Harry Hymes

[Richard Werner @scientificecon]

A turtle sanctuary could impede the construction of a beach resort built on dead bodies.

[Nur Dogan @nurdogandiyorki]

That’s the reality!
#FIFA

[Ultras Clips @ultras_clips]

Most people watch the World Cup from cafe or a couch. Türkiye fans watch it at 6:00 AM from a 2,000-year-old ancient theatre facing the sea. 🇹🇷🌅

Football with a view like this hits different. 😮

[Dr.Sam Youssef Ph.D.,Ph.D.,DPT. @drhossamsamy65]

⛔️Hypocritical FIFA‼️

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

How 3 basic lines manage to mesmerize a man’s mind…

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is extraordinarily rare.

In fact, according to a key figure in the German business community (who is a dear friend of mine), it's unprecedented.

An op-ed, two pages, centerpiece, in Germany’s most important economic newspaper (the Handelsblatt) that begs the German establishment to stop looking at China via the prism of propaganda. And it's by their Shanghai bureau chief - not some outside contributor.

The title is "The China debate cannot continue like this!" and the article makes the case that it's suicidal, from a German and European standpoint, to keep reducing China to false caricatures rather than facts.

In effect it's rubbish in, rubbish out: if you tell people lies about China - whichever direction they go (anti or pro) - then obviously the policies that come out will be rubbish, designed for a mirage of a country that exists only in people's imagination.

Needless to say, this is absolutely music to my ears because it's literally the main point I've been making in my advocacy around China for now almost 10 years. Some are finally seeing the light...

I also believe, as I argued in my article "Are Western media turning China-friendly?" last year (https://t.co/Xg1hoSRtNy) that this type of coverage was bound to happen, and there will be more and more of it.

Why? For a very simple structural reason: China is now too powerful to coerce. The West, and Europe in particular, just don't have the leverage anymore. Which means that if you tell China to do something and they don't want to, they just won't do it. Period.

In this situation, incapable of coercing, your only remaining choice is... convincing. And what do you need if you want to convince someone? Well, you need to understand them: understand how they think, how they behave, what drives them, what they actually want.

In other words: the moment coercion stops being an option, not only does propaganda stop being useful, it begins to be actively harmful as genuine understand becomes a strategic necessity. Reality is finally becoming profitable again.

Which means, if you're a journalist reading this and you're peddling some of your usual lies, describing China as some sort of cartoonish dictatorial dystopia that's simultaneously on the verge of collapse yet a "threat" to the whole world (in short, if you write on China for The Economist or the FT), be on notice: the real threat to your country isn't China. It's you.

[Eric Yeung 👍🚀🌕 @KingKong9888]

🔥China physical Gold buying streak:

PBOC has added gold for 18–19 consecutive months as of May 2026 (streak began ~November 2024 after a pause in mid-2024). This is confirmed across multiple outlets.

⭕️ Monthly additions (verified):

• Jan 2026: +40,000 oz → ~74.19
million oz total. Consistent with reports.

• Feb 2026: +30,000 oz → 74.22 million oz total. Confirmed (Reuters, Bloomberg, etc.).

• Mar 2026: +160,000 oz → 74.38 million oz total. Confirmed.

• Apr 2026: +260,000 oz (~8 tonnes) → 74.64 million oz / ~2,322 tonnes total. Confirmed by WGC, Reuters, and others (highest since Dec 2024; 18th straight month).

• May 2026: +320,000 oz (~9.95 tonnes) → ~74.96 million oz / ~2,331.5 tonnes total. This matches the post’s “BREAKING” claim and fits the pattern of larger buys during price dips (post notes May price range ~$4,480–4,730/oz).

🔶As of June 7, 2026, this aligns with the typical early-month PBOC/SAFE data release timing; no contradictions found in available sources.

[🇨🇳XuZhenqing徐祯卿 @XueJia24682]

✨🇨🇳Even a small county in China.
Its infrastructure is better than that of many Western cities.
It is as beautiful as a painting.

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

A gift shop at the National Museum of Qatar in Doha, designed by Koichi Takada Architects.

