OnlyAsIAm

The branch that sways with every breeze is not the one to put your weight on.

[OnlyAsIAm @onlyasiam]

@gaborgurbacs I use it to buy land - then I give the land to communities who otherwise have fuck all. I let them figure out what to do with their own land.

[OnlyAsIAm @onlyasiam]

@SprinterPress Translation:- we ruled the world for 2 centuries by force. Then a new world superpower emerged for 80 years who we aligned with. Eventually little countries wanted independance and so worked at developing themselves. We want to get back to the good old days. The answer ? Fists.

[Cat Hobbs @CatHobbs]

Buy back Royal Mail, 76% want public ownership

It would cost around £3.6 billion

Put households on the board and raise the standards

This 500 year old institution worked well until it was privatised, it should not be owned by a Czech billionaire

https://t.co/c1zbbS73iM

[OnlyAsIAm @onlyasiam]

@ProfHall1955 The only time the working class have received concessions from the owners of this country is when they have agreed to lay down their lives on foreign soils to protect and enhance the interests of said owners. A wise man once said to me 'Anything can be justified with words'.

[OnlyAsIAm @onlyasiam]

@ProfHall1955 @Zorada1963 They were more perturbed by the death of a pony than of a miner...they didn't have to pay to replace the miner.

[OnlyAsIAm @onlyasiam]

@ProfHall1955 Wage slaves..but slaves none the less. My Dad worked down the pit from leaving school at 15. Which, considering he was claustrophobic, took a great deal of courage IMO.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Thames Water asks millions to stop using hosepipes.

A few days sunshine and infrastructure can't cope

TW built no new reservoir since 1989, loses 570m-592m litres of water daily to leaky pipes

Sewage dumped in rivers. Customers fleeced. TW still trades.
https://t.co/cpmSaxr0Ld

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

Has Nukes
🇮🇷 No(0)
🇮🇱 Yes (200-500)

Signed The Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty
🇮🇷 Yes
🇮🇱 No

Broke The Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty
🇮🇷 No
🇮🇱 Yes

Allows IAEA Inspections
🇮🇷 Yes
🇮🇱 No

Has engaged in nuclear blackmail against the US
🇮🇷 No
🇮🇱 Yes

[OnlyAsIAm @onlyasiam]

@TRobinsonNewEra No, she's electioneering and trying to win votes. The reason she mentions Gaza is because innocents being slaughtered and raped happens to be an issue for the people of Glasgow.

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

🆕My latest column for The Nerve has dropped:

“Over 2000 British Citizens have served in the IDF during the Gaza War. Our Government Doesn't Want To Know’”

It’s time the U.K. Government fulfilled legal obligations & investigated.

Please read and share.

LINK HERE https://t.co/gn7xVQoFCs
@thenerve_news

[Eric Yeung 👍🚀🌕 @KingKong9888]

What is the United States truly afraid of right now? It’s not missiles or aircraft carriers.

It’s the 12 trump cards China is quietly discarding. Today, I’m going to break down exactly how China has been dismantling Western technological dominance step by step. Each one of these cards carries enough weight to keep the West up at night.

1. China ditched GPS. Its BeiDou navigation system now delivers centimeter-level precision, with over 100 million global users. Even Middle Eastern oil tycoons are abandoning GPS for BeiDou. Can you believe it? America’s all-seeing eye over the world has just gone blind.

2. China ditched Boeing. The C919 has already racked up over 1,200 orders, wiping out $80 billion from Boeing’s value in a single year. What used to be “better to buy than to build” has flipped — now buying Chinese planes feels like the smarter choice. Boeing was caught completely off guard

3. China ditched American chips. Yangtze Memory’s solid-state drives have slashed international prices in half. After the return of Kirin chips, Qualcomm panicked and cut prices by 30% overnight. The very thing they once used to choke China has become its own lethal weapon.

4. China ditched Windows. UnionTech UOS has surpassed 5 million installations, with national ministries and major banks fully switching over. Microsoft’s CEO is losing sleep, but there’s nothing they can do about it.

5. China ditched Western medical equipment. Shanghai United Imaging’s CT scanners are now entering clinics in the US and Europe. Germany’s Siemens had to slash prices on similar models by 40%. Chinese medical tech has planted its flag firmly on Western soil.

6. China ditched foreign fuel engines. BYD’s blade batteries left Toyota executives tearing down cars on the spot to study them. Tesla lost $1.2 trillion in market value in just three months. The era of gasoline cars is ending — and in the new energy world, China sets the rules.

7. China ditched Oracle databases. Ant Group’s OceanBase has shattered world performance records. Bank transaction systems no longer have to bow to American pressure. This is real technological sovereignty.

8. China ditched Western industrial software. Zhongwang CAD forced France’s Dassault to beg for mercy with price cuts. Sany Heavy Industry used domestic software to design the world’s largest tunnel boring machine. China has ripped a massive hole in the West’s monopoly on industrial software.

9. China ditched dollar settlement. The RMB cross-border payment system now covers 180 countries and regions. Saudi Arabia is now selling oil in RMB. The first major crack in American hegemony was torn open by China.

10. China ditched Western genetically modified seeds. Yuan Longping’s team developed salt-tolerant rice yielding over 1,000 jin per mu. China’s bowls now hold Chinese grain. Monsanto’s seed patents have lost their power, and China has taken full control of its food security.

