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@RobCarryBray Thirsty Open Society psychos have spent a very, very long time gazing at Ireland. 💘🇮🇪

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Irish people are strange because their genetic profile is entirely Bronze Age. They were never replaced by migration or hostile takeover, they had genetic continuity into modernity. This is in contrast to basically every Western European gene pool which was repeatedly conquered.

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@ShippersUnbound Well, there’s also the bit about locking in digital life & movement passes.
He says that an awful lot.
Regardless of how it makes us feel.

Is the essay a fig leaf?

[Benonwine @benonwine]

This is a picture of Tony Blair and his son, who as it turns out just happens to have a company that will be paid £100 billion to develop and monitor …....DIGITAL I.Ds!!

Another bonus for Blair himself is that he holds £ 375 million worth in shares in that company!

No wonder that digital ID is being pushed on us!

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@Sargon_of_Akkad @frankwrighter Rambling complain-a-thon
-everything is bad! justice for The People!-
continues in his personal space.
Facts be damned.

Pray tell: who does this mystery hero dropped in to save us really serve?

[Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm]

The Economist on the U.S. economy’s consistent growth outperformance relative to other advanced countries:
“America’s outperformance began decades ago, but in the 2020s it has become vast. And it is likely to last. The latest IMF forecasts show American growth besting the rest all the way to 2030 and beyond….
Many of America’s advantages are hard to emulate. The country’s continental scale, single language, natural-resource wealth and the fiscal space that comes from issuing the world’s safe asset give it a unique economic advantage over Europe…
But America also shows just how much other rich countries are failing to live up to their economic potential.”
#economy @EconUS @TheEconomist

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@Sargon_of_Akkad @frankwrighter This guy is an op.

And anyone here who can’t clearly see by now that he’s been planted as part of the op

… is part of the op.

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@CurtSahakian @Rainmaker1973 Shut up, bot 🤖

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Republican mood since Nov’24: dark! 😳

[Toby Rogers @uTobian]

Donald Trump's second term has turned into a nightmare.

The most extreme self-dealing of any president in history.

Failed war in Iran.

Misguided tariffs that increased inflation and then became a giveaway to corporations.

Trump spends a large share of his political capital protecting Satanic Billionaire Pedophiles.

Outright malevolence toward the best member of the House, Thomas Massie.

The Tech Bros get whatever they want from this administration.

The Team of Rivals is no more. Tulsi Gabbard was spied on by the CIA. Now she's home caring for her vaccine injured husband.

Regulatory decisions are sold to the highest bidder.

MAHA has gone over to the dark side and is used to license toxic herbicides and shots.

The Charlie Kirk assassination was covered up and will never be solved.

Meanwhile Democrats are so vaccine injured that they have effectively ceased to function as a viable opposition party.

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Will Britain choose to remember? 🙉🇬🇧🙈🇬🇧🙊

[David Vance @DavidVance]

Remember when Andy Burnham insisted people MUST carry a vaccine passport or be excluded? A nasty little authoritarian

[Aɴᴛ @AntSpeaks]

British comedian Pat Smith brilliantly points out the hypocrisy surrounding the subject of mass migration in the UK.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Hantavirus infects up to 100,000 people every year, yet suddenly a handful of cases on a cruise ship sparks a mass public health panic fanned by the WHO. We should be very suspicious as to why, says Dr David Bell. https://t.co/0lqF7IQUEI

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@DerekJGrossman 1. Partisan.
2. Flimsy.
3. Myopic.

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@SethDillon He’s DoD. Zero chance of indictment.

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@RandPaul @denisrancourt The odds of DOJ prosecuting a senior DoD agent are nil and nil.

[Senator Ron Johnson @SenRonJohnson]

Today, I released a report showing that Biden health officials knew that safety signals for COVID-19 injection injuries were being hidden by their VAERS analytic algorithm.

They were shown an updated algorithm that signaled serious adverse events, but they refused to use it. Their cover-up jeopardized the health of millions of Americans.

Read my interim report and see the records here:

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All you have to do is read the fine print.
Incredible.
💉⚠️

[Aaron Siri @AaronSiriSG]

The WHO's claim that vaccines saved 154 million lives in the past 50 years is corrupt "science" at its apex.

