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Ghana must stop "galamsey" before it sinks the country:
Political interests must be set aside to prevent illegal (gold) mining from devastating the country’s forests, farmland and water system. issafrica.org/iss-today/ghan…

1b) Galamsey is also destroying farmlands, particularly cocoa.
Ghana Cocoa Board data shows that production, currently at 429 323 t, is less than 55% of its seasonal output, mainly d/t illegal mining.
In the Mankurom community alone, galamsey has wiped out 100 000+ acres of cocoa

2) The UK government has sounded the alarm, revealing that Ghana loses a staggering $2 billion annually to illegal gold mining, locally called"galamsey" and gold smuggling.

Galamsey leads to deforestation,esp cocoa farmlands, water pollution,displacement
africanminingmarket.com/ghana-loses-us…

The Jannik Sinner Doping Case: An Investigation Into Tennis's Two-Tier Justice System

How the ex-World's #1 Player Escaped Punishment While Science, Procedure, and Fairness Were Abandoned

A thread 🧵

@pavyg @Yolitatennis @rhondaessexgirl @DjokovicEternal @festivetables @marramirem5
@AndreaGuglieri @goatkovic2021 Made the article about Sinner's doping case I wrote into a Thread. Might be more digestible for people!

NAZRIYA NAZIM FT. THULAM BANGARAM ❤️‍🔥

Na peru Siddhu ma intlo Nenu amma nanna and ma anna untam Madhi chaala orthodox family
Daily intlo poojalu cheyadam weekly gudiki velladam jarugutai amma nanna religion vishayam lo chaala strict ga untaru
Anna ki amma nanna ante chaala bayam ey vishayam cheppali anukunna kuda natho ne cheppisthadu intlo

Nenu anna 1 year nunchi work kosam Kerala vachi ikkade oka room rent ki teskoni vuntunnam
Nenu daily work ayyaka videos or actress pics choosi kottukoni padukune vadni
Ila life gadusthunte oka roju suddenga

Morning door bell mogindi
Nenu Nidra matthulo evara ani belli door open chesa
Choodagane shock
Na Mundu anna and oka ammai burqa lo unnaru iddari meda lo poola dhandalu unnai
Kasepu alane shock lo nilchunna
Anna :rey Siddhu
Anagane senses lo ki vachi anna chey pattukoni lopaliki teskoni vella
Me :entra nuv chesina pani
Anna :love chesa ra valla intlo ibbandhi pedthunnaru ani pelli cheseskunna
Me :amma gurinchi telusu ga champestharu ra ninnu
Anna :please ra thammudu nuvve edho okati cheyali, thanu na kosam anni vadilesi vachindi
Me :entha pani chesav ra
Sare mundhu thanani lopaliki teskoni ra vellu

Inka aa roju motham intlo awkward ga gadichindi
Oka 2 days varaku vadina natho em matladaledhu
Intlo eppudu choosina thanu burqa veskone untundi
Oka 2 days ki ma madhya normal conversation jarigindi em chestuntav enti ani matladkunnam anthe

(One day convo btwn anna and vadina)

Anna :Siddhu em antunnadu
Naz :emo vadiki nenu nachaledhu anukunta sarigga matladatledhu
Anna :ala anake Vadiki konchem siggu anthe, intlo mana gurinchi cheppalsindi vaade konchem friendly ga undu vaditho
Naz :Sare andi
Anna :mari ippati sangathi enti
Naz :ento aa sangathi

The Hour of Truth

A bombshell excerpt from Professor Bhakdi’s new book reveals the terrifying reality of modRNA injections:

Lipid nanoparticles deliver the modified mRNA straight into cell nuclei during division, risking “forest fire” damage to chromosomes. Pseudouridine makes hybrids unavoidable. Every injection without hybrid-proofing is de facto reckless bodily harm.

“There is no way around this discovery. Regulatory authorities must verify the findings and publish them. Until then, the use of modRNA in preventive medicine is a crime against humanity.”

A moratorium on all modRNA products must be imposed immediately.

Free reading sample from Prof. Bhakdi’s latest book which will be released in English soon.🧵

This book concludes with the latest discovery by the research group around Kevin McKernan, which was made in early December 2025 and must mean the end of all modRNA prenentive vaccines.

