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RT @PeterHotez: Never forget: The @WSJopinion as the print version of Fox News and Murdoch media empire waged a war of aggression on the Am…
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Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi: "The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding has never been closer. Pending its finalization, the media should refrain from speculation about its content." President Trump reposted that statement on Truth Social. The man who said Wednesday "Iran's military is DEAD" and "they will pay the price" is amplifying the Iranian Foreign Minister's statement that a deal is "never closer." Who said the Iranian leaked terms "have NOTHING to do with what was agreed" is reposting the Iranian official saying media should not speculate about the content. The deal has a name: the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding. It has not been signed. The media is being told by both sides simultaneously not to speculate about what is in it. Bloomberg: signing possible Sunday in Geneva. Trump reposted Araghchi. That is the most diplomatic thing Donald Trump has done since February 28.
The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding has never been closer. Pending its finalization, the media should refrain from entering speculation about its content. In line with our responsible and transparent approach, all details will be shared with the public in due course.
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And I love Canada. And just to be clear I don’t know a single American who doesn’t LOVE Canada except one and he is a complete lunatic. Pray for us.
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The Freedom Train, Truth Bomber has arrived. Bombs away @HunterBiden! Don't stop!
Things most Americans agree on: Groceries cost too much. Tariffs suck and make no sense. Congress and Presidents shouldn’t trade stocks. The debt is a mess. The border should be secure, but legal immigration is good. Endless wars are stupid, especially ones that nobody wants and have never been explained. Americans are exhausted. AI is like my new best friend that also might be trying to take my job, my ability to think for myself, and my humanity in the process. Yo like I love you, but WTF, but I still love you. Diversity is actually awesome! The opposite is boring AF. Canadians are super fucking cool. Mexicans are chill. Putin isn’t a good guy looking out for America’s best interest. Rocky IV and Miracle are great movies. Good neighbors are a blessing. Freedom of religion and coexistence without having to blow each other up is probably a good idea. We all question, are we alone in the universe? We all fuck up along the way. Epstein didn’t hang himself. The Trumps and Epstein were best friends for decades. It’s like Bert trying to tell us Ernie was just an acquaintance in the same social scene on Sesame Street back in the day. The Cowboys suck. Go Birds! Things we’re told to fight about: Me. Laptop. Vaccines. Transgenders in sports. Pronouns. That’s the joke.
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A Trump family crypto venture is generating bumper profits from its foray into stablecoins, thanks partly to a promotional arrangement with Binance Holdings bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Don’t forget that Trump and his cult are still saying that liberals and Antifa were the violent ones on January 6th. Meanwhile his MAGA supporters who were pardoned for their crimes on Jan 6th went on to r*pe kids and commit more felonies after they were released‼️
NEW: A stunning new project from @lawfare's Katherine Pompilio finds that 97 Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the Capitol riot then got arrested, charged, and/or convicted with subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.
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Central banking in 2026: defending the rule of law.
Former Fed Chair Jerome Powell accepted the JFK Award and took a subtle swipe at Trump: “As John Adams said, ‘Ours is a government of law, and not of men.’”
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An entity that is "American" that does not allow comments to it's statements on X is really not American. #freespeachformenotthee
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You can disagree with AIPAC and the policies it supports or oppose the presence of money in politics completely. But claiming that American officials who receive support from an American organization composed of Americans citizens are "bought and paid for by Benjamin Netanyahu" invokes classic antisemitic rhetoric. Such accusations call up the age-old dual loyalty trope that casts Jewish Americans as more loyal to Israel than their own country. This hateful undermines their civic credibility and marginalizes their voices in public life.
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The Clark Kent "act" before did not fool me ... @PeterHotez
So I’ve noticed that as I age, my near sighted is partially correcting so I see the laptop screen better now without glasses, but maybe it’s just when I do it from home on weekends etc
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It’s actually much worse. There are Epstein victims who want to provide evidence to DOJ but are not being allowed to. But Ghislaine Maxwell gets two days with Blanche personally and then moves to a camp. The cover up is massive.
Weird how Todd Blanche and Kash Patel keep saying no women were abused… huh.
