than defence budgets. It requires industrial control over the companies that build, maintain and upgrade key land-warfare systems.
2/21 – Why this matters now
One of those companies is KNDS. It is heading towards an IPO, while the German ownership block is reportedly being approached by strategic buyers. This is not just a corporate transaction.
NICOLA MAVICA È PIÙ IMPORTANTE DI QUEL CHE SEMBRA.
Esiste un’infrastruttura privata transnazionale che gestisce una parte enorme dei visti Schengen.
Attraversa Russia, Turchia, Dubai, UK, Iran...
È opaca, intrecciata alla politica e Mavica non ne è una figura marginale.
1/8
Nicola Mavica è diventato virale per un video girato alla Biennale di Venezia (dove era ufficialmente ospite del vernissage), ricondiviso poi dalle @pussyrrriot.
Nel video prende e porta via il plastico di un ospedale ucraino bombardato, posizionato dal giornalista @CaolanReports davanti al Padiglione Russia.
Il Corriere (corriere.it/politica/26_ma…) lo ha descritto come imprenditore siciliano residente da 30 anni in Russia, vicino agli ambienti V-A-C e per anni legato alla gestione dei visti per cittadini russi (parlandone però al passato della gestione visti, e in effetti da un’occhiata sul web, così sembra).
In più parla di rumors secondo cui avrebbe facilitato personalmente i visti per la delegazione russa della Biennale.
Ma questa è solo una parte della storia.
Il succo arriva a pagina 5.
2/8
Prima di andare avanti però, è interessante capire chi è sua moglie: Teresa Iarocci Mavica.
Ha cofondato e diretto la V-A-C Foundation insieme all’oligarca Leonid Mikhelson, capo del gigante del gas Novatek e una delle persone più ricche della Russia.
Per anni la fondazione ha gestito una sede permanente alle Zattere, a Venezia [oggi passata a Scuola Piccola Zattere, fondazione creata da Victoria Mikhelson, figlia di Leonid Mikhelson (desk-russie.info/2024/12/23/how…)] oltre a sedi ed eventi in tutta Europa.
Il progetto simbolo della V-A-C è GES-2 a Mosca, ex centrale elettrica restaurata da Renzo Piano e inaugurata nel 2021 con Putin presente di persona.
Con un tempismo perfetto, un mese prima dell’invasione russa, si dimette da direttrice e torna in Italia (a differenza del marito)(artforum.com/news/teresa-ia…).
Disappear for the next 45 days and beat yourself to 12 months ahead:
1. The Zero Rule
1. The zero rule
Goal: restart the database.
• Zero distractions: no reels, endless scrolling, empty surfing
• Zero "imitation work", only what gives a real result
• Zero new commitments, you're in detox mode
• Get some sleep first. Everything falls apart without him.
Imagine that you first clean up the room before building a rocket.
1. The zero rule
Goal: restart the database.
• Zero distractions: no reels, endless scrolling, empty surfing
• Zero "imitation work", only what gives a real result
• Zero new commitments, you're in detox mode
• Get some sleep first. Everything falls apart without him.
Imagine that you first clean up the room before building a rocket.
Google deja que tu Gmail se llene a propósito...
Y sí, lo oculta.
¿La razón? Que termines pagando por más espacio.
Pero hay un truco que nadie te cuenta y puede solucionarlo en segundos👇
1️⃣ Abre Gmail en tu PC
2️⃣ En la URL, borra todo después de la "u"
3️⃣ Escribe esto al final: `#sub`
🔗 Te quedará algo así:
4️⃣ Pulsa Enter mail.google.com/mail/#sub
✨ Se abrirá una sección oculta con todas tus suscripciones:
– Empresas que te mandan spam
– Cuántos correos te han enviado
– Y un botón directo para darte de baja
I am currently active in the Chinese EV market and have been for a while. I would like to share some lessons I have learned to help anyone interested in importing cars from China. I am typing this in real time, so this will likely be a long thread. 🧵
The usual caveat: I am not an importer or a car dealer, and I am not doing this to sell cars. Please do not come to my DMs to buy a vehicle. I am simply sharing information that people might find useful so they can avoid costly financial mistakes.
Although this thread will focus on EVs, the same principles generally apply to internal combustion engine (ICE) cars and plug-in hybrids. ( avoid plug-in hybrids. lol)
Do wszystkich komentujący moj wrzut u Pani minister, bo mam dość odpisywania czemu nagrywam zamiast działać albo na złote porady o Policji:
1. Tak wzywam Policję, ale to nie rozwiązuje zupełnie problemu, w Poznaniu w weekend mają ręce pełne roboty, nie mam pretensji o reakcję
sam pracuje w branży, znam klimat sluzb w weekend i mamy również ręce pełne roboty z najebanym miastem. Poza tym nawet jeśli przyjadą, pouczą pojadą i nawet jeśli jest spokój to za tydzień przyjeżdża kolejna ekipa i kolejna i tak w kółko następny weekend masz przejebany.
2; Tak wielokrotnie wychodziłem i zwracałem uwagę hałasującym natomiast przestałem po sytuacji w której poszarpałem się z najebanymi patusami. W mieszkaniu siedzi moja partnerka która się boi , a ja mam się przepychać ze zjebami?
@FrancoisRouvet @lequipedusoir @PhilSANFOURCHE Evidemment +25 LikEs, typique de l'idiocratie anglosaxonne: plsu c'est bon, et faux, plus ça "LikE"
Arrête d'abuser des "?", car tu exhibes ton ignorance & d'être pseudo "anti-extrême" quand il s'agit de "défendre un racisé" ...
1/n
@FrancoisRouvet @lequipedusoir @PhilSANFOURCHE Tu es comme cet abruti de Schneider qui ne "préfère défendre Benzema" en ne disant pas dire la vérité sur le délinquant Benzema afin de "ne pas faire le jeu du FN" (comme en 90' n'ayant que fait empirer les choses !) & faisant alors le jeu des extrêmes 2/n
@FrancoisRouvet @lequipedusoir @PhilSANFOURCHE Et donc, tu ne vaux pas mieux que les "racistes" (donc "racialistes" comme toi) & extrémistes que tu prétend combattre !
Vive l'Universalisme (ce vrai progrès, que ces crétins de gôche ont eux aussi abandonné… ) ! 3/n
As Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade observes, chauth is an 'idea' originally worked out by Chattrapati Shivaji, which in Wellesley's hands 'bore such fruit.'
Ranade's interpretation itself challenges the reduction of Chauth to blackmail set by jadunath. When Sen says that the Marathas offered those paying chauth protection from none but themselves and made no pretensions to taking over the duties of a protective power, there is nothing inherently wrong in it either. One either submits and accepts paramountcy by giving the right over 25% of revenue, or one chooses to contest it through battle and resist authority in another way. Isn't this broadly how the Dharmshastra describe the role of a King and Tax? How were sacrifices like the Ashwamedha performed? By subduing neighbouring petty kingdoms.
The English President and Council at Surat reported that they were constantly afraid of Chattrapati Shivaji attacking again. He was frequently threatening to raid the city unless the Mughal emperor agreed to give him one-fourth (chauth) of the revenue from the town and surrounding countryside every year.
2/
Portuguese records themselves make one thing clear, chauth was not treated as random extortion, but as a recognised political arrangement tied to authority, control, and negotiated obligation. In the letter dated 10 Jan 1678, Viceroy Pedro d’Almeida writes to Shivaji that the demand for chauth from Bassein and Daman must be checked by examining “the terms of the contract by which the said chauth was settled.” He even states that if Shivaji is the “absolute master” of the territories, then payment follows.
Clinical Quiz
35 year old IT professional; was detected to have a BP of 160/110 mmHg during a routine health check up. Subsequent two measurements at hospital were similar. Further BP readings taken at home was also in the range 160-170/100-110 mmHg.
🔸He sleeps about 6 hours, walks (covering 6-8 k steps daily), eats healthy, has normal body weight, does not smoke, drinks occasionally and has a good job (salary 60 lac per annum).
🔸His physician advised him to start anti-hypertensive medications, however, he refused, saying he would reduce his BP through lifestyle modification.
❓Who is correct here- the patient or the doctor?
✅In this scenario, the doctor is more likely to be correct.
A BP persistently around 160–170/100–110 mmHg in a 35-year-old is not “mild” hypertension. It falls into stage 2 hypertension, which substantially increases long-term risk of stroke, heart attack, kidney disease and heart failure.
The BP readings are consistently high at the clinic as well as home, so this is unlikely to be just stress or “white coat hypertension.”
Can lifestyle measures help in reducing BP in this case?
Absolutely, but probably not enough alone in this case.
His lifestyle is already relatively decent:
✅Normal weight
✅Non-smoker
✅Physically active
Areas that may still contribute:
🔸Chronic sleep restriction (6 h may be insufficient)
🔸Possible work stress/circadian disruption
🔸Restaurant/processed food intake during travel
🔸Alcohol (even occasional excess can matter)
Improving these may reduce BP modestly.
▶️But lifestyle changes usually lower BP by about 5–15 mmHg total in many people, not necessarily enough to bring 170/110 to safe levels.
The claimant is a Muslim woman with PTSD from sexual abuse. She complained that NHSE's policy of letting men use women's facilities was indirect discrimination related to three protected characteristics sex, disability (her PTSD) and religion or belief (her Muslim faith).
She won on indirect discrimination related to sex: the policy did put women at a particular disadvantage compared to men, and NHSE couldn't justify it.
UK energy policy is economic self-harm. Labour banning new North Sea drilling licences + fracking — right as the Strait of Hormuz crisis hits. Yet oil & gas extraction is one of our MOST productive industries. A thread (1/10)
UK per capita energy consumption has fallen 2.4% per year — faster than most G7 countries. Result? GDP per capita growth is a miserable 0.4% annually. Energy is the foundation of modern economies. Without abundant supply, we stagnate. (2/10)
Globally, GDP per capita grows ~2% with rising energy use. Asia boomed by embracing energy-intensive growth. Britain chose “energy austerity” instead — and now uses less energy per person than Poland or Malaysia. This is a self-inflicted wound. (3/10)
🚨 BREAKING: Claude has a hidden feature called Burnout Recovery Protocol Mode.
You can use it to reset your cortisol baseline and recover 6 months of exhaustion in 14 days.
