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According to @Donsarigo investigation, the toxic waste was dumped in Kargi, Marsabit. From the hydrology of the area, the toxic water must have found it's way to Milgis river polluting ground water all the way to Lorian swamp. Disastrous treason by those entrusted with power
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In places like Isiolo north where they exclusively use ground water from Lorian swamp, there's disproportionately high levels of throat cancer. I've personally lost several family members to it, thinking it must be genetic.
The cancer cases extend all the way to Meru.
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The cancer cases extend all the way to Meru.
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Places like Habaswein further downstream and I bet all the way to Liboi and Southern Somalia must be facing the consequence of such a treacherous, treasonous act.
@DanOder0 does this also put into question the visibility of Merti aquifer?
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@DanOder0 does this also put into question the visibility of Merti aquifer?
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🔥☀️ 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐥 𝐝𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐬 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐊𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐋𝐞𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐝 ☀️🔥
I have a feeling this could turn out to be the most important rabbit hole yet, so pay attention to this thread. 🐇
Most conspiracy theories claim some shadowy cabal is secretly pulling the strings. But here's the twist: this one insists the cabal doesn't exist at all.
For decades, prosecutors and journalists have pointed to the Cartel de los Soles, a Venezuelan military-political network accused of moving tons of cocaine with impunity. U.S. indictments call out generals, ministers, even Maduro himself.
Yet powerful leftist voices, from Alliance for Global Justice to COHA analysts to UN drug officials, swear it’s all fiction. They label the Suns cartel a “myth,” a “media creation,” or just “narco-mythology.” Even the Wikipedia page brands it as merely “alleged.” 🤯
📊 Ex-UN drug czar Pino Arlacchi says it’s as fake as the Loch Ness Monster.
📰 NGO allies echo “no evidence.”
💻 Wikipedia editors refuse to treat it as fact.
Why are so many powerful voices so insistent on denying the Cartel of the Suns exist?
I don't know. But I suspect there is a powerful financial incentive here.
Let's see if this makes the trolls as angry as they were about yesterday's boat thread.
👇 Scroll down for receipts
I have a feeling this could turn out to be the most important rabbit hole yet, so pay attention to this thread. 🐇
Most conspiracy theories claim some shadowy cabal is secretly pulling the strings. But here's the twist: this one insists the cabal doesn't exist at all.
For decades, prosecutors and journalists have pointed to the Cartel de los Soles, a Venezuelan military-political network accused of moving tons of cocaine with impunity. U.S. indictments call out generals, ministers, even Maduro himself.
Yet powerful leftist voices, from Alliance for Global Justice to COHA analysts to UN drug officials, swear it’s all fiction. They label the Suns cartel a “myth,” a “media creation,” or just “narco-mythology.” Even the Wikipedia page brands it as merely “alleged.” 🤯
📊 Ex-UN drug czar Pino Arlacchi says it’s as fake as the Loch Ness Monster.
📰 NGO allies echo “no evidence.”
💻 Wikipedia editors refuse to treat it as fact.
Why are so many powerful voices so insistent on denying the Cartel of the Suns exist?
I don't know. But I suspect there is a powerful financial incentive here.
Let's see if this makes the trolls as angry as they were about yesterday's boat thread.
👇 Scroll down for receipts
Alliance for Global Justice -- yes, the same one I wrote about yesteday as the lowest-hanging fruit to crack down on paid protesters -- is one of the biggest amplifiers of the "Cartel of the Suns does not exist" narratives.
Remember, Alliance for Global Justice is a powerful financial NGO openly backing sanctioned terrorist groups and pro-protest groups founded by Bill Ayers. As well as having a role in ANSWER Coalition, also behind many of the nastier anti-Israel protests in the USA.
I wonder whether part of the mindset problem for the right is not that they are panicky cowards, but because they have learned helplessness. They don't know what, if any, real world action they could take in their own lives that would help fix the problems they see.
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The left does not have this problem *at all*. If you want to be a leftist activist, there are tons of existing groups you can join who will find you something to *do*. It may be small. It may not achieve anything much. But they have work, and a story why that work matters.
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The right has mostly viewed this as a structural advantage of the left in terms of the *output* of those foot soldiers. But there's a real chance the main value is marketing and engagement. The customer wants to buy a "get involved" package. Do we have anything to sell?
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If you die without a plan...
- The government takes 40% in tax
- Probate court costs $100k+
- Your kids get the scraps
If you love your family, here's every document you need to protect them:
(from a CPA & father of two)
- The government takes 40% in tax
- Probate court costs $100k+
- Your kids get the scraps
If you love your family, here's every document you need to protect them:
(from a CPA & father of two)
1) Emergency Access List
This should include:
-> All bank account numbers
-> Investment account logins
-> Life insurance policies
-> 401k/IRA beneficiaries
-> Safe deposit box location
-> Password manager master code
This should include:
-> All bank account numbers
-> Investment account logins
-> Life insurance policies
-> 401k/IRA beneficiaries
-> Safe deposit box location
-> Password manager master code
Keep a digital & physical version for safety...
And make sure your spouse has access.
And make sure your spouse has access.
