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I have just finished reading The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.
It is, without a doubt, the most horrifying document I've ever read in my life.
There is no close second... and it's worse than you could ever imagine.
Here's everything you need to know 🧵
It is, without a doubt, the most horrifying document I've ever read in my life.
There is no close second... and it's worse than you could ever imagine.
Here's everything you need to know 🧵
1. The inquiry estimates AT LEAST 250,000 girls.
A QUARTER MILLION.
They are overwhelmingly white girls and they were raped, trafficked & tortured over decades.
The 250k number is the MINIMUM, the FLOOR... there are likely even more than this.
A QUARTER MILLION.
They are overwhelmingly white girls and they were raped, trafficked & tortured over decades.
The 250k number is the MINIMUM, the FLOOR... there are likely even more than this.
2. The same crime was documented in at least 149 local authority districts... nearly 40% of the country.
This wasn't dozens of isolated local incidents, this was ABSOLUTELY a national pattern the state CHOSE to let grow for decades.
The first recorded case dates to 1955.
This wasn't dozens of isolated local incidents, this was ABSOLUTELY a national pattern the state CHOSE to let grow for decades.
The first recorded case dates to 1955.
Estou sendo processado criminalmente por um post no X. O precedente desse caso tornará ilegal discordar da tese woke do "Racismo Estrutural". Não é exagero, te explico abaixo.🧵👇
Você provavelmente já viu lacradores dizendo que negros não podem ser racistas contra brancos. Segundo eles, racismo = preconceito + poder, e negros não possuem poder institucional, logo, não podem ser racistas contra brancos. A primeira autora a defender essa ideia foi Patricia Bidol e quem mais a divulgou foi Judith Katz, no seu livro “White Awareness”, de 1978. Já faz tanto tempo que essa tese vem sendo defendida que muitos esqueceram que essa não é a definição da palavra racismo.
A Lei nº 7.716/89, que define o crime de racismo no Brasil, discorda da definição dos ativistas raciais que dizem que apenas algumas raças podem sofrer racismo, enquanto outras só podem praticá-lo.
In 1783 Britain did not “lose” its most profitable colony. It invented a smarter way to run an empire.
After the American Revolution, Britain still controlled Canada, the Caribbean, and maintained unchallenged naval supremacy. Yorktown was a tactical defeat, not a strategic catastrophe. Facing a global war against France, Spain, and the Dutch, far-sighted British leaders realized that direct colonial rule had become expensive, inefficient, and unnecessary.
Influenced by Adam Smith’s argument that colonies were often a net drain while free-trade partners were far more profitable, Britain chose to cut the formal tie. At the Treaty of Paris it offered unusually generous terms: expansive American boundaries and no punitive reparations.
This was not defeat. It was evolution - from expensive direct rule to invisible economic dominance.
And the evidence shows it worked brilliantly. 🧵
After the American Revolution, Britain still controlled Canada, the Caribbean, and maintained unchallenged naval supremacy. Yorktown was a tactical defeat, not a strategic catastrophe. Facing a global war against France, Spain, and the Dutch, far-sighted British leaders realized that direct colonial rule had become expensive, inefficient, and unnecessary.
Influenced by Adam Smith’s argument that colonies were often a net drain while free-trade partners were far more profitable, Britain chose to cut the formal tie. At the Treaty of Paris it offered unusually generous terms: expansive American boundaries and no punitive reparations.
This was not defeat. It was evolution - from expensive direct rule to invisible economic dominance.
And the evidence shows it worked brilliantly. 🧵
Within years of independence, American consumers - starved of British goods during the war - went on a massive buying spree. British exports to the United States exploded. The new republic quickly became Britain’s single largest export market outside Europe.
The real engine was Southern cotton. By the mid-19th century the U.S. supplied 70–80% of Britain’s raw cotton, powering the textile mills at the heart of the Industrial Revolution.
British capital flooded in. London banks financed American infrastructure, railroads, land speculation, and government bonds. Firms like Baring Brothers acted as de facto financial agents for the U.S. government in Europe and even helped finance the Louisiana Purchase.
Alexander Hamilton explicitly modeled the First Bank of the United States on the Bank of England. British-style banking practices and dependence on London credit networks were embedded in the U.S. financial system from the start.
Most transatlantic trade was financed through sterling bills drawn on London merchant banks. Disrupt London credit, and Southern plantations and Northern merchants would feel it instantly.
For decades, the City of London functioned as America’s external central bank and capital market. Political independence on paper. Financial and economic dependence in practice.
The real engine was Southern cotton. By the mid-19th century the U.S. supplied 70–80% of Britain’s raw cotton, powering the textile mills at the heart of the Industrial Revolution.
