@neoavatara Please - they have long fed absolute crap to patients. Their cafeterias & vending machines? Dollars over health
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Glitch in the Matrix
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I'm sure it happens.
But most hospitals automatically restrict diets based on diagnoses.
Ashley (TeamTrump47)@TeamTrump47
RFK Jr. just shared that hospitals were giving diabetics foods like Jell-O and Coca-Cola that worsen their condition. “A diabetic woman… was immediately offered… a Jell-O and a Coca-Cola.” “And a number of other foods that all contain sugar that are all gonna injure their metabolic system and aggravate their diabetes.” “We have the best doctors… and the finest hospitals in the world.” “But… they haven’t recognized the most important tool of medicine today is good food.”
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@neoavatara It’s about time. Bailed them out of two world wars. Rebuilt them with our money after WW2. Defended them throughout the Cold War. Overlooked for decades their failure to meet funding requirements for their own defense. And Trump is to blame here?
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Let's understand: if this is the case, this is actually probably the end of Pax Americana.
Trump lashes out at UK and France, telling allies 'the U.S.A. won't be there to help you anymore' cnb.cx/4s95sk1
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@neoavatara We don’t have enough for a definitive answer. Most US agencies, pre Trump, concluded it was a lab leak. So when somebody says I have the DEFINITIVE answer, they completely lack credibility
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Worth a read.
I'm still not convinced we know enough to definitely say one way or another, but the science will never be settled... The debate must continue.
Dr. Angela Rasmussen@angie_rasmussen
Maybe you heard somewhere that the COVID-19 pandemic started with a lab leak? NO! That is NOT what the evidence shows. It was not a goddamn lab leak. I’ve had enough. Here is what the evidence shows: it was zoonotic spillover at the market rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/five-reasons…
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@rach_dr @NateSilver538 I didn’t & wouldn’t vote for Trump but it’s not a joke - it’s a FACT that he is never running again. And the polls don’t affect the support he receives from supporters/sycophants. Also a fact. The jokes on you
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@TheBladeRunner4 @NateSilver538 Is this meant to be a joke? He’s a pathetic man who needs constant approval. He’s ruled by greed, corruption, and the support of endless sycophants.
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Trump's approval rating just fell below 40 percent in our tracking for the first time. And his net approval rating is now -17.4, also a new low and down about 5 points over the past several weeks.
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@Rundoff @NateSilver538 Recession? What recession. There is actually standard measures that economists use to define what constitutes a recession. We are not in a recession.
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@TheBladeRunner4 @NateSilver538 Is it? All we’ve gotten is war and recession.
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@NateSilver538 Why should he care? He is never running for political office again. Nice to have a POTUS who isn’t ruled by polls
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Obviously, gas prices are a big factor. But Trump has profound problems. There *are* signs of erosion among his base. Only 22% of Americans have a *strongly* favorable view of Trump. 2028 aspirants are starting to pull away from him. One wonders about the effect of his age, too.
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@DA_Stockman Iran has a new cheerleader. Congratulations on your new role
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Hey, Spox Barbie, if this is true, why isn't 20 +mb/d flowing past Hormuz?
"The Iranian Navy has no vessels operating in major regional waterways and no ability to project naval power, which is why they've been assessed as combat ineffective."
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: The US military has now struck over 11,000 THOUSAND TARGETS in Iran, and it's getting worse for the regime by day "Iran's ballistic missile and drone attacks are down by roughly 90 percent. The United States is also decimating the Iranian regime's Navy. We have destroyed more than 150 of their naval vessels so far, including 92 percent of their largest vessels." "The Iranian Navy has no vessels operating in major regional waterways and no ability to project naval power, which is why they've been assessed as combat ineffective." "Our military continues to obliterate Iran's defense industrial base, with nearly 70 percent of their missile, drone, and naval production facilities and shipyards damaged or destroyed thus far, significantly reducing their ability to pose future threats in the region." "U.S. and Israeli joint forces control the skies and have asserted air dominance over Iran, completing more than 11,000 successful combat flights thus far." HUGE!