💥Ce la siamo dimenticata già e non se ne parla più, ma la storiaccia del “GPS jamming” contro l’aereo di von der Leyen era del tutto infondata: una bugia grave, che ha danneggiato ulteriormente la credibilità della Commissione (oggi sempre più spostata a destra). Parliamone:
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Come nasce il tragicomico «caso bulgaro»: durante la missione di VDL sul fianco est dell’Europa, alcuni funzionari UE parlano senza tentennamenti di «smaccata interferenza russa. Mosca nega, ma Bruxelles non produce alcuna prova. Lo riporta per prima @FrancesDiBi.
Nonostante la fragilità delle accuse, la Commissione approfitta dell’episodio per promuovere il riarmo UE e il sostegno all'Ucraina. Intanto @Flightradar24 smentisce che vi fossero anomalie di segnale. Una maldestra false flag. Gli analisti seri se ne accorgono e lo ammettono.
Paintings and drawings by J.R.R. Tolkien 🧵
1. Conversation with Smaug, 1937
1. Conversation with Smaug, 1937
2. Bilbo comes to the Huts of the Raft-elves
3. The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the-Water
A new metabolomic study does something important. It looks directly at the biochemical products circulating in plasma - a real-time readout of how cells are functioning. And the results are clear - even clinically recovered individuals show measurable metabolic and proteomic deviations from uninfected controls.🧵
The main finding is unmistakable. A systemic collapse of mitochondrial energy metabolism. TCA cycle intermediates down, NAD cycling disrupted, oxidative phosphorylation impaired. These biochemical changes map onto the symptoms frequently reported in long COVID (fatigue, PEM, cognitive dysfunction).
The study also shows major shifts in arginine metabolism (impacting NO, vascular function, autonomic stability) and lipid pathways (arachidonate, inflammatory mediators). Together, these explain POTS-like symptoms, pain, migraines, and microcirculatory issues.
1/ Communism wasn’t the problem.
Putin isn’t the problem.
Russia itself is the problem.
Sounds extreme? Well, keep reading 🧵 ⤵️
Putin isn’t the problem.
Russia itself is the problem.
Sounds extreme? Well, keep reading 🧵 ⤵️
2/ @cemk_cemil, PhD in neuroscience and a history reader, makes the following argument—which he shared with me because I often push this concept:
Russia didn’t fall into error—Russia IS the Error that was foretold in the Fatima prophecy of 1917, no less. ⤵️
Russia didn’t fall into error—Russia IS the Error that was foretold in the Fatima prophecy of 1917, no less. ⤵️
3/ Most of the West still believes the myth:
• Communist USSR was an aberration.
• The Bolsheviks were a tragic detour.
• Post-1991 Russia “came back” to Europe.
Cemil flips that on its head:
Communism wasn’t Russia’s deviation.
“Europeanized” Russia was the blip. ⤵️
• Communist USSR was an aberration.
• The Bolsheviks were a tragic detour.
• Post-1991 Russia “came back” to Europe.
Cemil flips that on its head:
Communism wasn’t Russia’s deviation.
“Europeanized” Russia was the blip. ⤵️
1/ Demography is destiny. The collapse of ancient Rome proves it.
Its decline had many causes, but all were governed by one fact: the people changed.
Rome did not fall because its numbers dwindled. Rome fell because it ceased to be Roman.
Its decline had many causes, but all were governed by one fact: the people changed.
Rome did not fall because its numbers dwindled. Rome fell because it ceased to be Roman.
2/ Civilization is a biological phenomenon, and in saying this I do not deny the existence of a higher order. I simply recognize that the higher must work through the material substance it finds in the world, and it is here that biology and heredity becomes decisive. Inherited character sets the limits within which culture can rise, and no political form can endure once the people who created it have been replaced.
In the Western world today, matters of race and demography are treated as forbidden subjects because they contradict the egalitarian mythos of the age that human nature is infinitely malleable and that entire populations may be exchanged without consequence. For most of Western history this was understood to be false. The Greeks, the Romans, and all early European peoples, and European societies well into the twentieth century, recognized the fixity of heredity and regarded inherited differences as the basis of character and ability and therefore as the primary foundation of civic order. In the ancient world this produced a biopolitical conception of society in which the quality of the people determined the quality of the state. Distinct peoples, no less than distinct individuals, possessed tendencies shaped across generations. This older understanding is indispensable when examining the demographic transformation of Rome.
Rome began as a European people and remained a European civilization through its regal era and the early and middle Republic. Its citizen body arose from Latins, Sabines, and related Italic groups shaped by the meeting of Indo-European settlers with the older populations of the peninsula. Ancient DNA confirms this inheritance through the blend of Steppe ancestry with the early farming communities and the deeper hunter-gatherer strata that formed the classical European profile of ancient Italy.
Culture, understood as the outward expression of a people’s inherited instincts, is a product of race. The religion and civic habits of early Rome rested on these inherited affinities and gave the city its unified character. As Roman power expanded it incorporated Etruscan and Celtic communities who, despite their differences, belonged to the same broader European continuum. Their ancestral background and social instincts were close enough to those of the Romans to permit assimilation without altering the fundamental identity of the state.