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If your phone number got hijacked tomorrow, you could lose access to your: - Gmail - Banking apps - Crypto wallets - 2FA codes - iCloud backups One SIM swap can destroy your entire digital life. Here's how to protect yourself in 15 minutes ↓
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🇮🇷 Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi: "The Strait of Hormuz lies within the territorial waters of Iran and Oman. There are no international waters between them. Everything must be regulated by Iran and Oman." Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi traveled to New Delhi, India, for a high-stakes three-day official visit from May 14 to May 16, 2026. The trip marked Tehran's first high-level diplomatic engagement with India since the outbreak of intense regional hostilities. 🚢 The Strait of Hormuz: Discussions focused heavily on maritime safety and global energy security. With the crucial waterway heavily restricted due to the regional war, Araghchi noted that the situation is highly complicated but reassured India that the strait remains open to "friendly countries". He discussed proposed service fees and protocols for vessels passing through. ☢️ Nuclear Deadlock: He acknowledged a complete deadlock regarding Iran's enriched nuclear material. He confirmed that Iran has discussed a proposal for Russia to store its enriched uranium, but noted the nuclear issue would likely be postponed to the later stages of future negotiations
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I must congratulate my @Harvard colleague @GrahamTAllison on this day. The fact that his scholarship forms a viable construct to prevent U.S.-China military conflict in our time, as illustrated by President Xi's statement today, is nothing less than a remarkable feat. I can think of no higher achievement for a social scientist than this. For those trying to interpret this mention of the Thucydides Trap as some kind of insult to America, they are simply ignorant of the argument and the related history. To the contrary, American leaders and scholars alike should re-engage with this pathbreaking scholarship and realize that its true goal is preventing a new, catastrophic superpower war. I'm very proud to say that I was present @Kennedy_School when Prof. Allison rolled out this work about a decade ago and I have been teaching it regularly to my students @Watson_School. CONGRATULATIONS Graham and keep up your stellar work for peace and security.
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Canada is facing one of the largest global order shifts since the Second World War. Trade routes, supply chains, defence capacity, energy systems, critical minerals, food security, infrastructure, manufacturing, technology, and capital formation are now national-security and prosperity files. We need to invest in the assets of the next economy. That is the context for Canada Strong. The core idea is ownership. If public capital takes equity risk beside private capital, Canadians should share in the equity upside. The fund is being framed not merely as project support, but as a vehicle for Canadians to own part of what gets built.¹ Poilievre is right to raise hard questions. Canada is not Norway. Canada Strong is not launching from a Norway-style resource surplus. We already have federal financing tools, so overlap and duplication must be designed out. Taxpayers need real protection from downside risk. Those are fair tests. They do not prove the concept fails. The comparators he invokes are not simple debt-free piles of cash. Norway’s fund was established in 1990 and first funded in 1996. In 2025, Norway’s structural non-oil deficit was projected at about 12.9% of mainland trend GDP, while withdrawals from the Government Pension Fund Global remained below the 3% guideline.² Singapore operates major public investment institutions while IMF data shows public debt around 173.1% of GDP. The same IMF material also notes very large public financial assets.³ Saudi Arabia carries central-government debt alongside major state assets and its Public Investment Fund. The IMF reported central government debt at 26.2% of GDP, with net debt about 17% of GDP.⁴ The real question is whether assets, liabilities, cash flows, risk, and governance are managed together as a coherent institution. A sovereign wealth fund is not a magic pile of cash. It is a balance-sheet vehicle. The asset must earn more than it costs after risk. The rules must protect operating independence, compounding, reporting, institutional lanes, and retail-risk disclosure. Finance Canada describes Canada Strong as a new arm’s-length Crown corporation, seeded with $25 billion over three years, focused on equity investments, commercial returns, and investments taken alongside private capital.⁵ CPP Investments offers a Canadian benchmark for professional standards: government sets the mission; professionals make the investment decisions; the public sees the results.⁶ The “slush fund for Liberal insiders” framing assumes misuse as the baseline. It skips the design and accountability question. Wealth funds and public investment funds are designed to make misuse harder, more visible, and more costly through: ☑️ statutory mandate ☑️ independent board ☑️ professional management ☑️ limits on ministerial direction of individual investments ☑️ transparent reporting against commercial benchmarks and the federal cost of capital ☑️ audit ☑️ earnings-retention and recycling rules ☑️ clear institutional lanes with existing tools ☑️ full retail-risk disclosure for the planned citizen participation product Alberta’s Heritage Fund provides the clearest Canadian warning: creating the fund is the easy first step. Protecting contributions, retaining earnings, controlling withdrawals, and preserving compounding over decades is the hard, ongoing work.⁷ Canada Strong should now be judged by design: ☑️ Purpose ☑️ Visible independence ☑️ Compounding and withdrawal rules ☑️ Clear institutional lanes ☑️ Retail-risk disclosure My full analysis: → Making the Canada Strong Fund Work paulstewartii.substack.com/p… → Complete Research Appendices paulstewartii.substack.com/p… Sources: ¹ Finance Canada, Canada Strong Fund canada.ca/en/department-fina… ² NBIM, About the Fund; IMF, Norway 2025 Article IV nbim.no/en/about-us/about-th… imf.org/en/news/articles/202… ³ IMF, Singapore 2025 Article IV imf.org/en/news/articles/202… ⁴ IMF, Saudi Arabia 2025 Article IV Mission imf.org/en/news/articles/202… ⁵ Finance Canada, Canada Strong Fund canada.ca/en/department-fina… ⁶ CPP Investments, Mandate and Governance cppinvestments.com/about-us/… cppinvestments.com/about-us/… ⁷ Government of Alberta, Heritage Savings Trust Fund alberta.ca/heritage-savings-…

A sovereign wealth fund requires… wealth. Canada has no surplus to invest. Because of Carney's deficits. So this will be nothing more than a $25 billion sovereign debt fund for Liberal insiders, paid for by working Canadians.
