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@stephen3582 What good is it for words to look good on paper, when the reality is that there are no meanings to words in the West. No weight to the given word. Therein is the disgrace. I am not Muslim. However, the True Muslim is the guardian of The Word -as the Christian should be.

The cost of lack of individual Sovereignty means that distortion of everything rules.

@sciencegirl The Old Testament

@Matt_Pinner "michèle mouton audi quattro" share.google/3UZsZ65vuNX1ef…

Can you name one thing Germany gave to the world.

@RnaudBertrand True. The only one (big) thing that bothers me about Chinese policy is the way people linked to China operate abroad. Not necessarily Chinese, but still operating for the Chinese state. All those carefully attended to details and values count for nothing, in the parallel context

I've been wanting to write this for a while: an article on the key characteristics of the Chinese health system, as a patient. It's something that I - perhaps unfortunately - have come to have a lot of experience with in my eight years in China. I've been to the doctor as a patient dozens of times. My wife delivered our first daughter in a Chinese hospital, and had cancer surgery in Shanghai. My younger daughter - who once completely severed her thumb in an unfortunate accident in rural Gansu - had emergency surgery in a small clinic there (her thumb is fine now!). We spent the entire covid episode in China. And, to this day, I still go back to China every year to do my routine health tests or the occasional procedure (like a thyroid biopsy in Harbin last year). In other words, when it comes to the Chinese health system, I've seen a lot. What's fascinating about the Chinese health system, and that's true in general about many things in China, is that it never inherited Western dogma about how things were supposed to work, it's completely unconstrained by what everyone else has decided is "normal". And, as a result, you end up with things that would simply sound impossible to any Western patient: a consultation with the head cardiologist of one of Shanghai's best hospitals for less than $10, blood test results in under 30 minutes, and a system where you can walk in, see three specialists and walk out with a diagnosis and your medicine - all before noon. As I argue in the article that's all enabled by 3 characteristics that sound super unorthodox: 1) extremely short consultation times, less than 5 minutes 2) no GP gatekeepers (you go straight to see specialists) 3) systematic testing for every patient, even if you just have a cold Each one sounds wrong. And in fact when I describe them to doctor friends in the West they immediately explain to me why that can't possibly work, and how their own system is far superior. Except that it does work, I checked the numbers (on top of my personal experience): the Chinese system handles close to 10 billion total outpatient visits a year (nhc.gov.cn/cms-search/dow…), or about 7 visits per person per year on average, and the average wait time is only about 18 minutes (gov.cn/yaowen/shipin/…). Contrast this with France, my country, where people already go to the doctor A LOT, but still less than in China: only 5.5 visits per person per year (evaluation.securite-sociale.fr/home/maladie/M…). And the French system can't even handle this lower volume: when you can see a specialist straight away in China - you don't even need to make an appointment in advance - you need to wait months to see one in France (50 days on average for a cardiologist, for instance: drees.solidarites-sante.gouv.fr/sites/default/…). I've personally managed to see 3 specialists AND do all related tests AND get the test results AND get diagnoses AND buy the medicine to cure me - all in the space of a morning at a hospital in Shanghai. That would have undoubtedly taken me a whole year in the French system. My purpose here is not to argue that the West should replicate the Chinese health system wholesale, but to ask an honest question: what if some of the things we take for granted about healthcare aren't nearly as inevitable as we think? Is it completely unthinkable that we've developed some dogmas that are costing us - in money, in time, and occasionally in lives? That's the whole point of my article: describing a health system built from first principles by people who never assumed we in the West knew better - up to you to decide if they have a point. Enjoy the read here: open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbert…

There's something interesting happening in European politics right now, and you've probably overlooked it: As you might be aware, the incumbent President of France, Emmanuel Macron, is very unpopular -- with favorability frequently below 20%, he's at the bottom of essentially all groups of comparables. It's no surprise then that his camp is widely expected to be replaced at the upcoming April 2027 presidential election. Opinion polls show Jordan Bardella, the leader of the "far-right" National Rally (Rassemblement National), as the clear frontrunner. Bardella's expected victory, under normal circumstances, would have been a rare opportunity for his party to meaningfully reshape European economic policy: the terms of Christine Lagarde (President of the European Central Bank, the top monetary policy official in Europe), François Villeroy de Galhau (Governor of the Bank of France, the top monetary policy official in France), Philip Lane (member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and the chief economist, plausibly the most influential ECB technocrat), and Isabel Schnabel (member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank) are all set to expire shortly after the 2027 French presidential election. This means that Bardella would have been able to appoint the next Governor of the Bank of France, and have influence over the appointments of the successors to the three top ECB officials, including the President, who make up half of the 6-member Executive Board and shape the European Central Bank's policy agenda. Aware of this, Bardella has periodically signalled a somewhat heterodox vision he'd like reflected in his picks. The prospect of a right-populist running amok in the Eurosystem naturally alarmed the European bureaucracy, and so they're stepping in. In a surprising and uncommon move last week, François Villeroy de Galhau announced that he's stepping down before his term ends at the Bank of France. He of course avoided the obvious political implication, citing personal reasons as his motivation. But the move will ensure that Macron gets to be the one to decide his successor for a 6-year term, denying Bardella. In a similar unusual fashion, reports have started circulating that Christine Lagarde, the President of the ECB, is also planning to step down in 2026, a year early -- which would clear the way for the usual "horse-trading" for Executive Board positions to take place a year early as well, keeping France's say with Macron in all three of the upcoming appointments. Instead of helping pick half of the Executive Board members, Bardella will have helped pick none. The maneuver has recent precedent -- in 2024, ahead of a telegraphed right-wing victory in an upcoming legislative election, the Austrian National Bank had its governor appointed more than a year in advance of the job's actual mandate, violating the country's public governance guidelines, but ensuring it was the outgoing incumbent that got the final say. Anyway, are you still a believer in democracy? Because at our age it's marginal right

@TheNews_Fr Lecornu est ou trompeur ou idiot.