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@neoavatara @RedPillRabbit Gee and I thought only American white males can be bigots. That’s what I repeatedly read anyway. Nice to know we have company
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A look into how INDIANS view Whites.
Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏@TruthFairy131
🔥 INDIAN in the West: “Hang in there. Stay strong. Whites are gradually getting replaced. They will die soon. Don't worry. Chin up. Things are getting a lot better for us. Whites are slowly dying and can't breed”. Is there any race that doesn’t want to ethnically cleanse or genocide our people? WTF Remigration NOW 🤨
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@DA_Stockman Unnecessary yes but. From a humanitarian view, consider the benefit millions of Koreans derived from our sacrifice. Saved from the horror that is North Korea. If Japan hadn’t attacked us, our war v Nazi Germany would be unnecessary, per your analysis.
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@mcuban When someone else is going to pick up your tab, especially the government, there will be a lot of things “you can’t afford”
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The point is that we spend taxpayer money to guarantee or fund loans that don’t matter a fraction as much as paying for your health.
Most people can’t afford their deductible. We should guarantee the amounts patients can’t afford so patients never have to declare bankruptcy.
Instead the providers loan patients that money and when it can’t be repaid, they have to jack up prices to make up for those losses
Tony Peterson@soflinvest
@mcuban What is the point you are making? The government shouldn't help people. SBA has application requirements. And maybe college could be cheaper.
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@NateGearySports @Kevin76795864 Yea him, Musk and anybody else who is successful and not a flaming liberal is “out of touch”, don’t get it, dumb etc etc. You have any clue how stupid these takes are. High school level stuff
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Every time Kevin O’Leary talks he shows how absolutely out-of-touch he is with normal people.
The Iced Coffee Hour@TheICHpodcast
Kevin O’Leary reveals you’ll become a millionaire on $69,000/year by investing 20% of your paycheck each week👀 “Take 20% of your salary of $69,000 and put it into the market each week and don't touch it”
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@LPMisesCaucus @FightWithMemes Please omit the Mises from your title. It’s an embarrassingly stupid post.
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@FightWithMemes If "soldier stuff" means being sacrificial pawns for the aggressors in the latest imperial war of choice, we should all pray for more soldiers to become conscientious objectors.
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Everyone wants to be a soldier until it's time to do soldier stuff.
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@wbmosler @OCOCReport You have to be living in a different reality if you think US is losing this war. Or you’re so vested in your TDS that that’s your hoped for outcome. You will be disappointed
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WAR ON FOOD.
USA gives coordinates and Ukrainian drone strikes hit major fertilizer facilities in Russia:
• Dorogobuzh plant (Smolensk) – shut down after deadly attack
• Apatit plant (Cherepovets) – major phosphate producer hit
• Kirovo-Chepetsk chemical plant – another key facility targeted
At the same time:
• Russia restricts fertilizer exports
• China cuts exports
• Middle East conflict blocks up to 30%+ of global supply
Prices are rising. Supply is shrinking.
This doesn’t just hit farmers—this hits food prices worldwide.
Are we watching the start of a global food crisis?
#FoodCrisis #Fertilizer #Inflation #GlobalEconomy
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@neoavatara Yet most of our government agencies, even pre Trump have adopted the lab leak theory
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I don't think we have great evidence either way.
But, I've seen almost no real evidence that the wet market theory is real.
There are some models, etc, but actual evidence is sparse to Non-existent.
Hideki Kakeya, Dr.Eng.@hkakeya
The wet market origin theory of COVID-19 is conclusively refuted. Based on the genetic evidence, first cases date back to autumn 2019, well before the market's superspreader event. Mega-journals simply keep publishing trash papers to ignore these facts.
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@Lordoftheringsu Agreed - felt to he needed to make it an action movie to insure profitably. He was dead wrong. Every time he deviated from books, dialogue etc., it was inferior
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Christopher Tolkien hated Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings films.
