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@baroncoleman Will miss you! Thank you 🙌

[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

In my opinion, there will be tolls on the Strait of Hormuz after the initial 60-day period, or shortly after.

If that happens, it won’t just change energy markets.

It will change the world order as we know it.

Watch the chokepoints.

That’s where the next phase begins.

Bookmark this.

[Roman Cabanac @RomanCabanac]

My favourite South African story of the week:

Cops steal diamonds worth R14million, sell them for R110 000 and split it five ways.

Corruption is so cheap in this place.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Jack Dorsey put 1.3 million dollars into it.

Vitalik Buterin gave it 128 ETH.

You have never heard of it.

It is called SimpleX. It is a messenger. It does not need a phone number. It does not need an email. It does not need a username. It does not need a user ID.

Not a hidden ID. Not a hashed ID. None at all.

Signal needs your phone number. WhatsApp needs your phone number. Telegram needs your phone number. Every messenger you have ever called "private" knows the one thing your bank, your stalker, and your country use to identify you.

SimpleX knows nothing.

It was built by Evgeny Poberezkin, a London-based engineer. Before this he wrote Ajv, the JavaScript validator that runs in 300 million downloads every month. He could have built anything.

He built the messenger with no users on the server.

Here is the trick.

Every other messenger gives you an identity. SimpleX gives you a connection. Each chat is its own one-way pipe. The server never sees who you are talking to. It does not even know you exist as a user.

11,327 stars. AGPL-3.0. Version 7.0 beta released two days ago.

iOS. Android. macOS. Windows. Linux. Free.

A 4-person team in London is the last line of defense between your conversations and every government, every advertiser, and every database breach.

The most private messenger ever built is the one you have never heard of.

(Link in the comments)

[MR. HiMSELF @pushinM15]

There's a legal provision buried in South Africa's Income Tax Act that lets qualifying taxpayers slash a massive chunk of what they owe SARS. Most people have never heard of it.

It's called Section 12B.

Section 12B lets you deduct 100% of the cost of qualifying solar energy assets from your taxable income. In year one.

One shot. Not spread over five years like most asset write-offs. All of it. Gone from your taxable income.

But here's the part that makes this accessible.

You don't need to go buy solar panels yourself. You invest into what's called an en commandite partnership. This is a legal fund structure where a group of investors pool capital to acquire solar assets. The fund generates electricity, signs long-term contracts (Power Purchase Agreements) to sell it to businesses and municipalities, and distributes profits back to investors twice a year. Individuals, trusts and companies can all participate.

Now add gearing. The fund borrows against your capital. Invest R200,000 and the structure can deploy R400,000 worth of solar assets. Section 12B lets you deduct that full R400,000 from your taxable income.

If you're sitting in the 45% tax bracket, that's R180,000 back from SARS. On a R200k investment.

Your net out of pocket becomes R20,000. And you still earn 8 to 10% a year from electricity sales on top of that.

This is not a loophole. It is a government incentive designed to pull private capital into renewable energy. Legal. SARS-approved. Binding class rulings exist on it.

But not all 12B funds are equal. Due diligence is non-negotiable.

Some people spend their whole careers handing SARS the full invoice.

Others find the section.

[The Webb @Thewebb_io]

We worked with @RichardGage_911 and his team to bring his work to Webb. You can search through all of the evidence there and, just maybe, you can find some truth around 9/11.

https://t.co/lEYRfGo8DQ

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Thanks for admitting that the EU’s “net zero” policies have done absolutely nothing to stop heatwaves.

Suicidal empathy strikes again, amirite? 🤣

Also, I love how you blame the ongoing EU heatwave on U.S. energy policies, but not China which produces ~6 billion more tons of CO₂ emissions per year than the U.S.

In any case, the heatwave was caused by a ridge of high pressure in the mid-troposphere that stalled and formed an omega block. Emissions don't cause those synoptic setups to form, fluid dynamics does. Learn a thing or two about the weather, son.

[GG 📚 @LifeCraft_Me]

@realmflynnJR @RealCandaceO @baroncoleman You won't be disappointed in the least

[GG 📚 @LifeCraft_Me]

@ArtificeNation @RealCandaceO @baroncoleman It's the BEST. And particularly what caused it - that shows that Baron is a really decent human, with an excellent brain - and the best communication skills 👏

[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

▶️ Who Really Owns America? A 15-second clip from my interview on What Bitcoin Did. Watch full interview https://t.co/XGztXsVpqz

[Ian Carroll @IanCarrollShow]

Can we just take a minute to give this king his flowers.

Baron basically started his podcast less than a year ago and today he’s deservedly one of the best (and top) podcasts on the internet.

I don’t think there’s ever been a more impressive or well deserved rise in online information-media than Baron’s. And he’s still just in his opening act.

And it’s because he is not only a generational talent who works like a dog and was made for this, but also because he’s a genuinely good dude, good dad, god fearing man.

Be more like Baron. 🇺🇸

[GG 📚 @LifeCraft_Me]

@BasedSamParker The hospital CCTV footage

[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

Today I can sell it for $61k.