British capital flooded in. London banks financed American infrastructure, railroads, land speculation, and government bonds. Firms like Baring Brothers acted as de facto financial agents for the U.S. government in Europe and even helped finance the Louisiana Purchase.
Alexander Hamilton explicitly modeled the First Bank of the United States on the Bank of England. British-style banking practices and dependence on London credit networks were embedded in the U.S. financial system from the start.
Most transatlantic trade was financed through sterling bills drawn on London merchant banks. Disrupt London credit, and Southern plantations and Northern merchants would feel it instantly.
For decades, the City of London functioned as America’s external central bank and capital market. Political independence on paper. Financial and economic dependence in practice.
Britain then scaled this model globally.
Argentina became the classic example of Britain’s “informal empire” - massive British investment in railroads, banks, and shipping with zero formal colonies.
The “white dominions” (Canada, Australia, New Zealand) received increasing self-rule but remained tightly bound through trade preferences, sterling reserves, and investment.
After World War II, the same strategy was applied during decolonization. Britain granted formal political independence across Africa and Asia but retained economic control through the Commonwealth, the sterling area (countries that pegged their currencies to the pound and held reserves in London), and preferential trade deals.
No more expensive colonial administrations or garrisons. Just reliable markets, raw materials, and financial leverage.
The U.S. was Patient Zero. The rest of the empire followed a similar formula.
Argentina became the classic example of Britain’s “informal empire” - massive British investment in railroads, banks, and shipping with zero formal colonies.
The “white dominions” (Canada, Australia, New Zealand) received increasing self-rule but remained tightly bound through trade preferences, sterling reserves, and investment.
After World War II, the same strategy was applied during decolonization. Britain granted formal political independence across Africa and Asia but retained economic control through the Commonwealth, the sterling area (countries that pegged their currencies to the pound and held reserves in London), and preferential trade deals.
No more expensive colonial administrations or garrisons. Just reliable markets, raw materials, and financial leverage.
The U.S. was Patient Zero. The rest of the empire followed a similar formula.
General Christopher Cavoli, former SACEUR:
Ukraine has pulled off one of the most remarkable military feats of a century. It has managed, against the odds, to fight Russia to a standstill in its invasion and is turning around and regaining moderate amounts of territory. 1/12
Ukraine has pulled off one of the most remarkable military feats of a century. It has managed, against the odds, to fight Russia to a standstill in its invasion and is turning around and regaining moderate amounts of territory. 1/12
Russia has been losing tremendous numbers of soldiers. A couple of months ago, for the first time since the beginning of the war, Russia began losing more soldiers in a month than it was able to field back onto the battlefield. 2/12
This is a bad direction for Russia.
The deep strikes that Ukraine has been able to perpetuate against the Russian Federation have really started to take a toll on the energy industry inside Russia. 3/12
The deep strikes that Ukraine has been able to perpetuate against the Russian Federation have really started to take a toll on the energy industry inside Russia. 3/12
In July 1985, over a billion people watched Live Aid.
Months earlier, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie had written "We Are the World." All of it was a response to a famine in Ethiopia.
Almost nobody remembers who actually caused the famine. 🧵
Months earlier, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie had written "We Are the World." All of it was a response to a famine in Ethiopia.
Almost nobody remembers who actually caused the famine. 🧵
What the world saw: on October 23, 1984, the BBC aired a report by correspondent Michael Buerk with footage filmed in the Korem refugee camp by Kenyan photographer Mohamed Amin.
Within weeks, 425 television stations had rebroadcast those images of starving children to roughly 470 million viewers worldwide.
Within weeks, 425 television stations had rebroadcast those images of starving children to roughly 470 million viewers worldwide.
The crisis was framed almost entirely as a natural disaster, the work of a catastrophic drought striking a poor country. Television footage showed cracked earth, dying livestock, and skeletal children.
The government in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, was barely named in Western coverage. Its policies were not named at all.
The government in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, was barely named in Western coverage. Its policies were not named at all.
If Google locked your account tomorrow, you could lose your:
- Gmail
- Google Drive
- Photos
- YouTube
- Calendar
- Every "Sign in with Google" login
One account controls your entire internet life.
Here's the backup system nobody sets up until it's too late ↓
- Gmail
- Google Drive
- Photos
- YouTube
- Calendar
- Every "Sign in with Google" login
One account controls your entire internet life.
Here's the backup system nobody sets up until it's too late ↓
Step 1: Run Google Takeout right now (10 minutes)
This is the single most important step. Do this before anything else.
Go to: takeout.google.com
Select what matters: Gmail, Drive, Photos, Contacts, Calendar, YouTube.
Google packages everything into a download and sends you a link.
Now you own a copy of your entire digital life that Google can never touch.
If they lock you out tomorrow, you still have everything.
This is the single most important step. Do this before anything else.
