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[Jeanine Osborne 🇭🇺. 🇿🇦 @Jea9o]

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ANC excellence

[South African Sentinel @SentinelfromSA]

🚨 The R400 Billion Disaster

In 2007, South Africa was told that two new power stations would solve the electricity crisis once and for all.

Butttttt, fifteen to eighteen years and somewhere between R300 billion and R450 billion later, Medupi and Kusile became two of the most expensive coal power stations ever built.

Instead of ending load-shedding, they helped prolong it.

This is the story of how two flagship projects turned into one of the largest infrastructure failures in democratic South Africa.

I’m releasing Part 1 of the series, Darkness by Design - with both the full video documentary (YouTube and X) and the detailed written article dropping at the same time.

The trailer is live now.
The full episode and article drop this evening...

#DarknessByDesign #EskomExposed #MedupiKusile #SouthAfricaEnergyCrisis

[Jeanine Osborne 🇭🇺. 🇿🇦 @Jea9o]

“The ONLY people who benefited from 50 years economic growth were the top 10%, and the vast majority of that went to the top 1%. trillions of dollars every year that used to be wages for ordinary working people and now sits in the accounts of the wealthiest people on the planet.”

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

In 1879, JP Morgan paid a man to invent the lie that is the foundation of modern economics.

A billionaire who helped start Amazon just exposed the whole thing on Diary of a CEO, and once you hear it you will never look at paychecks the same way again:

146 years ago, a guy named Henry George wrote a book called Progress and Poverty.

It was the first mainstream book about the rich systematically stealing from the poor, and It literally became the bestselling book in the history of the United States at the time.

The working class was reading it everywhere, and the people at the top of the economy completely lost their minds.

So JP Morgan personally brought a man named John Bates Clark to Columbia University, which was essentially the intellectual headquarters of Wall Street, and told him to fix the problem.

Clark wrote a book called The Distribution of Wealth. In it, he invented something called the "theory of marginal productivity," which claims that because markets are perfectly efficient, the amount of money you earn reflects EXACTLY the value you contribute to the economy.

If you make $15,000 a year, that's because you're providing $15,000 of value. If a hedge fund manager makes $500 million a year moving money around, that's an accurate reflection of the value he creates in the world.

And Clark literally said the quiet part out loud IN HIS OWN BOOK.

He wrote that they had to prove to working people that no matter how much they make, whether it's a little or a lot, it accurately reflects their value, because if workers ever concluded that their labor was worth more than they were being paid, they would revolt and destroy the entire system.

That was the whole point. The theory was built to prevent a revolution.

And it worked so well that it got absorbed into mainstream economics and is STILL taught as a foundational principle to this day.

Every time a CEO tells you "the market decides your salary," they're repeating a framework that was literally commissioned by JP Morgan in the 1800s to convince you not to ask for more.

Nick Hanauer, the billionaire who told this story, also shared the numbers that prove why it matters right now:

The median full-time worker in America earns about $60,000 a year. If that same worker had maintained the same share of GDP they held in 1975, they wouldn't be making $60,000. They'd be making $120,000. That gap goes all the way up to the 90th percentile. If you earn $180,000 today, you'd be earning $250,000 under the old distribution.

The ONLY people who benefited from 50 years of economic growth were the top 10%, and the vast majority of that went to the top 1%. That is trillions of dollars every single year that used to be wages for ordinary working people and now sits in the accounts of the wealthiest people on the planet.

This happened because of policy. Tax cuts for the rich, deregulation for the powerful, and wage suppression for everyone else, all justified by an economic theory that was invented specifically to make you believe you deserve exactly what you're getting.

And the craziest part is that GDP growth rates in America were 4 to 4.5% for decades when workers were included in prosperity. As soon as the neoliberals took over in the mid-1970s and implemented these policies, GDP growth fell to 3% and eventually to 2%.

Including people in the economy doesn't slow growth down. It's literally the thing that CREATES growth. And the theory that convinced the world otherwise was a hit job paid for by one of the richest men in history to keep workers quiet.

What do you think?

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Elon Musk used a joke to perform an autopsy on the American economy.

Two economists go for a hike. They find a pile of shit. One pays the other $100 to eat it.

They keep walking. Find another pile. The second economist pays $100 back to eat that one.

They stop. Neither man gained a dollar. Both ate shit for nothing.

But on paper they just generated $200 in GDP.

Musk: “That basically would count as a job. This is to illustrate the absurdity of economics.”

That is not a punchline. That is the operating system of the federal government.

Every time a politician celebrates “record job creation” this is what they are describing. Not output. Not value. Not progress. Motion.

The entire bureaucratic machine exists to manufacture friction and then invoice for it.

Compliance layers built to justify the next compliance layer. Oversight committees that produce nothing but the need for more oversight. Consulting firms hired to audit the work of other consulting firms.

Trillions circulating through systems that have never produced a single thing you can hold in your hands. But the GDP number ticks up. So everyone applauds.