To understand the enormous implications of this discovery, we return to elementary knowledge: Genes are DNA sequences arranged on chromoomes, in which the building instructions for our proteins are coded. DNA sequences consist of four building blocks (nucleotides), which are designated by their inital letters lefurat A(denine), T(hymine),C(ytosine), G(uanine).

When needed, a code is transcriped into the actual building instruction into the the corresponding messenger (Boten) RNA. mRNA is the nucleotide strand that forms complementary to DNA: U(ridine) to A, A to T, G zo C, C 20 G. The mRNA then leaves the Chormosome and ensures the formation of the cerrespording protein in the production sites (ribosomes).

Thanks to advances in molecular biology, it is possible to produce DNA sequences at will and use them as non-chromosomal matrices for the machine production of mRNA:

[Diagram remains the same – showing synthetic DNA with bases A, C, T, A, A on the left column and U, G, A, U, U on the right column, labeled “synthetische DNS” at the top, with an arrow pointing to “Lipidnanopartikel/Vaccine” and “modRNA with Pseudouridin” below.]

Approved procedure for production
After production of the mRNA, the artificial DNA code can be destroyed enzymatically (by DNase). The mRNA remains for use as a vaccine, whereby two conditions must be met:
1Instead of uridine, a chemically modified molecule (pseudouridine) must be used. Pseudouridine gives the mRNA a longer lifespan in the cell. Pseudouridine-containing mRNA is referred to as modRNA (= modified RNA).

2Outside of cells, modRNA is not stable and, to be effective, its uptake into cells is a prerequisite. Both hurdles are overcome by packaging it in artificial lipid shells, so-called lipid nanoparticles (LNP). LNPs consist of a mixture of natural and artificially produced fats. Among the artificial fats there are toxic compounds whose use on humans was not permitted at all before the Corona period.

The Language of COVID — A Psychological Autopsy

„Safe and Effective“

These two words were not chosen accidentally.

They were chosen by people who understood exactly what they were doing.

“Safe” does not operate on the rational mind. It operates on the nervous system. When an authority figure, a doctor, a government official, a trusted institution, declares something safe, the amygdala receives a direct signal. Stand down. The threat assessment has been completed by someone qualified to do it. Your fear is no longer required.

This is why the phrase was so effective and why it was repeated so relentlessly.

Repetition is not emphasis in propaganda ,it is replacement. Say a thing enough times and it stops being a claim that requires evidence and becomes a background assumption that the mind no longer examines. Safe and effective became wallpaper. It was everywhere. On television. From podiums. In the voices of doctors who had themselves absorbed it from the institutional infrastructure they trusted.

“Effective” paired with it perfectly because together they formed a pre-emptive closure of the only two questions a rational person would ask about a medical intervention.
Is it safe? Yes. Is it effective? Yes. Move along.

What was never said , because the phrase was designed to prevent the asking , was any of the following. Safe for whom? At what age? With what pre-existing conditions? Over what timeframe? With what level of certainty given the truncated trial duration? Compared to what alternatives? With what known and unknown risk profile?
Effective at what specifically? At preventing infection? The trials did not demonstrate that with the confidence the phrase implied. At preventing transmission? This was never established by the trial data ,a fact that Pfizer’s own representative acknowledged under direct questioning before the European Parliament. At preventing severe disease in the elderly? There was signal there. In healthy young adults and children? The calculation was always far less clear.

“Safe and effective” was not a summary of evidence.
It was a replacement for it.

And the people who repeated it most loudly were, in many cases, people who had never read the primary data, who had absorbed the phrase from the institutional environment and passed it along with the confidence of someone who has mistaken familiarity for knowledge.

This is what made it so dangerous. The most effective propaganda does not require conscious deception at every level of the chain. It requires only that the phrase travel far enough that the people repeating it genuinely believe it and genuinely cannot understand why anyone would question something so obvious.

II. „Trust the Science“

The Inversion of Everything Science Actually Is

Science is not a set of conclusions.
It is a process. a method of systematically testing claims against reality through observation, hypothesis, controlled experimentation, peer review, and the ongoing revision of understanding as new evidence emerges. What makes science trustworthy is precisely its built-in mechanism for self-correction. The willingness to be wrong. The institutional commitment, at its best , to following evidence wherever it leads regardless of who it inconveniences.

“Trust the science” collapses all of that into a single authority claim.
It does not say, here is the methodology, here are the data sets, here are the confidence intervals, here are the competing hypotheses, here are the limitations of what we currently know, here is the peer-reviewed debate happening in real time among serious researchers who disagree with each other as scientists always do.

