GBMI gregg

The meds of monomania

[Korobochka (コロボ) 🇦🇺✝️🇷🇺 @cirnosad]

Justice will come to all who harmed the innocent children of Donbass. It's just a matter of time.

[Eye On Axis @eyeonaxis]

Kowloon City, Hong Kong. 1970s, by Bruce Dale

[Alexander Dugin @AGDugin]

The sudden death of Lindsey Graham can be the black mark sent to Trump. I doubt it were Iranians. Most realistic it was Mossad job in order to push Trump to renew full scale war with Iran. It clearly means “you are the next”. Lindsey Graham was the shadow of Trump, his black self

[GBMI gregg @GreggIbe]

@pinoyanghang in the monster steal that they perpetrated that he may not want to step down just like that in '28.

[GBMI gregg @GreggIbe]

@pinoyanghang Lahat kinasangkapan ng administrasyon na 'to; isa-isang pinapakulong ang mga perceived na pabor kay Inday, at talagang atat na atat na i-railroad paalis sa pwesto ang VP ng mga nasa palasyo. The president wants to save his hide so bad, and of his cohorts

[GBMI gregg @GreggIbe]

@pinoyanghang The only stragglers left in that trial who bravely acquitted the much maligned chief justice were Santiago, Arroyo, and surprisingly that guy Marcos. Miriam and Joker must be turning in their graves the way his presidency is panning out. Corrupt to the core!

[GBMI gregg @GreggIbe]

@pinoyanghang Kahit greenhorn na prosecutor, kahit malamyang prosecutor nuong panahon ng Corona impeachment e walang kapanapanalo yung mga de-kalibreng abogado tulad nina Mendoza, Cuevas at talagang napatunayan namang the jurors have already made up their minds..

[GBMI gregg @GreggIbe]

@inquirersports @jonasterradoINQ Asi still wants to play, i bet; and Woody Co is coaching at such a young age with that team when he should be playing in that league; a real cerebral player out of State U, that guy.

[News5 @News5PH]

LUMITAW NA LUMANG BAYAN

Muling lumitaw ang lumang bayan ng Pantabangan sa Nueva Ecija nitong Linggo, July 12.

Lumabas ito matapos bumaba ang tubig sa Pantabangan Dam.

Sinadya itong palubugin ng gobyerno noong dekada 1970 para bigyang-daan ang pagpapatayo ng Pantabangan Dam, na isa sa pinakamalaking dam sa Asya. Inilipat ang mga residente noon sa mas mataas na relocation site na siyang bagong bayan ng Pantabangan ngayon.

📸: Marking TV

[MattWestPacWX @MattWestPacWX]

After the former STY #Bavi (#IndayPH), the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) is now monitoring two tropical disturbances in the Western Pacific (WPAC) basin: Invest #97W and Invest #98W. Another disturbance may develop west of the Luzon Strait in the next few days. ⚠️

Note: #97W is also being monitored by @dost_pagasa and the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). PAGASA has designated the disturbance as Low Pressure Area 07a (LPA 07a).

Invest 97W is currently in an unfavorable wind shear environment in Micronesia. However, satellite imagery indicates good low-level westerly inflow over warm sea surface temperatures (SSTs), and the JMA forecasts that the disturbance will develop into a tropical depression within the next 48 hours.

Model guidance indicates that this disturbance will move westward before turning onto a generally poleward track by the middle of next week. Most ensemble members currently indicate that the system will remain outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR).

Meanwhile, Invest 98W has formed near the Marshall Islands. It is currently exhibiting decent upper-level outflow in a favorable environment. Model guidance indicates that the disturbance will move slowly westward over the next five days before turning northward. At this time, it is also not expected to enter PAR.

Both of these disturbances were triggered by the ongoing westerly wind bursts (WWBs), which are typically associated with El Niño conditions.

📷: Himawari-9 via RAMMB-CIRA, JTWC, Tropical Tidbits (EPS; 97W), Weathernerds (GEFS; 98W)

[United Africa @United_Africanz]

"Raising my fist at the Olympics cost me friends and my marriage — but I’d do it again." ✊🏿

[GBMI gregg @GreggIbe]

@pinoyanghang it became urban blight in the '80s; ayuz din talaga ang mag-inang 'yan; iba ang tingin sa disiplina, e.

[GBMI gregg @GreggIbe]

@pinoyanghang So it all started during the time of BSA?! Leave it to liberals to be addicted to chaos. It was also in Cory's time when large scale squatting happened in many areas and went uncontrollable; a case in point would be BASECO; it wasn't that bad in the '70s,

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

Hidden notes from Isaac Newton reveal a calculated "end of the world" date — and it comes in 2060.

Sir Isaac Newton is celebrated as the father of modern physics, yet his private manuscripts reveal a man equally obsessed with the mysteries of the Bible.

Hidden within his handwritten notes—unearthed centuries after his death—is a calculation that points to the year 2060 as a definitive turning point for humanity. Applying the same rigorous logic he used for gravity and calculus, Newton spent decades analyzing the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation. He concluded that exactly 1,260 years after the rise of the Holy Roman Empire in 800 CE, the current world order would reach its conclusion, ushering in a transformative new era.

