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@nicochristie what are potential security risks? how can i safeguard?

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@EYakoby Is that Joe and Jill Biden behind him with secret service?

BREAKING: The Iranian Regimes’ Representative is seen smiling and videoing during the Pope’s funeral at the Vatican. Islamists are truly disgusting people.

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TL;DR The beginner entrepreneur: • IRA/Roth IRA • HSA The intermediate entrepreneur: • Solo K • Backdoor Roth • HSA The advanced entrepreneur: • 401k • Cash balance • Backdoor Roth • HSA

Retirement accounts offer a ton of tax savings for business owners. But only 13% of the self employed use these accounts. Your guide to a retirement plan for your business (you still have time to do for 2024!):

@wbmosler Any thoughts if DOGE is successful in cutting out $2 trillion of government spending the impact on GDP?

After 25 years on the job the world's #1 banker still doesn't understand monetary operations: Jamie Dimon says the 'Buffett Rule' approach to taxing the wealthy could solve America's debt problem (msn.com)

@ShelleyGldschmt @DavidM_Friedman Another contributor is the Woods Fund Chicago “In 1997, Barack Obama…was elected first board chair without Woods family connections. Following the foundation’s transition, Woods Fund Chicago would begin to build grantee partner relationships that persist into the present day.”

🚨New ADL Report Shows Soros Family Behind Funding of Pro-Hamas, Antisemitic Riots🚨 Soros' Foundation to Promote Open Society has donated substantially to the anti-Israel groups behind the riots. The Soros family is a major donor to Kamala's campaign. adl.org/resources/blog…

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Here are my list of favourite 2024 history books for reading pleasures this summer. I posted it before but i ve added a couple of books that i foolishly left out by prof clark and dr radchenko which are important. (This doesn’t include fiction – I ll do another list of those sometime; & its only from 2024) But here we go The Eastern Front @nick_lloy Prof Nick Lloyd is one of the books of the year and a masterwork. Izabela the Valiant is a work of such urbane and worldly charm and delight a biography of the great 18thC collector and Polish patriot and lover Princess Izabela Czartoryska by Adam Zamoyski. All His Spies The Secret World of Robert Cecil is a biography of the chief minister of Elizabeth and James I and it is one of the greatest biographies, a masterwork beautifully intensely written and researched by Stephen Alford. Theodoric is one of my favourites because it tells superbly a period of Roman history that is always left out @uli_wiemer Looking back a thousand years to the birth of modern Europe, House of Lillies the history of the early French kings is the best sort of dynastic history @mediaevelrevolt and on the same period The Middle Kingdoms a new history of central Europe is really superb by Martyn Rady. Both have been so useful for my world history, The World ... I am adding two here I forgot from the original list: Revolutionary Spring by Christopher Clark is a powerful retelling of the 1948 revolutions full of fresh approaches, revisionist ideas and superb details of character and event, celebrating in its own way the drama of history. I also must add To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power by the great @DrRadchenko which i think is the one of the best books ever written on the cold war: its unputdownable, filled with new revelations from Soviet archives, it has global span, it brings to life characters from Brezhnev and Khrushchev, Nixon and Eisenhower to Castro, Kadaffi, Assad, Mengistu, and it helps illuminate the world crisis today. From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane the Reawakening of Mongol Asia is really a proper biography of Tamerlane which is so much needed and its excellent by Mongol maestro Peter Jackson. Two books on post colonial states explains how Egypt and Indonesia plays special parts in the creation of the world we see today. Indonesian history is little covered usually: David van Reybrouck’s Revolusi tells the history of the creation of Indonesia – again a much over looked story @davidvanrey. Nasser is a titanic fascinating gifted figure and in We Are Your Soldiers: how Nasser Remade the Arab World @alexjrowell tells Nasser’s history through his oft disastrous effect not only on Egypt but on Iraq Lebanon and Yemen & Syria. Focusing on Middle East history is a book on another giant of 20thC Arab politics: Saddam Hussein. Steve Coll’s Achilles Trap is simply brilliant on Saddam, his life and career (it works as a biography of sorts) and his relationship with America. An outstanding read is also Damascus Events by Eugene Rogan on how the Druze – Christian clashes and massacres in the Ottoman vilayets that are now Lebanon and Syria helped create the countries we see today. Kings of Algiers about the Jewish families that played key roles in the Barbary states is v enjoyable original and fascinating @juliekalman. The best indeed the essential and compelling read is Palestine 1936 The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict @OrenKessler . Heres some ancient history, I adored new biography of Justinian @peter_sarris -superb & as a companion I hugely enjoyed the excellent double biography Belisarius and Antonina by David Alan Parnell. Herod the Great is a short but excellent biography of the last great Judean king – essential for understanding todays Jerusalem and Israel by the great Martin Goodman. Emperors of Rome by Mary Beard is great fun and greatly authoritative @wmarybeard and Tom Holland’s Pax is just the latest in his brilliant series on Imperial Rome – I could put either down of these - both are wonderful @holland_tom . If you want to understand Russia and Crimea and Ukraine, one way is to read A Seditious and Sinister Tribe by Donald Rayfield a new history of the Tatar Khanate of Crimea and the fate of the Tatars after 1917 to today's Putinist repression. I spent much time on the khanate when i was writing my Catherine the Great and Potemkin, the pair who annexed s Ukraine and Crimea and founded Sebastopol. anyway this book is entertaining compelling and important and covers a neglected but fascinating world,. its by the great Donald Rayfield author of Stalin and the Hangmen on the NKVD; Edge of Empire a history of Georgia also important and fascinating and neglected but also a masterwork of Russian literary history Chekhov that is also essential reading Finally I must mention a couple of masterworks that is about to come out: Helen Castor’s The Eagle and the Hart: the Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV - its superb. So is the latest volume of Ronald Hutton's Cromwell trilogy: Oliver Cromwell Commander in CHief. already its simply brilliant and refreshing and revelatory.... There. A few books for the beach. Enjoy. let me know how you like them....