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

The entire claim remains on a fraudulent premise — that Judea is to the Jews as France is to the French or Italy is to the Italians.

That premise is false.
Categorically false.

France is the state of French citizens.
Italy is the state of Italian citizens.
Israel is the state of Israeli citizens — not of Jews worldwide.

Jews are not a nationality attached to a sovereign state.

They are a group of people dispersed across many countries, holding many citizenships.

Most Jews are not Israeli.
They don't vote in Israel.
They do not live under Israeli law.
They owe Israel no political allegiance.

Zionism survives by erasing that distinction.

It trains people to hear “Israel” and think “the Jews,” because without that conflation the argument collapses.

And this conflation is not accidental.
It is foundational to the ideology.

But that linkage is profoundly anti-Semitic.

To say Israel is “the state of the Jews” is to revive the oldest anti-Semitic accusation: that Jews everywhere are politically bound to a foreign country.

My country is the United States.
Israel is the country of Israelis.

Anyone who insists otherwise is redefining Jews as foreigners in their own countries.

Only two ideologies insist that Israel is “the state of all Jews”:
anti-Semitism — and Zionism.

And “anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism” is a lie.

It is a necessary link to protect that conflation.

[daz @MetamateDaz]

Albanians just showed the world how it's done.

The government was selling off prime coastal land and protected islands to Jared Kushner and linked investors for a massive luxury resort turning public beaches and nature reserves into private playgrounds for the ultra-rich. The people said: HELL NO. Thousands poured into the streets under “Albania Is Not For Sale.” Protests turned fiery. They stormed government buildings and burnt down the Prime Minister’s house. This isn’t just about a deal. It’s about sovereignty. It’s about refusing to let your country be auctioned off to foreign billionaires while locals lose access to their own coastline. When elites sell the nation’s future for kickbacks and luxury resorts, the people have every right to push back hard. Respect to the Albanians for refusing to be colonized by cash. Other countries should be taking notes.

[Richard Werner @scientificecon]

The Albanians are not taking the sell-out and betrayal of their country. Standing up for their country, the government caved in. Now the bank account of the foreign property developer has been frozen. Jared Kusher may not get his private Epstein-style island with tunnels and facilities after all.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Learn geography terms visually

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

Un restaurante japonés en Nueva York tiene un interior diseñado para parecerse a un cuaderno de bocetos en blanco y negro dibujado a mano.

[Richard Werner @scientificecon]

Thanks to all the viewers of my latest Tucker Carlson interview it's just hit 1 million views, in 10 days
https://t.co/xFW7g0NVjg

[Spica @CasseCool]

アフガニスタン都市部の女性の100年史

[Eric Yeung 👍🚀🌕 @KingKong9888]

What is the United States truly afraid of right now? It’s not missiles or aircraft carriers.

It’s the 12 trump cards China is quietly discarding. Today, I’m going to break down exactly how China has been dismantling Western technological dominance step by step. Each one of these cards carries enough weight to keep the West up at night.

1. China ditched GPS. Its BeiDou navigation system now delivers centimeter-level precision, with over 100 million global users. Even Middle Eastern oil tycoons are abandoning GPS for BeiDou. Can you believe it? America’s all-seeing eye over the world has just gone blind.

2. China ditched Boeing. The C919 has already racked up over 1,200 orders, wiping out $80 billion from Boeing’s value in a single year. What used to be “better to buy than to build” has flipped — now buying Chinese planes feels like the smarter choice. Boeing was caught completely off guard

3. China ditched American chips. Yangtze Memory’s solid-state drives have slashed international prices in half. After the return of Kirin chips, Qualcomm panicked and cut prices by 30% overnight. The very thing they once used to choke China has become its own lethal weapon.

4. China ditched Windows. UnionTech UOS has surpassed 5 million installations, with national ministries and major banks fully switching over. Microsoft’s CEO is losing sleep, but there’s nothing they can do about it.