Modern genetic similarity theory clarifies why this early expansion succeeded. Cooperation is strongest among individuals and groups who are genetically closer because they share broadly convergent behaviors and implicit moral instincts. A population does not need to be uniform for a state to function. It needs only a sufficient degree of shared ancestry for inherited dispositions to align rather than conflict with the institutions and values created by the founders. Early Rome met this threshold and could therefore integrate related European peoples without eroding its civic core.
This shared foundation made possible the rise of a formidable martial republic. Early Rome was intensely militarized, shaped by the Indo-European legacy of warrior bands and aristocratic ambition. Authority rested on valor and competence, and the highest honor was won in war. Patron-client bonds created networks of reciprocal obligation that echoed the older pattern in which leaders and their companions were united by personal loyalty. The patrician houses competed for military distinction, and this rivalry became one of the principal engines of Roman expansion across Italy.
This martial ethos permeated all classes. Warfare brought land, spoils, prestige, and upward mobility, giving every stratum of the citizen body a stake in the success of the state. Conquered Italian communities shared enough ancestry and cultural instinct with Rome that they could be integrated without destabilizing the political order. Their elites entered the Roman aristocracy and their populations supplied troops for future campaigns. Where the Greek city-states remained fractious and narrow, Rome succeeded in binding related European peoples into a single expanding commonwealth.
Rome’s very success contained the seeds of its demographic undoing. Expansion demanded soldiers, labor, and administrators, and the Republic met these demands by drawing heavily upon its ancestral population. Victory required armies, and armies required men. As Rome subdued the Mediterranean world it became dependent on a scale of manpower that the old Italic stock could not indefinitely supply. At the same time conquest poured captives and slaves into Italy at a rate no earlier age had witnessed. The transformation from a compact citizen republic into a vast imperial power created pressures that reshaped the composition of the peninsula. What had once been a coherent body of related European peoples began to absorb populations whose ancestry and inherited tendencies lay far outside the world that had shaped the Republic.
This equilibrium held until continuous warfare in the third and second centuries B.C. began to erode the old Italic stock. The Punic Wars against Carthage devastated the rural freeholders who had formed the backbone of Rome’s early armies and weakened the oldest patrician families. Hannibal’s invasions ruined the countryside, depopulated entire districts, and extinguished many households that had defined Republican life. The conquest of Macedon and Greece flooded Italy with slaves in unprecedented numbers, drawn from the Aegean world and from the interior of Asia Minor. Governors returning from the East brought with them multitudes from Phrygia, Lydia, Cappadocia, and Syria, and through manumission these captives, or their descendants, entered the expanding urban population.
Internal conflicts deepened the crisis. The Social War (91–88 B.C.) ravaged Italian communities already weakened by generations of military loss, and the long struggle against Mithridates (88–63 B.C.) drew further upon dwindling Italic manpower while bringing additional Eastern captives into Italy. By the first century B.C. the demographic foundations of the Republic had shifted. The old Roman and Italic families that had governed the early state were declining in number, while Rome itself swelled with newcomers whose ancestral ties to the founders were distant or nonexistent.
In the Western world today, matters of race and demography are treated as forbidden subjects because they contradict the egalitarian mythos of the age that human nature is infinitely malleable and that entire populations may be exchanged without consequence. For most of Western history this was understood to be false. The Greeks, the Romans, and all early European peoples, and European societies well into the twentieth century, recognized the fixity of heredity and regarded inherited differences as the basis of character and ability and therefore as the primary foundation of civic order. In the ancient world this produced a biopolitical conception of society in which the quality of the people determined the quality of the state. Distinct peoples, no less than distinct individuals, possessed tendencies shaped across generations. This older understanding is indispensable when examining the demographic transformation of Rome.
Rome began as a European people and remained a European civilization through its regal era and the early and middle Republic. Its citizen body arose from Latins, Sabines, and related Italic groups shaped by the meeting of Indo-European settlers with the older populations of the peninsula. Ancient DNA confirms this inheritance through the blend of Steppe ancestry with the early farming communities and the deeper hunter-gatherer strata that formed the classical European profile of ancient Italy.
Culture, understood as the outward expression of a people’s inherited instincts, is a product of race. The religion and civic habits of early Rome rested on these inherited affinities and gave the city its unified character. As Roman power expanded it incorporated Etruscan and Celtic communities who, despite their differences, belonged to the same broader European continuum. Their ancestral background and social instincts were close enough to those of the Romans to permit assimilation without altering the fundamental identity of the state.
Modern genetic similarity theory clarifies why this early expansion succeeded. Cooperation is strongest among individuals and groups who are genetically closer because they share broadly convergent behaviors and implicit moral instincts. A population does not need to be uniform for a state to function. It needs only a sufficient degree of shared ancestry for inherited dispositions to align rather than conflict with the institutions and values created by the founders. Early Rome met this threshold and could therefore integrate related European peoples without eroding its civic core.
This shared foundation made possible the rise of a formidable martial republic. Early Rome was intensely militarized, shaped by the Indo-European legacy of warrior bands and aristocratic ambition. Authority rested on valor and competence, and the highest honor was won in war. Patron-client bonds created networks of reciprocal obligation that echoed the older pattern in which leaders and their companions were united by personal loyalty. The patrician houses competed for military distinction, and this rivalry became one of the principal engines of Roman expansion across Italy.
