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[Alifya Sohail @AlifyaSohail]

Conference theme: Jailing Women

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Taiwan solved tax evasion in 1951 with a trick so cheap it should embarrass every tax authority on the planet.

The problem was an all-cash economy full of small shops. A merchant pockets the cash, skips the receipt, and the sale never existed. Auditors can't catch what was never recorded, and hiring enough of them to watch every noodle stand costs more than the missing tax.

So finance chief Ren Xianqun flipped the incentive. Print a lottery number on every receipt. Draw winners every two months on live TV. Top prize today: NT$10 million, about $310K.

Suddenly the customer and the shopkeeper want opposite things. The merchant wants the sale off the books. The customer wants the ticket. And there are millions more customers than merchants. Every transaction now carries a built-in witness demanding the paper trail.

Year one, reported tax revenue jumped 75%, from NT$29 million to NT$51 million. Seventy-five years later, roughly 70% of Taiwanese still play. Convenience stores redeem the smallest NT$200 prizes at the register, so even a coffee receipt feels like a scratch card.

The elegant part is what the audit force costs. The prize pool runs about NT$7 billion a year, roughly $20 million. In exchange, the government gets 23 million unpaid auditors working every checkout line in the country, forever. No inspector general on earth delivers that coverage at that price.

Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Slovakia all copied it. The most effective compliance tool ever built looks like a game, and that's exactly why it works.

[Steve Hall @ProfHall1955]

This is unbearable to watch. If we spread it far and wide it should be one of the final nails in the coffin of the Zionist ideology that masks Israeli evil.

[Praise @tufpraise]

Every time ICE arrested someone, they blasted the person's face all over the internet.

Why is this one different?

[Israr Ahmed Rajpoot @ia_rajpoot]

ایئر پورٹ پر اوور سیز پاکستانی سے نامناسب رویہ اور رشوت کا مطالبہ
میرا نام محمد ارشد ہے اور میں گزشتہ 16 سال سے یورپ میں مقیم ہوں۔ میں 11 مئی 2026 کو فلائٹ PK-750 کے ذریعے پاکستان آیا تھا۔ میری واپسی کی فلائٹ PK-749 مورخہ 21 جون 2026 کو تھی۔
میں تقریباً 9:00 بجے ایئرپورٹ پہنچا۔ اندر داخل ہوتے ہی میری ملاقات ایک افسر جناب ارشد خالد سے ہوئی۔ انہوں نے مجھے بتایا کہ میں لیٹ ہو چکا ہوں اور مجھ سے انتہائی غیر مہذب اور نامناسب انداز میں بات کی۔( جیسا کہ تصویر میں بھی ان کا انداز دیکھا جا سکتا ہے) حالانکہ میرے پہنچنے کے بعد بھی کئی دوسرے مسافروں کی بورڈنگ جاری تھی اور وہ میرے بعد ایئرپورٹ میں داخل ہوئے تھے۔
میں نے مؤدبانہ طور پر انہیں بتایا کہ میری فلائٹ کا مقررہ وقت 11:45 بجے تھا اور اس وقت صرف 9:00 بجے تھے۔ بظاہر فلائٹ کے وقت میں ایک گھنٹے کی تبدیلی کی گئی تھی، لیکن مجھے اس تبدیلی کے بارے میں کوئی اطلاع نہیں دی گئی تھی۔
اس کے باوجود جناب ارشد خالد بار بار یہ کہتے رہے کہ میں لیٹ ہوں اور مجھے فلائٹ میں سوار ہونے کی اجازت نہیں دی جائے گی لیکن پھر 20 ہزار مانگ لیئے جس پر جب میں نے رقم دینے سے انکار کیا تو انہوں نے مجھے بورڈنگ کی اجازت دینے سے انکار کر دیا۔ اور کہا کہ 20 ہزار کے بغیر سوچنا بھی مت
میں نے کئی منٹ تک انہیں سمجھانے کی کوشش کی لیکن وہ نہ مانا اور میں سفر نہ کر سکا، میرا ٹکٹ ضائع ہو گیا، اور مجھے پورے دن شدید ذہنی اذیت، پریشانی اور شرمندگی کا سامنا کرنا پڑا۔
میں گزشتہ 16 سال سے یورپ میں مقیم ہوں اور میرے پاس تمام ضروری سفری دستاویزات موجود ہیں۔ ایک فرد کے غیر مناسب رویے کی وجہ سے مجھے مالی نقصان اور شدید مشکلات کا سامنا کرنا پڑا۔
مجھے امید ہے کہ اس معاملے کی مکمل تحقیقات اور انکوائری کر کے مناسب کارروائی عمل میں لائی جائے گی۔اوور سیز پاکستانی
محمد ارشد
ٹکٹ نمبر: 2142431511028

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

This is what a holocaust looks like.

