In 2009, I studied the history of the FBI/CIA and also the Hitler regime (research for a book). I expected it to be a dull errand, not a horrific realization that the evil methods of operation of US agencies were often indistinguishable in their actions from the N regime. AND...

2) I found no evidence whatsoever that these abhorrent programs had stopped. Quite the opposite... I kept waiting for the books to get to the part where the programs ended, were properly disclosed/exposed, all went to prison, victims were compensated, and these agencies prevented

3) from ever conducting unethical operations against their own citizens and others ever again... But... no. That part of the books wasn't written. We can only conclude then, that the operations are still ongoing. Even programs that were supposedly forced to end have many signs

4) of simply changing the name of the program/operation and shifting things around to look like something else... nope, just a continuation of the same unlawful evil thing as before. Except, year after year, the tech capabilities rose, and the level of wickedness had to also rise

5) As society became progressive, there wasn't much left that society universally labels a "compromising position": activities rejected as unacceptable, unforgivable, unpardonable & if caught- jailed or fired. Blackmail doesn't work if all human activity is accepted and defended

24 SELF DEVELOPMENT TIPS

1. Make friends with successful people and occasionally buy them gifts and surprise them with lunch because successful people always give and hardly get, so when you give them, they value the gift a lot.

2. Get a mentor and follow his instructions

and respect the relationship. Never beg your mentor for money or disrespect his or her privacy.

3. Make new positive friends as often as possible and ensure you keep the communication line open. Create a network of friends and not just connections.

5. Show kindness to everyone. Some small boys today will be big boys tomorrow. The biggest dog in the neighbourhood was once a puppy. Keep the information/secret to yourself.

6. Always plan ahead and be proactive. He that plans the future works less in the future.

7. Listen to speeches and messages from great teachers, both religious and educational.

8. Attend seminars and trainings on any area you need to improve yourself - Train the trainer, personal development, public speaking, sales etc.

9. Have the habit of keeping a pen and a writing pad handy because ideas come in the form of flashes. The smallest pen is bigger and better than the biggest brain.

10. Make sure at every point in time you are reading a book. If you spend 20 minutes reading daily,

How'd funds fare in 2020 when viewed through an ESG lens? We assign Globe Ratings, w/'High' (ie 5 globes) going to funds whose holdings court less ESG risk and vice versa for 'Low' (1 globe). Tldr: Funds w/higher ESG ratings beat their M* idx more often than those w/lower ratings

Given this, it's not too surprising that higher ESG-rated funds generated larger avg. excess returns (vs. M* cat. index) in 2020 than lower ESG-rated funds, meaning there was a better payoff to investing in funds that courted less ESG risk. That said, caveats apply...

1st caveat: When we look at success rates by 'intentionality' (ie, is strategy intentionally aiming to incorporate ESG, etc), we find success rates don't vary much by rating. In other words, success didn't depend as much on whether fund was actually *trying* to minimize ESG risk

Along those lines, there was a better payoff to minimizing ESG risk among non-intentional than intentional ESG funds. That is, there was a wider spread in the avg. excess return of higher- and lower-ESG rated non-intentional funds than there was among intentional funds. Nuanced.

Worth noting there are relatively few 'intentional' ESG funds. Of 4,000+ funds I examined, ~460 were classified 'Sustainable Investment--ESG Overall' as of 12/31/19, the starting point for the study. So, non-intentional funds drive the results.

1/10 When examining Statins, it should be noted that they have been shown to damage Mitochondria. Article – https://t.co/NIJbj3mULI. Mitochondrial damage can account for all of the relevant adverse effects of Statins – muscle weakness and damage, loss of memory/cognitive function

2/10 Diabetes, depletion of glutathione, etc. An interesting feature of mitochondrial injury is that a threshold of damage must be reached before a disease state results (as described in this article –

3/10 So, if your study period isn’t long enough, Statins truly will have the same number of adverse effects as sugar pills because in a short period of time, the subjects have not crossed their tolerance threshold for mitochondrial damage and no disease state (or adverse events)

4/10 have manifested. It is only with prolonged exposure to mitochondrial damaging chemicals, like Statins, that adverse effects manifest.
If you don’t design your study of mitochondrial damaging drugs to take into account how mitochondria react to assaults –

5/10 with an initial adaptive response followed by a toxic response (as the Peroxynitrite cycle is induced), your results don’t actually say anything notable. If you design your study to take into account the tolerance threshold feature of mitochondria,

So a weird thing about ultraviolet light, like blacklights and UV-C disinfecting light, is that it's invisible. Kinda. And also Kinda.

See there's a distinctive look to blacklights, they look like this.

But it turns out this isn't the ultraviolet that you're seeing.
See, the light produced by the bulb isn't perfectly monochromatic UV. Blacklights are in the UV-A range, which is 315 - 400 nm. The human vision range is 380-nm to 700nm.

There's a little overlap there, between the high UVA and the low end of human vision...
And there's multiple types of ultraviolet lights, but the kinds used in blacklights peak at 370nm or 340nm

so while most of the light coming out of the bulb is in the invisible UV range, some of the light is a bit higher up in the spectrum, which makes it slightly into the visible violet range.

