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[Dr.Sayajirao Gaikwad @DietDrsayajirao]

If you can hold a wall sit for 2 minutes, your legs, metabolism, and future self will thank you. One of the most underrated exercises for healthy aging. Here are 7 reasons why: 👇🏻
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[Deep Leaks @DeepLeaksHQ]

Now that the MSM admit the CIA had bases in Ukraine since 2014, let’s revisit this infamous phone call.

Two weeks after Trump was elected in 2016, then VP Biden called then Ukrainian President Poroshenko, nervous about Trump finding out where the money was going in Ukraine.

Biden says he did not want Trump to get “sophisticated enough” to understand what was going on in Ukraine, implying that the US funding was not going towards the stated purpose.

What was going on in Ukraine that Biden and Obama were so desperate to prevent Trump from figuring out?

You decide for yourself, but if it was legal, they wouldn’t be trying to cover it up.

FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

USAID funding was used for terrorism

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

USAID money killed millions

[🇹🇷🇵🇸Sönmez TEMUR🇵🇸🇹🇷 @furkancan]

🇷🇺Rusya, Ukrayna'yı bombalarken stratejik alt-nükleer mühimmat kullandı..
Putin'in dediği gibi: "Kırmızı çizgileri aşan ve masum insanları öldürenleri affetmeyeceğiz!"
Zelenskyy, Moskova'yı bombalamakla övündüğünde, sonuçları Kyiv'e geldiklerinde düşünmeliydi.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

USAID funding was central to the creation of COVID-19

[OK Then @okaythenfuture]

Ray Dalio is correct,

China is constructing a new tribute system and will not choose to trigger a disastrous global WWIII,

within a year to two it will be chip sufficient,

and within a decade Taiwan likely reunifies with the mainland.

Asian states are already falling in line to welcome this new order.

The Chinese Century.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

THE U.S. CAUSED THE COVID PANDEMIC, not China, the U.S. government revealed today.

“It's time the American people learn the real story," spy chief Tulsi Gabbard in a sensation-causing video released on X and a statement on the internet.

And what a story it is.

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TRUTH AT LAST
The US spent millions to finance a lab in China’s Wuhan to experiment on killer viruses.

The research was on a technique called “gain of function” which some people see as weaponization of the viruses.

That research is “now widely viewed as the source of the unintentional lab leak that sparked the pandemic,” said Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence.

“This dangerous research caused immeasurable harm and countless lost lives,” she added.

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PREFERRED NARRATIVE
After the pandemic broke out, Washington then worked to tell the world it could not have been a lab leak.

The preferred story circulating at the time was to say that animal-to-human transmission evolved in China due to the circumstances there.

But the evidence tells a different tale, the US spy chief said, releasing a new batch of top secret documents today, her last day in office. "It's time you know the truth," she said.

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120 BIOLABS

The story begins with the US quietly setting up 120 biological laboratories across more than 30 countries. Some of these laboratories were involved in research on hazardous pathogens, she said.

Dr Anthony Fauci, while serving as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, sent millions of dollars of US taxpayer cash to be spent on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, she said.

In 2019, the Covid-19 virus apparently emerged in several locations around the world—but was first formally detected by scientists in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019.

It was soon found all over the world. The “pandemic caused tremendous hardship and pain for millions,” Gabbard said.

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PREFERRED NARRATIVE
For the US, the preferred story was that it was NOT a lab leak—because the world would realize that the Pentagon was financing biolabs around the world, and at home.

People raising the alarm about the biolabs were accused of “pushing Russian and Chinese disinformation”.

When the existence of the labs could not be denied, the BBC and other media reported that they were “peaceful labs” which were financed for entirely positive reasons—a line that Pentagon-watchers found hard to swallow.

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LIED ABOUT INTELLIGENCE CONNECTION
Fauci worked with senior intelligence agents in the early days of the pandemic to shape the narrative but lied about it, Gabbard said.

In his testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic in 2024, he was asked under oath whether he had communicated with intelligence agencies concerning viral research before, during or after the pandemic.

Fauci replied: "Not to my knowledge, about COVID."

In January 2025, many people were puzzled when Former President Joe Biden issued “a pre-emptive pardon” to Fauci. Pardons, by definition, are given to people who have broken the law—but this had not happened at that time.

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TREMENDOUS HARDSHIP
Gabbard is retiring to spend more time with her husband, who has cancer.

But she wanted to get the truth about this subject out there before she disappeared. She says the evidence indicates US-funded research was the root of the problem.

"The COVID-19 pandemic caused tremendous hardship and pain for millions of our fellow Americans and for countless people around the world,” she said.

Links to her statement and the documents are provided below.

[Dating Dynamics @Dating_Dynamics]

13 sex positions every couple should try at least once.

The happiest couples know that great relationships require great intimacy, fun, and variety.

If your bedroom has become predictable, start with these 13:

1. The Flatiron

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

At May’s pace, the federal government is now spending about $1.6 trillion per year just on interest — roughly the entire federal budget as late as 1997. But as more low-yielding debt matures, soon that number will be north of $2 trillion, nearly 40% of federal tax revenue!

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[NewRulesGeopolitics @NewRulesGeo]

🚨🇨🇳 GAME OVER FOR U.S. NAVY: CHINA’S RAILGUN NOW HAS WORKING GUIDANCE SYSTEM

For decades the problem inside an electromagnetic rail gun was simple: any guidance chip would be crushed by 20,000g forces and fried by a 7-tesla magnetic storm before it could steer. China just proved that barrier has been shattered.

