Most recent unrolls from @ThreadReaderApp

1. The "Focus" (or Focus Group) was an informal pressure and influence group (anti-appeasement group) in 1930s Britain (around 1935-1937), which rallied around Winston Churchill with the aim of combating the policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany and promoting rearmament.

2. The main financiers and supporters of this group were:
Sir Henry Edouard Strakosch
Sir Robert Waley Cohen
Eugen Spier
Robert Mond
Bernard Baruch
Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

3. Sir Henry Edouard Strakosch (1871-1943) was an Austrian-born British banker and businessman. Was a Jew. Βegan working for the Anglo-Austrian Bank of South Africa in 1895. Βecame a naturalized British citizen in 1907. He was chairman of the South African goldminers,

Toen een Utrechtse agent (blank) een schop uitdeelde aan een gesluierde moslima schoot dat veel moslims in het verkeerde keelgat; dat is dat "ummah-gevoel". Bij #Nieuwsuur mocht een louche overkomende advocaat vervolgens onweersproken zijn zegje doen. En dan vandaag dit. 1/5

De licht geïrriteerde NOS-verslaggever Lidwien Geevers wilde de politiechef woorden in de mond leggen, maar die deed daar niet aan mee. 2/5

Dat de agent vanwege ernstige bedreigingen met zijn gezin is ondergedoken komt overigens niet ter sprake. In plaats daarvan weer die advocaat. Hij wil een "onbevangen, prudent onderzoek", maar geeft meteen aan wat de uitkomst daarvan zou moeten zijn: geen herhaling. 3/5

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149472282584072192

With the age-old argument, 'Derry or Londonderry' in the news again, it may be worth pointing out some history.

The whole reason for London being prefixed to Derry was a colonial construct linked to London companies brought here to take land & extract wealth.

See map:

Trump, Kushner & Co planning their 'Gaza Riviera' has shocked many, with a view that it's newfound colonialism.

But those grotesque plans are straight out of Britain's dusty colonial playbook. Corporations and imperialism go hand-in-hand.

Look at The Honourable Irish Society (originally known as the London Company or London Society)—a consortium of companies from the English capital, hence renaming Derry in 1613.

The Society was similar in structure to the East India Company and the Virginia Company in America.

پاسخ به بعضی از سوالهای ذهن شما #رشتو_کوتاه
⬅️آیا مذاکره برای هسته‌ای است؟؟ خیر این صرفا خوراک برای افکار عمومی است تا اهداف اصلی از فشار افکار عمومی مصون بمانند چون قبلا ترامپ درمورد هسته‌ای گفته بود که کار تمام شده و نیاز به مذاکره بابت چیزی که نابود کرده و اگر لازم باشد دوباره

بمباران میکند ندارد! نتیجتا این فرض کاملا منطقیست که بحث هسته‌ای هدف نیست بهانه است.
⬅️ مذاکره بر سر چه چیزیست؟؟ سرفصلهای مذاکره مشخص نیست چون اصلا اطلاعاتی برای تحلیل از آن بیرون نیامده و بدترین کار تحلیل براساس تنها منبع در دسترس یعنی سخنان تیم رژیم تروریستی ایران است. اما با

شناختی که ما از ترامپ داریم من میتونم پیش بینی کنم (حدس بزنم) که ترامپ دو کارت جنایت علیه بشریت و حضور فرمانده سنتکام رو روی میز مذاکره گذاشته و میگوید من به اهدافم با قدرت نظامی و مشروعیت جهانی (R2P) میرسم و A دلار هزینه مالی و سیاسی میدم.
این A هزینه چیزیه که میتونم به ج ا

I'm going to make a falsifiable prediction that will either make me look brilliant or destroy my credibility:
The traditional 60/40 portfolio will experience a 25%+ drawdown before the end of 2027.
Here's my exact reasoning: 🧵

First, what counts as "traditional 60/40"?
60% U.S. stocks (S&P 500 or similar)
40% U.S. investment-grade bonds (10yr+ duration)
Rebalanced quarterly
This is the benchmark for $18 trillion in assets.

The setup is already in place:
Current environment:
S&P at ~6,000 (elevated valuations)
10-year yields at 4.5%
Stock-bond correlation at +0.33
Inflation running 3%+ (above target)
Fiscal deficits $1T+ annually
We're one catalyst away from crisis.

Just attended @every's OpenClaw Camp. Mind-blowing insights from @nateliason and his AI sidekick @FelixCraftAI. Here's what I learned 🧵:

1/ OpenClaw gets better the more you use it: It starts off feeling like a typical AI agent (pretty bland). But as it builds up memory through ongoing interactions, it becomes much more personalized. OpenClaw is especially good at this due to its memory-saving system.

2/ Build context over time: You shouldn't have it do complex things right at the beginning. Instead, build up lots of context over a long time; that way, it knows you really well and can handle tasks more effectively with that deep understanding.

We were taught that truth is the best weapon.