So the light you see from UV lights is either the not-UV light it produces as a side effect, or something else fluorescing.

I had set myself a goal of 35 books for the year, but lack of travel meant I could squeeze in a fair bit more. I’ve tried to read more fiction, but not very successfully (most of the books here are non-fiction). Nonetheless, here is my reading list for 2020. (1/9)

1. The Quantum Spy — David Ignatius
2. The Siege of Mecca — Yaroslav Trofimov
3. The Only Plane in the Sky — Garrett Graff
4. American Spy — Lauren Wilkinson
5. Rise and Kill First — Ronen Bergman
6. Return to Sri Lanka — Razeen Sally
7. Scale -- Geoffrey West (2/9)

8. Bridgital Nation — Roopa Purushottaman & N Chandrasekaran
9. Backstage — Montek Singh Ahluwalia
10. Spillover -- David Quammen
11. The Theory the Would not Die -- Sharon McGraves
12. The End of October -- Lawrence Wright
13. Team of Teams — Stanley McChrystal (3/9)

14. Galileo’s Daughter — Dava Sobel 15. The Gated Republic — Shankkar Aiyar
16. Powerful — Patty McCord
17. The Paladin — David Ignatius
18. India Moving — Chinmaya Tumbe
19. How Innovation Works — Matt Ridley
20. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll (re-read) (4/9)

21. How China Escaped the Poverty Trap — Yuen Yuen Ang
22. Phantoms in the Brain — VS Ramachandran & Sandra Blakeslee
23. Seeing like a State — James C Scott
24. El Jefe: The stalking of Chapo Guzman — Alan Feuer (5/9)

As the @guardian continues their antisemitic game of contorting everything in existence to attack Israel, (in this instance perpetuating a libel of Jews as disease spreaders withholding vaccines), here are some other headlines I’ve written for them to keep up their sleeves:

Israel’s national anthem sung in Hebrew - not Japanese - another low for this racist state

Israeli of the year award goes to Israeli - not Frenchman - is there no end to Israel’s racism?

Israeli sports budget spent on Israelis - not on Scottish skateboard parks. What would we expect?

Diego Maradonna doesn’t even place in list of top ten greatest ever Israelis. An insult to world’s football fans. FIFA must act...

.@SecPompeo has been tweeting every 30 from 8am to 530pm last couple of days

Yesterday was mostly North Korea

Today looks like Russia

8am

ARHATIYA (Not Farmer) AGITATION.

Request indulgence. Another Long Thread curated from @Indusglyphs FB page ...

PUNJAB & CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD

- In Punjab, Jatt Sikhs own more than 90% of available agricultural land.

- Jatt Sikhs are 50-60% of the Sikh population.

Contd

- Among all Indian states, Punjab has highest proportion of DALITS.

- Only 3.5% of Pvt farm land is with Dalits who are 32% of population. The national avg is 8.6% of farm land for 16.6% of Dalits.

- Punjab has max %age (5.28%) of big farmers owning >10 hectares of land.

- Punjab has highest Gini quotient of inequality compared to other states.

- Dalits, landless & manual workers make up abt 35% of state population.

- Jutt Sikhs dominate due to political & social control.

- Arhtiyas & Large Farms owned by Jutt Sikhs, form the choke point.

- Farmer unions in Punjab, starting from the New Farmers Movements of the 1970s and 1980s, have served the interests of LARGE farmers.

- Assertion of land rights often leads to grave violence in Punjab where popular culture glamorizes gun toting to gain possession of land.

- In Punjab, there's also 'common village land'. Large farmers wrest control & cultivate them, excl Dalits.

- Dalits are majority of labour. In Punjab, Dalit farm labourers are ref as seeri, rather derisively. They form heart of agrarian workforce, but thr condition is fragile.

By its campaign and conduct of the 2020 election, the ruling class ceased pretending to be part of a constitutional republic. By treating fellow Americans as inferiors through word and deed, its members renounced their common citizenship with us.

Eschewing persuasion, they set about compelling obedience to an openly manipulated election.

Thus did they burn their bridges to the rest of America as surely as did Cortéz when he burned the ships that had carried his troops to conquer the Aztec empire.

Henceforth, they must rule or ruin as the oligarchy they have become.

For four decades beginning in the mid-1960s, a class of rulers grew in America. They became ever more uniform socially and intellectually, ever more opposed to the rest of Americans, and ever more powerful.

This happened as government took upon itself the tasks of eliminating poverty and harmonizing the races, and as it controlled ever greater shares of the national income.

It is a fuck-this-shit moment for Egyptian women. And the rage and reckoning are the fuel of revolution. Not a cis-gender heterosexual dick-swinging revolution. We already had one of those almost 10 years ago.
A feminist revolution.

The revolutions that began 10 years ago in the Middle East and North Africa might have been started by a man. They will be completed by women and queer people too often marginalized and ignored and subjected to violence by the State, Street and Home.