Despite the ominous date, Newton’s vision was not one of total destruction, but of spiritual and political renewal. He anticipated the collapse of corrupt institutions and the establishment of a global kingdom of peace, rather than a literal "doomsday" explosion. Interestingly, the scientist was deeply wary of his own findings, warning that "fanciful men" often discredited religion by making rash predictions. As the year 2060 approaches, his calculation remains less a scientific forecast and more a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a genius who sought to bridge the gap between mathematical certainty and divine prophecy.

source: Open Culture. In 1704, Isaac Newton Predicted That the World Will End in 2060. Open Culture.

[All 90's Alternative Rock @all90saltrock]

Toad the Wet Sprocket never got talked about the same way Counting Crows or Matchbox Twenty did and that's a genuine injustice.

[Richard Gage, AIA, Architect @RichardGage_911]

[RG911Team] This fact alone proves 9/11 was a false flag.

The Twin Towers were designed with the lightest, thinnest steel on the top floors, and each lower section used thicker, heavier and stronger steel than the one above it. This made a progressive collapse IMPOSSIBLE.

The idea that a thin, light steel beam would collapse and then crush thick, strong steel below it… and that would in turn crush the even thicker and stronger steel below it… all through the path of GREATEST resistance… all in less than 12 seconds… violates the laws of physics.

This is why FDNY sent hundreds of their best firefighters in those buildings. They knew the planes and fires could not completely collapse the towers because the extremely robust design would easily withstand it.

343 firefighters died on 9/11 because they were caught off guard by something no one expected - every single column being ripped apart and blown in every direction.

And the only force that can do that requires explosives.

[Puppies & Positivity @Puppieslover]

Supermarkets in Thailand are wrapping groceries in banana leaves instead of plastic to be ecofriendly

[Kevin @keeeeeeevs]

'ISLA DE PANACOT' IS SCARBOROUGH SHOAL

Taong 1744 pa lamang, nasa mapa na ni Fr. Pedro Murillo Velarde ang pinag-aagawang Scarborough Shoal.

Tinatawag itong PANACOT. Makikita rin ang mga islang GALIT at LUMBAY.

📸Biblioteca Nacional de España

#AtinAngWestPhilippineSea

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

People defend capitalism because they confuse it with commerce. They believe “capitalism” is when people start businesses and sell things.

If people understood that the thing they call capitalism and love so much is actually just commerce and that it’s not the same thing as capitalism, they would feel very different.

This is because a local baker selling bread, a mechanic fixing cars, or an artisan selling wares on a digital storefront is a sign of commerce in a market economy, which is simply a mechanism for exchanging goods and services based on supply and demand.

Needless to say, this has existed for thousands of years before capitalism was created.

As economic historian Fernand Braudel pointed out, commerce and capitalism are not only distinct; but historically, they have often operated at cross-purposes.

According to Braudel, ordinary commerce is competitive and transparent, while capitalism is anti-competitive and deliberately opaque, making it a zone of privilege held by a small elite who bend the rules in their favour.

Braudel further argues that commerce, or the market, is horizontal, transparent, and competitive and as old as civilization itself. It involves individuals or small groups trading goods, where barriers to entry are low, no single player dominates, and profit is a reward for fulfilling a specific need.

Capitalism, meanwhile, is a specific institutional arrangement that emerged relatively recently in human history, around the 16th to 17th centuries. It is NOT just people “trading stuff”. It is instead the legal and financial system where the means of production are privately owned, and the primary objective is the continuous, infinite accumulation of capital.

Because of this accumulation-obssessed nature of capitalism, when it scales up, it seeks to eliminate the free play of commerce to protect its investments. True market competition is risky for massive capital as it drives prices down and threatens profit margins.

Braudel contended that capitalism only begins where commerce ends. It is the zone of high finance and state collusion. Because it operates across vast distances such as the 17th-century spice trade, information takes months to travel, which creates a deliberate lack of transparency.

Braudel noted that the great capitalists of the early modern era in Madeira and Venice or the Dutch East India Company, never wanted to compete in a fair, transparent market because competition slices profit margins to the bone. Instead, they secured royal charters, exclusive trading rights, and naval protection. At the same time, the state granted them legal monopolies, effectively outlawing competition.

Therefore, capitalism naturally trends toward creating monopolies and securing state interventions like bailouts, subsidies, and regulatory capture to shield itself from the very market forces it claims to champion. In fact, the most important takeaway from Braudel’s analysis is that capitalism is NOT the natural evolution or the highest form of the free market, it is its dark shadow.

So, when our lizard overlords use “free market” and “capitalism” interchangeably, they’re deliberately hiding this distinction and using the moral legitimacy of the hard-working, transparent business owner to defend the structural privileges of the protected financial elite and its regulatory capture.

If ordinary people could comprehend these distinctions, many self-described “capitalists” would realise they are just pro-commerce, and actually anti-capitalist, because it would be clear that defending “capitalism” means defending the right of a small parasite class to bypass the market entirely.