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Every year, the U.S. gives Israel $3.8B in security assistance.

Critics call it a giveaway. Supporters call it an investment.

So… what’s the ROI? Let’s follow the money, the missiles, and the microchips 🧵

If you want the full write up with far more detail, check out my Substack here: open.substack.com/pub/gbnt1952/p…

Start with trade: U.S. and Israel bilateral trade hit $55.7B in 2024.

That includes $24.2B in U.S. exports, from Boeing jets to Kansas wheat. That’s a whole lot of American jobs and revenue.

Bonus: over 2,500 Israeli founded companies operate in the U.S.

Trump should release all of the Epstein files: every person and every document in the files.

I want this complete release because it will bring justice for the victims.

I want this complete release because it will show that the calls for baseless investigations of me are nothing more than political persecution and slander.

I was never a client of Epstein’s and never had any engagement with him other than fundraising for MIT.

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• Dual Filtration Plasmapheresis/Apheresis Adsorption Therapy
& Stem Cell Growth Factor Treatment

• A hospital-led pathway for long COVID & vaccine injury presentations, pairing DFPA blood purification with cytokine analytics, amyloid detection, live blood analysis, & SHED-derived regenerative growth factor support

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~PATIENT PATHWAY~

• From intake to follow-up, every step has a clinical gate

01. Intake + Records

• Health history, current medications, recent diagnostics, treatment goals, & contraindication review

02. Analytics Panel

• In-depth cytokine panels, live blood analysis, & amyloid detection before treatment sequencing

03. Supervised Session

• Dual filtration plasmapheresis planned in a monitored setting with pre- & post-session observation

04. SHED Regeneration

• SHED-derived growth factor timing, neurological recovery goals, follow-up markers, & provider-directed next steps

1- Dual Filtration Plasmapheresis/Apheresis Adsorption Therapy

•Blood is separated, plasma is filtered, & the cleaned components return to circulation

• DFPA/DFPP is a form of therapeutic apheresis

• Blood is gently circulated outside the body through sterile tubing

• The first filter separates plasma from blood cells

• A second filter then targets larger plasma components before the remaining plasma & blood cells are returned

• Designed to reduce selected inflammatory & immune-related plasma burden

• Planned after contraindication review & vascular access assessment

• Used here as part of a broader long COVID & vaccine injury evaluation pathway

1/ Pourquoi tout le monde vend du Piattella alors que presque personne n’en fait?

Aujourd’hui, on voit du "Piatella" partout.

CBD shops, réseaux sociaux, etc..

Comme avant avec les "3x filtrés", les "Static", les "Amnesia" ou les "Cali".

Le problème : une grande partie de ce qui est vendu sous ce nom n’a plus grand-chose à voir avec le produit original.

Petit point histoire. 👇

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Le Piatella (ou plus exactement Piattella) est né à Barcelone autour de 2019-2020.

Son développement est attribué à Zio, cofondateur de Uncle's Farm, l’un des clubs les plus réputés de la scène solventless européenne.

À l’origine, ce n’est pas un nom marketing.

C’est une méthode de maturation d’un hash extrêmement haut de gamme.

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La base du Piattella :

➡️ Du Fresh Frozen (fleurs congelées juste après récolte)

➡️ Extraction à l’eau glacée (Ice-O-Lator / Bubble Hash)

➡️ Sélection des meilleures fractions de trichomes

➡️ Qualité "Full Melt" quasi parfaite.

On est déjà très loin d’un hash classique.

"At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the U.S. to the Israeli military more than ever before."

Here's the story: 🧵

Buried in the House’s 2027 NDAA is Section 224: the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative," which would dramatically expand U.S.-Israel military cooperation far beyond the current aid model.

We’re talking bilateral R&D, weapons co-production & deep defense-tech integration. It also names emerging technologies like AI, quantum, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber, biotech, and more. In other words: the battlefields of the future.

🧵 For three years, anyone who suggested that American taxpayer money was helping fuel Israel's anti judicial reform protest movement was dismissed as a conspiracy theorist.

Today, the House Judiciary Committee released a memo alleging that a network of U.S. government funded NGOs, major philanthropic foundations, and tax exempt nonprofits collectively moved millions of dollars to organizations involved in organizing anti Netanyahu protests, supporting anti Israel activism, and in some cases funding groups accused of ties to designated terrorist organizations.

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The report claims that Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors received tens of millions of dollars from USAID and the State Department while also funding organizations connected to a broader network that supported anti government protests in Israel.

It alleges that Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Tides provided millions to groups involved in anti Israel activism, BDS campaigns, and organizations linked to groups such as Jewish Voice for Peace, Palestine Legal, Adalah Justice Project, and others.

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The committee also alleges that organizations at the center of Israel's judicial reform protests received substantial funding through American nonprofit channels.