This martial ethos permeated all classes. Warfare brought land, spoils, prestige, and upward mobility, giving every stratum of the citizen body a stake in the success of the state. Conquered Italian communities shared enough ancestry and cultural instinct with Rome that they could be integrated without destabilizing the political order. Their elites entered the Roman aristocracy and their populations supplied troops for future campaigns. Where the Greek city-states remained fractious and narrow, Rome succeeded in binding related European peoples into a single expanding commonwealth.
Rome’s very success contained the seeds of its demographic undoing. Expansion demanded soldiers, labor, and administrators, and the Republic met these demands by drawing heavily upon its ancestral population. Victory required armies, and armies required men. As Rome subdued the Mediterranean world it became dependent on a scale of manpower that the old Italic stock could not indefinitely supply. At the same time conquest poured captives and slaves into Italy at a rate no earlier age had witnessed. The transformation from a compact citizen republic into a vast imperial power created pressures that reshaped the composition of the peninsula. What had once been a coherent body of related European peoples began to absorb populations whose ancestry and inherited tendencies lay far outside the world that had shaped the Republic.
This equilibrium held until continuous warfare in the third and second centuries B.C. began to erode the old Italic stock. The Punic Wars against Carthage devastated the rural freeholders who had formed the backbone of Rome’s early armies and weakened the oldest patrician families. Hannibal’s invasions ruined the countryside, depopulated entire districts, and extinguished many households that had defined Republican life. The conquest of Macedon and Greece flooded Italy with slaves in unprecedented numbers, drawn from the Aegean world and from the interior of Asia Minor. Governors returning from the East brought with them multitudes from Phrygia, Lydia, Cappadocia, and Syria, and through manumission these captives, or their descendants, entered the expanding urban population.
Internal conflicts deepened the crisis. The Social War (91–88 B.C.) ravaged Italian communities already weakened by generations of military loss, and the long struggle against Mithridates (88–63 B.C.) drew further upon dwindling Italic manpower while bringing additional Eastern captives into Italy. By the first century B.C. the demographic foundations of the Republic had shifted. The old Roman and Italic families that had governed the early state were declining in number, while Rome itself swelled with newcomers whose ancestral ties to the founders were distant or nonexistent.
3/ Tenney Frank was the first modern scholar to examine Rome’s demographic transformation with a method that was both systematic and rigorously exact. Refusing to rely on the literary record alone, he treated Italy as a biological archive and turned to the inscriptions carved into stone. More than thirty thousand epitaphs allowed him to examine names, stated origins, manumission formulas, and civic statuses. Taken together they formed a demographic ledger of the peninsula, and from this ledger a pattern emerged with exactitude. The ancient Roman nomina, the hereditary family names that had defined the Republic, begin to diminish after the first century B.C. The Claudii, Cornelii, Fabii, Aemilii, and Manlii, the families that had furnished Rome with magistrates, priests, generals, and legislators, fade steadily from Latium, Campania, and Etruria. In their place rise names from Phrygia, Lydia, Cappadocia, Syria, and the Levant.
Roman observers of the period often mistook these newcomers for Greeks because of their language, yet the inscriptions reveal a different truth. Their ancestry came not from the old Mediterranean Hellenes but from the Near Eastern provinces Rome had subdued; from the Hellenistic East. Greek served as the lingua franca of the Eastern Mediterranean, and enslaved populations used it in commerce and in the formulas that recorded their manumission. The cultural veneer was Hellenic, but the blood was Levantine and Anatolian. By the second century A.D., nearly nine in ten urban-born Romans were descended from slaves or freedmen, most of them bearing ancestry from Asia Minor or the Syro-Levantine coast. The old Italic and European stock that had created the Republic and carried it to its civilizational apex was withdrawing with measurable speed, replaced by peoples whose inherited dispositions stood far from those of the founders.
Frank emphasized that this demographic shift intensified when the older rural citizenry began to vanish from the Italian landscape. Continuous warfare across the third and second centuries B.C. removed men from their farms for long stretches, and the disappearance of these households broke the continuity of village life that had sustained the early Republic. As these families died out, their land passed into the hands of magnates who absorbed entire districts into sprawling farm estates worked by imported slaves. These latifundia spread across Italy with a magnitude unknown in earlier periods. The countryside lost the independent farmers who had supplied early armies and embodied the civic character of the Republic. In their place rose plantations worked by foreign slave populations whose manumission, carried out in large numbers, transformed the population of the cities. Frank regarded this extinction of the rural Roman stock as the pivotal change that reshaped Italy at its core.
The senatorial and patrician houses declined in a similar pattern, yet with an even sharper descent owing to their long-standing duty to command armies and take the field in person. The martial burdens of the Republic, once borne by these lineages as a matter of inherited honor, hastened their disappearance as war and political purges cut deeply into their ranks. Under Nero hundreds of senatorial families still existed. Under Hadrian only a small remnant survived. Of the patrician gentes, the most ancient hereditary clans that had once shaped Rome’s political and religious orders, only one remained. What had once been a living civic body rooted in ancient lineages now stood depleted, for the houses that had shaped the early Republic no longer survived in the strength required to sustain it.