It says: defer.
Stop asking. The process has been completed by credentialed people and your role is not inquiry but compliance.

This is not science. It is the performance of scientific authority in the service of administrative control. And it worked, devastatingly well, because it weaponised the genuine public respect for scientific achievement against the very epistemological humility that makes science worth respecting.

The history of medicine is a history of people who refused to simply trust the science as it stood. Semmelweis, who understood that doctors were killing patients through unwashed hands and was institutionalised for saying so. Barry Marshall, who drank a solution of Helicobacter pylori to demonstrate that stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria rather than stress, against the established consensus and won the Nobel Prize for it. Every paradigm shift, every genuine advance, required someone willing to stand in front of the settled consensus and say the evidence points somewhere else.

“Trust the science” would have silenced every one of them.
What the phrase exploited was a specific feature of how most people relate to expertise. Most people, reasonably and necessarily, delegate their trust in technical domains to those with specialist knowledge. They do not have the time or training to evaluate primary research in epidemiology or vaccinology. So they rely on institutions that are supposed to do that evaluation honestly on their behalf.

“Trust the science” hijacked that delegation.

It positioned the institutional position , which was shaped by funding relationships, by regulatory capture, by the career incentives of the people making decisions, by the political pressures of a crisis. as synonymous with the scientific process itself.

And anyone who questioned the institutional position was positioned as questioning science, conspiracy theorist and a right winger.

That move was not accidental. It was the most sophisticated element of the entire psychological operation. Because it meant that the more someone actually engaged with the primary literature , the more carefully they read the trial data, the biodistribution studies, the adverse event reports , the more they were characterised as anti-science by people who had not read any of it.
It inverted the epistemological hierarchy entirely.

Ignorance of the data, combined with institutional deference, became the definition of being pro-science.

Engagement with the data, combined with independent conclusions, became the definition of dangerous misinformation.

III. „Pandemic of the Unvaccinated“

The Scapegoat Mechanism at Scale

To understand this phrase you need to understand what it was responding to.

By mid to late 2021 it was becoming undeniable, through data from highly vaccinated countries including Israel and the United Kingdom , that vaccinated individuals were contracting and transmitting the virus in significant numbers. The promise of sterilising immunity, of ending transmission chains, of reaching herd immunity through vaccination, was not being realised in the way the public had been led to expect.

This created a psychological and political crisis for the institutions that had staked their credibility on the programme.

The response was “pandemic of the unvaccinated.”

René Girard spent his career documenting the scapegoat mechanism — one of the oldest and most reliable tools of social management in human history. When a community is under stress, when anxiety is high and the source of that anxiety is diffuse or systemic and therefore difficult to address directly, the community converges on a designated figure or group who absorbs the collective tension. The scapegoat is expelled or punished. The community experiences temporary relief. The actual source of the tension remains entirely unaddressed.

The mechanism does not require conscious coordination. It emerges naturally from the dynamics of frightened social groups, which is precisely what makes it so reliable and so dangerous.

“Pandemic of the unvaccinated” told a frightened, frustrated population that their ongoing fear had a human cause and a human face. The problem was not the virus, not the institutional failures, not the gap between what was promised and what was delivered. The problem was the people who had refused. Who had been selfish. Who had prolonged the pandemic through their stubbornness and their irresponsibility.

This reframing accomplished several things simultaneously.
It redirected blame. The anger that might have been directed at the institutions that had overpromised and underdelivered was channelled instead toward neighbours, family members, colleagues.

It reinforced the binary. There were two kinds of people, the responsible and the irresponsible, the compliant and the dangerous. This binary made ambivalence socially impossible. You were on one side or the other.
It gave the anxiety of the vaccinated a socially sanctioned outlet. The relief of having something to be angry at, something human and proximate and theoretically controllable, was immense. And the anger was performed publicly, which added social reward to the emotional relief.

And it was wrong.

The data that was already available and that the institutions promoting this phrase had access to showed that vaccinated individuals were transmitting the virus. The framing was not merely misleading. It was a deliberate choice to assign causation to a group when the causal picture was far more complicated.

But its psychological function did not require factual accuracy.
It required emotional plausibility in a population that was frightened, exhausted, and desperate for the story to have a villain that was not the story itself.

It found that plausibility.