This claim comes from an advertising report by the WHO touting its own vaccination program. In a real paper, there would be a confidence interval for the claimed “154 million lives saved.” The reason there is no confidence interval is that this figure is fabricated guesswork, as explained—or I should say buried—on page 42 of the supplement to this paper, in a section titled “Uncertainty of estimates.” [1] There, it explains that it cannot put “bounds around the veracity of the estimates” and that any “bounds are arbitrary” and “should not be interpreted as a claim to where the edges of valid estimated possible [sic] lie.” Meaning, the confidence that any estimate in this paper is correct is zero and it could be just as true that vaccines resulted in a net death of 154 million lives in the last 50 years. That alone renders this study entirely unreliable, and claims made using this study corrupt.

But it gets worse. This claim also fails to account for studies with actual data about vaccines and mortality. For example, almost the entire 154 million lives the report claims were saved comes from two vaccines, the DTP vaccine and the measles vaccine.

As for the DTP vaccine, the body of science based on actual real-world data is clear: this vaccine kills more children than it saves. In fact, the seminal study found that children receiving DTP died at 10 times the rate as those who received no vaccines in the first six months of life. [2]. Ten times. That study is based on real data and has a confidence interval. The study found that DTP may have reduced deaths from the diseases it targeted (diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis) but children were dying from other diseases and issues that otherwise would not have been associated with vaccines, absent the study. Accounting for this real-world data would wipe away the entirety of the 154 million lives saved, if you calculated those lives lost from DTP use over the past 50 years.

As for the measles vaccine, this product can prevent transmission of measles, and so it can save some lives by preventing measles deaths. But that is not the entire story. First, this WHO advertising report estimates that 40% of the decline in measles mortality is due to measles vaccine. But this estimate defies reality. In the United States, measles mortality declined by over 98% before a measles vaccine was introduced in 1963 and declined by over 99% in the U.K. before a measles vaccine was introduced in 1968. [3]. As living conditions improve, the hard data reflects that measles mortality declines by close to 99%, not 60% as this WHO advertisement report used. Using the real data regarding reduction of measles mortality absent a vaccine when living conditions improve, and accounting for the DTP data discussed above, the benefit of vaccines over the last 50 years becomes inverted.

But it gets even worse. A 100,000-person study conducted by the nation of Japan over a period of over 20 years found that those who had measles and mumps died at a far lower rate from cardiovascular disease than those who never had measles and mumps. [4]. In fact, 20 years after the start of the study, around 14% of those who never had measles and mumps were dead of heart disease whereas only 7% of those who had measles and mumps were dead of heart disease. Heart disease is the number one killer of Americans. Not only does measles have a statistically significant reduction in deaths from heart disease, study after study shows having measles provides a statistically significant reduction in death from various cancers. [5].

Notably, these cardiovascular and cancer studies were based on real data, not estimates, provided confidence intervals, and were statistically significant. If you now add this data to the above about DTP and measles, you are far negative in terms of the benefits of vaccines. Consider that unlike other pathogens that have come and gone, these pathogens apparently conferred a survival advantage and hence may explain why they became less virulent over time and remained in circulation.

Bottom line, the WHO’s advertising report, masquerading as science, epitomizes the corruption of science regarding vaccines. Overstating the benefits of vaccines is just as dangerous as overstating their risks. Doing so deprives the policy makers, medical professionals, and the public of the ability to make rational, informed, decisions regarding these products.

The above is an abridged discussion of this topic. For an illuminating, detailed, and fully cited discussion showing that the claimed reduction in mortality from vaccines is a belief, not science, see Chapter 7 of Vaccines, Amen.

