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So to recap…
Athana Mentzelopolous investigated the “irregularities” and was told to shut the investigation down…
But it was so bad, she went to the board who then said it to go to the police.
And then she was fired.
But she didn’t stop.
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Athana Mentzelopolous investigated the “irregularities” and was told to shut the investigation down…
But it was so bad, she went to the board who then said it to go to the police.
And then she was fired.
But she didn’t stop.
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She then filed for wrongful dismissal and included her findings in the hopes that someone in government would do the right thing.
They didn’t.
Instead, they dragged her name through the mud.
Then the judges report validated her concerns.
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They didn’t.
Instead, they dragged her name through the mud.
Then the judges report validated her concerns.
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Still no public inquiry.
The government has spent how much in taxpayers dollars to continue to fight Athana in court.
Then two podcasters from Ontario and Quebec were apparently hired to conduct what a judge called a “sandblasting” campaign to destroy Athana’s will to continue.
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The government has spent how much in taxpayers dollars to continue to fight Athana in court.
Then two podcasters from Ontario and Quebec were apparently hired to conduct what a judge called a “sandblasting” campaign to destroy Athana’s will to continue.
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Fyi I would do it myself I just don't have the fucking balls to do it so I'll need someone else to do the job for me as long as it's fast and quick and I don't know your doing it that would be the best way for me thank you 👍👍
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You know what Donald I'll take you up on that offer next time I go for a walk I'll let you know when and where and you or whoever else can kick my ass if you wish to fully kill me make it fast and quick you'll be doing me a huge favor cause I don't want to live long myself 👍👍👍
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The United Nations need not replace UNRWA with another transition plan. It merely needs to treat these refugees like every other.
Nurit Sonnenschein wrote, "There already IS another agency that deals with the world's refugees, the UNHCR, the UN High Commission on Refugees,
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Nurit Sonnenschein wrote, "There already IS another agency that deals with the world's refugees, the UNHCR, the UN High Commission on Refugees,
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now known as the UN refugee agency. They've found homes and jobs for hundreds of thousands of refugees around the world from every conflict that has created refugees, for decades. ONLY the palis have their own agency, UNRWA - and
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in 70 years, UNRWA hasn't found anyone jobs or homes, it has a bigger budget than UNHCR, and has "declared" the fifth generation of descendants as refugees, something that is unheard of anywhere else.
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Apparently Elon fixed the algorithm yesterday and "OG Money Twitter" is back
So I'm starting a thread of the best business / marketing / AI tips I have learned over the past 12 months
Strap in:
So I'm starting a thread of the best business / marketing / AI tips I have learned over the past 12 months
Strap in:
If you construct a business from good foundations from the start, then you should never have the question "Why isn't this working?"
Feeling like you don't know what to do next, or you don't know what's wrong, or you don't know how to fix it, is a 100% indication that something is fundamentally broken
The vast majority of businesses can be broken down into:
Traffic
Sales
Product
Customer success
And each one of these buckets can be broken down into a chain of actions that need to be done in order to improve them
And each one of these buckets are directly correlated to the others
And ideally, every one of these actions can have a metric, or KPI, that can be tracked, and therefore improved
And so if you're saying "something isn't working" you should be able to identify, by a quantifiable data point, what bucket it's in, what actions are responsible for that metric, and how it's affecting the rest of the business
Then, you can attack one metric, and one action
Example: Agency
"Business is down this month"
Look at the buckets. Traffic seems strong, metrics are healthy (in the context of the full business, not just siloed in an ad account). Product seems strong, results (which are measured) are where they should be. Customer satisfaction (which should be tracked) is good. So it's a sales issue.
Great. Sales is a fairly binary operation. So "sales is broken." What metric? Is it the close rate? Show rate? Do you have benchmarks? Do you know how each one affects the overall KPIs? Sometimes bumping show rate slightly can actually have a net greater impact than increasing the close rate substantially, especially considering effort required for each. Why is your show rate bad? What is bad? What are they getting pre call? Are the setters dialing fast enough? Are they getting enough emails? What are the emails saying? Are we getting common objections? Are the objections pre handled? Is there a correlation between the ones who no show, and the ones who do show and have the same objections?