I wrote this in 2012. And I turned it into my first book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution to say that unless the rage shifts from the presidential palace to the Street and Home, the revolution has not started

Over the coming weeks, I will be writing more about the #Egyptian revolution 10 years on

“Until the rage shifts from the oppressors in our presidential palaces to the oppressors on our street corners and in our homes, our revolution has not even begun.”

I call that the Trifecta of Misogyny: State, Street, Home. I wrote about it in my 2015 book #HeadscarvesAndHymens

1/ Happy #SocialistSunday - and welcome to the weekly #SocialistSundayMegaList!

Please sign & widely share my petition for an emergency UBI and alleviate pandemic poverty. https://t.co/dilMlYxCCG

The following list is 100% randomised.

2/ If you're included but don't want to be, feel free to let me know - ideally by DM, because I'm much more likely to actually see that. This thread gets a lot of notifications!

(Stats as ever will follow the list of names)

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1/? A thread...Why am I right about certain aspects of strategy, even understanding it better than Nicklaus? Far too often players of past generations hold their playing background out as an appeal to their authority. I did not play on the PGA Tour, why?

2/? I didn't specialize in golf until high school which left my true playing experience far behind my peers. I then transferred schools after my freshmen yr & had to sit out 1.5 yrs. I then played spring my 3rd yr & fall my 4th b4 breaking my leg in Feb my redshirt jr yr

3/? After breaking my leg I didn't touch my clubs for almost 18 months. I got a job in real estate in Dallas after graduating & played golf on my bday (July 4) at Gleneagles in Plano & shot 68. I stewed all night watching fireworks & dreamt of professional golf.

4/? The right blend of emotion from fireworks w/friends, a great round of golf that day, & the perfect amt of beers & I decided I was going to quit & play professional golf. I won my 1st mini tour event six weeks later with 67-68. Following yr I traveled the Hooters Tour w/...

5/? Chad Campbell & Chris Riley & knew I had the physical skills they did but I only won twice on that Tour while Chad won damn near every week. I attributed it to my being an over the top hothead. Truly world class basket case. This is b/c I was a perfectionist & couldn't...

Some folks seem to think the rift w/ a lot of leftists and D*A is bc of this force the vote issue.

Its foolish to assume this outcry stems from ONE issue that people are divided on.

There are a plethora of real issues with the org, that predate the current discourse.

Thread 👇

Many leftists have grown disenchanted with D*A based on their experiences.

Every chapter is different,so the intention of this thread isn't to target any one specific chapter, or to generalize. It is to elucidate on REAL, counter-revolutionary issues within the org.

Buckle in.

#1: D*A still has anti-communist bylaws nationally, that could result in those of us who are further left than "social democrat" to be expelled from membership. In spite continous pleas to have the bylaw stricken, national has not done

#2: D*A constantly asks membership to water down policies that are BASIC NEEDS for survival moving forward, literally for the comfort of liberals/moderates.

Many leftists believe that anyone who asks you to water down your basic needs is not your ally.

#3: D*A has a long & documented history of ignoring abuse within their organizing spaces, and for not holding abusers accountable.
They mishandle disclosure of abuse (for accused & accuser) frequently enough, that many ppl leave the DSA over abuse & never return.

Collection of pictures of the jewish mass murderer, Lazar Kaganovich together with Stalin. These collection of pictures is to illustrate that Lazar was Stalin's handler, always lurking besides Stalin and most likely the true power behind Stalin. He held many powerful positions.

1918- Kaganovich belonged to the organizers of the Red Army and was commissioner of organizational and propaganda department of the Red Army.
From May 1918 to August 1919 as chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod regional committee of the RCP and Governement's Executive Committee.

From September 1919 to August 1920 Lazar became the chairman of the Voronezh Revolutionary Committee and the Executive Committee of the government.
Since 1921, he took over leadership roles in the union work as secretary of the Moscow Committee.

In 1922, Kaganovich was entrusted with tasks of organization and supply.
1923 L. M. Kaganovich was candidate of the Central Committee of the RCP until he was taken as a full member in May 1924.

From June 1924 to December 1925 Kaganovich was a member of the Organization Bureau of the Central Committee.
From June 1924 to April 1925 he was Secretary of the Central Committee of the RCP.

Brahmins are the Jews of India. I say that as a non-Brahmin. People have been fed on propaganda of rich and powerful Brahmin. Then why all stories start with - Once upon a time, there was a poor #Brahmin.

Wast vile propaganda was created against Brahmins by the British to my mind, for two reasons, most potent forces they fought against were Maratha Brahmins and the role of Brahmins in 1857.

As always the seculars, Hindu Brahmins were the most staunch opposition to the British, trying to put Bahadur shah on the throne, who while a Muslim was Indian. Muslim fought to bring back Zafar, whose return would be to them, well, return of Islamic rule.

More of an army, less of a faith, men like Sir Syed, immediately aligned themselves with the British after 1857, and India became playground of missionaries. Brahmins were the intellectual guardians of the faith they planned to attack. The Polytheists.

When Pagans were demolished in Rome, it was plato’s academy which was attacked first. Kashi and Prayag was India’s academy.