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Joseph Knoll created the healthiest stimulants of any generation.
1. Deprenyl - The first “longevity drug”.
2. (-)PPAP - Unknown to most, this should replace Adderall/Ritalin in our society.
Let’s go on a journey through schizophrenia and bath salts to show why:🧵
1. Deprenyl - The first “longevity drug”.
2. (-)PPAP - Unknown to most, this should replace Adderall/Ritalin in our society.
Let’s go on a journey through schizophrenia and bath salts to show why:🧵
(-)PPAP is the most interesting stimulant I’ve seen and should replace Adderall.
If you view Adderall as a rising tide of dopamine, PPAP just makes the waves bigger.
This makes PPAP 100% superior for adaptation and learning.
If you view Adderall as a rising tide of dopamine, PPAP just makes the waves bigger.
This makes PPAP 100% superior for adaptation and learning.
Joseph Knoll termed this ‘wave’ analogy “catecholamine activity enhancement”.
With Adderall, dopamine is released constantly.
In contrast, PPAP just releases more dopamine when it would be naturally released.
This means “dopamine dips” are still possible.
With Adderall, dopamine is released constantly.
In contrast, PPAP just releases more dopamine when it would be naturally released.
This means “dopamine dips” are still possible.
The 'head of the snake' are the owners of The Bank of International Settlements 🐍 & because the dollar's collapsing, we get democide (1/6)
"All these policies & democide...[is because] they... are trying to reset [the] currency to something else...likely a digital currency."
In this clip from an interview with Wayne Peters of What's Up Canada? (@WhatsUpCanadian) posted to Rumble on July 2, 2025, retired pharma R&D executive Sasha Latypova (@sasha_latypova) gives a snapshot of who is the proverbial "head of the snake" when it comes to the global crimes that have been committed in the name of Covid.
While many "awake" people are satisfied to stop the buck with Tony Fauci or Bill Gates, Latypova fingers the real prime mover of the crimes against humanity that have been committed in the West since 2020: The Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland. Even more specifically, Latypova notes that the culprits are **whoever owns the Bank of International Settlements.**
For reference, here's Grok's take on the BIS when asked for the 100% factual take on the central bank for central banks given from a "conspiracy theorist's" point of view:
"The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), founded in 1930 and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, is an international financial institution owned by 63 member central banks, representing countries that collectively account for about 95% of global GDP. Its primary role is to promote monetary and financial stability by facilitating cooperation among central banks, acting as a bank for central banks, and conducting research on global economic issues. It hosts meetings, provides banking services like gold and currency transactions, and supports forums like the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, which sets global banking standards.
"Conspiracy theorists often view the BIS as a secretive, unaccountable entity controlling global finance, manipulating economies through its influence over central banks, and advancing a shadowy agenda for a centralized world government—claims rooted in its closed-door operations and historical ties to controversial events like facilitating gold transfers during World War II, though no evidence supports these grandiose assertions."
---------------Partial transcription of clip---------------
"I would agree with the statement that the head of the snake is the Bank of International Settlements, which is not in Geneva, it's in Basel. So that actually is the head of the snake, or rather not the bank itself, but the owners of that bank, who are secret and they may or may not be in Geneva or Basel or even in Switzerland. We don't know.
"And the, and the problem, the problems we are all having and why this is being unleashed on us right now, specifically, like the timing is because the, the dollar is collapsing as the reserve currency internationally. And because of that, because all the governments are deeply in debt to essentially BIS. Where it goes after that, we don't know.
"Then, you know, all these policies and democide and so forth, they essentially are trying to reset that currency to something else. Something else meaning likely the digital currencies or digital tokens from the government, programmable. And so because of that necessity, they need to eliminate a lot of population and you know, transfer everyone into this control grid that they're building."
"All these policies & democide...[is because] they... are trying to reset [the] currency to something else...likely a digital currency."
In this clip from an interview with Wayne Peters of What's Up Canada? (@WhatsUpCanadian) posted to Rumble on July 2, 2025, retired pharma R&D executive Sasha Latypova (@sasha_latypova) gives a snapshot of who is the proverbial "head of the snake" when it comes to the global crimes that have been committed in the name of Covid.