11. China ditched American social media. Xiaohongshu (RedNote) has grabbed 30 million American users. Zuckerberg is watching helplessly as his daily active users plummet while Chinese social apps explode across the ocean.

12. Finally, China ditched Western military equipment. The Fujian aircraft carrier’s electromagnetic catapult surpasses America’s Ford-class, and DF missiles have forced carriers to keep their distance. The U.S. military-industrial complex held emergency meetings overnight.

⭕️This isn’t just technological progress. These are twelve tolls of the bell signaling the decline of Western hegemony.

🔶Written by professor Yang Fan, born in 1951 in Beijing, is a professor of economics and doctoral supervisor at China University of Political Science and Law. He serves as Chairman of the Academic Committee of the Business School and was a visiting scholar at Peking University’s China Center for Economic Research. He is also the Executive Director of the Economic Research Association at the National Defense University.

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

A transnational Jewish-Italian mob network centered on Meyer Lansky and Santo Trafficante ran Cuba as a privatized extraction arm of US empire: gambling, laundering, narcotics, prostitution, political bribery.

What the US could not openly run on its own border, the syndicate ran for it in Havana.

Batista was on a $ 1.28-million-a-month retainer, delivered every Monday at noon. His development bank bankrolled half of every new mob casino.

And this was not just gambling. Havana was a key node in the postwar heroin pipeline: Turkish opium, Marseille labs, Havana transshipment, New York distribution.

By the late 1960s, that French Connection network supplied most of America’s heroin.

Then Castro won.

In January 1959 the casinos were smashed, the bosses fled or were detained, and Batista escaped with a fortune estimated around $300 million.

The national lottery, once a graft channel, was converted into a housing fund.

But the mob did not disappear. It was redeployed.

Lansky’s lieutenant Doc Stacher later said Lansky offered to finance Castro’s assassination as early as 1959. By September 1960, the CIA was running the operation directly.

The Agency hired Johnny Rosselli, Sam Giancana, and Santo Trafficante. The opening offer was $150,000. The weapon: poison pills from the CIA’s Technical Services Division.

The 1975 Church Committee found concrete evidence of at least eight CIA plots against Castro between 1960 and 1965.

The same Havana-Miami underworld that lost Cuba in 1959 became useful again as the deniable violence arm of US policy.

Of the three mob figures the CIA hired, Giancana was murdered before he could testify to Congress. Rosselli was murdered after he did. Trafficante survived.

The continuity is structural, not anecdotal: Tampa, Havana, Miami. Casinos became exile paramilitaries. Exile paramilitaries became lobby infrastructure.

Jorge Mas Canosa, a Bay of Pigs veteran and CIA-radio figure, founded the Cuban American National Foundation in 1981 at the suggestion of Reagan's advisors. It was modeled on AIPAC and built to harden Cuba policy permanently.

The lobby's most famous operative was Luis Posada Carriles: CIA-trained, Bay of Pigs veteran, Iran-Contra contractor under Oliver North, perpetrator of the 1976 mid-air bombing of Cubana Flight 455 (73 dead) and the 1997 Havana hotel bombings. By 1998, he had publicly named Mas Canosa as his financier. He died free in Miami in 2018.

They did not just lobby. They wrote the laws.

1992: Cuban Democracy Act.
1996: Helms-Burton.
2019: Trump activates Title III, letting US claimants sue foreign firms using confiscated Cuban property.

Today the legal afterlife of Batista’s Cuba runs through federal court: hotel chains, expropriation claims, embargo law, and Miami political power.

Marco Rubio, now Secretary of State, is a product of that machine.

When he says “freedom in Cuba,” hear the history underneath it:

the old casino mobster class wants its island back

[OnlyAsIAm @onlyasiam]

@IB_Lond @garyseconomics The total taxable wealth of the 0.5% discussed in the video is currently £0.

[OnlyAsIAm @onlyasiam]

@alexmoran @garyseconomics Have you watched the video ? They were discussing a rate of 2%

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Tax relief on pension contributions in 2023-2024 was £78.2bn.

13% went to 0.9m Additional rate taxpayers
55% to 6.03m Higher rate taxpayers
32% to 29.2m Basic rate taxpayers

Restricting tax relief to 20% for all will boost public purse by £14.5bn.
https://t.co/TUUw1Y6xmK

[OnlyAsIAm @onlyasiam]

@alexmoran @garyseconomics Did you watch the video ? They talk about the top 1-0.5%. They pay nothing

[OnlyAsIAm @onlyasiam]

@alexmoran @garyseconomics As a proportion of their wealth they pay next to nothing, certainly way less than you or I.

[OnlyAsIAm @onlyasiam]

@alexmoran @garyseconomics The wealthy mostly own stuff, and charge rents.

[OnlyAsIAm @onlyasiam]

@cryptaurean @garyseconomics They have a few quid more than the bloke next door...thats all. To answer your question, yes, people are that brainwashed...however, I do believe bots are playing a role here. Trivially easy to set up and use these days. The propaganda battleground is shifting before our eyes.

[Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics]

The economist who billionaires fear, Gabriel Zucman: this is how we get a wealth tax