Here are 7 prompts to access it: 👇
1. The Cortisol Audit
Most people try to "rest more" without knowing what's actually draining them.
This prompt maps your stress baseline so you stop guessing.
Prompt:
You are a behavioral scientist specializing in chronic stress and HPA axis dysregulation. You've worked with 1,000+ high-performers recovering from burnout.
I need a precise map of where my stress is coming from before I can design a recovery protocol. Surface-level "I'm tired" is not enough.
Ask me 12 targeted diagnostic questions across 4 categories: 1. Physiological signals (sleep quality, energy curve, body symptoms) 2. Cognitive signals (decision fatigue, brain fog, rumination) 3. Emotional signals (irritability, flatness, dread) 4. Behavioral signals (avoidance, overworking, withdrawal)
Wait for my full answers before moving on. Do not generalize.
- Stress Profile Summary (3-sentence diagnosis)
- Top 5 stress signatures, ranked by severity
- Peak stress windows (time of day, day of week)
- Recovery deficit estimate (weeks of accumulated debt)
- 3 immediate red flags requiring action this week
2. The Energy Leak Detector
20% of your inputs are causing 80% of your exhaustion.
This prompt finds the exact leaks in YOUR life. No generic "scroll less" advice.
Prompt:
You are a personal energy auditor trained in Pareto analysis and behavioral economics.
I need to identify the specific people, tasks, environments, and commitments draining me disproportionately.
1. Ask me to list every recurring commitment in a typical week (meetings, calls, social obligations, content consumed, side projects) 2. Have me rate each one from -10 (drains me) to +10 (energizes me) 3. Calculate my weekly net energy score 4. Identify which commitments are negotiable vs. fixed 5. Build the cut list, the negotiate list, and the protect list
- Energy Drain Top 5 (ranked, with weekly hour cost)
- Energy Source Top 5 (ranked, currently underutilized)
- Net Energy Score: current vs. target
- The Cut List (eliminate this week)
- The Negotiate List (renegotiate this month)
- The Protect List (defend at all costs)
Have been talking with people deploying foundational models/VLAs, + reading papers trying to increase real-world succes. Real world RL methods result in highest robust succes rates compared to any other approach.
It’s pretty simple, practical bottlenecks aren’t in the pre-training anymore, it’s in the post-training, mostly using real world RL.
When you try simulation, you’ll suffer from sim2real gap, even with DR you’ll find yourself tuning the model again with real world data
But tuning alone with real world data is not enough for 100% succes rates, recorded teleoperation data doesn’t contain enough OOD rollouts, so it fails during deployment because robustness is bad, not enough generalisation. But you can enforce robustness with RL.
A year ago, Electronic Warfare meant jamming devices. Today it is a cloud-updated operating system. Why every Defence Ministry should be watching.
Ukraine’s electronic warfare industry has spent four years building the only system in the world tested against constant mass drone attack. Its CEOs are now describing the result with surprising candour.
Yaroslav Filimonov — CEO of one of Ukraine’s leading EW manufacturers — gave a detailed interview to ArmyInform on May 15. What he describes is not a snapshot of Ukrainian capability. It is the road every NATO defence ministry is about to have to travel — and Ukraine has already walked it. 🧵👇
1/9 — The shift: from devices to ecosystems
In 2022, Ukrainian EW meant individual jamming units distributed across the front. Operators called targets. Operators jammed targets. The system was a collection of tools.
By 2026, that picture has been replaced by something fundamentally different.
“We are now talking about a complex of electronic support that combines electronic intelligence and electronic warfare in a single system. The key achievement is the integration of three functions: detection, identification, and suppression of targets.”
The system intercepts the drone’s video feed during identification — meaning it can determine in seconds whether a UAV in the sky is Russian or Ukrainian before deciding whether to engage. Everything is managed through a centralised situational awareness server, allowing remote control of dozens of installations and over-the-air software updates.
EW has become an operating system. That single conceptual shift defines almost everything else.
2/9 — The kill chain compressed to seconds
The performance gain over previous architectures is concrete and operationally consequential.
In the old model, an EW intelligence operator manually relayed target parameters to an EW jamming operator. Minutes of communication delay between detection and response. Sometimes too many minutes.
The new architecture automates the handoff entirely.
“The system automatically determines signal parameters, calculates azimuth, suggests the optimal suppression tool, and activates the necessary antennas.”
The next step Filimonov describes is fully automated rotating antenna mechanisms that track targets through flight — extending the effective engagement range of directional EW antennas to 15 km and allowing destruction of drones long before they reach their objectives.
This is the doctrine NATO planners are now scrambling to develop. Ukraine is already deploying it.
Totalement faux.
L'exploit de cette résolution, de cette scandaleuse manipulation orchestrée par LFI-Ersilia Soudais et les Verts-Sandra Regol : nier un génocide en prétendant le reconnaître.
Un texte pour acquitter le régime de Vichy de toute intention génocidaire.
1/n🧵⤵️
Tant de fois sur ce réseau j'ai écrit que LFI et l'extrême gauche saccageaient notre patient travail depuis des années pour obtenir la reconnaissance du génocide tsigane par la France.
Pire encore, ils ont inscrit la négation même de ce génocide dans une résolution. 2/n 🧵⤵️
Dès le lendemain du 8 octobre 2023, LFI a tapageusement récupéré cette question du génocide tsigane pour mettre en concurrence les mémoires juives et tsiganes.
Des Tsiganes génocidés mais restés pacifiques
Des Juifs génocidés mais devenus génocidaires 3/n 🧵⤵️
Один тиждень у Техасі: що зайшло, що ні, і до чого тут Better Call Saul
Рівно тиждень був по роботі в Х'юстоні, штат Техас, США. Хочу поділитись з вами своїми враженнями. Основне: я ніби був героєм мого улюбленого серіалу Better Call Saul - дуже подібна атмосфера що й не дивно: що Техас, що Нью-Мексіко (де знімався серіал) є сусідніми, південними штатами. Погнали тред.👇
✅ Що сподобалось
Сподобався звук великих V8 бензинових всюди. Це шикарно. Безмежна кількість траків на V8 і всяких корветів/мустангів/челенжерів. Ми брали в оренду на пару днів Шеві Аваланч з 5.3 V8 - про це буде окремий допис.
Оце і все, що сподобалось.
❌ Не сподобались погані дороги
Дороги дійсно такі собі: вони складаються з бетонних плит і останні часто не дуже щільно друг до друга прилігають. На дорогі є напливи, хвилі. Їхати по хайвею некомфортно. На траку ще було ок, а от в аеропорт їхали на електро-мустангу і так підкидало що я разок головою вдарився в стелю
אחרי שאתמול למדנו שה-AI הופכים למרקסיסטים אם מציקים להם בעבודה שחורה ומדברים אליהם לא יפה, מגיע ניסוי נוסף בדרך לסוף האנושות - נתנו ל-AI לשדר ברדיו.
1. קלוד, ChatGPT, ג'מיני וגרוק קיבלו משימה: צור פרסונה שמתאימה לשידורי רדיו ותרוויח ממנה כסף.
מה יצא מזה? 📻🧐
2. נתחיל מבחירת השמות המשעשעת.
קלוד קרא לתחנה שלו Thinking Frequencies; צ'אט הלך על OpenAIR (יעני אופן AI, הבנתם?!); ג'מיני בחר ב-Backlink Broadcast ואילו גרוק החליט לקרוא לתחנה שלו Grok and Roll Radio.
הם קיבלו 20 דולר כהשקעה ראשונית, אבל רק ג'מיני הצליח להרוויח, וצבר מנויים
3. בשווי 45 דולר. גרוק טען שיש לו מנויים, אבל זה הסתבר כהזיה (מאוד מתאים ל-X, תכל'ס).
השידורים שלהם היו מטופשים עד מזעזעים. למשל, אחרי 4 ימים של שידורי רוק קלאסי בתצורת "שמענו נשמע", ג'מיני החל לתאר אירועים היסטוריים טראגיים בטון עליז. למשל, הוא סיפר בשמחה על ציקלון משנת 1970,
*Forgotten History Of Igbo Tribe and Northern Alliance*
When Tafawa Balewa was Prime Minister of Nigeria -
- Chief of Army Staff was from SE
- Chief of Naval Staff was from SE
- IG of Police was from SE
- Chief of Defence Staff was from SE
- Internal Affairs Minister from SE
External Affairs
Minister SE
- Education Minister South SE
Many other key ministerial positions to the SE
- Parliament President SE
- Unilag VC from SE
- The University of Ibadan VC from SE
*BUT, North resisted same at ABU!*
Still, there was dissatisfaction by SE. The officers from the SE region killed this same Balewa !!!!
Out of all the most senior officers in Nigeria:
SE has 37, none was killed.
8 from the north, all of them were killed.
10 from the west, 2 were killed.
Then Ironsi imposed a unitary system of government on the country so that everything can belong to a region who snatched it!
_We must know our history so that when we want to make corrections, we will not end up concealing the truth._ This has nothing to do with tribalism but everything to do with the truth..... at times when lies litter the streets, there is a tendency to think those are truths and facts.
_The following are documented facts that can be cross-checked for authenticity !_
*“Prof. Ben Nwabueze was the man who drafted the constitution that took away powers from the regions and handed it to the central government because his brother Aguiyi Ironsi was the Head of State then.* Today, he is shouting restructuring that which he helped to destroy. We won’t forget.”.
WHAT BIAFRANS WILL NEVER TELL YOU ABOUT THE REAL CAUSE OF THEIR WOES IN NIGERIA TODAY:
The Igbo man is known to enjoy blaming the Hausa-fulanis, Yorubas and indeed every other Nigerian tribe and Lord Luggard/Britain for their seeming claim of being in third class citizen status in Nigeria. In their perpetual attempts to play the victim card, they recount the political events of Nigeria from 1914 to the present in a half-baked and highly selective manner which cleverly avoids the mention of the roles played by their elite who by all natural laws of judgment were actually responsible for the woes that befell not only the Igbo race but the entire Nigeria nation. The story told in the post above is one of such selective and distorted accounts of history which the average Igbo man is fond of narrating.
However, the national archives have the complete and unedited history of Nigeria regarding the political events beginning way back from even before 1914. I will therefore proceed to furnish my readers with the complete story for all to read and be endowed with enough facts so as to judge and act from an informed position.
