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JUST IN: 🇷🇺 Russia showcases international payment systems operating independently of Western financial networks.
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I Couldn’t Eat For 5 Days After Listening To This Speech…
6 Minutes With Brian Tracy = TIME WELL SPENT
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The "quadripoint" located at the confluence of the Chobe and Zambezi rivers near Kazungula, where the borders of Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe come within a hundred metres or so of meeting each other fascinates the world.
The four nations, Botswana (south), Namibia via the Caprivi Strip (west), Zambia (north), and Zimbabwe (east), almost meet where there is a state-of-the-art 923-metre long Kazungula Bridge built at a cost of US$260 million.
While often called a quadripoint, it is technically a near-quadripoint. Instead of a single mathematical point where four corners touch, a short 150-metre border connects Botswana and Zambia directly across the river, separated from Zimbabwe and Namibia by two distinct tripoints.
The configuration dates back to the 1890 Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty, which created the Caprivi Strip so Germany could access the Zambezi River, while Britain got Zanzibar.
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The reason I am doing what I am doing now is because of *this* sermon.
It might be the most impactful 2 minutes of preaching I've ever seen — and it changed my entire life.
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David Friedberg explains the switch inside your DNA that makes you age.
@friedberg
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𝗔𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔’𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗦𝗧 𝗣𝗢𝗣𝗨𝗟𝗢𝗨𝗦 𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦
Nigeria leads with over 242 million people, while the DRC has the youngest median age at just 15.9.
Meanwhile, South Africa has one of the oldest populations in this group, with a median age of 28.9.
Remember,
A young, growing population can create a powerful economic opportunity, but only if countries can provide enough jobs, education, infrastructure and investment to turn that growth into prosperity.
𝗔𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔’𝗦 𝗕𝗜𝗚𝗚𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗘𝗦
GDP adjusted for Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) accounts for differences in the cost of goods and services between countries.
In simple terms,
$100 can buy more in some countries than others. PPP adjusts for this, giving us a better comparison of the actual size of economies.
That’s why South Africa’s economy is valued at $1.08 trillion on a PPP basis, even though its nominal GDP figure is much lower.
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If we valued our art, we would embed it in our homes the way it used to be done - carved on doors, marked on walls, placed in compounds.
It would have been passed down. Every generation would have seen it and known that African architecture was never minimalist. There would be no argument, because the evidence would still be standing in the houses we live in.
We stopped putting it in. Then we started forgetting what it looked like.
We rarely put African sculptures, masks, carvings, or paintings in our own homes. Then we get angry when we see them in the British Museum.
At the same time, many of us still fill our spaces with things brought in through colonization. That does not line up.
If we actually used our own art in our interiors, the demand would be here. Artists and makers would earn from it.
The conversation about where the pieces belong would make more sense, because we would already be treating them as part of how we live, not only as something we defend after someone else takes them.
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That particular moment when George Yeo, Singapore’s former foreign minister, demonstrated a remarkably deep understanding of European history and the complex conflicts that have shaped the continent,an understanding that seems to elude many Western politicians.
It is genuinely rare to hear a senior statesman speak with such historical depth, intellectual clarity, and geopolitical insight.....
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1. Remote mind reading without consent
2. Conscious AI as property/slaves
3. DNA-targeted personal bioweapons
4. Civilian autonomous kill drones
5. Human clones for organ harvesting
6. Nonconsensual memory edit/erase
7. Full-body biometric identity theft
8. Private weather manipulation
9. Neural hijacking of other people
10. Forced embryonic trait selection
11. Elite-only immortality tech
12. Private orbital kinetic weapons
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First trailer for ‘THE EYES OF GHANA’, the first-ever film produced by IShowSpeed.
The documentary follows Ghanaian cinematographer Chris Hesse who attempts to rescue more than 1,000 films capturing Africa’s fight for independence in the 1950s & ’60s.
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A Curva da Felicidade.
O economista David G. Blanchflower analisou dados de 132 países para investigar a relação entre idade e bem-estar subjetivo. O trabalho reuniu 109 conjuntos de dados e encontrou evidências de uma curva em U em todos os países analisados.
A curva sugere que:
- Na juventude: o bem-estar tende a ser relativamente elevado.
- Na meia-idade: a satisfação com a vida diminui, em média.
- A partir de aproximadamente 47 a 48 anos: o bem-estar tende a se recuperar, segundo as estimativas médias do estudo.
Créditos: IG / longevitydaily_
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President Kagame responds to those who say: "Formula 1 is too big for a small country like Rwanda."
I tell those people to take a deep breath and calm down, and wait to see what is coming.
First, we are people, like the people of other parts of the world. There is nothing, no event, nothing that is bigger than people.
So, we are a small country, but we are a people.
Formula One is big indeed, but it is not a goal just in itself. In fact, Formula One is part of the big picture of what Rwanda has to do.
We made progress as a country, as a people, but also for this particular Formula One, as a sport for Africa.
We are not looking at just Rwanda alone. We are looking at Rwanda in the context of the continent, and we have indeed ambitions to bring in other African brothers and sisters to participate.
It is Rwandan, it is African, and it is a big deal that we are very happy to be associated with.