And the people who bore the cost of it, the unvaccinated who were excluded, defamed, fired, and in some cases denied medical care, paid a real price for a lie that served the interests of institutions unwilling to account honestly for their own failures.

That is the scapegoat mechanism.
As old as human society.

Dressed in the language of public health.

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In the Tower Campaign, one group of faction players decided to take their targets and make a Threat Deck out of them like something out of the GWOT. These exist in-game.

This is something incredible. Never seen it in my experience before. Behold the deck thread.

Every obedience experiment in history had the same overlooked finding.

Not everyone complied.

In Milgram’s lab, 35% refused to deliver the final shock. In Asch’s line experiments, 25% never conformed, not once, across any trial. In Zimbardo’s prison, at least one guard refused to dehumanize. One prisoner demanded a lawyer instead of a doctor and broke the psychological frame entirely.

We spent decades studying the ones who obeyed.

We barely asked what made the others different.

That question matters more now than it ever has.

The resisters in the COVID era were not difficult to find. Physicians who filed exemptions and lost their licenses. Nurses who walked away from careers rather than mandate patients into decisions they hadn’t genuinely chosen. Scientists who published contrary data knowing what it would cost them. Parents who stood alone at school board meetings. Ordinary people who simply said, quietly, without drama , no.

What made them different?

Research consistently identifies a cluster of factors. Not personality traits you either have or don’t. Situational and cognitive patterns that can be cultivated.

First: prior reflection on authority. The resisters had usually thought, before the crisis, about the limits of institutional trust. They weren’t cynics. They were people who had already asked the question “under what conditions would I refuse?” before anyone was asking them to comply.

Second: a concrete reference point outside the consensus. A value, a principle, an oath, a relationship that existed independently of the institutional structure demanding compliance. Something the system couldn’t reach.

Third: at least one other person. Milgram found that a single dissenting confederate reduced compliance dramatically. The resisters rarely stood entirely alone. They found each other. Sustained each other. Gave each other permission.

Fourth: the willingness to tolerate social pain. Not immunity to it. Tolerance of it. They felt the pressure. They felt the exclusion. They chose the discomfort of integrity over the comfort of belonging.
None of this is innate. All of it is learnable.

The most important thing Milgram, Asch, and Zimbardo taught us is not how fragile conscience is.

It’s that conscience can hold, if you’ve trained it, named its limits, and found even one other person willing to hold theirs beside you.

Build that now. Because the experiment is always running.

Until then stay humble.

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🚨 紧急播报：Gemini现在可以完全重新编程你的大脑，让你闪电般快速学习任何东西 ⚡

这里有7个提示词让你学习任何主题快10倍 ⬇️

1. 费曼学习法（Feynman Technique）

提示词：

'用简单语言教我[主题]，就像向初学者孩子解释一样。然后让我用自己的话解释，找出我理解的漏洞。'

2. 拆解至第一性原理

提示词：

'作为专家教师行动。用第一性原理思维将[主题]拆解至最基本单位，让我理解底层逻辑，而非死记表面事实。'

The connection between Jacqueline and Mortimer Sackler and Ghislaine Maxwell is rooted in financial backing for Maxwell's ocean charity, the TerraMar Project.

https://twitter.com/Bithiah333/status/1989420952753492181

Unsealed Department of Justice files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation revealed that the Mortimer D. Sackler Foundation issued a $10,000 donation to the TerraMar Project during its operations.🤔

🎶At the exact time this donation was made, Mortimer and Jacqueline Sackler were navigating the early waves of the American opioid crisis litigation.🤔

NotebookLM Is Becoming Way More Powerful Than Most People Realize

Here’s How to Turn It Into Your Smartest AI Assistant 📷

1 | Core Meaning Extractor (Deep Understanding Mode)
Perfect for textbooks, PDFs, lecture notes, or research uploads.

Prompt:
“Analyze all uploaded materials and generate 5 essential questions that capture the true meaning of the content.

Focus on:
– Foundational concepts and definitions
– Ideas repeated or emphasized
– How concepts connect to each other
– Real-world or practical applications mentioned”

2 | Structural Thinking Builder (Beyond Surface Summaries)
Use this when summaries feel shallow or scattered.

Prompt:
“Review all documents and create 5 essential questions that, if answered, would fully explain the main ideas and purpose of the material.”

NAFO fellas are on yet another self doxxing binge campaign called "NAFOPrideDay."