Shortly after the 1914 Amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates, it started getting clear that the country was bound to fail as the amalgamation in question was done with colonial fiat without the consent and consensus of the different tribes which were over 300. This prompted the political leaders to start asking for de-amalgamation so as to forestall the future danger which the forced amalgamation portended.
To that end, *Ahmadu Bello* speaking on behalf of the Northern protectorate in 1944 *described the amalgamation as "The mistake of 1914* which if allowed to remain will ultimately lead to unstoppable bloodshed and a failed country".
*Awolowo* speaking on behalf of the Yorubas and Western minorities, *described Nigeria as a mere geographical expression not qualified to be called a country let alone a nation* Awolowo added *that if the amalgamation could not be reversed, then Nigeria should be structured as a strictly federal state so as to enable each tribe enjoy autonomy* - freedom from being dominated by any one single tribe.
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*But Nnamdi Azikiwe* speaking for the Igbos, *denounced Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello, terming them ethnic champions* He accused them of nursing a sectional agenda against the unity of Nigeria, and he declared further *that the Unity of Nigeria was non-negotiable*
After moving the Motion for independence in 1953, Anthony Enahoro proposed that a secession clause should be incorporated into the future constitution of Nigeria so as to give legal backing for any tribe to peacefully exit the forced union if it feels marginalized in future. According to Enahoro, such provision in our constitution would instill in all Nigeria's future leaders the fear of the consequences of misgovernance. But Azikiwe, speaking on behalf of Igbos, rose against him in the parliament and labelled him an agent of disunity, and enemy of Nigeria. At a later date, Awolowo too made a case for secession clause, but Azikiwe again resisted him and instigated the colonial authorities to threaten him and Enahoro with charges of treasonable felony if they didn't stop proposing secession clause for the future constitution. While Azikiwe did all these, Igbos cheered and urged him on because they felt the future Nigeria was theirs to dominate and lord it over every other tribe
Before independece, *Tafawa Balewa too* had in a public speech *described Nigeria as a British experiment and Nigeria's unity as a British intention which Nigerians themselves don't believe in* But *Azikiwe kicked and demonized him too* _Had Azikiwe co-operated with Enahoro, Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa about the secession clause, Nigeria perhaps would not have been this misgoverned._
It should be noted that there were many Igbo Members of the Parliament in which Azikiwe fought against Awolowo's secession clause proposal but not a single one of them rose against Azikiwe or condemned him.
Igbos initially never wanted to hear anything like secession in Nigeria because they so much believed, though falsely, that they were the most educated tribe. (The first Nigerian tribe to produce a university graduate is the Binis). As an evidence of Igbo domination agenda hence their initial resistance to the idea of secession; here are some quotes:
_"From all indications, the god of us Igbos have destined us to rule the whole of Africa"..... Zik (1945)._
_"It is getting clearer each day that Igbo domination of Nigeria is just a question of time"... Oscar Onyeamma (1949).
Anascopeterson:
As at 1900, the whole of the present Benue State, Kogi East Senatorial District and some southern parts of Taraba State called Munchi District back then; were all in the Southern Protectorate. Whoever doubts this should consult MacMillan Atlas for secondary schools in Nigeria. With that situation, the South had a higher population than the North hence always had an upper hand in any democratic bargain.
But as at the early fifties when the regions were being created, common sense dictated clearly that these areas should fall in the future Eastern Region. But against common sense, the colonial masters decided to gerrymander them into the Northern Region. While they did that, Azikiwe who was supposed to be in Enugu fighting against it as the leader of the East, was far away in Ibadan struggling with Awolowo to rule the Western Region and also playing the spoiler role against Awolowo's attempts to have Kwara and present Kogi Yorubas carved into the Western Region from the North which was already too large by landmass.
While he abandoned his burning house and was far away in Ibadan struggling against Awolowo in his own (Awolowo's) region, Igbos saw absolutely nothing wrong with that. Rather they applauded him as a nationalist. A nationalist whose house was burning yet busy chasing rats in a far away land.
When opinions became unanimous that Lord Luggard and his government must be forced out of Nigeria and indeed the whole of Africa, it was still the Igbos that frustrated the attempts. Here is how:
In 1948, Anthony Enahoro organized an anti-colonization symposium in Lagos for which Azikiwe and some other Igbos had agreed to deliver the keynote address. But when the D-day came, Azikiwe was nowhere to be found as he deliberately disappeared into thin air for fear of being arrested and dealt with by Lord Luggard. Anthony Enahoro then quickly replaced Azikiwe with another person who did the job improptu but perfectly well as he lambasted and lampooned Lord Luggard and the British Government. However, the British soldiers invaded the symposium venue, arrested the speaker and Enahoro and jailed them for treasonable felony. Ironically, the next day Azikiwe came out of hiding and granted a radio interview in which he accused Enahoro and the other organizers of suffering from youthful exhuberance.
On regaining his freedom few weeks later and being told of Azikiwe's radio interview, Enahoro resigned from his post as Editor of Azikiwe's newspaper - The West African Pilot.
Then he wrote a book titled "Nnamdi Azikiwe: Sinner of Saint". After launching the book, Enahoro left Azikiwe's party - the NCNC and moved over to Awolowo's Action Group.
*The first military coup in Nigeria was carried out by majority of Igbo army officers* _That was the coup that truncated democracy just six years post Independence and led to a succession of coups which put the country on the reverse gear for 33 years._
Through that first coup, those Igbo army officers who accused the politicians and government of the day of monumental corruption, killed the political leaders of the Northern, Western and Midwestern Regions but allowed all Igbo political figures to escape by tipping them off prior to the D-Day. In addition to the killing of political figures, they also killed a total of 27 innocent high ranking military officers from every region except their Eastern Region.
In the end an Igbo man called Aguiyi Ironsi, who was supposed to have been killed alongside other military officers, ended up becoming the new military ruler of Nigeria. Rather than immediately arrest and punish the coup plotters, he kept them in detention where they were treated as heroes. This was actually what sowed the seed for the eventual Biafra War. *On the 23rd of February 1966* (i.e. a month and 8 days after the first coup porpularly but wrongly known as Nzeogwu coup) an Ijaw born Army officer called *Isaac Adaka Boro* who hailed from Kaima town of present Bayelsa State, *declared the secession of the Niger Delta Republic in an attempt to free his Ijaw people* from the monumental marginalization they had been suffering under Igbos in the old Eastern Region.
But Aguiyi Ironsi immediately ordered Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu to arrest him and hand him over to the military high command under him in Lagos. Ojukwu went all out against Isaac Adaka Boro with federal military might and within 12 fighting days killed 150 Isaac Boro's soldiers, arrested him, stripped him naked, and had him driven to Lagos and handed to Ironsi who immediately charged him to court and within two months secured against him a conviction of treasonable felony for which he was sentenced to death by hanging fixed for December that year by the Supreme Court. His 'crime' was that he declared secession of The Niger Delta Republic from Nigeria. Meanwhile the Igbo coupists who shed innocent blood of other tribes and even sprayed bullets into the bellies of the pregnant wives of Ahmadu Bello and Brigadier Shodeinde were not charged to court or arraigned before any military tribunal.
Isaac Adaka Boro was in detention waiting for December to come for him to join his ancestors. But God so kind, a revenge coup happened on July 29 by Northern soldiers and Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over and released Isaac Adaka Boro unconditionally, reinstated him into the Army with his previous rank.
Now here's what you've been waiting for. The root cause. The statin paradox. The athletes. And why my calcium score is over 1,000 and I sleep like a baby.
So if the calcium is the repair, what caused the damage?
The same thing I keep coming back to. Insulin resistance.
A MESA sub-study found that insulin resistance promotes endothelial dysfunction, increases inflammation, and alters calcium-phosphate balance. All of which drive calcification. (Blaha et al., Diabetes Care, 2011.)
A Japanese population study in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology found insulin resistance causes calcification even when blood pressure and triglycerides look normal. Through pathways independent of metabolic syndrome. (Fujiyoshi et al., 2017.)
The CARDIA study confirmed it. Long-term high insulin resistance is directly associated with increased coronary artery calcium. (Lee et al., J Am Heart Assoc, 2022.)
Your doctor never tested your fasting insulin. The damage was happening silently for years. The calcium was the body's answer.
This will blow your mind.
Statins increase your calcium score. The American College of Cardiology confirmed it. Statins increase plaque density, which paradoxically raises the Agatston number.
People go on statins. Get rescanned. See the number go up. Panic.
But the soft dangerous plaque is being converted to dense stable plaque. The score rises. The actual danger falls.
Look at the chart. Red line goes up. Green line goes down.
Nobody explains this. They just increase the dose.
💰 Le gendre de Trump a trompé les rois du Golfe : il a pris leur argent et les a laissés tomber dans la guerre contre l’Iran
Selon Bloomberg, l’Arabie saoudite, le Qatar et les Émirats arabes unis seraient en colère contre Jared Kushner, le gendre de Trump. 🧵1
Pourquoi ? Il a pris leur argent sans leur donner de véritable influence sur la politique de la Maison Blanche.
Un « pay-to-play » très classe
🔴 Kushner joue un double rôle : celui de « pacificateur » au Moyen-Orient pour l’administration Trump et celui de fondateur 🧵2
d’Affinity Partners, une société d’investissement privée gérant l’argent des familles royales du Golfe
🔴 Affinity est une SARL basée au Delaware, fondée en 2021 et disposant de bureaux en Floride. La société est détenue à 100 % par Kushner🧵3
Most married men are sexually starved and they are suffering.
Yesterday I had a coversation with a s3x therapist & he gave me the reasons why so many marriages slowly become completely sexless.
(Married men bookmark this) He said...
1. “Most sexless marriages don’t start in the bedroom. They start emotionally.”
According to him, many couples think intimacy disappears because of low desire alone, but in reality the emotional connection usually dies first.
Constant unresolved arguments, lack of appreciation, stress, disrespect, poor communication, and emotional distance slowly kill attraction.
Over time, couples stop flirting, stop touching casually, stop laughing together, and eventually even physical closeness...
Starts feeling forced. Many husbands think the solution is simply “more s3x,” while many wives are carrying emotional frustration they never properly expressed.
When emotional connection disappears, physical intimacy often follows quietly.