The shit gets eaten. The scoreboard moves. Nobody asks what actually got built.

This is why Washington treats AI like a five alarm fire.

AI does not play the friction game. It does not form a committee. It does not schedule a review. It does not file 400 pages of paperwork no one will ever read.

It just solves the problem.

And that is the one thing the machine cannot survive.

The government does not tax results. It taxes the process. The longer the process, the deeper the cut.

AI compresses a ten day workflow into seconds. There is nothing left to bill. Nothing left to tax. Nothing left to skim.

So they will spend the next decade warning you that AI threatens the economy.

What they will never say is what it actually threatens.

The illusion that activity equals progress.

The $200 economy where both men ate shit and called it a job.

The machines are not coming for your purpose.

They are coming to prove that half the economy never had one.

[Jeanine Osborne 🇭🇺. 🇿🇦 @Jea9o]

Case study for South African gangs

[𝕆𝕝𝕒 🇳🇬 @orla_szn]

The world most brutal Prison

CECOT/ Terrorism Containment Center (El Salvador)
Built recently as part of El Salvador's massive crackdown on gang violence, CECOT is the largest prison in the Americas, designed to hold tens of thousands of high-ranking criminals

[Jeanine Osborne 🇭🇺. 🇿🇦 @Jea9o]

ANC is race befok - “🔵 Airlines can apply for and renew licenses without BEE requirements.”

[Sakeliga @Sakeliga]

⚖️ Over the last two years, the International Air Services Council (IASC) attempted to apply the B-BBEE Act and other race-based criteria when adjudicating international air service licence applications.

The Pretoria High Court has now declared these attempts unlawful.

Sakeliga thanks international airlines, foreign embassies, and industry representatives for their sustained resistance to the IASC's demands, which supported our investigation and litigation.

[SK @Djoko_UTD]

Alexander Zverev is living on needles for the last 25 years...taking Insulin everyday since age 4.

Today at 29, he became a GRAND SLAM CHAMPION. Overcame a life nemisis.

Huge Inspiration to children with diabetes. He runs a foundation for the same 👏

[Jeanine Osborne 🇭🇺. 🇿🇦 @Jea9o]

Just another corporate rip off

[Jeanine Osborne 🇭🇺. 🇿🇦 @Jea9o]

Truth is so inconvenient to those who believe they are doing good

[mrredpillz jokaqarmy @JOKAQARMY1]

One of the last Orphan Train Rider who remembered where she came from and what she said before dying in 1961

[Roland-Garros @rolandgarros]

From qualifying all the way to the final, what an astonishing run from Maja 💫

#RolandGarros

[Jeanine Osborne 🇭🇺. 🇿🇦 @Jea9o]

Never ever give up

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.

She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.

Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.

Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.

Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.

She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.

By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

[Jeanine Osborne 🇭🇺. 🇿🇦 @Jea9o]

This is concerning as we have such a terrible Cocaine problem in Cape Town already....

[ADF Magazine @ADFmagazine]

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[Grey BTC @greybtc]

Prediction Markets Are the New Crypto Danger Zone (Polymarket Just Proved It) 🎯

Think memecoins or shady exchanges are the biggest risk? Wrong. It's Polymarket.

Saylor's Strategy sold 32 $BTC by May 31, but Polymarket resolved NO because the filing came June 1, wiping Yes bettors (some lost $500k+).

Same platform where a soldier used classified intel to 12x his money and a Google engineer cashed $1.2M on internal data.

Prediction markets were supposed to be transparent. Instead, rules shift, insiders feast, retail gets rekt.

Full breakdown 👇

[🇺🇸 Edward T. Winslow @EdwardTWinz]

🚨 stop scrolling.. do you understand what Kuwait International Airport actually means to your life..

because most people only think about the war..

Kuwait International Airport isn't just a military target.. it's the transit hub for over 1 million Indian workers in the Gulf.. it's the connection point for oil workers, expats, construction crews, nurses, and engineers who send money home every single month..

13 ballistic missiles and 17 drones hit Terminal 1 this morning..

1 person killed.. 63 wounded.. passengers and airport staff.. people who were just trying to get home..

and here's the part nobody's connecting..

this isn't a military base.. this isn't a weapons depot.. this is the building where you check your bags..

flights are suspended.. Terminal 1 is on fire.. and the smoke visible across Kuwait City is coming from the same terminal your family member landed in last year..

Iran has now hit Kuwait's airport twice in 2026.. the first time was the fuel tanks in April.. this time it was the passenger terminal itself..

the last time civilian airports became active war targets at this scale was the Gulf War in 1991.. it took years to rebuild the regional air network..

that was one war in one country.. we're now watching every Gulf hub get added to the target list at the same time..

in 1991 a single airport hit disrupted the Gulf for years.. nobody has a playbook for what hitting all of them does.

I'll share more updates shortly. Turn on notifications, this is very important.