[1] https://t.co/ydDsHklQ3A
[2] https://t.co/3zoc6Q0VkL see Chapter 7 of Vaccines, Amen for full discussion and additional citations.
[3] https://t.co/se5EeTopTZ; https://t.co/2kmWpDhoDO; and see Chapter 7 of Vaccines, Amen for full discussion and additional citations.
[4] https://t.co/eV3ud0LjmH
[5] For example, the International Agency for Research on Cancer found that those who never had measles had a 66% increased rate of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and a 233% increased rate of Hodgkin lymphoma. https://t.co/HoAOtTPANy(See Table 2: in the Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL) column, divide the odds ratio 1 (never had measles) with .6 (had measles) which results in a 66% increased risk, and in the Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (HL) column, divide the odds ratio 1 (never had measles) with .3 (had measles) which results in a 233% increased risk). These two cancers killed an estimated 21,170 Americans in 2022 (see https://t.co/U8AXKsWmbh https://t.co/Ki1w7v0rKs). There are event studies that found remission of Hodgkin’s disease after having measles (see https://t.co/5nBRB3zpDi). Likewise, researchers at the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia and the Department of Biology at the University of Victoria found that those who never had measles had a 50% increased rate of ovarian cancer, which killed an estimated 12,810 Americans in 2022 (see https://t.co/fDL74igeIt https://t.co/hkxsUOwLQk). Other studies have reached similar conclusions that measles—as well as mumps, rubella, chickenpox, etc.—reduce the rate of various forms of other cancers, including a study from researchers at the University of Berne, Switzerland that specifically reviewed these fever-causing illnesses and found that the “study consistently revealed a lower cancer risk for patients with a history of FICD [febrile infectious childhood diseases]” (see https://t.co/eG2xhhVAUh). Studies have also found that children who have had measles have far less allergies and atopic diseases, such as asthma, and adults who had measles have a reduced risk of Parkinson’s Disease (see https://t.co/IJqoNEoeeR; https://t.co/AVoUNOBTw5 https://t.co/8J76GzRFQ8).

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Tough times in Blighty. 🇬🇧 📉

[Josh Hunt @iAmJoshHunt]

People have been telling me I’m being overly negative about this country. Too pessimistic. Too doom-laden.

I thought I was holding back. So let me lay it all out.

Welcome to the age of compounding crises.

Housing. Average home costs 8x the average salary. A generation locked out. Prices can’t fall without crashing the banks. Can’t rise without locking out more people.

Water. £85 billion extracted in dividends since privatisation. £70 billion in debt loaded onto companies sold debt-free. Victorian pipes leaking billions of litres. Raw sewage discharged for 3.6 million hours in a single year. Bills rising 36% by 2030.

Energy. Net importer. No sovereign strategy. One Gulf crisis and it costs the taxpayer £78 billion in emergency subsidies.

Pensions. One of the worst state pensions in the developed world. Trillions in unfunded public sector liabilities off the books. Median private pot £32,700. You need ten times that. 43% undersaving. The triple lock ratchets costs up automatically with no mechanism to bring them down.

NHS. 7.25 million on the waiting list. Staff leaving. Buildings crumbling. Cancer targets missed. Social care barely exists. A two-tier system emerging. A demographic wave about to make it all worse.

Transport. HS2: £66 billion for 140 miles. Spain built 2,500 miles for $70 billion. We pay 8.5x the European average and deliver a fraction of the result. Roads falling apart. The North still waiting.

Local government. Over half of councils expect bankruptcy within five years. Funding cut 29% in real terms since 2010. Libraries, youth services, social care… gone or going.

Public finances. Debt approaching 97% of GDP. Interest payments exceed the defence budget. Taxes at their highest since the 1940s. Spending plans include cuts the OBR says may be undeliverable.

Productivity. Flat for eighteen years. Worst record since the Industrial Revolution.
Economic inactivity. 1 in 5 working-age people not working. 2.8 million out sick, a record. The only G7 country with lower employment than before the pandemic.

Food. We import 48% of what we eat. 83% of our fruit. 12% of households are food insecure. One supply chain shock and the shelves thin out. We’ve seen it twice already and fixed nothing.

Education. School buildings crumbling. Teachers leaving. £267 billion in student debt, most of which will never be repaid.

Defence. Procurement Parliament called “broken and repeatedly wasting billions.” Equipment plan £19 billion short. A war in Europe and no money to respond properly.