While many "awake" people are satisfied to stop the buck with Tony Fauci or Bill Gates, Latypova fingers the real prime mover of the crimes against humanity that have been committed in the West since 2020: The Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland. Even more specifically, Latypova notes that the culprits are **whoever owns the Bank of International Settlements.**
For reference, here's Grok's take on the BIS when asked for the 100% factual take on the central bank for central banks given from a "conspiracy theorist's" point of view:
"The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), founded in 1930 and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, is an international financial institution owned by 63 member central banks, representing countries that collectively account for about 95% of global GDP. Its primary role is to promote monetary and financial stability by facilitating cooperation among central banks, acting as a bank for central banks, and conducting research on global economic issues. It hosts meetings, provides banking services like gold and currency transactions, and supports forums like the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, which sets global banking standards.
"Conspiracy theorists often view the BIS as a secretive, unaccountable entity controlling global finance, manipulating economies through its influence over central banks, and advancing a shadowy agenda for a centralized world government—claims rooted in its closed-door operations and historical ties to controversial events like facilitating gold transfers during World War II, though no evidence supports these grandiose assertions."
---------------Partial transcription of clip---------------
"I would agree with the statement that the head of the snake is the Bank of International Settlements, which is not in Geneva, it's in Basel. So that actually is the head of the snake, or rather not the bank itself, but the owners of that bank, who are secret and they may or may not be in Geneva or Basel or even in Switzerland. We don't know.
"And the, and the problem, the problems we are all having and why this is being unleashed on us right now, specifically, like the timing is because the, the dollar is collapsing as the reserve currency internationally. And because of that, because all the governments are deeply in debt to essentially BIS. Where it goes after that, we don't know.
"Then, you know, all these policies and democide and so forth, they essentially are trying to reset that currency to something else. Something else meaning likely the digital currencies or digital tokens from the government, programmable. And so because of that necessity, they need to eliminate a lot of population and you know, transfer everyone into this control grid that they're building."
(2/6) Note that H.G. Wells outlined the "Open Conspiracy" for "A New World Order" in 1944, which the BIS owners are now executing on perfectly.
Part of the plan is to have only two banks in the world, the BIS and the World Bank, and to deploy—what amounts to—a digital currency.
From their plans:
"No central bank save the Bank of International Settlement and the World Bank shall be allowed to operate. Private banks will be outlawed. Remuneration for work performed shall be under a uniform predetermined scale throughout the One World Government.
"There shall be no wage disputes allowed, nor any diversion from the standard uniform scales of pay laid down by the One World Government. Those who break the law will be instantly executed. There shall be no cash or coinage in the hands of the non-elite. All transactions shall be carried out by means of a debit card which shall bear the identification number of the holder. Any person who in any way infringes the rules and regulations of the Committee of 300 shall have the use of his or her card suspended for varying times according to the nature and severity of the infringement.
"Such persons will find, when they go to make purchases, that their card is blacklisted and they will not be able to obtain services of any kind. Attempts to trade "old" coins, that is to say silver coins of previous and now defunct nations, shall be treated as a capital crime subject to the death penalty. All such coinage shall be required to be surrendered within a given time along with guns, rifles, explosives and automobiles. Only the elite and One World Government high-ranking functionaries will be allowed private transport, weapons, coinage and automobiles.
Link to full plans: sensereceptornews.com/?p=13996
Part of the plan is to have only two banks in the world, the BIS and the World Bank, and to deploy—what amounts to—a digital currency.
From their plans:
"No central bank save the Bank of International Settlement and the World Bank shall be allowed to operate. Private banks will be outlawed. Remuneration for work performed shall be under a uniform predetermined scale throughout the One World Government.
"There shall be no wage disputes allowed, nor any diversion from the standard uniform scales of pay laid down by the One World Government. Those who break the law will be instantly executed. There shall be no cash or coinage in the hands of the non-elite. All transactions shall be carried out by means of a debit card which shall bear the identification number of the holder. Any person who in any way infringes the rules and regulations of the Committee of 300 shall have the use of his or her card suspended for varying times according to the nature and severity of the infringement.
"Such persons will find, when they go to make purchases, that their card is blacklisted and they will not be able to obtain services of any kind. Attempts to trade "old" coins, that is to say silver coins of previous and now defunct nations, shall be treated as a capital crime subject to the death penalty. All such coinage shall be required to be surrendered within a given time along with guns, rifles, explosives and automobiles. Only the elite and One World Government high-ranking functionaries will be allowed private transport, weapons, coinage and automobiles.