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…. Clever …. And this is where it all just becomes numbers

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

🚨Michael Burry just said Elon Musk and Nvidia's deal is built on fake numbers.

Burry published a detailed breakdown calling the entire structure "Fugazi", his word for fake.

He is alleging that billions of dollars in Nvidia chips are being hidden off balance sheets, and that American retirees are unknowingly funding the whole thing.

Nvidia, the world's largest AI chip company sold $5.4 billion worth of its most advanced GPUs, the GB200, to a company called Valor.

Valor is not a real operating business. It is a special purpose vehicle, a shell company created specifically to hold these chips and nothing else. Nvidia also invested $1.9 billion of its own money directly into Valor on top of the sale.

Those 100,000+ chips are now physically inside xAI's data center. xAI is Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, the one that builds Grok. xAI is using every single one of those chips right now to run its AI models.

But here is what Burry is flagging.

Neither Nvidia nor xAI owns those chips on paper. Valor, the shell company holds legal title. That means $5.4 billion in GPU assets do not show up on Nvidia's balance sheet as inventory.

They do not show up on xAI's balance sheet as assets. They are legally invisible to both companies.

Nvidia gets to book the $5.4 billion as a completed sale and record it as revenue. xAI gets full use of the chips without owning them. And the risk disappears into a shell company in the middle.

Now here is where American retirees enter the picture.

Valor needed $3.5 billion in debt to fund this structure. Apollo provided it. Apollo is one of the largest asset managers on earth with $1.03 trillion under management and $834 billion specifically in private credit.

Apollo raised the $3.5 billion, packaged it into debt securities, and sold those securities to Athene.

Athene is Apollo's own insurance company. It sells fixed and indexed annuities, retirement savings products, to ordinary Americans.

When a retiree buys an Athene annuity, they believe their money is sitting in safe, stable investments. That money is now inside a structure funding Elon Musk's AI data center.

The numbers inside Athene are most alarming.

Athene holds $74.2 billion in reserves. It has moved $217 billion in assets into a captive insurer based in Bermuda, meaning those assets sit outside normal US insurance regulation and oversight.

Of the entire portfolio, 34.7%, equal to $103 billion, is classified as Level 3 assets.

Level 3 is an accounting classification that means there is no observable market price for these assets. No outside party can independently verify what they are actually worth.

The leverage sitting on top of those unpriced assets is 16 times.

Burry's says:
Every step of this structure is technically legal and publicly disclosed. But the entire thing was deliberately engineered across 8 to 12 steps to move credit risk off balance sheets and away from any market pricing.

- Nvidia books the revenue.
- Apollo collects the fees.
- xAI gets the computing power.
- And retirees sitting at the bottom of a 16x leveraged Bermuda insurance structure, holding $103 billion in assets with no market price carry the risk without knowing it exists.

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

Learned something about Bees Today.

A male bee mates for less than 5 seconds in midair.

The ejaculation is so explosive you can hear it pop from a few feet away.

His body rips in half.

He falls dead before hitting the ground.

And he is one of the lucky males in the hive. When a male bee, called a drone, chases down a queen mid-flight at speeds of 22 miles per hour, his entire reproductive organ turns inside out.

The pressure required for this comes from nearly all the blood in his body, which rushes downward to force the organ outward like a spring. The semen fires into the queen with so much force it makes the audible pop.

The organ then snaps off and stays lodged inside her like a cork. As he flips backward off her body, his abdomen rips open. The next drone waiting his turn has to physically yank out the dead male's cork before he can mate. The same thing then happens to him.

The queen does this 12 to 20 times in a single afternoon. She flies up to a spot in the sky that beekeepers call a drone congregation area.

Picture an invisible meeting point about 50 to 130 feet above the ground where up to 11,000 male bees from as many as 240 different hives are hovering, waiting for her.

These spots stay in the exact same locations year after year, sometimes for over a decade. No one fully understands how brand new drones, born only weeks earlier, find them.

By the end of her mating run, the queen has collected around 100 million sperm cells. She keeps only 5 to 6 million in a tiny internal storage organ that keeps them alive for years.

From that supply, she uses just two sperm cells per egg for the rest of her life, laying up to 2,000 eggs a day for 2 to 7 years. After that one afternoon in the sky, she will never mate again.

A 2019 study from UC Riverside, the University of Copenhagen, and the University of Western Australia found that bee semen contains toxic proteins that temporarily blind the queen by interfering with how vision genes function in her brain.

If she can't see well, she can't fly out again to mate with more males. Their semen also carries a separate protein that attacks and kills sperm cells from rival drones still inside her. The males keep competing long after every one of them is dead.

The 99.9% of drones who never get to mate have it worse.

As autumn arrives, the female worker bees in the hive stop feeding their brothers, then drag them out of the entrance after biting off their wings.

The drones can't fly back in.

They starve or freeze in the grass within days.

The colony raises a fresh batch of disposable males the next spring, and the whole cycle starts over.

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Laughter is contagious. I’m laughing now.