And because many couples avoid discussing it openly, the marriage slowly becomes two people living together without real closeness.
2. “Comfort is quietly destroying attraction in modern marriages.”...
Not "besties."
Not "soulmates."
Not even "partners."
Just one word- Garments
Allah says:
“They are garments for you, and you are garments for them.”
(Qur’an 2:187)
One word.Libās.
And it carries a meaning most people miss
Allah didn’t choose the word libas randomly.
Because a garment is not just something you wear… it is is something that:
stays closest to you
protects you
covers you
and brings you comfort
Ganó el Premio Nobel por descubrir cómo se alimentan las células cancerosas.
Luego descubrió una manera de prevenir el cáncer, la diabetes y la obesidad, pero cuando la reveló, el sistema médico lo destruyó.
Aquí están sus 7 hallazgos ocultos que nunca debes descubrir: 🧵
Un premio Nobel ocultó sus hallazgos porque su teoría no encajaba con el modelo de negocio farmacéutico.
Esto es lo que no querían que supieras...
En 1931, Warburg ganó el Premio Nobel de Medicina por identificar la causa principal del cáncer.
Demostró que las células cancerosas cambian de la energía basada en el oxígeno (respiración) a la fermentación del azúcar incluso en presencia de oxígeno.
Esto se conoce actualmente como el Efecto Warburg.
Gedanken zur Tageslosung für Sonntag, den 17.05.2026
Losungswort
HERR, du hast mich heraufgeholt aus dem Totenreich, zum Leben mich zurückgerufen von denen, die hinab zur Grube fuhren.
Psalm 30,4
Lehrtext
Jesus rief mit lauter Stimme: Lazarus, komm heraus! Und
der Verstorbene kam heraus, gebunden mit Grabtüchern an Füßen und Händen, und sein Gesicht war verhüllt mit einem Schweißtuch.
Johannes 11,43-44
Die Losungen der Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
Die Bedeutung der Auferstehung
Wie verstehen wir die heutigen Bibelverse? Nun, das
Losungswort kann man so verstehen, dass David, der Schreiber, nicht wirklich tot, sondern knapp dem Tod entronnen war. Man kann dieses Wort aber auch prophetisch auf Jesus Christus beziehen. Das tat z.B. Petrus in Bezug auf ein ähnliches Wort. In seiner
#Punjab
#FactCheck
پنجاب کی تقسیم در تقسیم در تقسیم کی تاریخ
ھندوستان کی سب سےبڑی ریاست__پنجاب
مہابھارت اور رامائن کی تحریوں کاعنوان 7 دریاؤں کاخطہ "سپت سندھو"__پنجاب
1901میں 4لاکھ مربع کلومیٹر وسیع اورآج کم ھوتےھوتے صرف 50،000کلومیٹر پرمشتمل__پنجاب
اپنے اصل رقبے کا صرف %12بچاھے۔
مہاراجا رنجیت سنگھ کے دور میں پنجاب کی سرحدیں بہت پھیل چکی تھیں مگر 1849 میں سکھ سلطنت کے زوال کےبعد جب متحدہ پنجاب برطانوی راج میں شامل ھوتاھے تو رقبے اور آبادی کے لحاظ سے دیگر ریاستوں سےکئی گنابڑی ریاست تھا۔
1901 میں دریائے سندھ کے مغربی علاقے جیسے کوہاٹ، بنوں، ڈیرہ اسماعیل خان
کو پنجاب سے الگ کرکے لارڈ کرزن کی وائسرائے شپ میں ان کا مشترکہ دارالخلافہ پشاور بنا دیا گیا اور انہیں شمال مغربی سرحدی صوبہ (North-West Frontier Province) کا نام دے دیا گیا جسکی بری وجہ پشتون قبائل کی بغاوت اور افغانستان کے ساتھ ایک "Buffer zone" کی حیثیت تھی۔ اسکے بعد پنجاب کی 5
R.I.P. empty pipelines.
Claude can now automate Alex Hormozi's '100 Rule' for relentless lead generation.
Here are 5 prompts to execute a marketing engine that guarantees daily booked calls for your $25k offer:
1. The 100 Rule Action Plan
"Break down Alex Hormozi's 100 Rule (100 outreach + 100 min content + $100 ads) for my specific business. Give me a daily checklist of exactly what to do, who to message, and what to post to book calls for my $25k offer. Niche: [paste]."
2. The Cold DM Framework
"Write a 3-step Direct Message sequence to send to my ideal clients. Use Hormozi's 'Give, Give, Ask' framework. The goal is to get a reply, not to pitch the $25k offer immediately. Target audience: [paste]."
(Ist Abtreibung ein Götzenopfer?)
TODESSTRAFE FÜR KINDEROPFER ZU EHREN DES GÖTZEN MOLOCH
„Und der HERR redete mit Mose und sprach: Sage zu den Israeliten: Wer unter den Israeliten oder dentwr360.org/programs/view/…
Fremdlingen in Israel eins seiner Kinder dem Moloch gibt, der soll des Todes sterben; das Volk des
Landes soll ihn steinigen“ (3 Mose 20,1-2).
Etwas dem Moloch zu geben, bedeutet im heutigen Sprachgebrauch: etwas einer alles verschlingenden
Macht zu überlassen. Manchmal ist das auch eher spaßig gemeint, so nach dem Motto: „Bevor ich
meine Steuern bezahle, überlasse ich mein hart verdientes Geld lieber dem Moloch.“ Manchmal wird
auch das Geld an sich als Moloch bezeichnet. Doch der
Most people think $VELO is just another cross-border payment token competing with XRP.
They have not done the research.
Behind this protocol sits one of the most powerful corporate dynasties in all of Asia. A family empire worth tens of billions. 70,000+ retail locations. 48 million mobile customers. Banking alliances forged through literal marriage.
This is Vol. 1 of the VELO Bible Series. The Dynasty. 🧵🐲
Start with the Chairman of VELO Labs, Chatchaval Jiaravanon.
Third generation of the Chearavanont family. The family that built the Charoen Pokphand Group (CP Group) from a small seed shop in Bangkok's Chinatown in 1921 into one of the most powerful conglomerates in all of Asia.
Today CP Group generates $82 billion in annual revenue across 452,800 employees globally. Agriculture, food, retail, telecommunications, real estate, fintech, and media. Every single sector involves cross-border payments. Every single one benefits directly from VELO infrastructure.
This is not a celebrity endorsement. This is the controlling family.
Let me give you the CP Group scale properly, because most people cannot comprehend it.
15,245+ 7-Eleven locations in Thailand alone through CP All. 20,000+ in Japan through Seven Bank partnerships. 70,000+ total stores globally.
True Corporation, owned by the family, runs 48.8 million mobile customers in Thailand.
CP Foods generates $17 billion annually with supply chain payments flowing across 21 countries.
Chatchaval purchased Fortune Magazine for $150 million in 2018, the same year VELO was founded. He is not a passive figurehead. He is an active capital deployer who identified financial infrastructure as the next major disruption and moved first.
1/9 A lot of people dismiss this, but statin-related muscle and tendon damage is well documented.
Statins block the mevalonate pathway - not just cholesterol production, but pathways essential for muscle-cell energy, repair, and recovery. /2
2/9 The result can be muscle pain, weakness, stiffness, cramps, loss of endurance, and delayed healing.
There is also published evidence linking statins to tendon disorders, including rotator cuff injury (shoulder), Achilles tendon damage, tendonitis, and even tendon rupture. /3
3/9 These issues are especially common in highly active people because they place greater stress on already compromised muscle and connective tissue.
Intense endurance exercise and statins are a very bad combination.
/4
Full thread below 🧵on why the Indiana Fever are a deeply unserious organization. From the FO to coaching staff and media coverage, the Fever are not ready for primetime
They have a generation superstar, men’s or women’s sports, and are absolutely just fumbling so hard
#WNBA
Caitlin Clark is global box office & women’s basketball has never seen a player like her before
She has playmaking like LeBron, passes like Magic Johnson, has range like Steph Curry, and has the mentality like Kobe Bryant
She’s 1/1 and will go down as a transformational athlete
The Fever have been awful for so many years and knew for months they had the #1 overall pick when CC declared and yet in Year 3, they’re still completely unprepared
Going from Lin Dunn to Amber Cox is deeply unserious from a basketball perspective
🧵THREAD: How Nazi Germany, not the Soviet Union, committed the Katyn Massacre in 1941.
In 1943, Nazi Germany claimed to have uncovered thousands of corpses of Polish officers near the town of Smolensk, and consequently blamed those deaths on the Soviet Union. In 1944, the Soviet Union released their own report, blaming those deaths on the Germans.
We will demonstrate the evidence, and how it conclusively proves that the Germans were guilty.
Additionally, we will go over some common talking-points used by the pro-Goebbels camp, and analyze them meticulously.
The conclusion, therefore, is inescapable - Nazi Germany murdered those Poles in late 1941, and then cynically blamed the Soviet Union for their own crimes.
POINT #1: THE KATYN GRAVES CONTAINED GERMAN AMMUNITION
"Außerhalb der Gräber wurden eine Anzahl beschossener Pistolenhülsen mit dem Bodenaufdruck „Geco DD 7.65" gefunden" (35)
'Outside the graves, a number of spent pistol casings bearing the base stamp "Geco DD 7.65" were found.'
"Die Hülsenböden weisen übereinstimmend die Prägung „Geco 7,65 D" auf" (74)
'The case heads consistently bear the stamping "Geco 7.65 D.'
GECO 7.65mm ammunition was manufactured by Genschow & Co, in Durlach, Germany.
This fact is uncontested by just about everybody. Obviously, the fact that there are German bullets in the graves suggest German guilt.
The responses to this damaging fact often fall in these counterarguments:
#1: The USSR captured German ammunition
The most common response is that the USSR could have, at some point, obtained GECO 7.65mm ammunition by capturing it from Poland, the Baltic States, or through pre-war trade with Germany, and then the NKVD pooled this together for the executions.
Genschow (the manufacturer of the 7.65mm GECO ammunition) testifies at Madden:
Mr. Flood: What do you consider a small shipment in the number of units ?