According to the memo, Blue White Future, described as the coalition headquarters of the protest movement, received millions through organizations that themselves received funding from U.S. based nonprofits connected to federal grant recipients.

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1/ Trump was found liable for sexually assaulting E Jean Carroll, defaming her, and now he’s going after her again.

Trump cannot be allowed to use the full weight and power of the US Government to come after women who speak up, or anyone who supports them in doing so.

2/ It’s hard enough for women to come forward and seek justice, let alone do so against the most powerful man on earth.

3/ Trump’s newest accusation of me is absurdly false.

The premise of the investigation would be laughable if the subject matter weren't so serious.

He is investigating me because I supported E Jean's lawsuit –– where a jury found Trump liable for sexually assaulting her, and a court of appeals upheld the decision.

Almost two years ago the Judicial Conference of the United States referred former Judge Joshua Kindred of Alaska for impeachment. Kindred had carried on an affair with an AUSA who was a former clerk and then lied to the CA9 judicial council about it. He resigned in disgrace. 1/9

My boss at the time blasted the Judicial Conference for referring a former officer for impeachment. As you may recall this was a very contentious constitutional question in early 2021. For federal judges to casually opine on that question was problematic, at best. 2/9

There are some differences between Kindred and Judge Ross. Kindred’s AUSA paramour accused him of assault (although the judicial conference didn’t seem to rule on that). The nature of his hostile clerk environment may also have been a little different than Ross’s. 3/9

In 1994, on live BBC television, Michael Ignatieff asked the historian Eric Hobsbawm a direct question: if communism had produced the society it promised, would 20 million deaths have been worth it?

Hobsbawm answered yes.

He kept every honor he had, and collected more. 🧵

Ignatieff gave him the chance to walk it back.

"Even knowing what we know now, you'd still say it was worth it?" Hobsbawm confirmed. The exchange was broadcast, transcribed, and noted in the major obituaries. Nobody has ever claimed it was taken out of context.

Four years later, in 1998, Tony Blair appointed him Companion of Honour, one of the highest civilian distinctions in Britain.

Honorary doctorates, BBC interviews, festschrifts, and front-page reviews in the Guardian and the London Review of Books continued until his death in 2012.

Harvard Business School charges $200K to teach you how to think like a strategist.

I built the same thinking system in one afternoon

Here are the 10 Claude Opus 4.6 prompts behind it:

1/ The Porter's Five Forces Analyzer

You are a Harvard Business School professor who has taught competitive strategy for 20 years. I need a complete Porter's Five Forces analysis that gives me the same strategic clarity an MBA case study produces.

Please provide:

- Threat of new entrants: Capital requirements to enter, economies of scale advantages, brand loyalty barriers, regulatory or licensing hurdles, access to distribution channels, proprietary technology protection, expected retaliation from incumbents, overall entry threat rating (1-10)
- Supplier power: Number of suppliers available, switching costs between suppliers, supplier concentration vs. industry concentration, threat of forward integration by suppliers, importance of volume to each supplier, overall supplier power rating (1-10)
- Buyer power: Buyer concentration and purchase volume, price sensitivity and its drivers, switching costs for buyers, threat of backward integration, information asymmetry between buyer and seller, overall buyer power rating (1-10)
- Threat of substitutes: Availability of substitute products or services, relative price and performance of substitutes, buyer propensity to switch, switching costs to substitutes, overall substitution threat rating (1-10)
- Competitive rivalry: Number and relative size of competitors, industry growth rate, product differentiation, fixed cost structure and exit barriers, diversity of competitor strategies, overall rivalry intensity rating (1-10)
- Industry attractiveness score: Weighted composite score across all five forces with interpretation
- Strategic implications: For each force, the one action a company in this industry should take to improve its position
- Dominant force identification: Which single force most determines profitability in this industry and why
- Positioning recommendation: Where in this industry structure would I build the most defensible, profitable position

Format as a strategy consulting deliverable with force ratings, evidence for each rating, and ranked strategic recommendations.

Industry or business: [DESCRIBE YOUR INDUSTRY OR COMPANY]
My position in the market: [WHERE YOU SIT IN THE VALUE CHAIN]

2/ The Blue Ocean Strategy Builder

You are a strategy consultant trained in Blue Ocean Strategy methodology. I need to find uncontested market space where competition becomes irrelevant rather than fighting harder in existing markets.