I delved into that dark 🏳️‍🌈 corner, but now I've seen it, so have to as well. Those are the rules. I didn't make them.

Thread🧵

🧵New Orleans just proved failing schools can be fixed at scale.

It became America’s first all-charter school district.

The results are staggering:

• 99th percentile nationally in reading growth
• 98th percentile in math growth
• The only state in America beating pre-pandemic levels in both subjects

This is what real reform looks like. THREAD 🧵

2/ Before Hurricane Katrina, the system was a disaster.

Over 60% of New Orleans public schools were rated failing. Kids attended chaotic, dangerous schools where constant disruptions made real learning almost impossible.

A generation was being failed by design.

Then the storm hit — and everything changed.

3/ New Orleans didn’t tinker. It transformed.

The state took over the worst schools, converted the entire district to charters, eliminated neighborhood attendance zones, and gave families real school choice.

Thousands of underperforming teachers and staff were fired. Corruption and low standards were confronted directly.

It was radical. It worked.

🚨 ¡IMPRESIONANTE!: Un exinvestigador de Anthropic acaba de filtrar el marco de prompts interno exacto que usa el equipo

La mayoría de la gente trata a Claude como un chatbot básico y desaprovecha entre el 60% y el 70% de su capacidad de razonamiento

Estos 10 prompts son como los usan los profesionales, probados internamente para garantizar la máxima claridad, honestidad y profundidad

Listas para copiar y pegar. Sin rodeos

Guarda este hilo. Tu experiencia con Claude está a punto de cambiar para siempre

(Consejo profesional: úsalos en orden para obtener resultados combinados)

Prompt 1: Contexto (El mapa que Claude realmente necesita)

Nunca te lances directamente a la pregunta

Empieza con un contexto completo:

“Me estás ayudando con [objetivo específico].
Mi experiencia: [tu rol + empresa/proyecto + limitaciones].
Ya he probado [X e Y].
Estoy atascado en [Z].
Primero, asegúrate de comprender el contexto completo antes de sugerir nada”

Las pruebas internas demostraron que este simple cambio aumenta la calidad del resultado en un 41%

Claude no es adivino; dale el mapa completo

Prompt 2: Razonamiento Visible (Cadena de Pensamiento Potenciada)

No pidas respuestas. Exige el proceso:

“Antes de dar cualquier recomendación final:
- Muestra tu razonamiento completo paso a paso
- Enumera explícitamente cada suposición
- Indica las incertidumbres y los niveles de confianza (bajo/medio/alto)
- Solo entonces presenta la respuesta definitiva”

Esto revela las capas ocultas del razonamiento de Claude. No solo obtienes una respuesta, sino un proceso de pensamiento auditable en el que puedes confiar plenamente

🌿 The Primitive Resonance of the Analog Safe Haven

The reason this specific concept resonates with you—even if you can't immediately articulate why—is because it appeals to an extinctual, biological truth that your subconscious mind recognizes instantly."
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https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/2061460322007781720

"While your analytical intellect can track the complex mathematical architecture of Space Syntax , DeepMind matrices, and IQVIA data ledgers , your raw human biology remains entirely ancient ..🎶

Your subconscious knows that a digital cage, no matter how sophisticated its predictive code, cannot survive if you cut off its physical fuel supply."..🎶

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Decline was a choice. Not anymore.

In just 14 months, @POTUS has restored our nation’s capital, making it SAFE & BEAUTIFUL.

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Meridian Hill Fountains

Bolivar Memorial Park Fountain

Mezhyhirya, la casa di Yanukovich.

Il vero motivo della rivoluzione in Ucraina è stata la corruzione del potere politico, le ruberie a piene mani dalle casse dello stato da parte del suo presidente e amici politici e l'oppressione poliziesca del popolo.

Yanukovich, l'ex Presidente Ucraino scappato in Russia, in solo tre anni è diventato il presidente più ricco del mondo subito dopo Putin, suo intimo amico.

Mi pare proprio che Travaglio nei suoi sermoni antiucraini non lo ricordi tanto spesso🤣🤣🤣
Video euronews (in Italiano).

Migliaia i documenti rinvenuti nella sua lussuosa residenza nei pressi di Kiev: con ogni probabilità appena la punta di un iceberg di sfarzi e ricchezze, che suona come uno schiaffo a una popolazione, abituata a salari pari a poche centinaia di euro.