"My sales are broken" could just mean there's an email automation that isn't firing. Or the setters aren't answering one question that leads to them closing.
BUT, this only works in a controlled environment. If things aren't tracked, there could be a hundred pinholes leaking out of the bucket, and you'd be playing Whack-A-Mole trying to solve them
Feeling like you don't know what to do next, or you don't know what's wrong, or you don't know how to fix it, is a 100% indication that something is fundamentally broken
The vast majority of businesses can be broken down into:
Traffic
Sales
Product
Customer success
And each one of these buckets can be broken down into a chain of actions that need to be done in order to improve them
And each one of these buckets are directly correlated to the others
And ideally, every one of these actions can have a metric, or KPI, that can be tracked, and therefore improved
And so if you're saying "something isn't working" you should be able to identify, by a quantifiable data point, what bucket it's in, what actions are responsible for that metric, and how it's affecting the rest of the business
Then, you can attack one metric, and one action
Example: Agency
"Business is down this month"
Look at the buckets. Traffic seems strong, metrics are healthy (in the context of the full business, not just siloed in an ad account). Product seems strong, results (which are measured) are where they should be. Customer satisfaction (which should be tracked) is good. So it's a sales issue.
Great. Sales is a fairly binary operation. So "sales is broken." What metric? Is it the close rate? Show rate? Do you have benchmarks? Do you know how each one affects the overall KPIs? Sometimes bumping show rate slightly can actually have a net greater impact than increasing the close rate substantially, especially considering effort required for each. Why is your show rate bad? What is bad? What are they getting pre call? Are the setters dialing fast enough? Are they getting enough emails? What are the emails saying? Are we getting common objections? Are the objections pre handled? Is there a correlation between the ones who no show, and the ones who do show and have the same objections?
"My sales are broken" could just mean there's an email automation that isn't firing. Or the setters aren't answering one question that leads to them closing.
BUT, this only works in a controlled environment. If things aren't tracked, there could be a hundred pinholes leaking out of the bucket, and you'd be playing Whack-A-Mole trying to solve them
99% of the stuff you read has an ulterior motive behind why it was written.
We all know this (were marketers) - but we lose track of just how deep it goes.
I'm sure there are things you do in your business, every single day, that you only do because at some point you were told it's the "right way" to do it.
Whether someone was trying to sell you on that way of doing it
Or wanted to influence your decision to justify their way
Or was just posting the "new hack" hoping to get views
Most information is baby birded. You saw it in a reel, and that person saw it in a YouTube video, who was it in a course, who saw it at a mastermind, who read it in a book, who heard it from their mentor
This isn't inherently wrong, but it gets you in the habit of validating every decision you make, running a hypothesis by a mentor or resource instead of actually testing it - which fundamentally disconnects you from the reality of your business
Everything you've ever been taught, at some point, was done by someone for the first time; without any way of validating it either than testing it out
We all know this (were marketers) - but we lose track of just how deep it goes.
I'm sure there are things you do in your business, every single day, that you only do because at some point you were told it's the "right way" to do it.
Whether someone was trying to sell you on that way of doing it
Or wanted to influence your decision to justify their way
Or was just posting the "new hack" hoping to get views
Most information is baby birded. You saw it in a reel, and that person saw it in a YouTube video, who was it in a course, who saw it at a mastermind, who read it in a book, who heard it from their mentor
This isn't inherently wrong, but it gets you in the habit of validating every decision you make, running a hypothesis by a mentor or resource instead of actually testing it - which fundamentally disconnects you from the reality of your business
Everything you've ever been taught, at some point, was done by someone for the first time; without any way of validating it either than testing it out
Cynicism is the ultimate problem of modern life, not fear.
Armchair experts and new leaders always blame fear but
Armchair experts and new leaders always blame fear but
Fear isn’t the cause of cynicism.
Moral superiority is: I know things are bad and I know the problem and I know things are totally unfair so I know it’s also useless to try and all others’n attempts are wrong and will be pointless as well.
That doesn’t come from fear,
Moral superiority is: I know things are bad and I know the problem and I know things are totally unfair so I know it’s also useless to try and all others’n attempts are wrong and will be pointless as well.