Link to full plans: sensereceptornews.com/?p=13996
(3/6) Katherine Watt further explains how the BIS, "[via] its manipulation of transactions... currencies, and inflation rates, and other things that are controlled by central bankers...[has] a direct... door to the legislatures" of countries like the U.S.
Watt, a writer and paralegal, describes for Jason Bermas how the BIS, which was set up in 1930 and is privately owned (just like all other federal central banks), is able to control legislatures via manipulation of the monetary system.
"[T]hrough its manipulation of transactions, and currencies, and inflation rates, and the other things that are controlled by central bankers, they [the BIS] have a direct... door to the legislatures," Watt says. "Because Congress doesn't set up its own monetary system, it depends on the Federal Reserve in our case and the same thing is true in other countries."
Watt notes that this manipulation mechanism "can go all the way down to... losing your PayPal account, losing your job, if you're a corporation—especially if you're a corporation that has any federal contracts..." She offers as an example corporations losing access to federal contracts in 2021 if they didn't comply with the Biden administration's COVID-injection contractor mandate.
Watt also highlights intergovernmental agreements or IGAs in this context, which are "contracts to get the money packages through things like the CARES Act..." that flow all the way down to the county governance level. Watt notes that "at the beginning [of the COVID era] and going forward it'll be the same: to get the money they [the counties] have to do the programs and follow the instructions that are given to them by the executive branch of the federal government."
Watt also highlights "a big push" starting in the 2000s at the county level "to do joint training exercises between federal military law enforcement and public health officials and state and local law enforcement officers and healthcare workers to train them in the idea that when these public health emergencies are declared, the law enforcement officers are supposed to go around and control populations and get them to behaviorally comply with these orders." The writer/paralegal adds, "the healthcare workers are supposed to be the front-line that administers the weapons calling them medicinal products..."
To fight this money flow's effect on governance, Watt says it's critical to "repeal emergency preparedness plans and make it clear that when the orders come down from the Health and Human Services Secretary through the state health departments to the counties, the county law enforcement officers and the county healthcare workers are not going to carry out the instructions because they understand... the instructions are to kill the population. Or to round them up so they can be killed elsewhere."
Watt, a writer and paralegal, describes for Jason Bermas how the BIS, which was set up in 1930 and is privately owned (just like all other federal central banks), is able to control legislatures via manipulation of the monetary system.
"[T]hrough its manipulation of transactions, and currencies, and inflation rates, and the other things that are controlled by central bankers, they [the BIS] have a direct... door to the legislatures," Watt says. "Because Congress doesn't set up its own monetary system, it depends on the Federal Reserve in our case and the same thing is true in other countries."
Watt notes that this manipulation mechanism "can go all the way down to... losing your PayPal account, losing your job, if you're a corporation—especially if you're a corporation that has any federal contracts..." She offers as an example corporations losing access to federal contracts in 2021 if they didn't comply with the Biden administration's COVID-injection contractor mandate.
Watt also highlights intergovernmental agreements or IGAs in this context, which are "contracts to get the money packages through things like the CARES Act..." that flow all the way down to the county governance level. Watt notes that "at the beginning [of the COVID era] and going forward it'll be the same: to get the money they [the counties] have to do the programs and follow the instructions that are given to them by the executive branch of the federal government."
Watt also highlights "a big push" starting in the 2000s at the county level "to do joint training exercises between federal military law enforcement and public health officials and state and local law enforcement officers and healthcare workers to train them in the idea that when these public health emergencies are declared, the law enforcement officers are supposed to go around and control populations and get them to behaviorally comply with these orders." The writer/paralegal adds, "the healthcare workers are supposed to be the front-line that administers the weapons calling them medicinal products..."
To fight this money flow's effect on governance, Watt says it's critical to "repeal emergency preparedness plans and make it clear that when the orders come down from the Health and Human Services Secretary through the state health departments to the counties, the county law enforcement officers and the county healthcare workers are not going to carry out the instructions because they understand... the instructions are to kill the population. Or to round them up so they can be killed elsewhere."