Christopher Tolkien strongly disliked Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies, viewing them as commercialized action films that "eviscerated" his father’s work. He felt the adaptations stripped away the deep, spiritual, and philosophical beauty of the books to target a young audience, ultimately turning his father's art into a "monster".
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@ThomasEWoods @WilliamWolfe The fundamental constitutional belief of the Iran regime is the complete genocide of Jews. Not any different than Hitler. And that’s who you are siding with. Or at least, reserving your criticisms to those who oppose them
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@wbmosler @academic_la Pathetic beyond belief to lend your voice/support to blatant propaganda. Yea because the Middle East countries who have vowed to destroy Israel have had a track record of success in their wars against Israel. You should be ashamed
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@academic_la All but defenseless.
And it will only get worse.
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Israel is getting absolutely pummeled today. Friends send me pictures of hit sites that are not reported. Another Israeli was killed today in Nahariya. Delta canceled all flights until September. The entire country is stunned by the ferocity of the Iranian response.
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@EricBrakey Nonsense. Iran had/ has no need for and no plans for a peaceful use of nuclear power. They are sitting on the hugest oil reserves in the world, a power source infinitely cheaper than nuclear. Unless u think the mullahs are concerned about global warming
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At this point, it should be clear:
Trump should have just stayed in the Iran deal that Obama negotiated.
This was the biggest foreign policy blunder of his two terms of office.
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@TheBladeRunner4 @farmerrf People who don't need paid work and don't want paid work are a separate matter.
This is about paid work for anyone willing and able, a condition entirely created not 'naturally' but by gov policy and readily remedied by gov fiscal adjustment.
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John argues that Germany and Japan ran trade surpluses as a mechanism to maintain full employment. The cost, to the U.S., was a deterioration in our industrial base and a willingness to absorb excess savings through the issuance of Treasury securities.
I am sympathetic to this argument; which is rooted in the Keynesian idea that the unemployment rate in a market economy is not unique. In my own work I have formalized that idea by providing a theoretical explanation of how ANY unemployment rate can persist permanently if private sentiment is insufficient to generate the demand needed to utilize the unemployed resources: There is a persistent failure of Say’s Law. Here is a link to the seminal piece which explains why private agents cannot benefit from a socially inefficient outcome:
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John’s explanation for global imbalances will be dismissed by many mainstream economists because it is inconsistent with New Keynesian models which see unemployment — if it exists at all — as a temporary deviation from a natural rate of unemployment … an idea known as the natural rate hypothesis (NRH). The NRH is a reemergence of classical ideas that date back to David Hume and it has little or no relationship to the Keynes of the General Theory. The argument that surplus countries NEED external sources of demand to maintain high employment does not make sense in any version of the neoclassical or New Keynesian economic model. It does, IMO, make sense in the real world.
It is tempting to dismiss the idea of deficient demand with the observation that multiple equilibrium unemployment rates are inconsistent with the observation of economic growth. But the mechanisms that generate growth in macro models are distinct from the mechanisms that generate unemployment and it is perfectly possible to combine multiple equilibrium unemployment rates with multiple growth paths ( see for example, the work of @BenignoGianluca and @LucaFornaro3, #118100970%23118100970" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">academic.oup.com/restud/article…)
There has not been, to my knowledge, much work that extends my explanation of multiple equilibrium unemployment rates to the international economy. Konstantin Platonov’s paper in the IJMF is a notable exception
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But I have not seen a fully articulated version of @carney’s argument in a multi country model that also endogenously accounts for growth. Carney’s explanation of persistent global imbalances is, IMO, worth taking seriously.
@michaelxpettis @michaeljmcnair @carney @GitaGopinath @SteveMiran @dandolfa
John Carney@carney
This is my response to the debate that @GitaGopinath, @michaelxpettis, @dandolfa, @farmerrf and everyone else has been having about trade deficits, reserve currency status, and fiscal deficits.
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@ComicDaveSmith @sostalksmoney Put Dave in a Time Machine and he would have been screaming against the concept of the US and Allies intervening in the 1930s military build up in Nazi Germany.
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