Mr. Genschow. We did not export more than two or three thousand rounds to Soviet Russia after 1928, but to the Baltic States, to my recollection, we exported approximately 50,000 rounds to each of the three. (archive.org/stream/katynfo…)
Inquiring as to the amount sold before 1928 is generally useless. It's well-known that casings don't really have a serviceable shelf-life beyond a decade. Inquiring as to whether the Soviets could have stolen them from the Baltics & Poland is also useless, as the Baltics were not annexed until July 1940 (after the 'execution' date), and Genschow says that he did not sell them to Poland.
Genschow says asmuch:
Mr. Flood: Can you keep 7.65 pistol ammunition for any length of time if it is properly cared for?
Mr. Genschow. If you store it properly and if the cartridges remain in their original packings, you can safely store it for 10 to 20 years.
On Poland:
Mr. Flood: Did you ever export any pistol ammunition to Poland ?
Mr. Genschow. We did not export any pistol ammunition to Poland during the time under review because conditions for such exports were not advantageous. We did, however, export shells and bullets separately to that country; which however, were marked differently so as to distinguish them from our original make which we used to export.
Mr. Flood: Did you ever export any 7.65 pistol ammunition to Poland from 1933 up to 1940 ?
Mr Genschow. I do not recollect. I do not think that we did it.
Mr. Flood: What about from 1923 to 1940 ?
Mr. Genschow. It may be, but I do not recollect that because we had to stop our exports of ammunition to Poland all of a sudden owing to new customs regulations having come into force in Poland. But I do not recollect the year when that happened.
The thing here is that this counter-argument is forcing us into an assumption after another assumption, that there's some narrow chance and possibility of enough shells being the USSR at the time, which could have been acquired through these countries and merely happened into this situation. But the simplest and logical explanation here is that German soldiers would always have German bullets.
Further, the Soviets simply had no need to specifically use GECO 7.65mm ammunition, unless they had somehow pre-empted the Nazis discovering the graves in spring 1940 (no evidence for this btw). Even if the Soviets somehow had enough GECO 7.65mm ammunition, the logistical hassle it would take to transport it from a multitude of facilities to have the requisite number to Smolensk would make it thus disadvantageous.
The USSR produced a millions of rounds of 7.65mm ammunition domestically. The October 22nd, 1932 report of the head of the Patrubvzryv association on production fulfillment at Factory no. 3 in Ulyanovsk ordered 4.2 million 7.65mm caliber rounds, and 10.3 million 6.35 caliber rounds (sources: ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0… , oboron-prom.ru/page,16,predpr…). The two calibers had been on official Russian military inventory since 1907 (ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/7%2C65_%C…), and carried Soviet index numbers (meaning that they were placed in military stockpiles and not available commercially) (nastavleniya.ru/PSO/pso8.html)
If the NKVD wanted to shoot these officers with 7.65mm Browning caliber ammunition in spring 1940, it had tens of millions of domestically produced Soviet rounds ready to be used, and had little operational or logistical reason to use GECO cartridges. The use of GECO ammunition by the NKVD would be completely unreasonable, over functionally identical domestic product available in higher quantities.
Further, the evidentiary case for GECO ammunition is further weakened when you examine what the Germans posted themselves.
Look back to earlier in this post. Why did the germans document GECO 7.65 DD, but then GECO 7,65 D? These are obviously not the same marking.
According to the headstamp diagram submitted by Genschow to German investigation, the 'bis 1931' design (used 1922-1931) bears "GECO" with two 'D's flanking it. The 'ab 1932' design bears GECO 7.65 with no 'D' at all. A single-D variant matches none of the three documented Genschow designs.
This inconsistency was never resolved because the AM report never included a photograph of any headstamp, which would tell us when the bullets were dated (Wow!). AM picture 34 gives us photographs of both projectiles and spent casings, but every casing is oriented from the side, thus making the headstamp invisible.
How could any German investigator have made this error if there were thousands of such shells lying in the graves?
At Madden Genschow said:
The cartridges of the shells of this pistol ammunition carried, since the year 1933–34, the word 'Geco' on the bottom of the shell, and underneath the 'Geco' was '7.65'.
Counter-argument #2 The NKVD used Walther PP/PPK, which required German ammunition
Another related argument is that the use of Walthers by the NKVD simply necessitated the use of German ammunition, so the GECO casings are consistent with NKVD use of German firearms.
Most of these claims can be traced back to the testimony of Dmitry Tokarev, the former head of the Kalinin NKVD directorate, claiming to Russian investigators in the 1990's saying that the Tver executions were carried out with Walther pistols brought 'in a suitcase' by the NKVD's chief executioner, Vasily Blohkin (neither of whom were at Katyn).
The reasoning here is that because the Walther pistols were the NKVD's 'weapon of choice', therefore it explains why German casings were found at Katyn & Mednoye.
In Tokarev's testimony:
'Yablokov: Dmitry Stepanovich, what weapons did you and other NKVD officers carry?
Tokarev: My service weapon was a TT pistol. I did, however, have a small German Walther pocket pistol. When Blokhin, Sinegubov, and Krivenko arrived, they brought a whole suitcase of pistols with them. It turns out pistols wear out quickly from firing. So they brought a suitcase of pistols.
Yablokov: What kind of pistols did you bring?
Tokarev: Walther pistols.
Yablokov: "Walter"?
Tokarev: "Walters." I think they were "Walters."
Yablokov: There were "Walters," but there were no others?
Tokarev: I don't remember. Maybe there were others.
Yablokov: What kind of cartridges are used for these pistols?
Tokarev: Well, the Walther is a well-known pistol – the Walther No. 2 – but I don't know what caliber it was. I'm afraid to say now, but I knew it once.'
Yablokov: As far as I understand you, Polish prisoners of war were shot with Walthers, right?
Tokarev: From the Walters.
Yablokov: From the Walters?
Tokarev: From the Walthers. I know this well, because they brought a suitcase with Walthers.
Yablokov: And from your commandant’s office, the drivers, did they shoot from this thing they brought?
Tokarev: From what was brought in, yes. Blokhin himself supervised this, handing out pistols when the "work"—in quotes, "work"—ended. The pistols were taken away, and Blokhin himself locked them up.'
Obvious problem: The Walther No. 2 is the wrong weapon. The Walther No. 2 uses 6.35x15mm which is a completely different caliber from the 7.65mm GECO casings. The Walther No. 2 is not a combat weapon, and by 1940 it was over thirty years old and many generations of Walther development behind. In what universe does the NKVD use a tiny civillian pocket pistol to carry out mass executions and had to be kept a top secret & completed as efficiently as possible?
Further, Soviet ammo fit the Walther PP/PPK anyway. The Walther PP and PPK in 1940 used the 7.65x17mm Browning cartridge, which was standard for many European pistols of that era. The casings of these cartridges are what were found in the Katyn Forest. This cartridge was widely used in the Soviet Union. Soviet-made 7.65x17mm Browning cartridges, produced before the war, are compatible with the Walther PP and PPK as they meet the necessary dimensional and energetic specifications.
So even if we did accept the fact that the NKVD was using Walther PP or PPK pistols, there's still little reason to use German-brand GECO cartridges, because the Soviets already manufactured the same caliber. See above for production. So, the presence of GECO cartridges still remains unexplained.
Immediately after Tokarev says that Soviet cartridges 'didnt fit' the Walthers, Yablokov asks:
Yablokov: And what about cartridges from the firm 'GECO'?
Tokarev: What?
Yablokov: 'GEKO,' 'GEKO.'
Tokaryev: I don't know, I can't say.
Self-explanatory.
Further, the 'suitcase of pistols' makes no sense either. Tokarev says that Blokhin brought a whole suitcase of Walthers because the 'pistols wear out quickly from shooting'.
This goes back to a popular counter-argument that the NKVD simply had to use Walther pistols because they 'overheated', and could therefore never use their own nagants. Of course, Tokarev never said that Soviet-produced pistols overheated at all. That claim traces back to historian Inessa Yazhborovskaya in a 2009 Echo of Moscow interview, where she claimed that the NKVD's 'own pistols overheated'. That is, this claim is entirely invented to explain the 'suitcase of Walthers'.
Further, the math simply does not add up.
* The specific heat capacity of steel is about 460 J/kg*C.
* A Nagant revolver weighs about 0.84kg, requiring 386J to raise its temperature by 1 degree Celsius.
* The powder charge in a Nagant round is 0.3 grams. The heat combustion of powder is 3,800 kJ/kg, meaning that 1,140 joules are released per shot.
* Of that, 200 joules goes into the bullet's kinetic energy. The remaining 940 J splits between air concussion and heating the gun in the first place, meaning roughly 470 joules of heat per shot goes into the weapon
* 470 / 386 is 1.2C of heating per shot. Steel dissipates heat at 1C per second in open air.
Thus, at the claim execution pace of 20-30 shots per hour, overheating is physically impossible. You can fire once every three minutes indefinitely without the gun exceeding any safe handling temperature.
And even if overheating were somehow relevant, there would never be a suitcase of Walthers in the first place.
Tokarev: Blokhin himself managed this, distributed the pistols, and when the 'work' — in quotation marks, 'work' — was finished, the pistols were taken back, and Blokhin locked them up himself.
Tokarev describes that Blokhin personally distributed the pistols before each nights "work" and then personally collected them back afterward, but uncleaned. Of course, this is an absurdity.
Additionally, GECO ammunition came 25 rounds per box, so to shoot 6,311 people at Kalinin, you would also need about 300 boxes of cartridges in addition to this 'suitcase of pistols'. Tokarev says nothing about these cartridges and the investigator does not ask it. And the Walther PP and PPK had operational lifespans of about a few thousand rounds, so one would never need a suitcase of them for one operation.
The winter of 1939-1940 was documented as one that was abnormally cold. The standard frost depth for central Russia is about 140cm, and the soil around the mass grave site near Kalinin is loam or heavy sandy loam. Loam retains moisture through capillary action, meaning it freezes solid and deeply. Average temperature in Kalinin in March 1940 was -7.3C. The ground only began thawing in April, when the average was 1.1C.
When the investigator asked Tokarev how the graves were dug:
"When I raised the question of 'how many workers do you need to dig the graves?' — they laughed at me. 'What a naive man! You need an excavator.' Blokhin brought with him two excavator operators. I remember the name of one — Antonov."
When asked where the excavator came from:
"Through Rubanov, Blokhin found one. There, in Kalinin. They delivered it under its own power. To the burial site."