That if people have access to facts, they'll figure it out.

This turned out to be completely, dangerously wrong

(🧵Read on)

Information is no longer scarce: everyone has access to it. The Kremlin understood this sooner than most. Unlike Pravda in Soviet times, they don't see hiding facts as the biggest priority — instead, they flood you with versions of events until you start drowning in them.

[2/15]

This is not to say censorship in Russia isn't brutal — it absolutely is, and people spend years in prison for speaking out. It's just not the regime's most important tool. They do silence dissent, but what makes the real difference is what they amplify and how they frame it.

[3/15]

🧵La Russia rafforza il dominio sulle rotte artiche. Mosca guida la competizione mondiale sulla capacità di navigazione nelle acque artiche e questo ha un impatto geopolitico e geostrategico importante.
(segue)

(2)Mosca e Pechino cooperano in maniera sinergica per sviluppare l'Artico. La Russia utilizza l'Artico per rinforzare il suo ruolo geopolitico nei confronti dei suoi principali partner commerciali oltre che per contrastare il dominio statunitense sulle rotte commerciali.
(segue)

(3)La Northem Sea Route opera interamente all'interno delle sfere di influenza russe limitando de facto le minacce militari al commercio marittimo. La rotta artica bypassa i punti di strozzatura occidentali in Medioriente nel settore del Canale di Suez/Mar Arabico.
(segue)

Everyones using ChatGPT for content writing. Meanwhile Claude is quietly outperforming it on every platform.

I switched 3 months ago and my engagement jumped 340% across all socials.

The secret isnt Claude itself. Its the 10 prompts that make it write like an actual human, not a corporate robot.

Here they are: 🧵

1. The Coffee Shop Test

Prompt:

"Write this like you're explaining it to a friend over coffee. No marketing speak. No corporate jargon. Just straight talk about [topic]. If it sounds like a LinkedIn post, rewrite it."

Claude actually gets this. ChatGPT still sounds like it's pitching a SaaS product.

2. Voice Finder

Prompt:

"Give me 5 different ways to say this same idea. Make each one sound like a different person wrote it - one cynical, one excited, one skeptical, one matter-of-fact, one surprised."

This is how I find MY voice. Pick the version that feels most natural, then Claude refines it.

I will be enthusiastically supporting faculty legislation to cap the number of A's at Harvard at 20% (plus a bit). The collective action problem that has driven grades higher & higher over time is increasingly problematic. I hope other institutions consider similar steps.

I've talked to numerous colleagues & students about grade inflation. Almost all of them see it as a a problem. I've also heard about as many different ideas for solutions as I've had conversations. I would tweak this proposal in various ways. But would support it over nothing.

One place the current system fails--and it's not the only place--is honors. I'm on the Committee to recommend honors in the economics department. It's increasingly hard to distinguish excellence with so many A's. I believe that now even two A-'s makes you ineligible for Summa.

O PAŞAYI VURUN !
Wolfowitz, Kıvrıkoğlu’nun kendisini azarlamasını hiç unutamadı. Önce Süleymaniye’deki çuval olayını tezgâhladı. Ardından Paşa için ölüm emri çıkarttı. Ancak metresinin düşük çenesini hesaba katmadı…

Öyle konular vardır ki sadece bir kere yazabilirsiniz. Zamanın ruhuna uymayıp ertelediğinizde ya da öne aldığınızda, yazdığınızın bir anlamı olmaz. Ama doğru zamanda kaleme alındığında da Tsunami etkisi gösterir.

Genelkurmay eski Başkanı Hilmi Özkök, Ergenekon mahkemesine gidip ifade verinceye kadar birazdan yazacaklarımı paylaşmayı düşünmüyordum.
Ancak Paşa salonda “ABD, Wolfowitz aracılığı ile bana Tezkerenin geçmesi için baskı yaptı.

🧵THREAD:

@NBCNews aired a 10-minute “video investigation” into Israel’s military accountability.

It spent 9 seconds on Oct. 7 — the event that started the war.

Here’s how the rest of the story was built.

Out of 606 seconds, NBC devoted 9 seconds to Oct. 7.

The words "tunnels" and "hostages" were never mentioned.

Everything that followed was framed without that context.

Take away Oct. 7, tunnels, and hostages and the war stops making sense.

Russia has killed over 650 Ukrainian athletes and destroyed at least 15 Olympic training bases.

🧵 1/12 ⬇️

1/ Why has Russia failed so abysmally at providing secure battlefield communications to its troops in Ukraine? The answer, concludes Russian warblogger Oleg Tsarev, is that the military communications budget has been looted for years by corrupt generals and contractors. ⬇️

2/ Tsarev relates the dismal history of Russia's military communications programmes:

"I remember how, at the beginning of the Special Military Operation, all units were buying Motorola radios. There was no other communications."

3/ "Now, Elon Musk has shut down the Starlink terminals our military used in the Special Military Operation, and our communications at the front have been disrupted. I'm talking to military personnel: many say we still have virtually no communications of our own.