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“First the mind judges the event, then groups events, then identifies with the combined event and finally judges itself.”

“Attention is focused consciousness, and consciousness is that power of knowing.”

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(8) Final thoughts are this: I was a bulge bracket Retail Softline Sell-Side analyst for many years. Nobody gets style right consistently. That’s why fast fashion business models (H&M, Zara, etc.) overtook the traditional apparel industry. Yet they couldn’t make a dent in the Athleisure space because technical innovation has ridiculously long lead times that are the antithesis to fast fashion. Alo, who I never realized was related to H&M, seems to be trying to become the fast fashion competitor to $LULU, $NKE, and $UAA. But their entire business model seems to me nothing more than a gamble that these brands wont be able to deliver meaningful product innovation ever again. Lastly, I need to figure out why the tags on clothing are vastly different brand by brand. I am ashamed to not know why (have a few suspicions), but then again, I never really noticed this before. As an aside, anyone else notice how these new brands don’t disclose their manufacturing partners on their websites while Lululemon, Nike, and Under Armour all publish detailed reports on their supply chains? FIN

(1) Fashion Island Mall, Newport Beach is fantastic place to assess the current Athleisure debate. $LULU, Rhone, Vuori, Alo, Athleta ( $GPS), and Fabletics all close to each other. It's also littered with the ghosts of formerly hyped but now dead brands such as Kit & Ace. Here are some of the takeaways and follow up analysis from my channel check trip this past holiday weekend:

@kevindstevens @threadreaderapp unroll

The data center story is a resource consumption story. Here are 4 data points that highlight the resource intensity of data centers. 1) We need to 4x the available copper and aluminum to meet the demands of both the energy transition and data centers.

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We have an economy that adds up well but leaves many still wanting & needing. The latter includes rising ranks of those in poverty and working homeless. These problem predate the pandemic and are not new. What is hard is that they persist. Understanding that is important. My two cents.

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@shafiq_ades @threadreaderapp unroll

America, wake up! It’s time to demand that Biden fire terror sympathizers in his White House and State Department. The future and safety of the U.S., Israel, and the free world depend on it. (13/13)

Why does Biden absurdly say Israel’s war conduct is “over the top” or “indiscriminate”? Perhaps because he’s fed propaganda by NSC Director for Intelligence, Maher Bitar, who was a President of SJP, a BDS activist, and UNWRA employee. SJP & UNWRA are virtually Hamas. (1/13)

@ImtiazMadmood @CherylWroteIt @threadreaderapp unroll

"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. The world is now run by Marxism. The hate for the Jews seems to be born out of the fact that too many people vilify the Jewish nation because they see it as rich and powerful compared to the poor and suffering people of Gaza. So for these twisted Marxist freaks, they want to see a redistribution of wealth where everyone is in an even keel. We’re seeing the same thing happening all over the world. Tax the wealthy to feed the less fortunate. Take from the rich, give to the poor. Marxists are like retarded and delusional imbeciles pretending to be Robin Hood. But let’s look at the reality of the situation. Gaza isn’t poor because Israel has been occupying it. Gaza isn’t poor because Israel has been oppressing it. Gaza is poor because it is run by psychopaths who reside outside of Gaza and are billionaires because they took all the money from Gaza and put it into their own bank accounts. They took hundreds of billions of Dollars and instead of using it to build opportunities and agriculture and a solid education system and housing and a thriving economy, they used ALL of it for terror and to empower the few. Hamas members are the upper class and everyone else is poor. That has nothing to do with Israel. Jews came to the land and turned desert and swamps and malaria infested lakes into the most thriving economy imaginable. They created a nation that offers opportunity and prosperity for anyone who wants it. Gaza, like most Arab Muslim areas and states, is the polar opposite. They take prosperity and turn it to ruin. They take opportunity and turn it into catastrophe and adversity. They take education and turn it into terror. We want nothing more than to have neighbors who want to thrive and create and succeed and become partners where we can add value to the world. Instead of destroying Hamas and giving the Gazans the opportunity to progress and thrive, the world instead wants to destroy Israel and turn it into Gaza. Look at the UAE. They’re the first Arab nation to break free of this insane mentality and they’ve created a beautiful country built on opportunity. They understand that for this you must destroy and eradicate extremist islamism. But Marxists don’t want prosperity. They thrive and chaos. And for some fucked up reason, everyone seems to be ok with this?" ~ Cheryl E 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🎗️ @CherylWroteIt

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@KassyDillon Banned from campus, but still a student.

Columbias president referring to Khymani James being banned from campus

@IsraelWarRoom @Columbia @KhymaniJames Columbia did NOT expel James; they simply barred James from campus allowing him to take class via Zoom.

As it turns out, @Columbia knew @KhymaniJames was a murderous terrorist months ago. They only expelled him yesterday because the rest of the world found out.

@StopAntisemites Some confusion over this: The school said James was barred from campus but did not say if James was expelled. James was probably barred from campus but can take classes remotely. Columbia just playing a word game and not taking definitive action.

E👏X👏P👏E👏L👏L👏E👏D Earlier today, antisemitic scum Khymani James was kicked out of Columbia after his murderous rant targeting Jews went viral on social media.