That doesn’t come from fear,
It comes from a rampant and categorically dismissive ego, from superiority not fear.
Fear is overplayed. Very few people are experiencing real fear; they are mostly poorly managing their mind and falling into basic cognitive traps.
That’s not the same as fear.
Fear is overplayed. Very few people are experiencing real fear; they are mostly poorly managing their mind and falling into basic cognitive traps.
That’s not the same as fear.
🇺🇸 Trump says AI data centers will be one of the biggest drivers of future jobs and economic growth. He argues states that attract them will gain billions in investment and tax revenue.
Trump claims New York's policies are pushing AI data center projects to states like Texas, Florida, Arizona, and Alabama, creating more jobs and investment there instead.
He also warns the U.S. could lose its AI and tech advantage to China if major AI infrastructure projects continue moving elsewhere.
Do you agree? 🤔
Do you agree? 🤔
A thread on China's US holdings --
Bottom line upfront: this chart is my best guess as to China's true holdings at SAFE and the CIC (~ $ 2 trillion in US assets). The state commercial banks have additional dollar assets, but they aren't as easy to find in the US data
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Bottom line upfront: this chart is my best guess as to China's true holdings at SAFE and the CIC (~ $ 2 trillion in US assets). The state commercial banks have additional dollar assets, but they aren't as easy to find in the US data
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This is of course the set of numbers that many use -- the Treasuries (and Agencies) that are held in US custodians and register as "China" in the monthly TIC data release. Those now well under $1 trillion/ well below China's traditional allocation to safe US assets
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This is closer to what I think China's true allocation to relatively safe US assets is ( a bit over 40% of total reserves). SAFE and the CIC also have a risk tranche that includes US equities (it is known as they say)
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Set aside the ideology. Consider just the habits of mind shown by two presidents of anthropology's learned society, Princeton's Carolyn Rouse & UCLA's Akhil Gupta regarding his claim: Anthropology seeks "to challenge the culturally dominant commonsense of capitalist consumerism."
The Vanderbilt Report cites Gupta's claim with unimpeachable accuracy. Their ellipsis omits a list of social sciences; they say the italics are theirs. There's nothing misleading or inaccurate. Yet Gupta lies & says they misquoted him. Then Rouse herself repeats that obvious lie.
Rouse says the report took the quote of context. Yet Gupta's presidential address abstract is like RW parody: Honoring BLM & open borders, anthropology needs a racial reckoning, must oppose US capitalism abroad, eliminate 'white-norming,' & refound itself as a decolonial project.
Magnesium glycinate. Tart cherry juice. Ashwagandha. Raw honey. L-theanine before bed.
Do this in the exact sequence for 30 consecutive days without changing anything.
Here is why the order matters for the ADHD brain.
Do this in the exact sequence for 30 consecutive days without changing anything.
Here is why the order matters for the ADHD brain.
1. Magnesium glycinate 300mg first.
Not a sleep supplement. A nervous system intervention.
Activates the GABA receptors that allow the ADHD brain to shift out of alert mode.
Take it 45 minutes before bed on an empty stomach.
Check the label for magnesium bisglycinate chelate. That is the only form that reaches the brain.
Never take it with calcium or iron. They block absorption.
Not a sleep supplement. A nervous system intervention.
Activates the GABA receptors that allow the ADHD brain to shift out of alert mode.
Take it 45 minutes before bed on an empty stomach.
Check the label for magnesium bisglycinate chelate. That is the only form that reaches the brain.
Never take it with calcium or iron. They block absorption.
2. Ashwagandha 300mg at the same time.
Directly reduces cortisol while magnesium activates the GABA brake.
Cortisol and melatonin cannot rise simultaneously.
Ashwagandha handles the cortisol. Magnesium handles the receptor.
Two mechanisms working together before anything else arrives.
Directly reduces cortisol while magnesium activates the GABA brake.
Cortisol and melatonin cannot rise simultaneously.
Ashwagandha handles the cortisol. Magnesium handles the receptor.
Two mechanisms working together before anything else arrives.