With their disappearance the old character of the Republic dissolved as well. The stern and austere virtues that had ordered Roman life, the discipline that shaped its armies, the aristocratic sense of honor that governed its magistrates, and the severe moral code that once bound patrician households to the service of the state all weakened as the Roman people who had embodied them faded from existence. The institutions remained in place, the rites still appeared in public life, and the ancestral customs could be seen in outward form, yet the character that had once guided these practices no longer existed within the people who now performed them.
Frank held that this loss produced a gradual alteration of Rome’s civic order as new populations, shaped by different inheritances, bent the old framework toward their own habits. He described this development as the “Orientalization of Rome,” a shift marked by the decline of the rural citizen armies and the slow death of the old soldier-farmer class that had formed the Republic’s martial and aristocratic core. The strict discipline once maintained by Italy’s older stock gave way to an urban temperament detached from the sterner demands that had governed the early state. What had once been a civic order rooted in a particular people now operated without that foundation, for those who had created it no longer possessed the continuity or the strength needed to sustain it.
Modern genetic research now confirms the trajectory Frank identified. Italians of the Republican period cluster with Western and Central Europeans, reflecting the ancient mixture of Steppe ancestry with early farming communities and the older hunter-gatherer strata. Samples from the imperial era shift toward inland Anatolia and the Syro-Levantine coast, revealing a deep turnover in the population of central and southern Italy. Late Antiquity introduces another movement as northern peoples entered during the Gothic and Lombard periods, restoring much of the earlier European profile. The genetic evidence aligns with Frank’s findings and renders his historical sequence in biological form.
Frank’s conclusion restates an older and more severe truth. Rome’s institutions survived in outward form, yet the blood that had created them was no longer present. The magistracies still convened, the rites continued, and the offices retained their ancient titles, but the European people who had founded Rome had vanished from the life of the empire.
This is the truth the modern West refuses to face. Civilizations do not fall because their institutions suddenly fail. They fall because the people who created and sustained those institutions are replaced or erased by populations incapable of carrying the old order forward. The outward frame of a civilization may persist for generations, as Rome’s did, yet it becomes a hollow structure once its racial core is lost.
The West stands upon a similar precipice at its own hour of decision. The buildings remain, the constitutions hold their authority, and the inherited political language is still spoken, yet the people who once gave these forms their character and purpose recede with growing speed. Rome shows that once a civilization’s biological foundation is altered, the outer shell may remain like a long-abandoned temple, but no statute or reform can bring back a people who have passed from the world and left no heirs to their own creation.
In the end, the empire fell for one reason alone. It was Roman in name, but no longer in blood.
Roman observers of the period often mistook these newcomers for Greeks because of their language, yet the inscriptions reveal a different truth. Their ancestry came not from the old Mediterranean Hellenes but from the Near Eastern provinces Rome had subdued; from the Hellenistic East. Greek served as the lingua franca of the Eastern Mediterranean, and enslaved populations used it in commerce and in the formulas that recorded their manumission. The cultural veneer was Hellenic, but the blood was Levantine and Anatolian. By the second century A.D., nearly nine in ten urban-born Romans were descended from slaves or freedmen, most of them bearing ancestry from Asia Minor or the Syro-Levantine coast. The old Italic and European stock that had created the Republic and carried it to its civilizational apex was withdrawing with measurable speed, replaced by peoples whose inherited dispositions stood far from those of the founders.
Frank emphasized that this demographic shift intensified when the older rural citizenry began to vanish from the Italian landscape. Continuous warfare across the third and second centuries B.C. removed men from their farms for long stretches, and the disappearance of these households broke the continuity of village life that had sustained the early Republic. As these families died out, their land passed into the hands of magnates who absorbed entire districts into sprawling farm estates worked by imported slaves. These latifundia spread across Italy with a magnitude unknown in earlier periods. The countryside lost the independent farmers who had supplied early armies and embodied the civic character of the Republic. In their place rose plantations worked by foreign slave populations whose manumission, carried out in large numbers, transformed the population of the cities. Frank regarded this extinction of the rural Roman stock as the pivotal change that reshaped Italy at its core.
The senatorial and patrician houses declined in a similar pattern, yet with an even sharper descent owing to their long-standing duty to command armies and take the field in person. The martial burdens of the Republic, once borne by these lineages as a matter of inherited honor, hastened their disappearance as war and political purges cut deeply into their ranks. Under Nero hundreds of senatorial families still existed. Under Hadrian only a small remnant survived. Of the patrician gentes, the most ancient hereditary clans that had once shaped Rome’s political and religious orders, only one remained. What had once been a living civic body rooted in ancient lineages now stood depleted, for the houses that had shaped the early Republic no longer survived in the strength required to sustain it.
With their disappearance the old character of the Republic dissolved as well. The stern and austere virtues that had ordered Roman life, the discipline that shaped its armies, the aristocratic sense of honor that governed its magistrates, and the severe moral code that once bound patrician households to the service of the state all weakened as the Roman people who had embodied them faded from existence. The institutions remained in place, the rites still appeared in public life, and the ancestral customs could be seen in outward form, yet the character that had once guided these practices no longer existed within the people who now performed them.