Go to: takeout.google.com
Select what matters: Gmail, Drive, Photos, Contacts, Calendar, YouTube.
Google packages everything into a download and sends you a link.
Now you own a copy of your entire digital life that Google can never touch.
If they lock you out tomorrow, you still have everything.
Step 2: Don't export it all at once
Big mistake people make: they select everything and the export fails or takes days.
Do it by service instead.
Gmail in one export. Photos by year in another. Drive separately.
Smaller files download faster and never break halfway through.
Set the frequency to "export every 2 months" and Google backs you up automatically.
Big mistake people make: they select everything and the export fails or takes days.
Do it by service instead.
Gmail in one export. Photos by year in another. Drive separately.
Smaller files download faster and never break halfway through.
Set the frequency to "export every 2 months" and Google backs you up automatically.
Six Things I See in My ‘Strongest’ 80-Year-Old Patients
I am 63 now, and after three decades as an orthopedic surgeon, I have examined thousands of people in their eighties. Some arrive frail and afraid, others walk in straighter and more confident than patients half their age.
They’re still skiing, still gardening, still picking up grandchildren without a second thought. The gap between those two groups is not luck, and it is rarely genetics alone. The same patterns keep showing up in those who are thriving.
Here is what they have in common. The most important reasons are lower down in the list…
I am 63 now, and after three decades as an orthopedic surgeon, I have examined thousands of people in their eighties. Some arrive frail and afraid, others walk in straighter and more confident than patients half their age.
They’re still skiing, still gardening, still picking up grandchildren without a second thought. The gap between those two groups is not luck, and it is rarely genetics alone. The same patterns keep showing up in those who are thriving.
Here is what they have in common. The most important reasons are lower down in the list…
1. They never stopped moving. The strongest 80-year-olds in my office did not start exercising at 79. They simply never quit. There may have been a busy stretch, an injury, a hard year, but movement always came back, because it was part of who they were rather than a program they were on. Perhaps they were dancers, farmers, or a postal worker who enjoyed walking on his lunch break. The body honors that kind of consistency. Decades of regular, ordinary movement leave a margin of strength and capacity that a frightened sedentary body simply does not have.
2. They kept lifting something heavy. Almost none of them would call themselves weightlifters, but the ones who stayed strong kept asking their muscles to work against real resistance. Carrying, climbing, hauling, digging, or actual strength training, the form mattered less than the fact that they kept loading their muscles and bones well into later life. The people who guarded both are the ones still standing tall.
SpaceX is about to spend the $85B they raised. The companies they spend it on will win.
I put together a list of EVERY single public company supplier of Elon's companies (Tesla, Solar City, SpaceX, X, xAI) and what they supplied. Let me know what looks interesting to you. (1/2)
I put together a list of EVERY single public company supplier of Elon's companies (Tesla, Solar City, SpaceX, X, xAI) and what they supplied. Let me know what looks interesting to you. (1/2)
Part II of the Elon suppliers list.
AIRLINES DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS.
GROK FOUND ME A $1,200 FLIGHT FOR $340.
HERE ARE THE 6 PROMPTS THAT REVEAL THE AIRLINES' HIDDEN PRICING TRICKS:
GROK FOUND ME A $1,200 FLIGHT FOR $340.
HERE ARE THE 6 PROMPTS THAT REVEAL THE AIRLINES' HIDDEN PRICING TRICKS:
1. Flight Price Analysis
Prompt: “I need to fly from [departure city] to [destination city] between [date range]. Analyze the typical price patterns for this route. What are the cheapest days to fly, the best times to book, and what seasonal price variations should I be aware of?”
Prompt: “I need to fly from [departure city] to [destination city] between [date range]. Analyze the typical price patterns for this route. What are the cheapest days to fly, the best times to book, and what seasonal price variations should I be aware of?”
2. Alternative Airports Strategy
Prompt: “For my trip from [city A] to [city B], what are ALL the alternative airports nearby within 100 miles of each location? Calculate the possible savings if I use these alternatives, including ground transportation costs. Show me the total cost comparison.”
Prompt: “For my trip from [city A] to [city B], what are ALL the alternative airports nearby within 100 miles of each location? Calculate the possible savings if I use these alternatives, including ground transportation costs. Show me the total cost comparison.”
@afpfr Encore heureux !
Les british n'ont JAMAIS été européens : il faut adhérer à l'€uro pour cela !
Les British, comme TOUS les Germano-anglosaxons ne respectent pas les autres culture ni langues !
("On", tjs un con, veut déjà nous obliger à parler anglais…)
Les british n'ont JAMAIS été européens : il faut adhérer à l'€uro pour cela !
Les British, comme TOUS les Germano-anglosaxons ne respectent pas les autres culture ni langues !