[Dr. Arif Alvi @ArifAlvi]

On the Cipher, the Coverup, and the Consequences:

Drop Site News published a document, claiming that it is the original Cipher I-0678 dated 7 March 2022, and it came from a military source. The world now believes that this is the smoking gun. Let's dissect it from there.

Pakistan's establishment spent four years suppressing, prosecuting people over it, claiming that it did not exist. The truth was forced out not from within Pakistan, but by an American investigative outlet. That fact alone is the indictment.

Donald Lu told Pakistan's Ambassador plainly: “All will be forgiven in Washington”, if the no-confidence motion against PM @ImranKhanPTI succeeded, while warning of isolation if it did not. This was not diplomacy. It was a threat and a bribe, delivered in the same breath, to a sovereign nation's ambassador. The NSC in its two meetings clearly stated that this amounted to unacceptable and blatant interference in the internal affairs of Pakistan and that the Govt. rightly issued a démarche.

On 12 May 2022, I as President formally wrote to CJP Umar Bandial requesting a Judicial Commission, open hearings, full investigation and truth be placed on record. This was published in all newspapers. (Please read the letter below, every word carries historic weight in world affairs of this nature).

CJP received that letter. Did not comment. Did not act. The judiciary's silence marked the beginning of its institutional surrender. Had that Commission been constituted, these questions would have been answered under oath: who received the cipher, who acted upon it, who domestically facilitated the foreign signal, and which institutions of the Pakistani state collaborated in the removal of an elected prime minister.

Pakistan would have had the truth. A man who warned the nation would not have been imprisoned on false charges arising from the very document the state refused to investigate. Instead, the nation got four years of compounding ruin.

A regime was not merely changed but democracy was dismantled, piece by piece, demolished with full institutional complicity at every level. Parliament was reduced to a 'stinking chamber of convenience'. PTI commanding the largest popular mandate in Pakistan's history had its electoral symbol stolen, its seats brazenly allocated to others by judicial decree, all to hand a 17-seat party, a fraudulent two-thirds majority.

PTI's workers were tried in military courts. Its voters were disenfranchised. Its leader imprisoned — on charges arising from the very document the state refused to examine. The 26th & 27th Amendments were coercively passed, turning the judiciary into a handmaiden of the executive, an instrument of crooked consolidation rather than a guardian of rights.

Now count the human cost. 44% of our people are below the poverty line, 105 million people that is 20 million more than in 2019. Real incomes have collapsed. GDP growth of barely 3% cannot keep pace with population, let alone absorb new labour. Terrorism is at its highest. Capital is leaving, not arriving. 22 million young Pakistanis are neither working nor studying, 25 million children are out of school. The direction is unambiguous: Pakistan is getting poorer, faster than ever.

These are not statistics. These are children going to bed hungry. Young men drowning on boats to shores that may kill them, because their own country is pushing them out. Mothers choosing between medicine and bread. Every single one of these human beings is a direct, traceable, forensic consequence of the decision made in April 2022 to subvert the democratic mandate of the Pakistani people. This is not an act of God. It is the price of a conspiracy with all its collaborators naked before the people.

Donald Lu issued a threat. He did not remove a government. Pakistanis removed a Pakistani government. General Bajwa in uniform. Some in robes. Some in ‘dastaar’. Corrupt politicians, some with deep pockets from Dubai. They chose a foreign signal over the people and the constitution they had sworn to protect. The perpetrators were not only foreign but local. Let that be stated plainly and permanently on the record.

To those who say, "this is the past, let us move forward", I say that: There is no investment without rule of law. There is no rule of law without an independent judiciary. And there is no independent judiciary that can be built upon the foundations of predominantly crooked judges. The path forward runs through the truth, not around it.

Pakistan's economic misery, its institutional decay, total corruption, national termites eating up everything, none of it is an act of God. It is the direct and traceable consequence of a criminal regime change, facilitated from without and executed from within.

The contents of the cipher as reported are now public. The record is clear. The usurpers remain in power orchestrating my country's misery. The only reasonable and just way forward is unambiguous: LEAVE and let my people LIVE.

It pains me to invoke Iqbal for those who betrayed this nation, but this verse is timeless:
جعفر از بنگال و صادق از دکن
ننگِ آدم، ننگِ دیں، ننگِ وطن
Jaffer of Bengal, Sadiq of Deccan,
Disgrace to humanity, disgrace to faith, disgrace to country.