Frank held that this loss produced a gradual alteration of Rome’s civic order as new populations, shaped by different inheritances, bent the old framework toward their own habits. He described this development as the “Orientalization of Rome,” a shift marked by the decline of the rural citizen armies and the slow death of the old soldier-farmer class that had formed the Republic’s martial and aristocratic core. The strict discipline once maintained by Italy’s older stock gave way to an urban temperament detached from the sterner demands that had governed the early state. What had once been a civic order rooted in a particular people now operated without that foundation, for those who had created it no longer possessed the continuity or the strength needed to sustain it.
Modern genetic research now confirms the trajectory Frank identified. Italians of the Republican period cluster with Western and Central Europeans, reflecting the ancient mixture of Steppe ancestry with early farming communities and the older hunter-gatherer strata. Samples from the imperial era shift toward inland Anatolia and the Syro-Levantine coast, revealing a deep turnover in the population of central and southern Italy. Late Antiquity introduces another movement as northern peoples entered during the Gothic and Lombard periods, restoring much of the earlier European profile. The genetic evidence aligns with Frank’s findings and renders his historical sequence in biological form.
Frank’s conclusion restates an older and more severe truth. Rome’s institutions survived in outward form, yet the blood that had created them was no longer present. The magistracies still convened, the rites continued, and the offices retained their ancient titles, but the European people who had founded Rome had vanished from the life of the empire.
This is the truth the modern West refuses to face. Civilizations do not fall because their institutions suddenly fail. They fall because the people who created and sustained those institutions are replaced or erased by populations incapable of carrying the old order forward. The outward frame of a civilization may persist for generations, as Rome’s did, yet it becomes a hollow structure once its racial core is lost.
The West stands upon a similar precipice at its own hour of decision. The buildings remain, the constitutions hold their authority, and the inherited political language is still spoken, yet the people who once gave these forms their character and purpose recede with growing speed. Rome shows that once a civilization’s biological foundation is altered, the outer shell may remain like a long-abandoned temple, but no statute or reform can bring back a people who have passed from the world and left no heirs to their own creation.
In the end, the empire fell for one reason alone. It was Roman in name, but no longer in blood.
このスクショのポイント。
日付時刻を「隠す」
そしてこの既婚男性👨🏻設定のアカ
現在16件投稿
しかしスクショと同じものは削除済み
いい商売だよなぁ
適当に作り話上げてスクショして
そっち側に凸する人らの相手が面倒だから、元は炎上🔥着火したら削除
同調コメント群も、サクラが多い気がする(続
日付時刻を「隠す」
そしてこの既婚男性👨🏻設定のアカ
現在16件投稿
しかしスクショと同じものは削除済み
いい商売だよなぁ
適当に作り話上げてスクショして
そっち側に凸する人らの相手が面倒だから、元は炎上🔥着火したら削除
同調コメント群も、サクラが多い気がする(続
続)まぁ考えてみれば、サクラやヤラセバイトが昔から安定的にある🇯🇵で、匿名性が確保できるインターネットでやらん理由がないしな。
こういうマーケティング系は、ヤクザが資金源を開拓する感じで、生まれるのも然りなんだな。
全部、ハブになっとるのは広告業界。
TV系主要メディアの存続が(続
こういうマーケティング系は、ヤクザが資金源を開拓する感じで、生まれるのも然りなんだな。
全部、ハブになっとるのは広告業界。
TV系主要メディアの存続が(続
続)厳しくなっとる今、ま〜素人でも参入できて、AIもシナリオ書いてくれるし、昔だってヤラセ番組にむっちゃ怒っとった社会だったはずなのに
今のフェーズはなぜかネット上の話題は、実話がゴロゴロ転がっとる実態が実際にある中に、業者が巧妙に紛れ込んできとるんだわな〜いやらしいな。(続
今のフェーズはなぜかネット上の話題は、実話がゴロゴロ転がっとる実態が実際にある中に、業者が巧妙に紛れ込んできとるんだわな〜いやらしいな。(続
🚨EPSTEIN AND SAUDI ARABIA 🇸🇦 LIST CONTAINS PEOPLE FROM THE MIDDLE EAST Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman
Inside Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with Saudi Arabia
In late 2016 Jeffrey Epstein flew his private Gulfstream G550 alone from Paris to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and emerged from the visit with a lavish gift, apparently from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. It was a tent "carpets and all," as he later described it. Bedouin tents, in Middle Eastern culture are a symbol of hospitality
What Epstein was doing to be honored with that gift is currently a mystery.
This was one of several meetings and interactions Epstein had with world leaders, according to emails and documents released in recent weeks that detail his activities in the final years of his life. They also included meetings with other members of the Saudi royal family
Bin Salman is visiting Washington this week and meeting with President Trump. It's a major moment for the Kingdom as it seeks to enhance its global image in the wake of the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. So far Epstein's business dealings with the Kingdom and members of the royal family have largely avoided close scrutiny
Epstein's planning for his 2016 trip included an email from his assistant saying "Did you need me to book the Four Seasons for you in Riyadh? Or is the king taking care of it!?"