("On", tjs un con, veut déjà nous obliger à parler anglais…)
@afpfr Et les British ont VOLONTAIREMENT lâché l'UE (après en avoir bien profité, sans respecter les directives) pour rebâtir leur #Commonwealth à 56 Etats (!) & nuire, avec la RUSSIE, aux intérêts de la France & francophonie en Afrique dans ce dessein.
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@afpfr - Qu'ils parlent français^^ (pour mettre fin à l'idiocratie mondiale anglosaxonne),
- Ils adhèrent à l'€ (et abandonnent l'Or… LOL)
- Dissolution du Commonwealth
- Propagande pro-Française (pour se faire pardonner de toutes leurs trahisons & ce "French Bashing" créé par eux).
- Ils adhèrent à l'€ (et abandonnent l'Or… LOL)
- Dissolution du Commonwealth
- Propagande pro-Française (pour se faire pardonner de toutes leurs trahisons & ce "French Bashing" créé par eux).
🚨🧵 BREAKING - The "conservative" protest against AI data centers has an anti-ICE NGO organizer, a DSA member, Facebook money.
Other than that, totally grassroots.
Axios ran an "exclusive" Wednesday about a "conservative group" called Humans First planning a nationwide day of protest against AI data centers on July 18. Amy Kremer is chairing it and invoking the Tea Party.
Axios didn't mention that Humans First was incubated by the Center for AI Safety, an organization funded with millions from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. Or that its original staff included a Sunrise Movement organizer who sat in at Pelosi's office with AOC and a DSA member who organized for Kamala Harris.
NBC News described CAIS as having founded Humans First "to be a sort of Trojan horse to make AI safety issues more palatable to a conservative political audience."
@ParkerThayer exposed the Action Network backend.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇
Other than that, totally grassroots.
Axios ran an "exclusive" Wednesday about a "conservative group" called Humans First planning a nationwide day of protest against AI data centers on July 18. Amy Kremer is chairing it and invoking the Tea Party.
Axios didn't mention that Humans First was incubated by the Center for AI Safety, an organization funded with millions from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. Or that its original staff included a Sunrise Movement organizer who sat in at Pelosi's office with AOC and a DSA member who organized for Kamala Harris.
NBC News described CAIS as having founded Humans First "to be a sort of Trojan horse to make AI safety issues more palatable to a conservative political audience."
@ParkerThayer exposed the Action Network backend.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇
Credit to @ParkerThayer for finding this Action Network backend and inspiring me to dig a bit deeper.
@ParkerThayer The money trail starts at Good Ventures Foundation, the private foundation of Dustin Moskovitz, Facebook co-founder.
Good Ventures is the giving vehicle for Open Philanthropy, an "effective altruism" grantmaker.
Good Ventures is the giving vehicle for Open Philanthropy, an "effective altruism" grantmaker.
@franceinfo La Drouate Sarkozyste (nostalgique la droite ir-républicaine de la 3e Rép ou de Bonaparte) la plus conne du monde, épisode 16513
"Tronçonneuse" ; le con reprend le narratif de Milei....
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"Tronçonneuse" ; le con reprend le narratif de Milei....
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@franceinfo "Tronçonneuse" ; le con reprend le narratif de Milei, ce libertarien Anarcho-Réac ("anarchiste de drouate", ou "Réac de gôche" comme disent les incultes "BoOmErs" en France) selon la température, mais toujours, au service des fascismes.
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@franceinfo Et ça ose la jouer "bâtisseur"… à la tronçonneuse.
Ca passe auprès des cons "bien diplômés" &/ou avec boulot. L'idiocratie est généreuse avec ses cons.
Mais pas assez pour être élu : quitte à voter pour un con, les cons voteront Bardella ou Adil Rami.
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Ca passe auprès des cons "bien diplômés" &/ou avec boulot. L'idiocratie est généreuse avec ses cons.
Mais pas assez pour être élu : quitte à voter pour un con, les cons voteront Bardella ou Adil Rami.
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Led by Minister of Defense Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine is forging vital partnerships with America tech billionaires — such as Alex Karp of Palantir, Eric Schmidt from Google, and Elon Musk.
These collaborations will deliver a decisive advantage over Russia in AI-enabled systems.
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These collaborations will deliver a decisive advantage over Russia in AI-enabled systems.
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Alex Karp wants to build AI systems that would give the U.S. a decisive technological edge in future wars.
Ukraine possesses a massive dataset and a rich library of real-world combat video that is highly valuable for training advanced AI models.
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Ukraine possesses a massive dataset and a rich library of real-world combat video that is highly valuable for training advanced AI models.
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In exchange for access to this priceless dataset, Palantir has provided Ukraine with AI tools that process enormous volumes of battlefield data, significantly enhancing capabilities such as long-range UAV strikes.
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