The cipher has spoken. Now Pakistan must. 🇵🇰

[𝓢𝓾𝓵𝓮𝓶𝓪𝓷 𝓚𝓱𝓪𝓷 @QuantumAims]

A Meeting With Maulana Tariq Jamil

Many years ago, during the annual Tableeghi Ijtima in Barikot, Swat, Maulana Tariq Jamil was staying at my cousin’s house, and I was very keen to meet him. I went there and had the opportunity to spend some time with him. I found him to be an extremely humble and sincere man — someone who had devoted his entire life to Deen, Dawah, and Tableegh.

He asked me what I did, and I told him I was an arthritis doctor. He replied that there was no treatment for arthritis, and I explained that there are now many advanced treatments and that we manage arthritis very effectively these days.

He then asked where I worked, and I told him I was working in Newcastle, England. He immediately said, “When you go back, meet Zafar.” I could sense how deeply he cared about connecting people for the sake of Imaan and Deen.

When I returned to Newcastle and inquired about Zafar, to my surprise he told me that Maulana Saab had already informed him about me and asked him to meet me. I was amazed. How could a person who meets thousands upon thousands of people remember such a brief interaction and then follow it up from another country?

That moment left a deep impression on me. I felt that this was a man who genuinely carried Deen and Dawah in his heart and soul, inside and out.

It is truly painful to see how easily people tarnish the character of individuals who have devoted their entire lives to serving Deen. These days, nobody is spared — not politicians, not artists, not singers, not businessmen, not scholars, not the rich or poor, not the young or old, not men or women.

For heaven’s sake, sometimes people really should mind their own business.

[Amber Danish @amberdanishh]

Mayor #Karachi normalizing trend of not wearing helmet in a city where citizens have to pay 10k challan for not wearing it.
Kia jokers hain ye log🤦‍♀️

[Jenni @hashjenni]

Don’t ever forget: the ONLY difference between you and the people of Gaza is geographic luck. Nothing else.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

I don’t know if anyone will even care about what I’m saying now but the truth is harsher than any person can imagine.

A large number of children in Gaza are being born with shocking deformities: open spine defects, severe heart abnormalities, missing limbs, deformed heads, and faces that look as if they were burned inside the womb. They come into the world already marked by the war before they even take their first breath.

Mothers have been inhaling rocket gases and toxic smoke for months, drinking water contaminated with explosives residue, and living on soil saturated with toxins.

I saw photos and videos myself of children in extremely difficult conditions unbearable to look at. Babies screaming in pain during their first hours of life, their tiny bodies horribly deformed. Doctors say they have never seen such cases in their entire lives, and they warn: “These deformities are unprecedented and will increase because of the pollution.”

Here, we don’t just suffer from hunger and epidemics we are giving birth to an entire broken generation from the moment they are born. We live inside a giant prison, deprived of medicine, clean food, electricity, and even the basic right to have healthy children.

[Michael (Hedge Fund Manager) @HedgeFundFomo]

Oil is selling for $114 on the open market but $4.50 at my local gas station

I'm sensing a massive arbitrage opportunity here

Who wants to help me buy the cheap oil at the gas station and resell it on the stock market for a $109.50 profit?

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal in mathematics (the Nobel of mathematics), studied at Sharif University of Technology - which was just bombed by US-Israel. No US woman has ever win a Fields medal. The moral descent of USA continues lower and lower.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Sick Sick Sick

[Orikron 🇵🇹 骆培思 @orikron]

This is smart but they need to make inflatable fake hospitals and schools to really throw off the US and Israel

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Meanwhile, as everyone is distracted by the war in Iran, Israel is annihialting Southern Lebanon. They have displaced a million people! They've murdered over 600 civilians. And they're planning to occupy that land and make it part of Greater Israel. The land theft continues.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

"Iran lured Jared Kushner & Steve Witkoff to peace talks, and then murdered them"

"Iran bombed an elementary school in Texas, murdering 160 school girls."

"Iran is waging a war of annihilation against New York City, whose residents will suffer from cancerous ailments for decades because the US bombed an oil refinery in NYC, turning NYC skyline into acid-oil-rain."

"Iran murdered Donald Trump"

"Iran murders 1,300 Americans in first week of war of aggression waged on the USA"

This is how the news looks like if you are from Iran.

[Nadeem Haque @nadeemhaque]

Pakistan can save a lot of money if it restrained its VIP protocol

[Parody Jeff @Parodyjeffx]

⚡️🇺🇸BREAKING: Assassination attempt on NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani:

NYPD identified two suspects placing a bomb outside the residence of Mamdani.

Mossad is working overtime.