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ㅤSorak-sorai anak-anak itu seolah menembus cakrawala, membuat suasana lapangan makin ramai. Mereka yang ada di pinggir lapangan ikut bersorak kegirangan, tetapi lebih banyak yang tidak peduli, fokus dengan urusan masing-masing.
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High cortisol is aging you faster than smoking and tanning beds.
Low libido, achy joints, dark circles, weak muscles.
Here are 9 natural ways to slow the clock (without medication):
1. Cold water on your face.
Low libido, achy joints, dark circles, weak muscles.
Here are 9 natural ways to slow the clock (without medication):
1. Cold water on your face.
Because it can activate the vagus nerve and help shift the body out of panic physiology.
It triggers the mammalian diving reflex → increases parasympathetic (vagal) activity and slows your heart rate, which helps interrupt panic attacks.
Cold water also signals GABAergic release, giving you a quick, refreshing, invigorating feeling. It's a sure-fire way to interrupt negative thought loops.
It triggers the mammalian diving reflex → increases parasympathetic (vagal) activity and slows your heart rate, which helps interrupt panic attacks.
Cold water also signals GABAergic release, giving you a quick, refreshing, invigorating feeling. It's a sure-fire way to interrupt negative thought loops.
2. Slow exhales stop the fight-or-flight response-- in seconds.
Long exhales increase respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) and vagal calming. Your entire body relaxes, and visual clarity is restored.
This often increases HRV and shifts autonomic balance away from the fight-or-flight response.
Long exhales increase respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) and vagal calming. Your entire body relaxes, and visual clarity is restored.
This often increases HRV and shifts autonomic balance away from the fight-or-flight response.
Trump v. Slaughter will have major implications for the future of AI regulation. If you want a federal body that can independently assess frontier models and then impose binding consequences - free from political or partisan influence -- that just got a lot harder, if not impossible.
Imagine Congress creates a Frontier AI Commission that can license major training runs, compel evaluations, restrict deployments, order emergency pauses, or impose penalties. Under today’s decision, its leaders could not be protected from presidential removal.
Why? The Court treated substantive rulemaking, investigations, enforcement, civil litigation, and in-house adjudication as executive power. A principal officer wielding those powers must be removable by the President at will.
Who is going to be brave enough to make the first Pro-‘Harrying of the North’ joke or is it still too soon
This account has repeatedly made the point in recent weeks the retreat into Northern-ness makes political sense because it is one of the last still living legacy cultures with any culture cache. This means now that it has to be killed unfortunately- the only way out is through
‘Harrying of the North’ Jokes
A guy bought AirPods Pro 2 in 2023 for one reason: music on the subway.
Three years later he'd worn them roughly 1,800 hours. Played music. Took calls. Sometimes listened to podcasts. Total feature usage: probably 10% of what they could do.
His brother a software engineer at an Apple-focused agency sat next to him on a flight and saw him struggling to hear the safety announcements over his own music.
He finally said: "Take those out for a second. You're using a $250 supercomputer like a $30 pair of earbuds. Apple built 8 features into these that have nothing to do with music. Most owners don't know any of them exist."
12 minutes later, the guy had translated a Spanish menu in real time, taken a hearing test, and silenced his apartment with active hearing protection.
He hasn't bought another set of earbuds since.
Here's everything his brother showed him 🧵
Three years later he'd worn them roughly 1,800 hours. Played music. Took calls. Sometimes listened to podcasts. Total feature usage: probably 10% of what they could do.
His brother a software engineer at an Apple-focused agency sat next to him on a flight and saw him struggling to hear the safety announcements over his own music.
He finally said: "Take those out for a second. You're using a $250 supercomputer like a $30 pair of earbuds. Apple built 8 features into these that have nothing to do with music. Most owners don't know any of them exist."
12 minutes later, the guy had translated a Spanish menu in real time, taken a hearing test, and silenced his apartment with active hearing protection.
He hasn't bought another set of earbuds since.
Here's everything his brother showed him 🧵
1. Live Translation real-time conversation translation, in your ear.
Introduced in iOS 26 for AirPods Pro 2, Pro 3, and AirPods 4 with ANC.
You hold both AirPods stems. Someone speaks Spanish. You hear English in your AirPods within 2 seconds. They speak again. Same flow.