It’s valued by the market.

Its value to me is money I can own without a bank, money I can spend without government permission, a fixed supply that does not change based upon a central bank.

Maybe that has no value to you.

That has a lot of value to me.

And I believe a lot of people will continue to value these sovereign properties.

They have for the 16 years I’ve been involved.

[Juste Milieu @JusteMilieu3]

🏦 L'euro numérique, c'est maintenant : Bruxelles a trouvé l'argument parfait pour vous le faire avaler. 🎭

Donald Trump a bloqué le dollar numérique aux États-Unis.
Aussitôt, le Parlement européen vote sa « monnaie anti-Trump ».

📍 La manipulation : Visa et Mastercard représentent 61 % des paiements en zone euro. Mais ils n'ont jamais coupé un centime aux Européens.
L'urgence est fabriquée de toutes pièces pour justifier un projet en gestation depuis 2020.

📍 Le danger réel : un plafond de détention fixé par la Commission européenne, révisable tous les deux ans. Une monnaie dont l'usage pourra être conditionné demain.
Les libertés ne disparaissent pas d'un coup : elles s'évaporent à la faveur de décisions administratives présentées comme raisonnables.

📍 Le calendrier : projet-pilote en 2027, déploiement en 2029.
Vous avez deux ans pour comprendre ce qui se trame vraiment.

Ce que Bruxelles ne veut pas que vous sachiez sur l'euro numérique, l'article complet ici 👇

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

What I hate most about the climate cult is that when there is a cold day or week and skeptics say (often jokingly) that “global warming is a hoax,” alarmists will scold them, saying that “weather isn’t climate; don’t confuse long-term climate with short-term temperature fluctuations.”

But as soon as there is a heatwave or a hot day somewhere, all of a sudden the alarmists yell “See?! This is proof of climate change!! Ban fossil fuels now!”

Weather isn’t climate, except for when it is convenient for their narrative.

I do not have enough words or emotions to express how much I hate these hypocritical pieces of crap.

[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

The real 5D chess was played by the GCC & Iran.

They were working toward the same regional endgame all along, enabled by the Saudi-Iran normalization brokered by China and reinforced by the broader BRICS transition.

The war was the theatre.

The regional realignment was the strategy.

My followers have watched this thesis unfold since 2023.

Follow the money.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is genuinely shocking, and says so much about our approach to China.

I decided to check for independent reviews of the English version Xi Jinping's latest book, published a year ago, to see what people had to say about it since I hadn't read it myself.

To my surprise, I couldn't find any: not a single thoughtful review about the book out there! Even on Amazon, check it for yourself (https://t.co/1LVlhACA53): the book has only 3 ratings, that's it.

No matter where you stand on China, you’ve got to admit that’s pretty crazy: the sitting president of the world's rising superpower publishes a 700-page book explaining exactly what he's doing and why, and we don’t even care to look.

If there ever was a fact that illustrates just how willfully ignorant we are about China, this is it.

All the more because we then go spew the usual clichés around how secretive and impenetrable the Chinese system is: the book is on Amazon for $21 for crying out loud!

Anyhow, this felt so wrong that I figured I'd fix it. I bought the book, read it attentively and wrote what I hope you'll agree is a thoughtful review of it.

The book contains genuinely surprising passages, such as Xi writing that oversight of the Communist Party by "the judiciary, the public, and the media" was not just something the Party must “readily accept,” but something that he framed as historically decisive - an essential component to "escaping the historical cycle of rise and fall" that has doomed every dynasty in China's history.

Other passage that I'm sure would surprise many: a common narrative out there is that China blames the West for the century of humiliation and is driven by revenge. Well, Xi explains that's not true at all: the century of humiliation was China's own mistake, originated in the Ming Dynasty's disastrous "policy of national seclusion" that "resulted in China missing out on the opportunities presented by the Industrial Revolution" and "led to China’s decline."

All in all, the book is remarkably self-reflective and thoughtful. For instance Xi recognizes that his drive for “full and rigorous internal governance” - including to rid the Party of corruption - risked "instill[ing] fear and apprehension, or intimidate members into inaction.” He emphasizes the need for pragmatism in this regard, codified in a framework called the “Three Distinctions” that separates honest mistakes - made while experimenting, reforming, or operating without precedent - from deliberate violations committed for personal gain.

And many other surprises still. I found it a genuinely fascinating read for anyone interested in how the Chinese system works and how Xi thinks - or anyone interested in governance, period, as so much of what he writes is pretty universally applicable.

This is the link to my review of the book, an article I titled "The Book the West Refuses to Read": https://t.co/DYowWEESOd

[Nicole Barlow @Nicole_Barlow1]

Currently in South Africa, taxpayers who pay PAYE (direct tax) as well as indirect taxes such as VAT, fuel levies, municipal rates, sin tax and vehicle licence fees effectively contribute close to 78 cents of every rand they earn in total taxation.

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@SirSiron @ChrisMartzWX @TonyClimate

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@ChrisMartzWX @PaulGarvey4 @ClimateRealists Nice 🎯!