You’re totally missing the plot... Yes, cholecalciferol is cholecalciferol. Nobody serious is arguing the spelling of the molecule. The point is that sunlight is not just a molecule delivery system. The body making D3 through skin, cholesterol and UV exposure happens inside a larger biological event: light timing, circadian rhythm, skin signalling, nitric oxide, sulfation, cholesterol metabolism, immune signalling, mood, sleep and probably layers we still barely understand. What your reductionist zoom-in also misses is that cholecalciferol is only one marker, and a fairly crude proxy at that. Vitamin D biology involves more than 25 metabolites and a cascade of downstream functions and signalling pathways. Measuring or supplementing one molecule does not capture the full physiological picture. Sure a capsule can give you "cholecalciferol". It cannot recreate the sun. That is the reductionist mistake. Same molecule does not mean same biological context. Same marker moved does not mean the same biological event happened. Moving one proxy marker does not mean you have replicated the entire system that produced it. This is exactly how modern health shrinks nature into a product and then acts like the product replaced nature. It didn’t. It moved one piece of the system...

I made this prediction when Arsenal were leading 1-0

PSG will Win the Champions League It's written in the stars

“Your job, throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself.” - G. Doyle

One of the strangest things about chronic stress is that it makes being calm starts feeling emotionally wrong. At first, urgency feels exhausting. Later, urgency feels energizing. Eventually, urgency becomes psychologically necessary. That progression happens so slowly most ambitious people never notice it consciously. Think about this logically.. Your nervous system adapts to repeated environments. If you spend years operating inside: deadlines notifications pressure fires constant stimulation high stakes …your body begins treating urgency as baseline. Calm no longer feels familiar. This is why some founders physically cannot relax on vacation. i'm sure many of you recognize this Nothing is wrong. Yet you still: check Slack scan notifications seek stimulation create pressure mentally Your body arrived at rest, your nervous system didn’t. This is NOT ambition. This is purely conditioned hyperarousal. Your nervous system is trained on wrong inputs urgency = focus pressure = meaning chaos = aliveness That’s a dangerous equation to reinforce for years. HOWEVER/... The trap is that urgency often improves short-term performance. so you're actively being rewarded for repeated stress exposure Stillness starts feeling emotionally flat by comparison. NOW, you unconsciously recreate chaos Because calm no longer produces enough stimulation internally insanity

The scene illustrates adverse selection, a consequence of asymmetric information in finance. The professor knows the action is a test, while the students do not, creating information asymmetry. This leads to adverse selection as students choose individual safety (silence) to avoid personal risk, rather than engaging in collective action for fairness. This failure to challenge the arbitrary act ultimately creates market inefficiency or systemic risk to the classroom's "justice system", making everyone vulnerable to the same arbitrary treatment because fairness becomes undervalued.

(1) Cheap technology in Africa. China (2) Cheap and affordable electrical appliances in Africa. China (3) Interest Free Loans/Loans with 3 to 5% Interest as against predatory loans from western countries and institutions. China. (5) Africa's partners in industrialization and in infrastructure development. China. (6) Cheap and affordable cars that have flooded the African market. Making car ownership a reality for a lot of Africans. China. (7) Cheap and affordable STEM Toys/Baby Tec China. (8) Affordable digital Economy & ICT. China. (9) Affordable Public Health & Pharmaceuticals China. (10) Agricultural Export Support by removing all tariffs for African nations. China. (11) Africa's solar belt program via which tens of thousands of homes in Africa now have electricity? China. (12) Africa's partner in building super industries like the $20 billion Dangote Refinery? China. Lastly, guess the country, so called geopolitical analysts and social influencers castigates the most in Africa? Yeah, you guessed right. China. Let me add this: The reason we have what looks like a middle class in several African countries today is China. China didn't just lift itself out of poverty, it took the entire Global South with it and we in Africa are direct beneficiaries of China's massive industrialization. Instead of spreading propaganda against the Chinese, we should be grateful to China and learn from them to better our systems. Some of you won't be able to afford smart phones or home appliances and basic civilian technology if China had no cards in global politics and power. Some of your parents couldn't even afford TV when the West controlled everything. Stop being stup*d, know who your true partners are.

Here is the complete architecture of how you keep a poor country poor while convincing its educated class that this is their own fault: Step one: During colonialism, extract capital, destroy domestic industry, structure the economy around export of raw materials. Step two: Grant formal independence while maintaining the economic structure, the debt obligations, the currency arrangements, and the trade relationships established under colonialism. Step three: When the economy underperforms, as it must, being structurally designed for extraction, not development, offer loans conditional on policies that deepen the existing structure. Step four: Train the country's economists in Western universities where the theories taught do not acknowledge steps one through three as economically relevant. Step five: Staff international institutions and domestic finance ministries with these economists. Step six: When the policies fail, attribute failure to cultural factors, corruption, and weak institutions. Step seven: Publish a report with recommendations. Step eight: Return to step three. The machine runs on its own now. The colonial administrator retired. The indebted finance minister presenting his structural adjustment plan to the IMF board doesn't think of himself as administering colonialism. He has a PhD from LSE. He genuinely believes the model. This is not a conspiracy. It is an education system.

