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Interested in Market, economics, volatility, reality, predictions, technologies and decision making. Learning not to repeat mistakes in life. Good Luck to all.

[fasterlight @fasterlight]

A conversation about how public transport really works https://t.co/GoLEmGHwDa via @FT

[fasterlight @fasterlight]

@fermatslibrary The sq root of The sum of their parts also matches
4+4+1 =9 = 1+4+4
2+1= 3 = 1+2

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

300 infants were found in shallow graves in Gaza, with their hands tied behind their backs, after being BURIED ALIVE.

It hasn’t made a single headline on any U.S newspaper nor is it being raised in Congress.

And that alone shows how low this country has descended.

[fasterlight @fasterlight]

@OptimumHelp I have DM’d you. Whats next ? @OptimumHelp

[fasterlight @fasterlight]

Internet is down in 07869 for almost 24+ hours. Outage map remains exactly the same showing no sign of progress . Come on, is there any accountability. Just beyond belief. @optimum @OptimumHelp Weather is same for everybody , no other ISP has this issue

[fasterlight @fasterlight]

@statusisdown Almost 24 hrs now.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

This movement will prove indestructible, no matter how much spin and concealment are deployed to stop it, no matter how many dollars are spent to counter it.

[Oh Come On! @BluthCapital]

$MU CEO, in effect:

"For > decade $AAPL has been buying our chips for $5, gluing it inside a metal box, & selling it to consumers for $99 upgrades & laughing at our attempts to get $7.
Now we're charging them $50 & they turned around & raised prices on their customers $250."

[Ashok Kumar @comrade_kumar_]

Take notes kids this is how you answer cynical accusations of antisemitism

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

One day, in a not-too-distant future, most Democratic officials in the US will speak of AIPAC and Israel with this level of clarity...

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

🚨 Hillary Clinton just delivered one of the sharpest takes on Israel’s Hezbollah strategy yet :
“He has never had, Israel has never had, in as long as I can remember, a government that started out more open to working with Israel to try to disarm Hezbollah.
And rather than trying to be… smart about how to build up a Lebanese government for the purpose of disarming and neutering Hezbollah… Israel has been engaged in this bombardment of Lebanon.”

She argues Israel missed a real opportunity to weaken Hezbollah from within by leveraging growing local opposition and a more cooperative Lebanese government and that the current approach is counterproductive.
Her recent interview with David Remnick: 👇👇

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

Perhaps this is why Hebrew translation is not available on X.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

This needs explanation. Israel is planning to assassinate Candace Owens just as Charlie Kirk?

This woman posted and deleted the post immediately, obviously posted too early while scheduling?

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Another genocidal translation moment from Hebrew to English.

[Daniel Concannon @TooWhiteToTweet]

Behold: Our Greatest Ally™

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

So if you apply this logic to the 4,000 citizens of Lebanon that Israel has killed in their invasion, you’d have to ask how the US would react to an invading force killing 235,000 Americans, many of them women and children.

You really don’t want to do this calculation for Gaza.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

Jerry Seinfeld was asked to drop a Free Palestine after the Knicks game.

"It doesn't exist.”

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 WTF?! A USS Liberty survivor drops a massive bombshell.

He confirms they were threatened with prison or worse if they ever spoke about the Israeli attack.

Another veteran explicitly states "Israel owns us" after being ignored by Congress for 59 years. Total betrayal!

[Ram @ramprasad_c]

Yes, Britain famously transferred wealth to India. When British arrived in India its share of the world economy was 4%. When they left in 1947, they had taken it to 23%, roughly equal to all of Europe combined.
On a serious note.
The Indian railways were financed entirely by bonds sold on the London Stock Exchange. British investors were guaranteed a return of 5% per annum by the colonial government. A guaranteed return, in an era when no other safe investment in Britain offered anything close. And who guaranteed those returns? Indian taxpayers. Indians paid for the construction. Indians paid the guaranteed profits to British shareholders. Indians paid for the equipment, which was manufactured exclusively in Britain and shipped to India at inflated prices. One mile of Indian railway cost twice what the same mile cost to build in Canada or Australia, because the guaranteed return meant there was no incentive to control costs. The more it cost, the more British investors and suppliers earned.

And what were these railways designed to do? Move raw materials from India’s interior to ports. Cotton from the Deccan to Bombay. Jute from Bengal to Calcutta. Coal from Bihar to wherever the Empire needed it. Tea from Assam to London’s drawing rooms. The routes connected mines and plantations to harbors. Not cities to cities. Not people to opportunities. Raw materials to ships. The Indian public’s transportation needs were, as Shashi Tharoor put it, entirely incidental.

Oh, and the railways also moved troops. Very efficiently. So that when Indians protested being looted, the British could deploy soldiers to shoot them. That was the other “infrastructure investment.”

But wait, there is more. Before the railways, India had the world’s finest textile industry. The British smashed the looms, broke the weavers’ thumbs (this is not metaphor, this is documented history), imposed tariffs on Indian cloth, and shipped raw cotton to Manchester to be manufactured into garments that were then sold back to Indians. India went from being the world’s largest textile exporter to an importer of British cloth within a generation.

The Bengal Famine of 1943 killed an estimated 3 million people. Churchill diverted food supplies from Bengal to already well-supplied British troops and European stockpiles. When informed of the famine, his response, on the record, was to ask why Gandhi had not died yet. This is the “infrastructure investor” Musk is defending.

India contributed 2.5 million soldiers to fight in two World Wars on Britain’s behalf.

So let us summarize the colonial “investment” in India. They took a 23% global economy and left it at 4%. They destroyed the world’s finest textile industry. They built railways with Indian money, for Indian resources, generating British profits. They engineered famines that killed millions. They drained an estimated $45 trillion in today’s value over 200 years.
That’s some unprofitable adventure.