Prisons. 72% overcrowded. Hit 99.7% occupancy. Nearly 40,000 released early because there was nowhere to put them. 23,000 cells don’t meet fire safety standards. Cost to fix: £2.8 billion. Allocated: £520 million.

Car finance. Biggest mis-selling scandal since PPI. 12 million agreements with hidden commissions. £7.5 billion in expected compensation. Another bill landing on an industry already stretched.

Regional inequality. London pulling away from everywhere else. A country where your postcode determines your life expectancy, school quality, job prospects and access to healthcare.

Underneath all of it, the same pattern. Sell the asset. Load it with debt. Extract the value. Defer the maintenance. Hand the bill to the next generation.

None of this is unfixable. This country has the talent and the people to turn every one of these around. But that requires a political class willing to be honest about the scale of what’s broken. What we have instead is a political class that would rather keep us fighting each other than confront the structural failures staring them in the face. Because fixing them is hard, unpopular, and takes longer than an electoral cycle. So they commission a review, blame the last lot, and nothing changes.

I’d love to be more optimistic. And the history and people of this country still make me somewhat hopeful. But our politics needs to drastically change if we’re going to get anywhere.

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@Scott1984359741 I have an idea. 💡

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@ezralevant And Ireland’s Truth Minister is from Chinese crackdown-era Hong Kong.
Crazy crazy world.

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@ezralevant And Ireland’s Truth Minister is from Chinese crackdown-era Hong Kong.
Crazy crazy world.

[Disclose.tv @disclosetv]

NEW - Ireland's media regulator, led by Jeremy Godfrey, who previously served as the Hong Kong Government's Chief Information Officer, launches a formal investigation into X, for potential breaches of the EU's Digital Services Act.

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Bad times for OpenAI.

[George Noble @gnoble79]

Sam Altman has cultivated an image as the AI whisperer of our generation.

But his mask just got RIPPED OFF.

What's underneath should terrify anyone who believes in OpenAI at an $852 billion valuation...

Multiple OpenAI engineers revealed that Altman can barely code and routinely confuses basic machine learning concepts.

This isn't a hit piece from a rival. These are his OWN people.

A senior Microsoft executive (OpenAI's largest partner) went on record saying:

"I think there's a small but real chance he's eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer."

That's from the company with a 27% stake.

Former OpenAI researcher Carroll Wainwright described the pattern:

"He sets up structures that, on paper, constrain him in the future. But then, when the future comes and it comes time to be constrained, he does away with whatever the structure was."

Insiders call it "Jedi mind tricks."

I call it something older: the con.

Now look at what's actually happening at OpenAI right now.

Jury trial begins April 27 in Oakland. Musk vs Altman.

Musk is seeking up to $134 billion in damages and wants Altman and Brockman removed from their positions.

The key piece of evidence? Brockman's own 2017 handwritten diary, surfaced in discovery:

"I cannot believe that we committed to non-profit if three months later we're doing b-corp then it was a lie."

A co-founder. In writing. In 2017. Using the word "lie."

The judge cited that entry directly when she ruled there was "ample evidence" for a jury.

Now the financial reality nobody wants to talk about:

OpenAI just raised $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation.

2025 revenue: ~$13 billion
2026 projected loss: $14 billion
Cumulative losses through 2028: $44 billion
Cash burn projected to hit $57 billion annually by 2027
Path to profitability: 2030, maybe

That's 65 times sales for a company losing more money than it earns. Traditional SaaS trades at 5-10x ARR.

To justify this valuation, OpenAI needs to hit $100 billion in annual revenue by 2029.

Nvidia did $130 billion in 2025 with a near-total monopoly on the largest hardware boom in human history.

OpenAI is supposed to match that in four years. Selling subscriptions.

And that's the BULL case.

The bear case? DeepSeek launched a 1 trillion parameter model priced at one-sixth the cost of US rivals. Chinese AI has erupted into a full price war. ChatGPT's web share collapsed from 86.7% to 64.5% in 12 months.

Models are commoditizing. Moats are evaporating. Compute costs are structural, not temporary.

And the man steering this $852 billion ship allegedly can't explain gradient descent to his own engineers.