One of the best-kept secrets of European colonialism is that it was not just a state enterprise, it was a corporate racket. During the early stages of global expansion, European monarchs and governments frequently lacked the funds, the bureaucratic spine, or the political will to directly conquer distant lands. Their solution to this was outsourcing the conquest to private joint-stock companies. They issued "Royal Charters" that did not only grant these companies monopolies on regional trades; these charters handed corporations absolute sovereignty, giving them the right to raise private armies, mint money, forge treaties, and wage war. These private companies did the empire's dirty work, and they were terrifyingly good at it. The British East India Company (EIC) didn't just trade spices; it recruited a mercenary army, effectively swallowed the Mughal Empire, and established corporate primacy over the entire Indian subcontinent. In the case of Nigeria, the British government handed a royal charter to the Royal Niger Company (RNC) to conquer the exact territory we call Nigeria today. When local rulers like the emirs of the Sokoto Caliphate dared to resist the corporate monopoly, the RNC didn’t negotiate. They sent gunboats and Maxim machine guns to obliterate their armies and level their towns to the ground. This criminal syndicate masquerading as global trade continued unabated until formal empires finally collapsed after World War II, and nations like India and Nigeria wrenched back their independence. However, these companies never wanted the music to stop. The racket was simply too lucrative. It did not matter to them that their business model relied on the brutal subjugation of millions of human beings and the wholesale looting of their wealth. The only things that mattered were corporate profits and uninterrupted access to cheap oil and raw minerals. Unfortunately for these mega corporations, the modern era meant they no longer had Royal Charters. They had no flags, no legal right to raise standing armies, and no official seats at the UN. So, to feed their insatiable greed, they attached themselves to their host nations like a parasite. Today, instead of royal decrees, they use mega-lobby groups and dark campaign money to buy politicians wholesale. The dynamic has completely flipped: the state is no longer the master outsourcing its dirty work to the company. The company is the master, using the state as its heavily armed errand boy. And here is the darkest, most twisted part of this entire neocolonial racket. When the Royal Niger Company wanted to crush a local uprising, they actually had to dip into their own profits to hire mercenaries. Today’s corporate titans are far too cheap for that. Because they have successfully captured the governments of the Global North, they simply outsource the violence to the taxpayer. When a sovereign nation in the Global South dares to step out of line, maybe they decide to nationalize their oil, protect their native forests, or demand a fair market price for their copper, the corporate lobbyists just snap their fingers. Suddenly, their political lapdogs in Washington, London, or Paris starts tripping over themselves to rush to the microphones. Overnight, they declare that this uncooperative nation is a "threat to global security." They are suddenly in desperate need of "democracy." They are a "terror regime" harboring "Weapons of Mass Destruction." The next thing you know, working-class military personnel are packed like sardines into warships and transport planes, shipped across the Atlantic for a full-scale invasion. The profound tragedy is that these governments are practically sending their own citizens to bleed out in foreign deserts and jungles, sacrificed entirely on the altar of unbridled corporate greed. And when the gun smoke from these illegal wars finally settles, the grift comes full circle. The politicians who are still absolute slaves to their corporate masters, begin dishing out billion-dollar, no-bid contracts to private companies to "rebuild" what the military just destroyed. This is exactly how Halliburton and the rest of the American military-industrial complex pocketed hundreds of billions of dollars in juicy defense contracts. And to this day, these mega cooperations continue to hide behind the flag of their host nations to to plunder the globe to amass weather and resources.

Real Madrid will drop points against Real Betis tonight Real Betis to win/draw

"In all other things a woman is full of fear, incapable of looking on battle or cold steel; but when she is injured in love, no mind is more murderous than hers." ~ from Medea, by Euripides

There are Ghanaian engineers at NASA. Ghanaian surgeons running hospital departments in London. Ghanaian economists at the IMF and World Bank, some of them administering the very programs that have failed their home country. Ghanaian mathematicians. Ghanaian architects. Ghanaian writers who have won international literary prizes. Ghanaian tech entrepreneurs building companies that work. When given access to resources, institutions, and an enabling environment, Ghanaians perform at the highest levels of every field. This is not an argument that individual talent solves structural problems. It is a refutation of the claim that the problem is the people. The problem is never the people. The people are everywhere. The talent is everywhere. The ambition is everywhere. The capacity is everywhere. What is not everywhere is the policy space, the institutional support, the geopolitical backing, the market access, and the freedom from externally imposed economic programs that systematically prevent the conversion of human capacity into collective industrial development. The difference between a Ghanaian running a department at a London hospital and Ghana having a functioning public health system is not the Ghanaian. It is everything around the Ghanaian.

