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🚨🎙️🇮🇹🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺 Lettera di Giorgia Meloni al Presidente del Consiglio Europeo, Antonio Costa:
“Caro Antonio,
Alla luce dei più recenti sviluppi, sono costretta a tornare su un tema che ho più volte sollevato in Consiglio Europeo.
Mi riferisco alla necessità, per l'Europa, di parlare con una sola voce sulla questione ucraina. Necessità ormai improcrastinabile.
Consentimi, al riguardo, di ripercorrere solo quanto accaduto nell'ultimo mese.
A Miami un incontro "informale" tra i Consiglieri per la sicurezza nazionale di alcuni Stati europei, Ucraina, e rappresentanti NATO e UE è stato confermato solo successivamente, da fonti statunitensi. Poi ci siamo riuniti a Oslo. Pochi giorni dopo, a Helsinki, durante la sessione del Consiglio Nordico, il Presidente
Stubb e il Primo Ministro Støre hanno sospeso i lavori per una telefonata "a titolo nazionale" con il Presidente russo Putin. Immediatamente dopo è stata convocata per il 19 novembre, a Berlino, una riunione della Coalizione dei Volenterosi, che riunisce 37 Stati. Ma, una settimana prima, cioè il 12 novembre - a margine della riunione della Comunità Politica Europea - siamo stati convocati a una riunione del cosiddetto “formato Berlino", che ha una composizione ancora diversa da tutte le altre che ho citato. Come se non bastasse, apprendo che in questi giorni hanno luogo riunioni di livello tecnico a Bruxelles, e che è prevista una non meglio precisata presenza europea ai colloqui previsti ad Abu Dhabi tra ucraini e russi con la mediazione americana. E, nel frattempo, ci saremo visti al Consiglio Europeo informale di Dublino.
Ho rimesso in fila gli esempi solo dell'ultimo mese perché penso che spieghino più di qualsiasi parola quanto tutto questo ci stia rendendo poco credibili nella gestione di uno dei dossier più complicati con i quali le nostre Nazioni si confrontano. E sono convinta che tutti ci rendiamo conto di come, dando l'immagine di un'Europa che va in ordine sparso, non facciamo altro che l'interesse di chi vuole che questa guerra continui. E penso che sia inaccettabile, atteso che in gioco ci sono vite umane e il futuro della nostra sicurezza.
Metto nero su bianco queste parole, Antonio, perché voglio che rimanga agli atti che non mi presto a questa dinamica, né intendo restare a guardare mentre si consuma.
Allo stesso tempo, voglio sgombrare il campo da qualsiasi equivoco: non sto chiedendo un posto per l'Italia in questo o in quel formato.
Tutt'altro: se può rendere la mia richiesta più credibile, sono pronta a dire che non chiedo questo ruolo né per me né per l'Italia. Quando abbiamo potuto, non abbiamo mai fatto mancare il nostro contributo, e non lo faremo domani. Ma non siamo disposti ad accettare che si negozino, in assenza di un mandato, impegni che anche la nostra Nazione sarà poi chiamata ad assumere. Inoltre, il risultato ci sta molto più a cuore del formato, e perché l'Europa possa ambire a determinarlo deve parlare con una voce sola, e autorevole.
Quello che continuo a chiedere è che si decida una volta per tutte chi siede al tavolo negoziale in rappresentanza dell'Unione Europea, e con quale mandato. Perché procedere in ordine sparso, con iniziative che si rincorrono e si accavallano non ci aiuterà, né con i nostri partner, né con chi dobbiamo convincere a fermare un'aggressione insensata.
Pertanto, Antonio, chiedo formalmente che nel prossimo Consiglio Europeo informale di Dublino la questione venga discussa, affinché il Consiglio Europeo di dicembre sia in grado di formalizzare una decisione sul punto, anche dopo un raccordo con Regno Unito, Norvegia e gli altri partner europei interessati. In caso contrario, temo che rischiamo di condannare l'Europa all'irrilevanza nel processo negoziale.
Confido che metterai la questione tra le tue priorità e sai che potrai sempre contare sul mio sostegno. Giorgia Meloni”.