CBS News has reached out to Saudi officials in D.C for comment and has not had a response by time of publication
There is no evidence that anyone involved in the Saudi government had involvement with anything related to Epstein's sex trafficking allegations
Why Epstein's estate has chosen to release certain documents is not clear. The release is in response to a subpoena that included requests for documents relating to his finances as well as potential victims What has been released is likely a fraction of what the estate possesses of Epstein's communications and it's not clear if there will be future releases that could provide additional details. Epstein maintained extensive communication with his staff financial clients and friends over the years
Much of that information comes from the release of hundreds of text messages emails and other documents sent to the House Oversight Committee by Epstein's estate as part of the committee's investigation. Revelations about the tent and carpets were included in emails between Epstein and Hyatt executive chairman Tom Pritzker
As Congress voted almost unanimously on Tuesday to demand the release of the Justice Department's Epstein files most of the public's focus has been on his sex crimes but any release of additional documents could reveal more about Epstein's vast global business connections, which have so far remained mostly unknown
Sen Ron Wyden a Democrat from Oregon told CBS News there are a host of unanswered questions stemming from Epstein's financial dealings all around the globe
"My own investigation has found that Epstein was moving hundreds of millions of dollars around the world during the years he operated his cross-border sex trafficking operation, but it's still not clear who among his foreign network knew about his trafficking enabled it and participated in it" Wyden said
Epstein who fashioned himself as an elite money manager was also advising the governments of Mongolia and the Maldives as well as traveling and presumably making or seeking business deals in the United Arab Emirates Morocco the Ivory Coast China Russia Qatar and Belarus according to those documents But Epstein's contacts with Saudi Arabia appear to have been some of his most extensive and potentially lucrative dealings with foreign leaders
Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman consolidated his control in Saudi Arabia in 2017 following a purge of high level government officials. A few days later, New York Times reporter Thomas Landon Jr emailed Epstein "Did your Saudi friends survive the purge?" Epstein responded, "All. With gods help ;)." CBS News THREAD 🧵
Inside Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with Saudi Arabia
In late 2016 Jeffrey Epstein flew his private Gulfstream G550 alone from Paris to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and emerged from the visit with a lavish gift, apparently from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. It was a tent "carpets and all," as he later described it. Bedouin tents, in Middle Eastern culture are a symbol of hospitality
What Epstein was doing to be honored with that gift is currently a mystery.
This was one of several meetings and interactions Epstein had with world leaders, according to emails and documents released in recent weeks that detail his activities in the final years of his life. They also included meetings with other members of the Saudi royal family
Bin Salman is visiting Washington this week and meeting with President Trump. It's a major moment for the Kingdom as it seeks to enhance its global image in the wake of the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. So far Epstein's business dealings with the Kingdom and members of the royal family have largely avoided close scrutiny
Epstein's planning for his 2016 trip included an email from his assistant saying "Did you need me to book the Four Seasons for you in Riyadh? Or is the king taking care of it!?"
CBS News has reached out to Saudi officials in D.C for comment and has not had a response by time of publication
There is no evidence that anyone involved in the Saudi government had involvement with anything related to Epstein's sex trafficking allegations
Why Epstein's estate has chosen to release certain documents is not clear. The release is in response to a subpoena that included requests for documents relating to his finances as well as potential victims What has been released is likely a fraction of what the estate possesses of Epstein's communications and it's not clear if there will be future releases that could provide additional details. Epstein maintained extensive communication with his staff financial clients and friends over the years
Much of that information comes from the release of hundreds of text messages emails and other documents sent to the House Oversight Committee by Epstein's estate as part of the committee's investigation. Revelations about the tent and carpets were included in emails between Epstein and Hyatt executive chairman Tom Pritzker
As Congress voted almost unanimously on Tuesday to demand the release of the Justice Department's Epstein files most of the public's focus has been on his sex crimes but any release of additional documents could reveal more about Epstein's vast global business connections, which have so far remained mostly unknown
Sen Ron Wyden a Democrat from Oregon told CBS News there are a host of unanswered questions stemming from Epstein's financial dealings all around the globe
"My own investigation has found that Epstein was moving hundreds of millions of dollars around the world during the years he operated his cross-border sex trafficking operation, but it's still not clear who among his foreign network knew about his trafficking enabled it and participated in it" Wyden said
Epstein who fashioned himself as an elite money manager was also advising the governments of Mongolia and the Maldives as well as traveling and presumably making or seeking business deals in the United Arab Emirates Morocco the Ivory Coast China Russia Qatar and Belarus according to those documents But Epstein's contacts with Saudi Arabia appear to have been some of his most extensive and potentially lucrative dealings with foreign leaders
Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman consolidated his control in Saudi Arabia in 2017 following a purge of high level government officials. A few days later, New York Times reporter Thomas Landon Jr emailed Epstein "Did your Saudi friends survive the purge?" Epstein responded, "All. With gods help ;)." CBS News THREAD 🧵
🚨EPSTEIN AND SAUDI ARABIA 🇸🇦 LIST CONTAINS PEOPLE FROM THE MIDDLE EAST Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman
Inside Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with Saudi Arabia
Epstein discussed another brush with the Saudi crown prince in April 2018. It comes up in a text message exchange with an individual whose name is redacted in the documents, but who appears from the context of their chat to be former Trump adviser Steve Bannon. Epstein writes, "MBS [Mohammed bin Salman] has the Louvre and 400 guards. To himself," and he indicates that he is on his way over.