Official publication from the Audit Service submitted to parliament is now "scanty information?" You guys are just impossible.

The hardest thing to explain to someone inside the imperial consensus is the concept of structural violence. They understand individual violence. One person harms another person. There is a perpetrator and a victim and a clear causal chain. What they cannot see, what the entire educational and media apparatus has been carefully designed to prevent them from seeing, is the violence that happens when a system is arranged so that certain people predictably die, predictably suffer, predictably lose, not because any individual decided to harm them specifically but because the overall arrangement of power requires their subordination. The people of the Global South do not die of poverty because individual Americans wish them dead. They die because the international economic architecture, the terms of trade, the debt structures, the conditions attached to IMF loans, the intellectual property regimes that prevent technology transfer, the agricultural subsidies that undercut developing world farmers, is arranged, in aggregate, in a way that concentrates wealth in already wealthy countries and extracts it from already poor ones. And that architecture was designed. It was negotiated. It was implemented by specific people in specific rooms making specific decisions about who would benefit and who would not. This is violence. It does not look like violence because no one is pulling a trigger. But the deaths it produces are just as dead. And when you try to explain this to someone whose entire identity rests on the belief that what they have they earned, and what others lack they failed to achieve, you are not making a political argument. You are dismantling the story that makes their life make sense. They will not thank you for it. They will defend against it with everything they have. Because the alternative, accepting that their comfort is downstream of other people's dispossession, is not a policy position. It is an identity catastrophe.

There is no "the" Antichrist. Antichrists have been in existence for 2000 years. 1John.2.18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. (KJV)

مصادیق جنایات جنگی آمریکا و اسرائیل در حملات هوایی به #ایران در جنگ تحمیلی سوم این لیست بخشی از #جنایت_جنگی است که آمریکا و اسرائیل فقط در ۴۰ روز در ایران انجام دادند… ▪️کشتار دانشمندان ▪️کشتار زنان و کودکان ▪️حمله به مدارس و مراکز آموزشی ▪️حمله به ساختمان‌های مسکونی ▪️حمله به دانشگاه‌ها و مؤسسات علمی ▪️حمله به آمبولانس‌های امدادی ▪️حمله به مراکز، شعب و انبارهای امدادی هلال‌احمر ▪️حمله به پایگاه‌های اورژانس ▪️حمله به زیرساخت‌های انرژی ▪️حمله به زیرساخت‌های حیاتی (آب، برق و …) ▪️حمله به تأسیسات پتروشیمی ▪️حمله به سیلوهای کشاورزی ▪️حمله به اماکن و تأسیسات ورزشی ▪️حمله به بنادر و زیرساخت‌های کشتیرانی ▪️حمله به مراکز تجاری ▪️حمله به تأسیسات فنی صدا و سیما ▪️حمله به مراکز رسانه‌ای ▪️حمله به کتابخانه‌ها ▪️حمله به مراکز تفریحی ▪️حمله به بیمارستان‌ها و مراکز درمانی ▪️حمله به امدادگران هلال احمر و کادر درمان ▪️حمله به فرودگاه‌ها ▪️حمله به زیرساخت‌های حمل و نقل(پل ها و خطوط ریلی) ▪️حمله به هواپیماهای ترابری و مسافربری ▪️حمله به اماکن تاریخی ▪️حمله به اماکن مذهبی (حسینیه اعظم زنجان، کنیسه یهیودیان و مساجد) فقط در ۴۰ روز!

In 2020, Ghana passed the Cybersecurity Act for a clear reason: to protect people online. It focused on cybercrime: hacking, fraud, scams, and other forms of online harm. It also protected critical systems like banks, hospitals, and government infrastructure. The Cyber Security Authority (CSA) was set up to regulate the space and support law enforcement, not to act as the police itself. That was the idea: protect Ghanaians from digital criminals. Now there’s a 2025 amendment being proposed and this is where the conversation changes. If passed, the CSA would no longer just regulate. Its officers would be given powers of a police officer, including arrest, search, and seizure. It would also be able to investigate and prosecute cybercrime on the authority of the Attorney-General, instead of only supporting other agencies. It can also freeze property during an investigation and then go to court within 14 days for confirmation. There’s also a new provision that goes beyond traditional cybercrime. It makes it an offence to deliberately spread false or misleading information online with the intent to deceive or manipulate, with prison time attached. So the difference is simple. The 2020 law focuses on protecting people from cybercriminals. The 2025 proposal, if passed, expands state power to act directly against individuals online. And the real question is: who decides what is “misleading”? Because under this proposal, the same authority making that call could also have the power to arrest. This isn’t about panic. It’s about understanding what is being proposed before it becomes law. For a full breakdown of all the bills being proposed, visit: apdigh.org/ 👍