I've seen guys like this many times. I watched it in 1999. I watched it in 2007.

The pattern is always the same:

A charismatic frontman. A "new paradigm" story. Valuations disconnected from cash flow. Insiders quietly cashing out while retail investors chase the narrative. Board structures designed to be "unwound" the moment constraints become inconvenient.

When Microsoft executives are whispering "Madoff" and co-founders are writing "it was a lie" in their diaries, you don't even need 45 years on Wall Street to know how this ends.

You just need to have been paying attention.

I've been bearish on the Mag 7 AI capex story for months. $380 billion spent in 2025 with CFO surveys showing "no change" in productivity. The earnings have accrued to the picks-and-shovels guys, not the dreamers.

OpenAI is the purest expression of this mania. And the jury selection on April 27 may be the moment the story finally cracks.

Caveat emptor.

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Socialism or MEGA?
Decision time is coming very, very soon.
⏳⌛️⏳…

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte flew to Washington to discuss Ukraine’s $60 billion defense requirement for 2026. He spent over two hours being dressed down about Iran. When he emerged, he told CNN the meeting was “very frank” and acknowledged that “some allies failed the test.” Trump posted in all caps that NATO was not there when the US needed them and would not be there again.

Here is the part of this story that should stop everyone cold.

Russia is earning an extra $150 million per day in oil revenue because of the Iran war. The Guardian reported $8 billion in additional fossil fuel revenue in just the first two weeks of the conflict, $900 million above normal. Carnegie Endowment estimates the windfall at tens of billions per annum if the disruption persists. The Swedish armed forces commander said publicly that Moscow is “pouring” that revenue directly into its war effort in Ukraine. Russian state television propagandist Vladimir Solovyov told audiences on March 2: “For our budget, the attack on Iran is a big plus.”

And on April 7, Russia vetoed the UN Security Council resolution that would have reopened the Strait of Hormuz.

The resolution was sponsored by Bahrain alongside Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. It had already been diluted three times, stripped of all offensive authorization, reduced to purely defensive coordination, narrowed to the strait alone. Eleven countries voted yes. Russia and China voted no. Pakistan and Colombia abstained. Russia’s ambassador said the resolution presented Iranian actions as the sole source of tension while ignoring US and Israeli strikes. China’s ambassador said it failed to capture root causes. They killed the only multilateral mechanism that could have reopened the strait without a bilateral US-Iran deal, ensuring the disruption continues, ensuring the windfall continues, ensuring the war funding continues.

So the structural loop is this. Trump started the Iran war. Hormuz closed. Oil prices surged. Russia began earning an extra $150 million every day. Russia pours that money into its Ukraine campaign. NATO needs $60 billion to counter Russia in Ukraine. Trump demands NATO simultaneously support the Iran effort AND fund Ukraine. But the Iran war is financing Russia’s Ukraine campaign at a rate that dwarfs NATO’s incremental spending. And Russia just vetoed the resolution that could have ended its own windfall, because keeping Hormuz closed is worth more to Moscow than any amount of diplomatic credibility at the Security Council.

Iran also exempted Russia from the Hormuz blockade. On March 26, Foreign Minister Araghchi announced that ships from five nations, including Russia and China, would be allowed to transit freely. Russia’s tankers move. NATO’s do not. Russia sells oil at tightened discounts. NATO buys oil at war premiums. Russia funds its army with the proceeds of a war that NATO is being punished for not joining.

Rutte knows all of this. Which is why his post-meeting statement included a line most outlets buried: NATO’s security and Ukraine’s are “interlinked.” That word, interlinked, is doing the heaviest lifting in transatlantic diplomacy right now. It is Rutte’s way of telling Washington that the alliance cannot be tested on Iran and Ukraine simultaneously when the Iran war is funding the adversary that the Ukraine commitment exists to contain.

The alliance is not failing because of freeloaders. The alliance is trapped inside a feedback loop where the war meant to demonstrate American resolve is generating the revenue that funds the threat the alliance was built to deter. And the country profiting most from that loop just vetoed the only vote that could have broken it.

Full analysis - https://t.co/0fIdGsM5qH