@TheNews_Fr L'antisemitisme n'est pas un mot mais une excuse mise en place par von Schlözer pour la préparation de deux guerres mondiales. Le 'sémitisme' n'existe pas. L'antisionisme devrait signifier anti-Dieu. Dans les deux cas, un culte prétend être ce qu'il ne l'est pas.

🇫🇷 Sébastien Lecornu annonce mettre la proposition de loi Yadan, confondant l'antisionisme avec l'antisémitisme à l'ordre du jour de l'Assemblée en avril. Il ajoute que : « Dire "de la mer au Jourdain", c'est appeler à l'effacement d'Israël (...) Et l'appel au meurtre est interdit. ». 📍Contexte : 40e dîner du CRIF.

@GeorgeRoush Objective achieved, it's now just a husk.

Is it just me or does X feel much smaller than it once did? Almost like there are way fewer people here than before.

@FamedCelebrity The secret being in the ash.

For that fresh charcoal taste.

🇷🇺 Quand l’hiver frappe fort à Moscou Personne ne râle, Tout le monde s’adapte et s’amuse. ❄️ 😁

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@FurkanGozukara @timand2037 The spanner has long been in the works.

She sold her country for Israel, what a treason

@BillArnoldTeach @CascadeTheBard Sources don't run out. People are discouraged from seeing. Paganism is what it is called when deflection and whitewash are required. A book was never necessary. God's guidance has been constant. Man needs awakening to see properly.

@CascadeTheBard Claims of “paganism” usually replace history when sources run out.

Jesus didn’t leave a book and disappear. He left a Church with authority.

@MyLordBebo @Geopolitica81 There is only one law and the EU is in Inverse position to that law. It has no business dictating its Inverse law onto others.

Kallas: "If Europe cannot defeat Russia, how can we defeat China?" You can’t … that’s the point

@DanielW91685003 @prayandfast2 @JackPosobiec As is the reversing of that physiological barring upon acceptance of God/Harmony.

@DanielW91685003 @prayandfast2 @JackPosobiec Jesus is not quoted in the New Testament as ever having said we are born sinners. That was a later theological development. A sinner has, from the beginning of consciousness, been he who denies God. The physiological barring of the sinner from Creation is instantaneous.

Yes, early Christians prayed for intercession of the Virgin Mary. Preserved on a papyrus, dating to AD 250, includes the following: "Mother of God, hear my supplications: do not allow us to remain in adversity, but deliver us from danger."

@UnbowedPaladin @tmontanarealty @prayandfast2 Man had no need of an Old Testament, nor of Moses. Prehistoric man already lived The Word jews were and remain the outlaws to that system. Their self-authored book is a book of banditry jew is the synonym of bandit: neither racial or tribal The jew is the outlaw to God's law

Nope. After the destruction of the Second Temple Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai established an academy at Yavneh with Roman permission. His academy focused on preserving Jewish learning, compiling oral traditions, and addressing halakhic (legal) issues as Rabbinic Judaism emerged. Discussions there (recorded in sources like the Mishnah, e.g., Yadayim 3:5) touched on whether certain books, such as Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes, "defiled the hands"—a rabbinic phrase indicating sacred status. These were NOT debates about including or excluding books from the canon but about affirming the holiness of books already widely accepted. The notion of a decisive "Council of Jamnia" originated with Heinrich Graetz in 1871 and gained traction in early 20th-century scholarship, but was soundly refuted by Jack P. Lewis , Sid Z. Leiman, and several others as being revisionist and historically inaccurate. The claim that the Old Testament was not canonized until after 70 AD, specifically at a "Council of Jamnia," is demonstrably inaccurate and relies on fringe 19th-century specultion that's been discredited by modern historians and biblical scholars.

@tmontanarealty @UnbowedPaladin @prayandfast2 There are layers upon layer of error and misinterpretation. Experts, even ancient, will be shown to have compounded errors.

@UnbowedPaladin @prayandfast2 You are officially engaging in rabbinic apologetics 🤣🫵✡️

@UnbowedPaladin @tmontanarealty @prayandfast2 And yet it all remains misunderstood to this day. Some, spoke Truth which overrode both the errors of the rest and what still remains concealed.

Canon has always been self-authenticating. It was never established by some council of squabbling clerics. Please. OT was recognized and understood centuries upon centuries before. NT was recognized the moments the new revelations proceeded from the original apostles. The apostles didn't wait on later emergent clerics centuries later to validate their work.

@PinoeNoir @SuppressedNws1 and doesn't know better. God's love makes a bastion of men. It takes Faith in something better to recognise one's acts as Inverse to God's law. In a fully functioning society every person would know that acceptance of God is enough to attain harmony

@PinoeNoir @SuppressedNws1 jew means outlaw to God's law. If "he couldn't bear it", then he was no longer an outlaw: no longer a jew. jew was never racial nor tribal. A jew is he who denies God. There is a difference between one who denies God and one who considers himself unworthy of God's love ....

⚡️🇮🇱JUST IN: lsraeli soldier Ari Goldberg took his own life for the new year, becoming the first Israeli soldier to do so in 2026. Ari was from Virginia, USA, he moved to lsrael only in 2022. He took his life after what he did in Gaza because he “couldn’t bear it”.