Inna Francis, CFA, MBA

FinTech, Finance, Emerging Markets

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

I’ve verified this video from near St Nicolas (Canton du Valais) in Switzerland and it’s truly terrifying!! This is one of the debris flows that happened on Friday.

Nearly five inches of rain caused rivers to overflow, cutting power to villages and covering roads, fields, and villages with rubble, earth, and wood.

Three people are still missing.

Video via: @Meteovilles

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Independent US House candidate Dennis Kucinich: Ron Paul is “100% right” that the Republic died when JFK was assassinated

“There’s no question the country changed” after JFK’s assassination.

“It changed emotionally, it changed in terms of the grip that the deep state had on the government.

If you look at the speech that Kennedy gave at American University in the spring of 1963, half a year before he was assassinated, he called basically for taking down the military-industrial complex in the same way that Eisenhower did a few years earlier in his farewell speech.

He said, we want to create a country where peace is inevitable, not war.”

From Timcast

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

As 20,000 NATO troops gather in Romania, close to the Ukrainain border, and NATO countries sign "Defence agreements" with Kiev, we are dangerously close to an unprecedented conflict. Peace is a dirty word in Brussels and Washington.

Here's the update from Moscow.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Isaac Asimov practically predicts YouTube in 1980

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Worth watching, especially for parents

[Dave Collum @DavidBCollum]

Gotta watch @robbystarbuck's "War on Children". It made critical connections I had missed...

https://t.co/seQaOUJinb

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

World War II timeline
https://t.co/tSOVz6HFSB

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺🇺🇦‼️🚨 “Now I’m going to say a forbidden thought. Of all three involved in this [Russia, West, Ukraine], only Russia wants peace.”

— Arestovich

[Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski]

His post & meeting suggest that Zelensky dismisses Zaluzhny as commander in chief of Ukrainian armed forces. When I wrote about this originally, I was attacked and smeared by propaganda peddlers & self-proclaimed experts.

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

This is such an extraordinary speech. I only ask of my followers to watch this. Then I leave you alone

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

“You can’t behold evil and then return and not speak on it.”

Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks about how an experience in Palestine illuminated the connections between the African American and Palestinian liberation struggles, and the moral responsibility to speak out.

[Inna Francis, CFA, MBA @FrancisInna]

@MasculineMind_ 23

[Naila Kauser @BrownNaila]

"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.

There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.

I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.

It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!

So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.

And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."

[Inna Francis, CFA, MBA @FrancisInna]

nice work

[gaut @0xgaut]

ok this is absolutely *wild*

using AI to live translate and sync your lips

[Steve Burns @SJosephBurns]

👏😂

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

When are we going to ration what the Military Industrial Complex do each year..? Emissions from Military, predominantly from #US Empire with over 800 Military Bases World wide, are greater than Aviation + Shipping combined...
Why the silence on the biggest single contributer...?

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

Listen to Professor Jeffrey Sachs's damning indictment of the US political system:

"US politics is basically a plutocratic state where public policy has been taken over by several powerful lobbies, each one devoted to its specific area (...) Democrats and Republicans, by the way, that's a little bit a children's game (...) The oligarchy, the plutocracy, is both parties (...) There's been no public debate for a moment on the $120 billion that has been spent so far (...) There's no attempt at deliberative democracy at all. No debate at all."