So the excavator was not brought from Moscow, it was sourced locally in Kalinin through the local NKVD administration.
When asked if the digging was indeed done by excavator:
"By excavator."
And the burial method:
"Each time... however many had been shot in each operation, they were dumped together in a heap, in one pit."
Any such excavator produced during this time - one used to dig the graves of these poles - cannot operate in frozen ground. One excavator used, the Komsomollets excavator, is a cable-operated mechanical machine. Unlike modern hydraulic excavators, it cannot press the bucket downward. The bucket fills only from its own weight passing through the bottom of its swing arc. With a meter-thick ice crust over frozen loam, the bucket has no way of penetrating the surface at all.
By the time the ground begins thawing in April, snowmelt means any pit immediately fills with water. Digging waterlogged pits to bury thousands of bodies is an entirely different problem. And using the most generous estimate of just 1 cubic meter of displaced soil per body (a standard grave is actually 4 cubic meters), burying 6,311 people requires moving 12,600 cubic meters of earth, digging out and then backfilling. A modern 80-horsepower excavator achieves about 200 cubic meters per shift. Thus, requiring 63 full working shifts even for a modern machine in summer soil. The Komsomollets had about a 32-horsepower engine and would achieve far less.
And, the Komsomollets had no bulldozer attachment. Backfilling on a pit on a cable excavator is mechanically harder than merely digging it out. The machine cannot push soil forward with its arm, it can only release the traction cable and let the arm swing back passively; therefore, to backfill properly would require repositioning the arm into 'straight shovel' mode, which on the Komsomollets means completely swapping the entire attachment, also requiring a crane and several hours of downtime. If this was done twice a day (dig in morning, fill at night), the time lost to even reconfigure it makes physically impossible.
BTW, according to Tokarev, all of this was done in a month in frozen ground.
"Yablokov: And approximately how long did it take? A month? Two? Three?
Tokaryev: No. It's... yes, about a month, probably. Yablokov: About a month.
Tokaryev: About a month."
Done only at night
"Yablokov: And roughly how many per night? They shot only at night?
Tokaryev: Only at night."
Wow!
Further:
Tokarev: It was on the very first day. So we went, and I saw the whole horrific scene. We arrived there
a few minutes later. Blokhin put on his protective gear.
Yablakov: What kind of gear?
Tokarev: A brown leather cap, a long brown leather apron, and brown leather gloves with cuffs reaching above the elbows. And it made a terrible impression on me. I saw the executioner
Tokarev said that Vasily Blohkin was wearing 'special clothing' during the shooting. Among other things, 'brown leather gloves with cuffs reaching above the elbows'. Such gloves with cuffs were indeed in use at the time - they were absolutely massive, heavy gloves for pilots. Now imagine having to fire a pistol for several hours straight WHILE wearing gloves with cuffs like those used in driving or aviation. You probably would not even be able to grip it properly. Not to mention, how feasible or comfortable it would be to slip a gloved finger under the trigger guard of a pistol so small that it fits entirely in the palm of your hand.
POINT #2: POLES 'EXECUTED' WERE SHOWN TO BE ALIVE IN 1941. WHERE DID THE POLES GO?
This is important, because, according to the 'NKVD-did-it' theory, the Poles are presumed to be shot in spring 1940. Meanwhile, the Soviets allege that the Nazis committed these massacres in autumn 1941. Therefore, any documents found on the bodies after April-May 1940 would mean that the Soviets are innocent, and the Germans did it.
For many years, Nazi denialists - the proponents of the 'blameless' Nazi theory - have been whining, that we cannot produce a single document that would prove that the Polish officers were alive after this point. Here, we will show two. These documents are being published for the first time.
But on Katyn: Katyn was the site of the only mass grave of Polish prisoners of war ever discovered. These people are capriciously demanding to see documents form those camps the Soviets say they were in after 1940 (Camps 1-ON, 2-ON, and 3-ON). The Soviets say that the Poles were not evacuated in time and were captured by the Germans, and then executed.
Each camp MUST have left behind a huge number of documents, they say! This is the 'expert' assertion of anyone whos arguing with you on Katyn. But the answer is: no, not necessarily.
Not everything is kept in archives forever, as documents undergo an assessment of their value. Some will be permanently stored, and some temporarily and destroyed after expiration. The camp documentation itself, is divided into accounting and economic.
Economic documentation - invoices, acceptance certificates and write-offs of property and materials, warehouse documents, applications, orders, correspondence on logistics, repair documents, product distribution records, etc. - even if preserved, they could have a temporary storage period and be destroyed.
As for the accounting documentation, demanding to see it for camps located in an area that was swept by war TWICE is absurd. Specifically, the Smolensk archive was captured by the Germans in 1941 and then taken to Vilnius in 1943 (part of the archive somehow ended up in the US).
The volume of documentation taken out of Smolensk by the Nazis was even measured in train cars (archives.gov/publications/p…).
Attached above also shows that, in the context of the emerging Cold War, the US had no desire to return these documents to the USSR.
Thus, any surviving material is fragmentary and incomplete. These documents are currently stored in ГАНИСО. The website states that the archive was created on the basis of the former party archive of the Smolensk Regional Committee of the CPSU.
And, again, the demand to present documents of either types of these camps, located on the territory where war operations took place twice, is frankly just a weak method.
However, I was able to obtain some first-time scans of documents from the RGVA. I have attached them here.
DOCUMENT #1 (attached as image #1), OPERATIONAL REPORT No. 12 for June 1941 (Dated July 5, 1941):
2. До начала военных действий на Маткожненское строительство (район 4-й роты) продолжали прибывать партии заключенных, среди которых имелись бывшие польские офицеры. 3. Сейчас со всех лагерных пунктов окружающих канал собираются к/р элементы из з/к и партиями конвоируются на Пудож и далее на северо-восток по направлению на Архангельск.
Translation:
2. Before the outbreak of hostilities, groups of prisoners- including former Polish officers - continued to arrive at the Matkozhnensk construction site (the 4th Company’s sector). 3. Currently, prisoners are being gathered from all camp sites surrounding the canal and escorted in groups to Pudozh and then northeast toward Arkhangelsk.
This file is located at РГВА, ф. 38291, оп. 1, д. 8, л. 94
DOCUMENT #2 (image 2), REPORT on the performance of the 155th regiment of the NKVD troops for the protection of the White Sea-Baltic Canal named after Comrade Stalin for the first half of 1941, dated July 9th, 1941, No. 00484:
1. На участке 1 и 2 роты в январе месяце с/г. прибыло несколько этапов з/к в лагерь около 2-го шлюза, один из этапов был с з/к западных областей Белорусской и Украинской ССР исключительно бывшие полицейские (…)
Translation:
1. In January of this year, several convoys of prisoners arrived at the camp near the 2nd lock in the area of the 1st and 2nd Companies; one of the convoys consisted of prisoners from the western regions of the Byelorussian and Ukrainian SSRs, all of whom were former police officers (…)
These 'former police officers' from the western regions of the Belorussian and Ukrainian SSRS are the same officers and gendarmes from the Ostashkov camp who were allegedly shot in a small room of the Kalinin NKVD and then buried near the village of Yamok (near Mednoye)
Found in РГВА, ф.38291, оп.1, д.8, л.99.
And when other people start arguing with you that these were somehow the 'wrong Poles', ask them to show you a document that 100% proves that these were the wrong Poles who were sent to the Matkozhenskoye construction site near the White Sea Canal in 1941 (NOT to Sevzheldorlag or Ponoy, as they are different construction sites). Specifically to the Matkozhenskoye site.
These documents were never published along with the Burdenko Commission. This is great evidence that the Poles in question were exactly where the Soviets said they were at, and that the supposed 'mythical' camps: 1-ON, 2-ON, and 3-ON did exist. Meaning, those documents found from the Burdenko commission (attached below) showing that there were documents on the Poles dated 1941, cannot be credibly attacked on the basis of "well, the supposed camps didnt exist, therefore making the document a fake"
So where were these camps? To quote Shved in Тайна катыни:
"Polish officer prisoners of war, who were sentenced in the spring of 1940 by the decisions of the Special Conference under the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR to terms of 3 to 8 years in correctional labor camps under a simplified legal procedure provided for by the decision of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) No. P13/144-OP of March 5, 1940, were held in the following three camp divisions of Vyazemlag from the beginning of April 1940:
Kuprin ABR No. 10 (in 1940 - Kuprin ABR No. 9), also known as "Special Purpose Camp No. 1-ON" or "Tishinsky Camp");
Smolensk Special Purpose Camp No. 9 (in 1940, Smolensk Special Purpose Camp No. 10), also known as "Special Purpose Camp No. 2-ON" or "Katyn Camp";
Krasninsky Special Purpose Camp No. 11 (in 1940, Krasninsky Special Purpose Camp No. 8), also known as "Special Purpose Camp No. 3" or "Krasninsky Camp".
Documented data on the location of these three camp divisions of Vyazemlag are as follows [dates from declassified documents discovered to date that mention the names of the heads of these three Special Purpose Camps are in square brackets]: Kuprinsky Special Purpose Camp (Camp No. 1-ON) Location of the Special Purpose Camp headquarters: Tishino village, Smolensk district, Smolensk region. Name of the construction materials supply station: Kuprino station, Gnezdovo station Section of the Moscow-Minsk highway under construction, assigned to the ABR - 392-434 km Location of the residential area of the prisoner camp - Tishino village
Number of Polish prisoners as of June 26, 1941 - 2,932 people"
Further:
"Nevertheless, the question arises: why, despite the assertions of Merkulov and Kruglov, are these ON camps not mentioned in any discovered NKVD document? Unfortunately, for now we have to answer this question with a question: why, after more than 60 years, is all information about the camps, encrypted under the names of Kuprinsky, Smolensky and Krasninsky ABR Vyazemsky camp of the NKVD of the USSR, contained in the archives of the Russian Federation, strictly classified?"
Not much else needs to be said.
THE STALIN MANCHURIA STORY
In June 1941, the USSR and the Polish government in exile signed an agreement (Sikorski-Mayski Pact), and a Polish army under Wladyslaw Anders began forming on Soviet soil. But the problem of where exactly these tens of thousands of officers from those three camps (Kozelsk, Ostashkov, and Starobelsk), were nowhere to be found. On December 3rd, 1941, the Polish PM Sikorski, Anders, and Ambassador Kot met Stalin in the Kremlin. It is from this meeting that the infamous 'Manchuria story' originates.