"No better way to spend s(sic) Sunday," came the reply.
That evening, French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted a photo of himself and bin Salman at the Louvre with the caption, "With Mohammed Bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia." CBS News has reached out to the government of France to find out if Epstein was present, but has not received a response.
That document ended with a text the following day from Epstein to Bannon: "If you are around the 18th, in dc. John Kerry," the former senator, presidential candidate and secretary of state.
A spokesperson for Kerry told CBS News that he was back home in Boston after the end of his service in the Obama administration. "He wasn't in Washington, DC, was never scheduled to be in Washington, and did not have a meeting or meeting request from that cast of characters, period, which isn't surprising since he didn't have a relationship with either one of them, and wasn't in contact with either of them," the spokesperson said.
According to other messages sent from Epstein, he was planning another visit for the summer of 2019 to Saudi Arabia. That trip never happened due to his arrest and incarceration on federal sex crime charges.
Other signs of the connections between Epstein and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have surfaced since his death. Authorities found a photograph of Epstein posing with bin Salman prominently displayed in his Manhattan mansion, according to The New York Times.
After Epstein's arrest in 2019, officials also discovered that he held an expired Austrian passport from the 1980s with his picture and a false name, which listed his residence as Saudi Arabia.
CBS News
Inside Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with Saudi Arabia
Epstein discussed another brush with the Saudi crown prince in April 2018. It comes up in a text message exchange with an individual whose name is redacted in the documents, but who appears from the context of their chat to be former Trump adviser Steve Bannon. Epstein writes, "MBS [Mohammed bin Salman] has the Louvre and 400 guards. To himself," and he indicates that he is on his way over.
"No better way to spend s(sic) Sunday," came the reply.
That evening, French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted a photo of himself and bin Salman at the Louvre with the caption, "With Mohammed Bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia." CBS News has reached out to the government of France to find out if Epstein was present, but has not received a response.
That document ended with a text the following day from Epstein to Bannon: "If you are around the 18th, in dc. John Kerry," the former senator, presidential candidate and secretary of state.
A spokesperson for Kerry told CBS News that he was back home in Boston after the end of his service in the Obama administration. "He wasn't in Washington, DC, was never scheduled to be in Washington, and did not have a meeting or meeting request from that cast of characters, period, which isn't surprising since he didn't have a relationship with either one of them, and wasn't in contact with either of them," the spokesperson said.
According to other messages sent from Epstein, he was planning another visit for the summer of 2019 to Saudi Arabia. That trip never happened due to his arrest and incarceration on federal sex crime charges.
Other signs of the connections between Epstein and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have surfaced since his death. Authorities found a photograph of Epstein posing with bin Salman prominently displayed in his Manhattan mansion, according to The New York Times.
After Epstein's arrest in 2019, officials also discovered that he held an expired Austrian passport from the 1980s with his picture and a false name, which listed his residence as Saudi Arabia.
CBS News
GROWW shares saw over 30 lakh units in auction on NSE.
What does this mean?
That means many traders shorted the stock but failed to deliver it in time for settlement.
They sold shares they didn’t have, bet the stock would fall
But it didn’t.
And now, the stock exchange is calling their bluff.
This is a ₹100 crore lesson on greed, speed, and the settlement window.
Let’s break down exactly what’s happening in simple words.
What does this mean?
That means many traders shorted the stock but failed to deliver it in time for settlement.
They sold shares they didn’t have, bet the stock would fall
But it didn’t.
And now, the stock exchange is calling their bluff.
This is a ₹100 crore lesson on greed, speed, and the settlement window.
Let’s break down exactly what’s happening in simple words.
What does “auction” mean in the stock market in simple terms?
An auction is a punishment window for failed promises.
You said you’d deliver shares.
You didn’t.
Now the exchange steps in to fix the mess.
And makes you pay for it.
In India, we now operate under T+1 settlement.
That means:
If you sell a stock today (T),
You must deliver those shares tomorrow (T+1).
But many traders short stocks they don’t own—
betting the price will fall so they can buy it back cheaper the same day.
An auction is a punishment window for failed promises.
You said you’d deliver shares.
You didn’t.
Now the exchange steps in to fix the mess.
And makes you pay for it.
In India, we now operate under T+1 settlement.
That means:
If you sell a stock today (T),
You must deliver those shares tomorrow (T+1).
But many traders short stocks they don’t own—
betting the price will fall so they can buy it back cheaper the same day.
What happens in an auction?
The exchange conducts a separate buy-in auction the next day.
It tries to buy the same number of shares you failed to deliver
and gives them to the buyer who was expecting them.
But here's the catch:
You must pay whatever price the auction settles at
a penalty of up to 20% or ₹1 lakh, whichever is higher.
If the price spikes in auction?
Your loss explodes.
The exchange conducts a separate buy-in auction the next day.
It tries to buy the same number of shares you failed to deliver
and gives them to the buyer who was expecting them.
But here's the catch:
You must pay whatever price the auction settles at
a penalty of up to 20% or ₹1 lakh, whichever is higher.
If the price spikes in auction?
Your loss explodes.