Please provide:

- Current red ocean assessment: Where is my industry competing intensely right now, what are the standard battlegrounds everyone fights on
- Strategy canvas: Map the current industry on 8-10 competing factors, show where all players converge on the same profile
- Four actions framework:
→ Eliminate: Which factors the industry competes on that deliver no real value to customers and should be removed entirely
→ Reduce: Which factors are overdelivered relative to what customers actually need and should be scaled back
→ Raise: Which factors should be raised well above the industry standard because customers actually value them
→ Create: Which factors have never been offered in this industry that a new buyer segment would pay for
- New value curve: Describe the resulting strategic profile after applying the four actions and how it diverges from competitors
- Non-customer analysis: The three tiers of non-customers (soon-to-be, refusing, unexplored) and what would bring each tier in
- New market opportunity: The specific uncontested space identified and who the new customer is
- Tipping point leadership: The cognitive, political, motivational, and resource hurdles to executing this shift
- Blue ocean metrics: What success looks like in the new market space and how to measure it

Format as a Blue Ocean strategy report with strategy canvas description, four actions table, and new market opportunity brief.

Industry: [YOUR INDUSTRY]
Current offering: [WHAT YOU SELL TODAY]
Frustrations with current competition: [WHERE COMPETING IS MOST PAINFUL]

Google Gemini can now edit your videos!!!

10 prompts that turn Gemini into your personal video editor.

Here’s the full system 👇🏽

STEP 1: Why This Changes Everything For Creators

The problem: Video editing takes hours. You film for 20 minutes then spend 3 hours cutting, trimming, adding transitions, syncing audio, color grading, and exporting. Most creators hate editing more than any other part of the process. Some pay editors $500-$2,000 per month just to avoid it.

Google Gemini now understands video context. You can upload raw footage and tell it exactly what to do in plain English. It analyzes your clips, understands what’s happening in them, and helps you make editing decisions in seconds that used to take hours.

This doesn’t replace your creativity. It replaces the tedious repetitive work that kills your momentum. You focus on the ideas. Gemini handles the grunt work.

Here are the 10 prompts that make this work 👇

STEP 2: Prompt 1 — The Jump Cut Master

The problem: You recorded a 15-minute talking head video with 47 pauses, “umms,” and awkward silences. Cutting these out manually takes forever.

Paste this into Gemini with your video:

“You are a professional video editor. Analyze this raw footage and identify every pause longer than 1.5 seconds, every filler word (um, uh, like, you know, so), every repeated sentence, and every moment where the speaker loses their train of thought. Give me exact timestamps for every cut point so I can create clean jump cuts. Then suggest which sections to keep and which to remove entirely. Output as a numbered list with timestamp ranges and the reason for each cut.”

This turns a messy 15-minute ramble into a tight 7-minute video in minutes 👇

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

However, when we discover that our life has value, that we are loved, awaited, and called to carry out a task in the world, then hope is born. This spiritual force sustains life, even in the most difficult moments.

Connecting young people to digital networks serves no purpose if they remain disconnected from themselves, others, and their own interiority. We must help young people rediscover silence, reflection, the ability to ask questions, the depth of relationships, and openness to transcendence. To listen to the soul, we must lend an ear, because the soul's voice is not a shout, but a whisper.

كارل يونغ كان عنده طريقة غريبة تغيّر حياتك من جوّا لبرّا.

مو تأكيدات.
ولا سوالف الجذب.

طبّق هالـ4 خطوات لمدة 10 أيام وشف وش بيصير لقلقك:🪡

1. الشي اللي ترفض تتخيله ما يختفي.
(يظل يتحكم بحياتك من الظل).

يونغ ما كان يؤمن بـ«التجلي/المانيفستينق».

كان يشوف إن أغلب الناس ما يصيرون نفسهم الحقيقيين
لأنهم ما يعترفون بوضوح وش يبون بالسر.

الخطوة 1 بسيطة:

اسأل نفسك:

«وش كنت بأبي لو إني وقفت أتمثّل إني ما أبيه؟»

مو اللي يطلع شكله عملي.
ولا اللي يقول لك عقلك القلق إنه الأأمن.

وش الصدق؟

-De som glömmer det förflutna är dömda att upprepa det-

Period: Jugoslaviska krigen Region: Bosniens Krajina 12 nyföddas död från Banja Luka - Bosnien

1992 12 nyföddas död från Banja Luka är ett fruktansvärt brott som inträffade i⬇️

maj och juni 1992 under kriget i Bosnien och Hercegovina på 1990-talet och Jugoslaviens upplösning.

På intensivvårdsavdelningen på BB i Banja Luka dog 12 nyfödda på grund av brist på syre som var nödvändigt för adekvat behandling.

Syrebristen var ett resultat av blockering av serbiskt territorium av kroatiska och muslimska militärstyrkor i området Semberija i nordöstra Bosnien och Hercegovina.

It is vitally important in a free society that people are free to express themselves.

We must distinguish between acts that criticise or challenge an ideology, religion or belief system, and acts that target people because of who they are.

At a recent event, a guest asked whether we believe there should be any limits on free speech, citing our defence of those who have burned copies of the Koran.

People must be free to express themselves, and sometimes symbolic acts are the most powerful form of expression. Context matters. The right to challenge, criticise and even offend is a fundamental part of living in a free society.

The FSU’s Jill Levine explains our position below 👇