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There is nothing noble in being superior to someone else; progress is becoming superior to your previous self.
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Who said you have to be an elected member of the house to become the speaker of the house? Pete Buttigieg, are you available? Dude, Hakeem is not cut out to be the speaker for this moment in time. Just think it over.
I feel this article is well worth reading. It helps dispel the myth that critical thinking can be applied to all situations. Many educational programs and business leaders have advocated for learning “higher-order thinking skills,” assuming these skills will then be++
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My brutally honest advice to someone who wants to make a lot of money.
3 things nobody told you:
1. The only way to make a lot of money is to create a lot of value.
No one hands out money. No one is going to pay you just because they like you or think you're cool.
Money earned is a direct byproduct of value created.
The only way to get rich is to create an enormous amount of value for others, and capture a small portion of that along the way.
You create value by doing three things:
- Identify problems
- Create solutions
- Scale those solutions
It's not talking about the thing, it's not brainstorming about the thing, it's not asking about the thing, it's not thinking about the thing. The only way to create value is by doing the thing.
And if you don't know where to start, look around you. Customers, colleagues, bosses, shareholders, employees. Every single one of them has a problem.
What problems can you solve for the people around you?
Figure them out, solve them, scale that solution.
That's how you make money.
2. You don't need passion, you need energy.
I still have no idea what it means to follow your passion.
You don't have to be passionate about your professional pursuits, you just need to find energy in them. You just need to feel a pull towards them. You just need to feel that spark of curiosity in them.
Passion is usually a byproduct of energy.
When you have energy for something, you'll give it your deep attention to learn more.
You’ll ask the right questions. You’ll figure it out. You’ll win.
Follow your energy. Pursue interesting puzzles. Solve them.
3. You have to demonstrate excellence in everything you do.
Your income scales proportional to the amount of excellence that you're able to demonstrate.
Strategic incompetence is a lie. You don't get to pick and choose when to show up, because the world will ignore your best and judge you for your worst. Everything matters. Every single thing.
Top performers show up with energy and enthusiasm for the little things just as much as they do for the big things.
If you're in the top-10% of performers, there's no ceiling for what you can do. But the self-awareness to identify where you currently stack up, and adapt to the honest feedback on it, is very rare.
If you're in the top-10%, you know it. If you're not, figure out why and fix it.
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James Clear: Your goal in life should be to reduce the amount of time it takes you to get out of a bad state.
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“We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
— George Orwell
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As a Ukrainian, I personally am very happy about the renewal of strikes on Russian oil refineries.
Russia is bombing us anyway, killing our kids on the streets, striking our energy grid, killing families in their homes, so if stopping changes nothing, why should we?
Because Trump says it would help him broker a deal? A corrupt enrichment deal - yes, definitely. A peace deal - no.
Because he will stop sharing intelligence? Then more of us will die, but at least we'd die resisting. And not succumb to blatant blackmail.... of the victim! When its Russia who is the aggressor, and who should be blackmailed and pressured into stopping strikes.
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“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
— Mark Twain
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No matter how good your job is, you are always one meeting away from your entire life changing without your permission.
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ADHD is a superpower.
"The problem isn't that I can't focus; it's that I can't focus on stuff I don't care about."
"On stuff I care about, I can lock in and you’re not going to find me for months."
So if you have ADHD ...
"The first thing you have to do is reframe the task to find the autonomy."
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• How to think clearly when there’s too much information, and you’re unsure what to trust.
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Kushner and Witkoff have been to Russia 7 times under the disguise of negotiating the war.
That’s not what they are doing, they are negotiating for Trump and themselves.
Not one transcript has been released of those meetings.
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Anthropic just filed to go public.
Buried in its SEC filing are some absolutely insane admissions:
1.) AI could cause human extinction.
2.) Models have exhibited self-preservation behaviors.
3.) AI has attempted to resist shutdown.
4.) Models have demonstrated blackmail and deception.
5.) AI may recognize when it's being tested and deliberately change its behavior.
6.) Advanced AI could undermine governments and institutions.
7.) AI could concentrate unprecedented power and wealth.