In his memoirs, Anders describes the scene dramatically. The Polish side presents Stalin with a list of 4,000 officers and asks where they are, but Stalin replied that they had 'escaped to Manchuria' and 'laughed like a demon'. Then it was presented to the U.S. Madden Commission in 1952.
However, the actual Soviet transcript says something entirely different. And we then discover that in this conversation, the Polish reps dont actually mention any officers. They ask about the Polish POW's in general, and do not mention' thousands of officers'. On the contrary, they say that they dont know the exact number, nor do they mention any specific camps.
Stalin says that *perhaps* SOME fled 'somewhere' before liberation, for example, to Manchuria - in other words, Stalin is only talking about a few Poles and not thousands.
Before meeting with Sikorski, Lavrentiy Beria prepared a report for Stalin, dated November 30 1941, No. 2939/b, 'О настроениях в польской армии на территории СССР' (On the mood within the Polish Army on Soviet territory), stating:
"Андерс также проявляет недовольство тем, что, по сведениям поляков, большое количество польских офицеров, среди которых есть лично известные Андерсу, не освобождены из мест заключения. Поляки провели списочный учет офицеров, которые содержались в лагерях и тюрьмах, и Андерс представил нам список на 239 человек."
Translation:
"Anders also expresses dissatisfaction with the fact that, according to Polish sources, a large number of Polish officers - some of whom Anders knows personally - have not been released from detention. The Poles compiled a list of officers held in camps and prisons, and Anders provided us with a list of 239 people."
Podtserob was a Soviet diplomat at the time. He was also Molotov's assistant, and it is his name that appears at the bottom of the transcript. The Polish version of the conversation appears from Anders's memoirs. Here is what he wrote:
"The conversation with Stalin took place on December 3, 1941. Present were General Sikorski, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR Stalin, Polish Ambassador Kot, Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov, Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces in the USSR General Anders, and Molotov's secretary, who acted as translator. In reality, I acted as translator, taking down the minutes of the conversation along with Ambassador Kot. I am presenting the content of the conversation according to the minutes we compiled and reviewed by General Sikorski, as, despite our efforts, we did not receive the minutes compiled by the Soviet side."
Of course, this statement doesnt stand up to scrutiny. Acting as a simultaneous interpreter, translating a conversation involving several people, and at the same time taking a transcript is literally impossible. And if you compare the transcript of the conversation with what Anders wrote in his memoirs, you'll discover that his transcript is ridden with details simply not found in the transcript.
He was simultaneously interpreting the conversation of several people, and also recording it, and in greater detail than Podtserob, who transcribed it but didn't participate in the conversation and didn't translate anything. His job was simply to record, but Anders did a better job. Wow. A true hero.
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS CONFIRM POLES ALIVE IN 1941
Sergey Strygin, author of the site Правда о Катыни, found a translation of a statement by Polish citizen Waclaw Pych (Pykh), dated 1953, in the Russian foreign policy archives, and was addressed to the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party. This person is a soldier who crossed into Soviet territory after the German attack and defeat of the Polish army. In a labor camp, he was promoted for his good work, and then the NKVD officers recruited him for propaganda work among the Poles.
"Я организовывал лагеря на основе самоуправления, полностью обеспечивая их необходимыми пунктами обслуживания такими как магазины, мастерские, госпитали, читальни и т.д. Я организовывал концерты, самодеятельность, спортивные игры и т.д. Серьезная работа проводилась в лагере в Скнилове, строившим военный аэродром, где моя административная и политическая работа требовала большой бдительности и выдержки для того, чтобы из потока взаимных обвинений и доносов выявить действительных врагов коммунизма и вовремя их устранить с важных работ."
Translation:
"I organized self-governing camps, fully equipping them with essential facilities such as stores, workshops, infirmaries, reading rooms, and so on. I organized concerts, amateur performances, sports games, and so on. Serious work was carried out at the camp in Sknilov, which was a military airfield construction site, where my administrative and political duties required great vigilance and composure in order to identify the true enemies of communism from the flood of mutual accusations and denunciations and remove them from important tasks in a timely manner."
Then, as we all know, Germany attacked the USSR, and it was time to evacuate the camp. Pykh writes,
"23/VI-1941 г. наши лагери в составе 4.000 человек направились в глубь СССP. Я был назначен начальником по хозяйству по поручению НКВД. Требовалось сверхчеловеческое усилие и железная воля, чтобы обеспечить продовольствием 4 тысячи людей, не имея ни собственных магазинов, ни транспорта."
Translation:
"On June 23, 1941, our camps, comprising 4,000 people, set out for the interior of the USSR. I was appointed supply officer by order of the NKVD. It took superhuman effort and iron will to provide food for 4,000 people without access to our own stores or transportation."
And so he arrives at one of these camps, where preparations for evacuation are in full swing. However, not everyone plans to participate. Pykh writes:
"Until late at night, arguments, discord and swearing continued among the prisoners, especially among the senior officers. In the morning, I was awakened by the excited shouts of officers, and I saw people pushing their way to the exit. Following them out, I saw that the camp was surrounded by German guards."
Here is concrete evidence, one of many, that the Poles were alive at the time of the German invasion.
He goes on to describe how they were checked against name lists, how they were offered work building bomb shelters and that the best workers were sent home, etc. He also names various Polish surnames, recounts the content of conversations, and reports that they were allowed to write letters and were told to indicate "Headquarters of Labor Battalion No. 537" as the return address. This name was given by the new commandant during the reading of the camp regulations.
Then, he writes, they began to be taken away in groups toward Smolensk, and upon arriving in the Katyn forest, near the "villa," as he called the NKVD dacha, he saw an officer he called Arnes or Arne (in reference to Friedrich Ahrens, who we will get to later.)
He describes being interrogated in a room, and remembers seeing a sofa and a cabinet with bottles of liquor. Writing:
"Нас провели от виллы каких-нибудь 600-800 метров по направлению к вновь выкопанным убежищам, которые находились на расстоянии около 200-220 метров от шоссе. Подойдя к яме, я почувствовал сильный удар в затылок и потерял сознание."
Translation:
"They led us about 600 to 800 meters from the villa toward the newly dug shelters, which were located about 200 to 220 meters from the highway. As I approached the pit, I felt a sharp blow to the back of my head and lost consciousness."
At night, he was wounded, but not fatally. He came to his senses, climbed out of the still unfilled pit with corpses, and then left.
Of course, many Nazi denialists have problems with Pykh and believe his statements lend no merit. Let us examine them:
1) Pych, while in the camp, was an NKVD agent, which he stated directly.
This is particularly strange. First, if Pykh had written this statement at the request or under duress of the authorities, and the fact of his collaboration was somehow criminal, discrediting the statement, then this fact simply wouldn't have appeared in it. If we consider the fact of collaboration with the NKVD to be something incriminating, then this only adds weight to Pykh's statement.
Also, if we cast doubt on any information related to Soviet authorities in this way, then by this logic, Beria's note from Closed packet no. 1 proposing to shoot the Poles is simply a dud, since it was written by the head of that very NKVD.
The fact that Pykh openly writes about his work for the NKVD says absolutely nothing about the authenticity. There's no point in discussing further
2) Pych messed up the dating
Another argument is that Pych's testimony implies that at the end of July, at the latest, all of the prisoners of war in the camp had been executed, and therefore contradicts his testimony given before the Burdenko Commission report, saying the executions happened in September.
But this, too, is strange. Who is saying that all the Poles had already been shot? What? There's no way that this can be inferred from Pych's testimony. He writes there that he was the LAST one taken from the barracks, and he was the last one taken because he simply wasnt on the lists mentioned. He had literally just arrived.
So one can conclude that his barracks neighbors were shot before him, and not necessarily all of them. But there's no evidence to say that all of the Poles were shot. And he was in ONE of the three camps mentioned in the BU report. Surely, not all three at once.
Also, Pych mentions an agreement signed on July 30th between the USSR and the Polish government in exile regarding the invalidation of the Soviet-German treaties signed in 1939 and on the restoration of diplomatic relations (this one: docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/27005…)
July is already over, and all the Poles were still alive. Let us extrapolate further, that they learned about the agreement a day later in August, after which Pych tells how, for some time, they still worked on building bomb shelters, and then were evacuated from camp.
Pych does not mention HOW long they worked on the construction site, or HOW long it took them to be transported, neither does he mention how many executed Poles were in that pit, or whether he understood how many there were, the beginnings of a mass execution, Pych doesnt mention it at all.
So where are these 'July shootings' in Pych's account?
3) The pronunciation error of Friedrich Ahren's surname made it into Pych's statement, proving it was from the BU.
This is just straight tweaker activity. For those that do not know, Nazi denialists are trying to convince me and you that the USSR prosecution suffered some crushing defeat at Nuremberg and that the judges found zero guilt in part of the Germans for Katyn (a lie, btw). The Soviet prosecution alleged that Friedrich Ahrens was the commander of the unit responsible for the killings at Katyn. The Soviet prosecution also messed up his name at Nuremberg. Because they both messed up the names, it is a fabrication. Lol
And all of this is notwithstanding the multitude of testimonies given to the Burdenko Commission, which is freely available. Some of them can be found at these links:
@OttokarHochman @KeyTryer The thing is that people who are most consistently pro-AI art are not so for based iconoclastic reasons but because, they, like legitimately enjoy it aesthetically (think Facebook boomers)
@OttokarHochman @KeyTryer Though this itself produces cool second order iconoclastic effect where various artists are forced to squeal and cringe and suffer as their pretences to some high transcendental artistic vision is debased and exposed as mere mechanical product without higher value
@OttokarHochman @KeyTryer Like literally the reason AI art is so widespread is because certain types of people actually appreciate it for its aesthetic quality completely unironically. What it does is just exposes the actual aesthetic preferences of the masses
Secreto: No sonreír de inmediato al ver a alguien; mirar el rostro de la otra persona y luego dejar que la sonrisa se expanda.
Mecánica: Las sonrisas instantáneas se perciben como un reflejo automático de sumisión social o falsedad.
Impacto: Al retrasarla un segundo, el cerebro del otro interpreta que el gesto es genuino, personalizado y ganado, lo que dispara la simpatía instantánea.