🔸 Chinese prototype survived 20,000g overload and 7T magnetic pulse in a real rail gun firing test — first open-source proof that a full guidance system endured the launch.

🔸 Multi-layer protective cocoon (copper, iron, polyurethane impedance layers & mu-metal) was optimized via NSGA-II genetic algorithm, delivering a 71.4% shielding boost.

🔸 US Navy already shelved its naval rail gun after failing to crack guidance survival; Japan’s version remains small-calibre and limited to short-range defense.

🔸 Built-in “brain” now enables cheap hypersonic rounds to self-correct mid-flight and strike moving targets hundreds of km away at a fraction of missile cost.

🔸 Taiyuan team’s breakthrough shifts rail guns from lab curiosities toward potential war-winners — though ship power, sustained fire rates and full-range performance remain unproven.

Do you think the U.S. could catch up to China's technology?

Follow to keep up with the latest military and technological trends.

[U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue @USAmbChina]

For 250 years, America’s spirit of liberty has inspired people around the world. It felt particularly fitting to celebrate this milestone in Guangzhou, where American merchants first arrived in China more than two centuries ago, marking the first connection between our nations.

[Michael Thrower Chowdhury @BevansAdvocate]

This book is extremely good. Robert C Allen is a serious economic historian and examines one of the great "what ifs" in history, the 1920s-30s transformation of the USSR against plausible counterfactuals. Examines everything from living standards to demographics. V much recommend

[RS @tigerbob088]

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[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is absolutely fascinating: Jason Furman, one of the foremost economists in the U.S. and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, explains why the so-called "China shock" is a myth.

According to him, "85 to 95% of Americans benefited" from trade with China, and "China has been part of helping [the US economy] work, not hurting it work."

In other words, the narrative that China "stole" American jobs and wages is the exact opposite of reality.

Furman's logic is pretty ironclad:

1) He points out, which is factual, that "the slowdown of wage growth and the rise of inequality began in the 1970s, when there basically was no trade with China." It then accelerated in the 1980s-90s when China trade was small, and **slowed down** after 2000. And "since about 2013," when trade with China was at its highest, "we've had pretty fast real wage growth," with "the fastest real wage growth for moderate income households."

In other words, the timing doesn't fit: if China was the cause, the problem should have gotten worse as trade with China increased. Instead, it got better.

2) A common narrative one hears about China is "who cares about affordable goods, we need well-paying jobs." But Furman points out it's actually one and the same thing: "the way we measure jobs is how much your wages can buy. If you improve purchasing power, you are making every single job in the economy better."

In very concrete terms, if salaries stay flat but Chinese imports make goods 10% cheaper, your purchasing power just went up 10%, as if you got a 10% wage hike. This makes every single job in the economy better.

In effect "jobs vs. cheap goods" is a false dichotomy: cheap goods ARE better jobs.

3) Furman also points out, rightly, that the majority of what U.S. imports from China isn't consumer goods: "more than half of what we import is actually inputs into the manufacturing process itself."

In other words, Chinese imports make U.S. manufacturing MORE competitive as it decreases their input costs. If you were to cut all Chinese imports, you'd cripple U.S. manufacturing as it would no longer be able to compete on price with anyone. And, as per point 2 above, you'd also destroy Americans' purchasing power, making every single U.S. worker worse off.

4) Last but not least, Furman says that the "China shock" literature is fundamentally flawed, as it "doesn't answer the most important question, which is what the net effect was." It "doesn't consider other causes for the job losses, doesn't look at all the places that gained jobs and wages, and doesn't integrate the consumer side."

All in all, he believes that if one were to actually calculate the net effect of trade with China on the U.S. economy, it'd show that "85 to 95% of Americans benefited." And even for the 5-15% who lost out, Furman says these people were failed by "our labor policies, our social safety net" - not by China.

What Furman is saying is more relevant than ever because, both in the U.S. and in Europe, this notion that China is somehow "stealing" Western jobs and prosperity has become the unquestioned premise of so many of today's policies.

Nobody even debates it anymore, it's almost universally assumed correct.

In my own country France, Macron keeps repeating it all the time, leading the charge in Europe to slap tariffs on Chinese imports, warning that China is "killing its own customers" and that it's a question of life or death for European industry (https://t.co/Auq9rvyEwk). He literally called last week for the EU to build its own version of America's Section 301 - the same protectionist tool Trump uses (https://t.co/yHJ6M43suw).

BUT, if Furman is right, and the data strongly suggests he is, France and Europe are about to inflict economic self-harm in the name of a problem that doesn't exist.

Much more affordable cars, for instance, would literally give every single European a big wage hike. It's Furman's argument on "85 to 95% benefiting" vs 5% to 15% losing out: the vast majority of Europeans would see their money go further, while a small number of jobs in legacy automakers would be disrupted. Instead of helping those workers transition, Europe wants to prevent making everyone better off.

Anyhow, please do watch the whole podcast, which has many other fascinating insights because Furman also debates with Justin Yifu Lin, the former Chief Economist of the World Bank and State Council Counsellor of China.

They're both interviewed by my friend @Hansong_Li - also a professor and an immensely smart man - in his excellent new podcast "worldviews" (imho one of the best new podcasts our there). The video is here: https://t.co/M7sVgk9v3a

[RS @tigerbob088]

@RnaudBertrand 50 years back, my friend a mapua grad work in us defense firm, was guarded by 3 americans when he visits his parents in Manila.

[RS @tigerbob088]

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