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This is the exact same tactic used by Cambridge Analytica to harvest 180M personal data files from Americans and Brits in 2015 to steal the elections in Brexit 2016 and the US presidency in 2016.
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It's just like a 2018 data heist by Cambridge Analytica. Same people too. Data breaches done in 3-parts: 1. data illegally given to unauthorized org 2. data then dropped on unsecure site 3. major conservative strategists then profle & fear-monger us using our data UCP Koch-Atlas
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Debating anti-vaccine activists.
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My film about AI visual models. x.com/daganshani1/status/194…

Why AI Will Ruin Every Movie You Watch (You Won’t See It Coming) 🎥 14.5-min short documentary ⬇️
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UAE top energy official Sultan Al Jaber on what the Middle Eastern country can do post-OPEC departure:
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The artist behind these AI risk and societal impacts has pinned some of this works. Well worth your time to view them, think on them, and act on them too. My action is writing an economics book. What is yours? Staying current to it, is half of it. Some of these docs are serious eye openers!! #justdoit
I make documentary films about AI risks and their impact on society. Recent films: Don’t Look Up – The Documentary Moloch Obsolete Why AI Will Ruin Every Movie You Watch Open to documentary editing and storytelling collaborations. Links to the films in the comments.
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Am 22. September verspricht Kasachstans Präsident dem US-Präsidenten eine Wolfram-Mine. 36 Tage später kaufen Trumps Söhne Anteile an der Firma, die sie bekommen wird. 9 Tage später wird der Deal mit 1,6 Milliarden Dollar Steuergeld offiziell. Drei Mal innerhalb eines Jahres dasselbe Muster: Söhne kaufen ein, Vater liefert den Auftrag. Im August 2025 steigen Donald Trump Jr. und Eric Trump bei einer kleinen New Yorker Baufirma namens Skyline Builders ein. Sie kaufen über ein Vehikel mit dem Namen American Ventures, einer Tochter von Dominari Securities. Dominari hat die Trump-Söhne Ende 2024 in seinen Beirat geholt. Sie halten dort auch einen Anteil am Mutterkonzern. Skyline ist zu diesem Zeitpunkt eine unauffällige Holding für asiatisches Baugeschäft. Niemand schreibt darüber. Am 22. September trifft Kasachstans Präsident Tokayev Donald Trump und sagt ihm zu: Eine US-Investmentgruppe namens Cove Kaz wird das größte unentwickelte Wolfram-Vorkommen der Welt bekommen. Cove Kaz hatte gegen chinesische und russische Bieter konkurriert. Tokayev entscheidet sich für die Amerikaner. Diese Zusage ist informell. Kein Vertrag, kein offizieller Beschluss. Nur ein Versprechen zwischen zwei Präsidenten. Am 21. Oktober berichtet die Presse erstmals über diese Vereinbarung. Sieben Tage danach, am 28. Oktober, schießen die Trump-Söhne weiteres Geld in Skyline nach. Im Rahmen einer Kapitalerhöhung von knapp 24 Millionen Dollar. Drei Tage später, am 31. Oktober, kauft Skyline für 20 Millionen Dollar einen 20-Prozent-Anteil an einer Firma mit, Zitat aus dem Filing, "bedeutenden Beständen an kritischen Mineralien in Asien". Diese Firma ist Kaz Resources, die Tochter von Cove Capital, die das Wolfram-Projekt entwickeln wird. Am 6. November verkünden Cove Kaz und Kasachstan den Deal offiziell. 