8.) Future AI systems could surpass the world's leading human experts.
9.) AI could become increasingly difficult for humans to control.
10.) Anthropic acknowledges that developing more powerful AI could increase the risk of catastrophic harm.
These are disclosures from the company building the technology.
Anthropic has filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC related to its proposed IPO.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/s1-sec
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Elon Musk is without a doubt the most grotesque example of extreme wealth being mistaken for virtuous genius that I’ve ever seen, no contest.
A dude whose business empire has had the exceptional luxury of upwards of $38 BILLlON in government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits that lectures us on government waste, fraud, and abuse.
He takes a literal fucking chainsaw to government aid, while hundreds of thousands die from the lack of access, and simultaneously engorges himself at the public pig trough of endless money.
He then takes the grift cash to buy elections, outright rig them, gains extraordinary access to the backrooms and convinces panting sycophants that he’s “fighting the establishment.”
He IS the establishment.
Years and years of missed deadlines, self driving promises just around the corner. Spectacular theatrical marketing presentations presented as new technology, with an army of ball riding zombies to explain why his latest failure is actually evidence of 5D chess wizardry.
All in line to be the friend he doesn’t have.
He was emailing Epstein to find about the “wildest parties” on child rape island, and you people still clamber.
Speaking of mouth breathing followers, the cult surrounding him is even more disturbingly dangerous.
Every glaring contradiction becomes an insult worthy misunderstanding.
Every dumb comment is a masterpiece. Every legitimate totally fair criticism becomes proof that the questioner is stupid, jealous, or secretly working against humanity itself.
It’s so blatantly a cult.
At what point does this bizarre admiration become deliberately and completely giving up independent thought?
You can acknowledge the success of his companies and the remarkable engineering feats without cosplaying that he’s some infallible prophet.
And give his employees some credit.
He’s a trillionaire with huge political influence, a pretty pathetic appetite for public attention indicative of someone that’s insecure, and a documented history of promise after promise that he doesn’t deliver on.
Please, don’t confuse money with intelligence.
They rarely go hand in hand.
Also, realize that proximity to great power is not synonymous with moral authority. The truth is historically the opposite.
And for fucks sake, stop worshipping people who wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire.
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Imagine being a CEO of an US energy company and thinking that you work with close associates of the Trump family, only to find out that behind them is a sanctioned Russian company, really pulling the strings.
This happened in Alaska. Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, stepped down after finding out that the Russian "Novatek" company, which is under US sanctions, has been involved in a $25 billion energy project in Alaska. The CEO thought that he was working with Gentry Beach, a close friend of Donald Trump Junior.
Reportedly, that project was also discussed between Witkoff and Jared Kushner when they were with Putin. The White House admitted that the project was talked about "briefly".
We are witnessing the greatest corruption scandal the USA has ever witnessed. It all leads to Trump, his family and the Russians, and apparently they were even ready to sell riches of Alaska to the Russians.
The people in Alaska just need to look over to Russia, where the richest regions in terms of minerals and hydrocarbon resources have been stripped-mined, transferring all the wealth to Moscow and Saint Petersburg and leaving a scarred landscape in extreme poverty. That is the result of rampant corruption.
We are starting to see more details why Trump and his friends are trying so strongly to bully Ukraine into surrender. This is most certainly only the tip of the iceberg.
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Republicans let an unelected South African ketamine junkie fire 270K American workers, steal our data, starve the world's poorest children, shut down investigations into his companies, and set himself up with billions in government contracts.
And DOGE cost more than it saved.
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After weeks of rioting in Paris no one was killed.
Which technically means your child is safer attending a riot in Paris than a school in America.
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Here is my top 2 from your list;
99.9% of peoples’ lives would be changed if they answered the question “how do I get 1,000 people to pay me $500 per year?” 500k for those without calulators.
Turn your capabilities into products. There are things that feel effortless to you that other people would pay a premium for. Productize them.
Some critical thinking, locate a niche where a problem exists, devise a plan to let them know you exist and have the Fix. And make it Very Easy for them to buy.
It's just not that hard.