5. China ditched Western medical equipment. Shanghai United Imaging’s CT scanners are now entering clinics in the US and Europe. Germany’s Siemens had to slash prices on similar models by 40%. Chinese medical tech has planted its flag firmly on Western soil.

6. China ditched foreign fuel engines. BYD’s blade batteries left Toyota executives tearing down cars on the spot to study them. Tesla lost $1.2 trillion in market value in just three months. The era of gasoline cars is ending — and in the new energy world, China sets the rules.

7. China ditched Oracle databases. Ant Group’s OceanBase has shattered world performance records. Bank transaction systems no longer have to bow to American pressure. This is real technological sovereignty.

8. China ditched Western industrial software. Zhongwang CAD forced France’s Dassault to beg for mercy with price cuts. Sany Heavy Industry used domestic software to design the world’s largest tunnel boring machine. China has ripped a massive hole in the West’s monopoly on industrial software.

9. China ditched dollar settlement. The RMB cross-border payment system now covers 180 countries and regions. Saudi Arabia is now selling oil in RMB. The first major crack in American hegemony was torn open by China.

10. China ditched Western genetically modified seeds. Yuan Longping’s team developed salt-tolerant rice yielding over 1,000 jin per mu. China’s bowls now hold Chinese grain. Monsanto’s seed patents have lost their power, and China has taken full control of its food security.

11. China ditched American social media. Xiaohongshu (RedNote) has grabbed 30 million American users. Zuckerberg is watching helplessly as his daily active users plummet while Chinese social apps explode across the ocean.

12. Finally, China ditched Western military equipment. The Fujian aircraft carrier’s electromagnetic catapult surpasses America’s Ford-class, and DF missiles have forced carriers to keep their distance. The U.S. military-industrial complex held emergency meetings overnight.

⭕️This isn’t just technological progress. These are twelve tolls of the bell signaling the decline of Western hegemony.

🔶Written by professor Yang Fan, born in 1951 in Beijing, is a professor of economics and doctoral supervisor at China University of Political Science and Law. He serves as Chairman of the Academic Committee of the Business School and was a visiting scholar at Peking University’s China Center for Economic Research. He is also the Executive Director of the Economic Research Association at the National Defense University.

[Balaji @balajis]

Interestingly, those backups weren't just within European monasteries.

Key Roman manuscripts only survived because the Eastern Roman Empire didn't collapse. The Byzantines and the later Islamic world thus enabled the Renaissance. In modern parlance, a decentralized backup preserved Euclid, Ptolemy, and Galen till they could be re-read and appreciated one thousand years later, by a group of Europeans ready to emerge from the Dark Ages.

"...as the vast Roman Empire disintegrated, so did appreciation of these precious texts. Christianity cast a shadow over so-called pagan thought, books were burned, and the library of Alexandria, the greatest repository of classical knowledge, was destroyed.

Yet some texts did survive, and The Map of Knowledge explores the role played by seven cities around the Mediterranean — rare centers of knowledge in a dark world, where scholars supported by enlightened heads of state collected, translated and shared manuscripts.

In 8th century Baghdad, Arab discoveries augmented Greek learning. Exchange within the thriving Muslim world brought that knowledge to Cordoba, Spain. Toledo became a famous center of translation from Arabic into Latin, a portal through which Greek and Arab ideas reached Western Europe. Salerno, on the Italian coast, was the great center of medical studies, and Sicily, ancient colony of the Greeks, was one of the few places in the West to retain contact with Greek culture and language. Scholars in these cities helped classical ideas make their way to Venice in the 15th century, where printers thrived and the Renaissance took root.

The Map of Knowledge follows three key texts—Euclid's Elements, Ptolemy's The Almagest, and Galen's writings on medicine—on a perilous journey driven by insatiable curiosity about the world."
https://t.co/yskMVO3MXS

[Richard Werner @scientificecon]

I was there in 1998 on an official mission from the Asian Development Bank, meeting senior gov't and central bank figures and managed to pull together how the Asian crisis was engineered by the central banks and the IMF. Published in 2000 by the ADB. I advised the Thai gov't to exit the IMF program early. They did after a delay.