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Dana White is taking questions from reporters in the press briefing room:
"Did you tell the president 'no' to the press secretary job?"
Dana White: "I don't tell the president 'no' to anything."
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🇵🇾 JUST IN: Paraguay's president just resigned after the Ueno Bank collapse, and USDT is trading at a 13% premium on local P2P as people scramble for dollars.
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The single biggest winner from the budget: the tax-free owner-occupied home, which is where people will put their money. After the budget doubles the capital gains tax on productive businesses/assets from circa 23.5% to 46-47%, investors will understandably pull money from businesses, shares, commercial property and rental housing and plough it into their tax-free owner-occupied home. It's a great way to push up the prices of these houses. On the other hand, cutting negative gearing while also doubling CGT makes investing in rental properties extremely unattractive. It hammers the capital gain upside on any asset: shares, commercial property, the small or medium sized business you built, venture capital and private equity. It will give Australia the most unattractive capital gains tax in the WORLD (see table below)! So the government's policies will (1) push up owner-occupied house prices, (2) push up rents, and (3) reduce the capital available for investing in any small, medium or large sized business that is driving employment, innovation, growth and productivity/prosperity. Investors will go to other countries where they pay half the capital gains tax, or less. Since these pollies have never worked a day of their lives in the private sector, it is no surprise that when they decide to completely and unilaterally rewrite the entire tax system for all investors and businesses -- after promising before the last election more than 50 times NOT to change the capital gains tax and negative gearing rules -- that they would blow the entire Aussie economy up... Your best bet will be to buy a house, live in it, and hope they keep dropping 500,000 new people into the country every year to pump-up prices...
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🇦🇺 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗺 𝘃𝘀 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁
A 43 years old Muslim hero, named Ahmed al Ahmed disarmed the Islamist Jihadist to prevent more Jewish casualties. He is a father of two and fruit shop owner in Sutherland, Australia.
This is the difference between Muslims and Islamists. Muslims save lives and Islamist take innocent lives.
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I agree with @elonmusk. The UK has fallen. Why does a Muslim in Dubai live calmly with others, confident and open minded, while a Muslim in London is radicalized into extremism and antisemitism, when the religion is the same but the environment is not. In Dubai, faith is protected by law and order, so it remains faith. In London, it is abandoned to Islamist engineers who weaponize grievance and monetize anger. The Muslim Brotherhood did not come to integrate, they came to recruit, taking your children hostage through propaganda, turning outrage into identity, donations into funding, and fear into obedience, until they decide what you may say and what you must stay silent about. Britain did not fail overnight, it was slowly reprogrammed, until diversity became submission and tolerance became surrender. This is Britainstan.
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Muslim Brotherhood–driven Islamist ideology poisons societies by normalizing hatred, radicalizing individuals, and turning antisemitism into a moral cause. When this ideology is left unchecked, it does not remain theoretical; it manifests in real-world violence, including shootings like the ones we continue to witness against Jewish communities. Societies deserve peace and security. This is precisely why such extremism has no space in the UAE, a country founded on tolerance, coexistence, and the rule of law, where hatred is not an opinion but a crime.
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Container shipping traffic from China to the US is falling again:
The number of container ships departing from China to the US over the last 15 days has dropped to its lowest level since May.
This is also one of the lowest readings in 2 years.
Shipping volumes have declined by ~40% over the last month.
This comes despite the ongoing US-China tariff truce, which was extended for another 90 days on Tuesday.
In reality, average US tariff rates on Chinese goods still stand at ~55%, according to Bloomberg.
US-China trade is slowing.
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When I listened to this episode of Joe Rogan with Andreas Antonopolous in 2016 it made sense because I was new to #Bitcoin
But now in 2024 we all can see that Andreas was 100% right. This is exactly what's happening in our society right now.
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Is she serious?
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Greta Thunberg never said any of those things. This is a viral deepfake video by @snicklink, in which AI software was used to manipulate Greta's voice and lip movements.
Original, unmanipulated video:
youtube.com/watch?v=pK_nBK…
Original post of the digitally altered version:
twitter.com/snicklink/stat…
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Lebanon was the only Christian-majority nation in the Middle East.
It's where I was born.
We prided ourselves on inclusivity. Always welcoming Arab Muslim refugees from all over the Middle East.
We had the best economy despite having no natural oil. The best universities.
They called Beirut the "Paris of the Middle East" and the Mountains of Lebanon was a tourist destination.
My early childhood was idyllic, my father was a prosperous businessman in town and my mother was at home with me, an only child.
Slowly, the Arab Muslims began to become the majority in Lebanon and our rights began to wither away.
Soon, we would find ourselves unable to leave our small Christian town without fear of being stopped and killed by Arabs. In Lebanon your religion is on your government issued ID.
As the war intensified and the radical Islamists made their way south, my home was hit by an errant rocket and my life was forever changed.
We spent the next almost decade in a bomb shelter, scraping together pennies and eating dandelions and roots just to survive.
If it was not for Israel coming in and surrounding our town, I do not know If I would be here today.
Lebanon is now a country 100% controlled and run by Hezbollah. I lost my country of birth.
I thank God every single day I was able to immigrate to America and live out the dream that BILLIONS of people only dream of having.
Now here in America, my adopted country that I have come to love so much, I see the same threats and warning signs happening now that took place in Lebanon when I was a child.
This is my warning to you, America, reverse course now while you still can.
It's not too late to save our freedom and preserve it for the next generation.
