Intrepid007

"A society that puts equality—in the sense of equality of outcome—ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom."
Dr. Thomas Sowell

[Intrepid007 @danhudson007]

"What is more valuable than gold? Diamonds. Than diamonds? Virtue," he wrote, building his own ladder of worth and placing something unpurchasable at the very top of it.

Ben Franklin

[Intrepid007 @danhudson007]

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'
Benjamin Franklin

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Republicans will tell you that China is our greatest geopolitical threat and will still allow Chinese students in our universities, allow Chinese corporations to by our land, and yes let them run CCP police stations in the US

[Intrepid007 @danhudson007]

Plato: “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: https://t.co/aMMHId49OO

[Qasem Al-Ali @AlaliQasem]

Markets are still debating $90 vs $110 crude.
Wrong question.
The right question: what is the price of oil when the system physically cannot deliver it?
There is no model for this.
There is no historical precedent.
There is no playbook.

[Intrepid007 @danhudson007]

@Hunter_Eagleman 😂

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@WatchChad 🤦‍♂️

[🇦🇺Craig Tindale @ctindale]

This is the anatomy of a ruling class that stopped building and started extracting.

While China converted trade surpluses into plant, process, scale, and technological command, much of the American corporate class converted industrial inheritance into buybacks, bonuses, leverage, and excuses.

They confused financial engineering for competence and governance theatre for strategy.

The result: productive capacity bled out, dual-use industrial depth weakened, and the very executives who presided over the decay were rewarded for it.

What AquaVis is describing is not some mysterious civilisational accident. It is a man-made transfer of power from the physical economy to the paper one, and from there, inevitably, to the states willing to take industry seriously.

It’s the core of the cancer that overtook the west

[Kathleen Tyson @Kathleen_Tyson_]

“If a society gives power to ignorance, ignorance will eventually, inevitably, destroy that society.”

[Dave Collum @DavidBCollum]

How is this different than gas chambers?

https://t.co/5lu3MWegK1

[J T @Jerome_Gillain]

@athenaeumbc One of the BEST books I ever read;
The Gulag Archipelago.

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

An 18-year-old Japanese classical guitarist, Haruna Miyagawa, performs Niccolò Paganini’s Caprice No. 24, a technically demanding violin piece arranged for guitar, highlighting its sequence of variations and arpeggios in a contemporary concert hall setting.

[Eli Steele @Hebro_Steele]

“White guilt morally and culturally disarms the West. It makes the First World apologetic.” — Shelby Steele

New trailer for the documentary, White Guilt:

#WhiteGuiltFilm

[Intrepid007 @danhudson007]

“When Odysseus finally returns (home) he reminds everyone in Ithaca of a simple truth: a man’s home is not truly his unless he is willing to fight for it”

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

A powerful scene in the Odyssey happens when Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca after twenty years of war and wandering.

You would expect the story to end with celebration, with the hero coming home, the family reunited, and order restored.

Homer does something far stranger.

Odysseus arrives disguised as a beggar, because Athena warns him that the palace has been taken over by more than a hundred suitors who have been living there for years, eating his food, drinking his wine, and pressuring his wife Penelope to marry one of them.

They believe Odysseus is dead and in their minds the kingdom is already theirs.

So the king of Ithaca walks through his own halls dressed in rags while the men stealing his house sit comfortably at his tables. They mock him, throw scraps at him, and one of them even strikes him, and Odysseus takes it. That is the remarkable part, because the same man who blinded the Cyclops and survived twenty years of disasters now stands quietly while strangers insult him in his own home. Homer tells us his heart burns inside his chest and that he wants to attack them immediately, yet he restrains himself and waits.

Instead of striking, Odysseus studies the room carefully. He counts the men, watches their habits, and quietly observes which servants remain loyal and which have betrayed him. The hero of the Odyssey does something most people cannot do, which is delay revenge until the moment is right.

Eventually Penelope announces a contest and brings out Odysseus’ great bow, declaring that she will marry the man who can string it and shoot an arrow through twelve axe heads lined up in a row. One by one the suitors try and fail, because none of them can even bend the bow. Then the beggar asks for a turn. The suitors laugh at first, but the bow is eventually handed to him.

Odysseus takes it in his hands and strings it effortlessly. Homer says the sound of the bowstring tightening rings through the hall like the note of a swallow. Then he places an arrow on the string and sends it cleanly through all twelve axe heads.

In that moment the beggar disappears. Odysseus turns the bow toward the suitors and reveals who he is.

What follows is one of the most brutal scenes in Greek literature. The doors are sealed and the suitors realize too late that they are trapped inside the hall. Odysseus, his son Telemachus, and two loyal servants begin killing them one by one. There is no escape, no mercy, and no negotiation. The men who spent years consuming another man’s house die inside it.

It is a violent ending, but Homer wants you to understand something important. The real danger to Odysseus was never just the monsters and storms on the long journey home. It was the possibility that someone else might take his place while he was gone. When Odysseus finally returns, he reminds everyone in Ithaca of a simple truth: a man’s home is not truly his unless he is willing to fight for it.

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

Listen to the whole conversation where I expalain that Iran and Ukraine are two interconnected proxy wars and two systemic risks in the grand scale of global geopolitical between two blocs: US & the Dragonbear. I also explain why it can't be World War 3 but it's a new Cold War 2.

[Special Situations 🌐 Research Newsletter (Jay) @SpecialSitsNews]

Fertilizer prices up 77% for poor US farmers $CF $MOS, as 1/3 of all fertilizer travels through the Strait of Hormuz

[Intrepid007 @danhudson007]

https://t.co/BK4dnSr8jR

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@JeffYoungerShow “Buy the ticket,take the ride “

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[TMZ @TMZ]

A killer elephant -- who is at-large -- has left a total of 22 people dead over a 10 day period in India.

Details: https://t.co/Q3njFcHsgJ

🎥: TIM