Even better: ANC automatically lowers the other person's voice in your ears so you can focus on the translation.
Works offline once you download language packs. Currently supports English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin coming soon.
This single feature replaces Google Translate, a phrase book, and most translation apps.
Introduced in iOS 26 for AirPods Pro 2, Pro 3, and AirPods 4 with ANC.
You hold both AirPods stems. Someone speaks Spanish. You hear English in your AirPods within 2 seconds. They speak again. Same flow.
Even better: ANC automatically lowers the other person's voice in your ears so you can focus on the translation.
Works offline once you download language packs. Currently supports English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin coming soon.
This single feature replaces Google Translate, a phrase book, and most translation apps.
2. Live Listen turn your iPhone into a remote microphone.
Open Control Center → Hearing icon → Live Listen.
Set your iPhone down on a table. It becomes a microphone that streams audio directly to your AirPods.
Use cases the brother actually uses:
1.Sit in the back of a lecture, leave your phone on the podium, hear every word clearly.
2.Put your phone near a sleeping baby. Walk to the other room. Hear them instantly if they cry.
3.Sit across from someone speaking quietly in a loud restaurant.
Free hearing aid mode for situational moments.
3. Take a clinical-grade hearing test at home.
Settings → AirPods → Hearing Health → Take Hearing Test.
Apple's hearing test is FDA-approved for ages 18+. It takes 5 minutes. You tap when you hear tones at different frequencies. The result is a real audiogram stored in your Health app.
If the test shows mild-to-moderate hearing loss, your AirPods Pro 2 or Pro 3 turn into clinical-grade hearing aids the first FDA-cleared OTC hearing aids built into earbuds.
For reference: OTC hearing aids average $233. AirPods Pro 2 are $249 and do hundreds of other things.
Open Control Center → Hearing icon → Live Listen.
Set your iPhone down on a table. It becomes a microphone that streams audio directly to your AirPods.
Use cases the brother actually uses:
1.Sit in the back of a lecture, leave your phone on the podium, hear every word clearly.
2.Put your phone near a sleeping baby. Walk to the other room. Hear them instantly if they cry.
3.Sit across from someone speaking quietly in a loud restaurant.
Free hearing aid mode for situational moments.
3. Take a clinical-grade hearing test at home.
Settings → AirPods → Hearing Health → Take Hearing Test.
Apple's hearing test is FDA-approved for ages 18+. It takes 5 minutes. You tap when you hear tones at different frequencies. The result is a real audiogram stored in your Health app.
If the test shows mild-to-moderate hearing loss, your AirPods Pro 2 or Pro 3 turn into clinical-grade hearing aids the first FDA-cleared OTC hearing aids built into earbuds.
For reference: OTC hearing aids average $233. AirPods Pro 2 are $249 and do hundreds of other things.
Hello Millete Trial friends! Today, I have a sick babysitter and work happening on the bathroom of my home! I’ll do my best to report from home today anything I find out 🕵🏻♀️
THE PROSECUTION HAS RESTED in the trial of Larry Millete
Other details I’ve picked up: the defense is expected to take one singular day.
Robert Sapolsky es un neurocientífico de Stanford que demostró que el estrés es el asesino silencioso que los médicos ignoran.
Reveló 10 hábitos que haces todos los días y que te quitan años de vida.
1) Repasar conversaciones en tu cabeza
Reveló 10 hábitos que haces todos los días y que te quitan años de vida.
1) Repasar conversaciones en tu cabeza
Las palabras exactas de Sapolsky: «rumiando sobre esa tontería que le dijiste a un profesor hace 15 años».
Tu cerebro no sabe que la conversación no está ocurriendo en este momento.
Desencadena el mismo pico de cortisol que la amenaza original. Notalo. Nómbralo. Redirígelo.
Tu cerebro no sabe que la conversación no está ocurriendo en este momento.
Desencadena el mismo pico de cortisol que la amenaza original. Notalo. Nómbralo. Redirígelo.
2) Preocúpate por escenarios que no han sucedido
La frase emblemática de Sapolsky:
"Una cebra reacciona a un león durante 30 segundos, luego pasta pacíficamente. Un humano se preocupa por un león imaginario durante 30 años"
La frase emblemática de Sapolsky:
"Una cebra reacciona a un león durante 30 segundos, luego pasta pacíficamente. Un humano se preocupa por un león imaginario durante 30 años"
I have just finished reading Justice Clarence Thomas's 91-page dissent in the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down Trump’s birthright citizenship order.