70 Prozent der Mine gehören Cove. 30 Prozent dem kasachischen Staat. Geplante Investitionssumme: 1,1 Milliarden Dollar. Die US-Regierung steigt mit ein. Die staatliche US-Exportbank gibt eine Zusage über bis zu 900 Millionen Dollar Projektfinanzierung. Die staatliche US-Entwicklungsbank ergänzt das mit bis zu 700 Millionen Dollar. Macht zusammen bis zu 1,6 Milliarden Dollar Steuergeld. Am 30. April 2026 fusionieren Skyline und Cove Kaz. Das fusionierte Unternehmen geht an die Nasdaq. Geplanter Ticker: KAZR. Auf keiner einzigen Pressemitteilung tauchen die Namen der Trump-Söhne auf. Warum Wolfram? Wolfram ist das Metall mit dem höchsten Schmelzpunkt der Welt. Es steckt in panzerbrechender Munition. In kinetischen Abfangkörpern für Raketenabwehr. In Hyperschallwaffen. In jedem Halbleiter. In F-35-Triebwerken. Christopher Ecclestone, Bergbau-Stratege bei Hallgarten in London, sagt: Das Pentagon will Wolfram um jeden Preis. China kontrolliert über 80 Prozent der weltweiten Wolfram-Produktion. Im Februar 2025 verhängt Peking Exportbeschränkungen. Die Preise für Ammoniumparawolframat, der internationale Benchmark für Wolfram, springen seitdem um über 40 Prozent. Die USA haben 2015 die letzte eigene Wolfram-Mine geschlossen. Wer eine neue, verlässliche Quelle anzapfen kann, sitzt auf einer goldenen Ader. Genau diese Ader bekommen die Söhne des US-Präsidenten. Mitfinanziert mit Steuergeld. Der Geschäftsführer von Cove Capital, Pini Althaus, sagt der Financial Times wörtlich: Cove habe "direkte Unterstützung von Präsident Trump, Außenminister Marco Rubio und Handelsminister Howard Lutnick" erhalten, um die Mine zu sichern. Lutnick selbst hat einen persönlichen Brief an den kasachischen Präsidenten geschickt, um den Deal zu unterstützen. Das geht aus einer Investorenpräsentation hervor, die Skyline bei der US-Börsenaufsicht eingereicht hat. Pini Althaus hat übrigens vor Cove eine andere Mineralienfirma gegründet: USA Rare Earths. Auch sie hat Mitte 2025 über 1,5 Milliarden Dollar an konditionaler US-Staatsförderung erhalten. Das ist der Hintergrund. Jetzt zum Muster. Im August 2025 steigt eine Risikokapitalfirma namens 1789 Capital bei einem Startup namens Vulcan Elements ein. Donald Trump Jr. ist dort Partner. Vulcan stellt Magnete aus Seltenen Erden her. Drei Monate später, im Dezember 2025, bekommt Vulcan einen Pentagon-Kredit über 620 Millionen Dollar. Plus 50 Millionen Dollar als Eigenkapitalbeteiligung der US-Regierung. Es ist der größte Kredit, den das zuständige Pentagon-Büro für strategisches Kapital je vergeben hat. Trumps Executive Order 14241 hatte zuvor die Pflicht zur unabhängigen technischen Prüfung solcher Vergaben aufgehoben. Im März 2026 steigen die Trump-Söhne bei einem Drohnenhersteller namens Powerus ein. Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, ehemaliger Sicherheitsberater des Vizepräsidenten, sitzt im Beirat. Wenige Wochen später startet die US-Regierung ein Drohnenprogramm mit einem Budget von 1,1 Milliarden Dollar. Powerus will Aufträge daraus ziehen. Der geplante Börsenticker der Firma: PUSA. Jetzt Cove Kaz. KAZR. 1,6 Milliarden Dollar Steuergeld. Drei Fälle. Zwölf Monate. Dasselbe Muster. Das Wall Street Journal hat die Trump-Familien-Geschäfte seit der Wiederwahl auf insgesamt mindestens vier Milliarden Dollar Erlöse und Papiervermögen geschätzt. Krypto, Drohnen, Seltene Erden, Wolfram, Bitcoin Mining, Prediction Markets. Eric Trump hat in einem Interview gesagt, sie hätten in der ersten Amtszeit "keinen Dank für ihre Zurückhaltung bekommen". Diesmal halten sie sich nicht zurück. Im März 2026 versuchen Demokraten im Kongress, Donald Trump Jr. per gerichtlicher Vorladung zu zwingen, unter Eid zum Vulcan-Deal auszusagen. Republikaner blockieren die Abstimmung im Ausschuss. Die rechtliche Bewertung dessen wird Jahre dauern. Zwei Dinge stehen aber jetzt schon fest. Erstens: Wer in den USA steuerpflichtig ist, finanziert über Mehrheitsstrukturen einen Bergbau-Deal in Kasachstan, an dem die Söhne des Präsidenten beteiligt sind. Ohne dass diese Beteiligung in den offiziellen Pressemitteilungen erwähnt wird. Zweitens: Wenn dasselbe Muster in einem Jahr drei Mal auftritt, ist es kein Zufall. Es ist eine Methode. Wenn dich solche Makro Insights interessieren und dir helfen, interagiere gerne mit dem Post. 🧡
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