I'll add beyond the Epstein CIA Files we also need the Epstein State Department Files. One of the big mysteries of the Epstein 1990s is how in the flying hell he had the US Department of State as his personal landlord. State *at the very least* has files from then we should see.

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/2019807731750674707

2. The formal Epstein - State Dept relationship under the Clinton admin is gobsmacking for many reasons. First, Epstein visited the Clinton White House at least 17 times, so seemed to have a direct advisory, consultation or possibly a logistics coordination role in US statecraft

3. Second reason we need all State Dept records around this 1990s Epstein housing arrangement, esp its inbound comms from other agencies (CIA, namely) is BECAUSE EPSTEIN RENTED OUT THE MANSION TO THE DEFENSE LAWYER FOR TWO MAJOR DRUG RINGS THAT BOTH HAD ALLEGED CIA INVOLVEMENT

@basedregina @janvanruth11 @KassieTroy @IslanderWORLD There is no link to 'german fascism', because there never was such a thing, but an explanation why this happens in Germany does exist nevertheless.

Which might sound strange and apologetic, but hear me out, what I say will make sense.

Many people believe that 'fascism' ...

1/

@basedregina @janvanruth11 @KassieTroy @IslanderWORLD 2) ... is a rightwing german, a 'nazi thing', but it originated in Italy and was the special italian brand of originally /socialist/ totalitarian thinking.

Italian fascism had its origin in the italian alliances of WW1 combat veterans, Fasci italiani di combattimento ...

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@basedregina @janvanruth11 @KassieTroy @IslanderWORLD 3) ... who opposed the italian government and wanted a more nationalistic policy.

And the political orientation of its members was at first all over the place. You had right-wingers and monarchist, but an overwhelmingly huge part were left-wingers and socialists.

What ...

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🧵UNSEALED: New indictment against Zubayr al-Bakoush for his role in the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, Libya.

Charges include conspiracy, terrorism, attempted murder, murder, and arson.

1/n

Al-Bakoush is the third person to be apprehended and charged in connection to the Benghazi attack.

The other two are Ahmed Salim Faraj Abu Khatallah and Mustafa Muhammad Muftah al-Imam.

2/n

Abu Khattala was indicted in August of 2013 and captured by Delta Force in June 2014.

He was convicted in 2017, sentenced in 2018, but the sentence was later overturned due to it being WAY too low—just 22 years.

He was resentenced to 28 years and is now in the CO Supermax.
3/n

Reflexiones varias/crónica sobre la (necesaria) Jornada "Cómo frenar la epidemia de la desinformación en salud" de @sanidadgob/@anisalud (os invito a revisar esta última cuenta para ver los resúmenes de las charlas y mesas redondas o verla en youtube.com/watch?v=QGbIuM…). x.com/StopPseudo/sta…

#StopPseudociencias #coNprueba
Aunque al final del vídeo he podido comentar algunas cosas, de la hora estimada para contribuciones del público apenas he podido rascar un poco de todo lo que surgió por comentar (las propuestas interasociacionales las aportaremos más tarde).

Llegué ya concluyendo la charla introductoria de @Monica_Garcia_G (las 9 es una hora poco conciliadora para quienes tenemos peques). La primera charla fue de la responsable de Health Information Integrity Alliance y Comunicación de la OMS. Se mencionó el tema de la pérdida de>

🧵 “La problematicità dell’energia fotovoltaica”

Tra le fonti rinnovabili, l’energia fotovoltaica è senza dubbio la più problematica in termini di intermittenza giornaliera e stagionale. Non occorre infatti essere specialisti per comprendere come la radiazione solare abbia ⤵️

cicli giornalieri (giorno/notte) e stagionali (inverno/estate), il tutto sottoposto ai capricci del meteo che, con le nuvole e la foschia, le conferiscono carattere di estrema aleatorietà.

Se prendiamo i dati di una delle tante centraline meteorologiche sparse in tutta Italia,⤵️

questa estrema variabilità salta subito agli occhi. La centralina presa a riferimento è localizzata in sud Italia alle coordinate (40°45'50"N, 15°59'8"E) nei dintorni del paesino di Oppido Lucano (PZ).
Dal grafico della radiazione solare diretta vediamo subito che il suo valore⤵️

NEW: The controversy over the 2020 presidential election took a sharp turn last week when the FBI executed a search warrant at the offices of the Fulton County Election Board in Georgia. It’s a dramatic development.

Atlanta’s Fulton County was the epicenter of Donald Trump’s disputed loss of the state in 2020. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton called the search warrant a “vindication” for Trump. Candidate Trump “almost went to jail for raising the questions that have now been validated by a federal magistrate,” Fitton told Newsmax.

“The reason the search warrant was approved was because a federal magistrate looked at the facts and made the conclusion that there was a reasonable belief that a crime had taken place…specifically election crimes.”