It's incredible.
Here's everything you need to know: 🧵
It's incredible.
Here's everything you need to know: 🧵
A long time ago, the Supreme Court made a ruling that said Black people could never be U.S. citizens, no matter what.
That ruling helped push the country toward the Civil War. After the war, the nation set out to bury the hatchet for good by adding a NEW citizenship rule directly into the Constitution.
Thomas's whole argument starts right here.
He says you can't figure out what the rule MEANS until you remember what problem it was created to SOLVE.
The problem was simple: a group of people who GENUINELY BELONGED to this country were being told they could never be citizens.
The rule was written to guarantee that those people, and people like them, would always be citizens, no matter their race.
It was a PROMISE TO PEOPLE WHO ALREADY BELONGED.
It was not, Thomas argues, designed as an automatic prize for anyone who happens to be born on American soil.
That ruling helped push the country toward the Civil War. After the war, the nation set out to bury the hatchet for good by adding a NEW citizenship rule directly into the Constitution.
Thomas's whole argument starts right here.
He says you can't figure out what the rule MEANS until you remember what problem it was created to SOLVE.
The problem was simple: a group of people who GENUINELY BELONGED to this country were being told they could never be citizens.
The rule was written to guarantee that those people, and people like them, would always be citizens, no matter their race.
It was a PROMISE TO PEOPLE WHO ALREADY BELONGED.
It was not, Thomas argues, designed as an automatic prize for anyone who happens to be born on American soil.
His main point is that there's a difference between someone belonging here and someone just passing through.
Freed slaves, Thomas says, belonged here in every way that mattered.
They had no other country to go back to.
They owed loyalty to no foreign king or government.
America was the ONLY home they had ever had, and they had worked, suffered, and fought for it like everyone else.
Now picture a completely different situation: a baby born to two tourists who are in the country for a two-week vacation.
That family still has a home somewhere else, still belongs to another nation, and will go back to it.
Thomas's point is that these two situations are NOTHING ALIKE, even though both babies were technically born on U.S. soil.
The citizenship rule, he argues, was built for the first kind of person, the one who truly belongs, not for the second.
Freed slaves, Thomas says, belonged here in every way that mattered.
They had no other country to go back to.
They owed loyalty to no foreign king or government.
America was the ONLY home they had ever had, and they had worked, suffered, and fought for it like everyone else.
Now picture a completely different situation: a baby born to two tourists who are in the country for a two-week vacation.
That family still has a home somewhere else, still belongs to another nation, and will go back to it.
Thomas's point is that these two situations are NOTHING ALIKE, even though both babies were technically born on U.S. soil.
The citizenship rule, he argues, was built for the first kind of person, the one who truly belongs, not for the second.
John Roberts made an earnest, scholarly effort to deal with birthright citizenship, but on this eve of July 4th, he found himself saying some staggering things, at odds with the Declaration of Independence and the regime it brought forth. 🧵
For he proclaimed that “citizenship, then [at the Founding] was the right to have rights.” That is nothing less than a heresy, the inversion of the moral premise of this political order. 2/
As the Declaration said, this government was brought forth to secure those rights that flow to us by nature as human beings. We had rights before we formed this government. Our citizenship hinges on our willingness to sustain a government drawing its powers from the “consent of the governed.” 3/
@dog_domain @sigmahamster2 The market for buying has inflated - over the last ten years they have risen been 60 to 97% (depending on all the usual) and the latest census showed a rise in empty houses….and rents have continued to rise
propertyupdate.com.au/house-prices-i…
propertyupdate.com.au/house-prices-i…
@dog_domain @sigmahamster2 With the recent changes to CGT prices are cooling - more evidence of what was driving the market I think.
If you know anything about Serbia you know they will not be supporting Bosnia
This account has previously reported on the Serbian Ultranationalist-occupied White House
You should know that the Trump Administration is one of the last bulwarks against the Bosniak-Albanian Balkan Islamic lobby that is attempting to promote global ‘SNEAKO-dom’. Do you support a global ‘Sneakophate’? If not, support Serbia and America