1/ Ukraine's dominance of the 'lower sky' and its widespread use of 'waiting drones' has made large-scale Russian vehicle assaults virtually impossible. A Russian video shows numerous Ukrainian drones sitting on a road, waiting to carry out attacks on Russian forces. ⬇️
2/ Commenting on the video, the Russian medical warblogger 'Visiting Doc' dedicates it "to fans of tank breakthroughs and brutal assaults" and comments: "Low-altitude superiority is one of the main reasons why evacuation becomes a nearly impossible task."
3/ The tactic is used by both sides, but Ukraine's current dominance in drones has made it the principal user of the tactic. Both vehicles and individual soldiers are regularly targeted by 'waiters'.
Dale Partridge is continuing the pattern of parroting Stone Choir slop a year or so after it comes down the plumbing and into the septic tank. Dale equates the absence of a blessing upon Ham with a curse. He then makes an argument similar to Corey Mahler’s:
that God cannot (or would not) curse an individual by condemning a single child while leaving the rest of that individual’s lineage uncursed. (even, according to both Dale and Mahler, beyond the time of Christ's death/resurrection and until the end of time.)
"It would be extremely strange for God to leave one branch of humanity unaddressed".
Mahler seems to believe that it is not possible for God, through Noah, to punish Ham’s sin by placing a curse upon Canaan rather than upon Ham’s other children. Yet this is fully within God’s sovereign authority, and Scripture provides example of God bringing consequences for a father’s sin upon one child while showing favor to another.
2 Samuel 12:24 says that Solomon was loved by God, despite the declaration that “the sword shall never depart from thine house.” Earlier, in 2 Samuel 12:14, David’s infant son is struck by God and subsequently dies as punishment for David’s sin. Solomon nevertheless received extraordinary favor from God despite his father’s sin, turning away from God only later through his own disobedience. David’s lineage, in accordance with the Davidic Covenant, remained preserved.
that God cannot (or would not) curse an individual by condemning a single child while leaving the rest of that individual’s lineage uncursed. (even, according to both Dale and Mahler, beyond the time of Christ's death/resurrection and until the end of time.)
"It would be extremely strange for God to leave one branch of humanity unaddressed".
Mahler seems to believe that it is not possible for God, through Noah, to punish Ham’s sin by placing a curse upon Canaan rather than upon Ham’s other children. Yet this is fully within God’s sovereign authority, and Scripture provides example of God bringing consequences for a father’s sin upon one child while showing favor to another.
2 Samuel 12:24 says that Solomon was loved by God, despite the declaration that “the sword shall never depart from thine house.” Earlier, in 2 Samuel 12:14, David’s infant son is struck by God and subsequently dies as punishment for David’s sin. Solomon nevertheless received extraordinary favor from God despite his father’s sin, turning away from God only later through his own disobedience. David’s lineage, in accordance with the Davidic Covenant, remained preserved.
I believe @dalepartridge is also wrong with regard to his assertion that this is "the only instance in scripture of a father explicitly blessing some sons and saying nothing to another"
Jacob’s selective blessing of Joseph’s family in Genesis 48 exists. Were all the sons in that scenario other than Manasseh and Ephraim presumably CURSED by this action? In fact after this, in Genesis 49, scripture records Jacob addressing and blessing (or prophetically describing) all twelve of his sons.
Ham had already been included when God blessed “Noah and his sons” in Genesis 9:1. Is @dalepartridge really arguing that merely not getting blessed explicitly by Noah REMOVES God's blessing in Genesis 9?
Noah does not even literally say, “Blessed be Shem.” He says, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem,” and then petitions God to enlarge Japheth.
Jacob’s selective blessing of Joseph’s family in Genesis 48 exists. Were all the sons in that scenario other than Manasseh and Ephraim presumably CURSED by this action? In fact after this, in Genesis 49, scripture records Jacob addressing and blessing (or prophetically describing) all twelve of his sons.
Ham had already been included when God blessed “Noah and his sons” in Genesis 9:1. Is @dalepartridge really arguing that merely not getting blessed explicitly by Noah REMOVES God's blessing in Genesis 9?
Noah does not even literally say, “Blessed be Shem.” He says, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem,” and then petitions God to enlarge Japheth.
@dalepartridge Of course, @dalepartridge has a history of making broad inaccurate claims about scripture.