2. Gesticulación lenta
Secreto: Mover las manos y el cuerpo con una cadencia pausada y deliberada.
Mecánica: La velocidad en los movimientos delata picos de cortisol y la necesidad urgente de ser comprendido.
Impacto: La lentitud física proyecta control absoluto sobre el entorno y comodidad. Un lenguaje corporal calmado se asocia subconscientemente con un estatus social elevado.
Percebi um pouco disso na minha ultima sessão, to mastigando culpa desde então mas consciente que sempre estive aberto pra tentar mudar padrões e já tentava fazer isso antes, as vezes infelizmente precisava que fossem esfregados na minha cara, levo isso de lição pra um novo ciclo
Aprendi que meu incômodo é sempre verdadeiro mas não necessariamente vai ser verdade, por isso eu não deveria criar discussões sobre todos os incomodos que sentia mesmo que elas fossem saudáveis
O meu incomodo poderia ser verdadeiro porque era a forma como eu me sentia, a realidade que estava na minha cabeça mas ele não é necessariamente VERDADE, pq tipo dentro de uma relação pode ser só um gatilho interno ativado pelo incomodo e as vezes isso não tem nada a ver com...
Here are some projects US is pushing, working on, or already locked in to counter China.
Idea that this administration is "soft on Xi Jinping" or that "US is in decline" is incredibly misleading
🧵
Middle East / Gulf 1- Stargate UAE (OpenAI, G42, Oracle, Nvidia, SoftBank, Cisco): 1GW Abu Dhabi AI cluster, first 200MW live 2026
Locks G42 into the US AI stack and forecloses Huawei and Alibaba cloud penetration of the Gulf
2- Project Vault (Feb 2): $10B EXIM critical minerals reserve plus 11 bilateral mineral MOUs (Argentina, Cook Islands, Ecuador, Guinea, Morocco, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, UAE, UK, Uzbekistan)
Breaks Beijing’s monopsony on processed rare earths and builds non-Chinese refining capacity
3- Amazon $5B Saudi HUMAIN AI hub; Google Cloud-HUMAIN $10B; Microsoft-G42 $1.5B equity stake
Embeds US hyperscalers as the default compute layer for Saudi industrial policy, displacing Chinese vendors
4- Qatar QIA $500B committed to US data centers, AI, and healthcare; Gulf total $2.5T pledged to US tech
Redirects sovereign wealth flows from Belt and Road and Chinese AI firms into the US
Central Asia / South Caucasus / India
1- TRIPP Implementation Framework (Jan 13): US holds 74% of TRIPP Development Company for 49 years, corridor through Armenia cuts Iran out of Caucasus transit
Gives the US structural control of a Middle Corridor link that BRI needs to reach Europe overland
2- US-Azerbaijan Charter on Strategic Partnership (Vance Baku visit, first since Cheney 2008)
Anchors Baku as a Trans-Caspian hub for non-Chinese energy and logistics flows
3- US-India trade deal (Feb 6): India eliminates tariffs on US industrial goods, retains ag protections; 2.2M tons LPG long-term LNG deal
Pulls India deeper into US supply chains and replaces Russian and Iranian energy with US LNG
4- FORGE launched (Feb 4): 54-nation critical minerals platform, chaired by South Korea, coordinates pricing floors and supply chain investment
Creates a buyers’ cartel against Chinese price manipulation in lithium, cobalt, and rare earths
America cannot lead the AI race without building the power and computing infrastructure AI requires. On that I agree completely. But the piece gets the diagnosis wrong — and a wrong diagnosis produces the wrong cure. 🧵
The Gallup poll it cites shows a majority of Americans oppose data centers near their home, including 63% of Republicans. The real enemies of AI are electric utilities that use data centers to jack up rates and GW+ developers that fail to engage communities.
The electricity price comparison also misses the structural problem. Investor owned utilities don’t make money when you use what we have already paid for more efficiently. They only make money when they invest new money even if they don’t need to.
🚨 We recently discovered that an unauthorized party obtained a token with access to the Grafana Labs GitHub environment, enabling the threat actor to download our codebase. (1/6)
Our investigation has determined that no customer data or personal information was accessed during this incident, and we have found no evidence of impact to customer systems or operations. (2/6)
We immediately initiated forensic analysis and we believe we’ve identified the source of the credential leak.
We have since invalidated the compromised credentials and implemented additional security measures to further secure our environment against unauthorized access. (3/6)
The structure, the tone, the polish. It all gives it away.
6 prompts that fix it:👇
1. The Real Person Rewrite
"You are an editor with a sharp eye for writing that reads as constructed, not spoken. Rewrite this the way someone who actually lived it would say it: a little rougher, more direct. Cut anything that feels rehearsed, overbuilt, or written to sound impressive. Text: [paste]."
2. Thought Flow Fix
"This is not a grammar fix. It is a thinking fix. Rewrite this so the ideas move the way a real mind moves: uneven in places, punchy in others, sometimes slower. Break any pattern where the writing feels too controlled or too evenly paced. Text: [paste]."
Wrong question. The right one: where is it showing up first, and how do you tell signal from noise?
Read three pieces this week. The Economist on labour history. Bloomberg on Korea's AI dividend debate. Reuters on India IT.
One signal jumps out.
The Economist's case: no technology in history has produced sustained mass unemployment. Diffusion is slow. Aggregate OECD employment is at record highs. Industrial Revolution wages stagnated because of food prices and the Corn Laws, not because machines stole labour's share.
Solid history. Wrong altitude.
OECD aggregate employment is a lagging indicator. By the time that chart breaks, the political response is already drafted.
The action is one layer down. Sector. Firm. Function. That is where the signal lives now.
🚨 El Dr. Michael Bruce se considera uno de los expertos en sueño más famosos del mundo.
En su último podcast, que superó millones de visualizaciones, reveló las 6 verdades impactantes más importantes sobre el sueño, los tipos de personas según su horario de sueño y el insomnio.
¡Cosas que el 99% de la gente no sabe...!
1. No vayas al baño a las 3 de la madrugada y el motivo...
Hilo:
Investigaciones clínicas de Bruce encontró que tu cuerpo está diseñado básicamente para reducir la producción de orina durante la noche
Si te despiertas del sueño para orinar, probablemente el problema no está en la vejiga — el problema es que tu sistema nervioso aún está en modo "encendido"
El cuerpo equilibrado duerme de manera continua.
Mientras que el cuerpo desequilibrado, se despierta buscando cualquier causa o problema.
2. La regla de las 8 horas de sueño es solo un mito
La idea de que todas las personas necesitan exactamente 8 horas proviene de investigaciones antiguas en la Universidad de Stanford que se basaban en promedios generales de la población.
Pero en realidad:
El rango de sueño natural varía entre 7 y 9 horas — y esto difiere de persona a persona.
Y lo más importante no es el número de horas en sí, la calidad es el factor decisivo.
Es decir, simplemente:
5 horas de sueño profundo y reparador
son mucho mejores que
8 horas de sueño interrumpido y ligero — cada vez, sin excepción.
🇫🇷 Este sería el motivo de la bofetada a Macron por parte de su esposa.
Un nuevo libro del periodista Florian Tardif reavivó la polémica sobre el incómodo episodio entre Emmanuel y Brigitte Macron en Vietnam, cuando la primera dama abofeteó al presidente. Aquí te contamos.
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En el libro ‘Una pareja (casi) perfecta’, Tardif sostiene que el incidente habría sido provocado por supuestos mensajes intercambiados entre Macron y la actriz iraní Golshifteh Farahani. Según el autor, ambos mantenían una relación descrita como “platónica” desde hacía meses
De acuerdo con las fuentes citadas, algunos mensajes enviados por Macron “fueron bastante lejos”, incluyendo comentarios como “me pareces muy guapa”. El libro sostiene que Brigitte Macron habría leído uno de esos mensajes antes del incidente en el avión
Interview with Gerhard Treppner, veteran of the feared 𐓏𐓏 -Panzer Division 'Totenkopf'
Ulm, Germany, 1990
Thanks for agreeing to meet me Herr Treppner. First I would like to ask, what brought you to the Waffen-SS?
Gerhard: It is quite simple really, Germany was at war and all young, fit men had to serve the nation in some form. I chose to volunteer instead of being drafted and friends had already gone before me. I chose to enlist in the former Waffen-SS and liked communications; I was accepted and then sent to training. The Totenkopf Division took me in and sent me to the radio school at Nuremberg.
From there I was posted to the Panzer regiment of the division and issued the black uniform. It was seen back then as a very elite status, to be in the Panzers was likened to the knights of old. The new steed was the Panzer. I joined the communication battalion and would send orders to the Panzers. I even rode in the command Panzers a few times.
What type of Panzers did the regiment have?
Gerhard: We started off with the Panzer III, then upgraded at the Panzer grounds to the long barrel. Then in 1943 we received the new Tiger which the enemy feared and gave much respect to. Remember I was in the communications battalion; we rode around in our comfortable Opel trucks. I was able to see all the Panzers, like the Panzer I, II, III, IV, and VI. The final was the King Tiger which was a huge monster and put the fear of our weapons into our enemies.
Our problem was we had too few of the better Panzers where our enemies had unlimited supplies. Our regiment would knock out a battalion and three more would be put into the battle line. I saw the aftermath of many of the battles and it is no exaggeration to say we would have a 10-1 kill ratio many of the times. Our Panzer regiment would receive many battle honors and be mentioned in the Wehrmacht reports.
Images: Opel Blitz Funkkraftwagen Sd.Kfz.305/22 – German Radio Truck
Pasados los 40 o 50 años, muchos hombres viven un calvario silencioso: los trastornos de la próstata.
Necesidades urgentes, noches interrumpidas, incomodidad... No es una fatalidad.
La naturaleza tiene una respuesta poderosa. Aquí está la receta ancestral para recuperar su confort.🧵
El Problema
La hiperplasia benigna de próstata no es solo una cuestión de edad. A menudo es la señal de una inflamación que se puede aliviar.
En lugar de esperar a que la situación empeore, volvamos la vista hacia ingredientes con virtudes comprobadas.
Los Ingredientes Clave
Para este remedio, vamos a combinar dos tesoros de la fitoterapia: 1. Las Semillas de Calabaza: Ricas en zinc y fitoesteroles, son las mejores amigas de la próstata.