no one tells you this about ADHD meds but while they DO help you focus there’s a very specific time window in which you need to get situated and started on your Task you need to focus on or else what happens is you end up getting REALLY GOOD at being on social media for 8 consecutive hours
I’ll link the video here but orthodox jews who opposed israel’s occupation were attacked. This was never about judaism and israel never cared about any jews which is known but is coming more clear now than ever. many anti zionist israelis are in danger for opposition towards their government
the neighborhood they raided was mea shearim, the second-oldest jewish neighborhood outside the old city in jerusalem. it was founded in 1874 for ashkenazi haredi communities who were immigrating to palestine following jewish emancipation. among its founders is meir auerbach, the first ashkenazi chief rabbi of palestine.
most of the neighborhood’s residents today are ashkenazi haredi and non-haredi orthodox jews (though mizrahi/sephardic communities also exist there). the neighborhood is deeply religious and follows religious/modesty laws common to other haredi/orthodox neighborhoods.
the haredi council - a religious communal organization which provides religious and welfare facilities - is also located here. though it was founded by ashkenazim in 1921, it includes a sephardic council now as well.
the council - and neighborhood in general - are staunchly anti-zionist on the basis of theology and refuse to associate with the israeli government. notably, neturei karta is centered here, having been created after splitting with the ashkenazi haredi political party agudat yisrael on account of its zionism.
This scenario would of course place financial damage a long way down the list of horrors. Even so, it is part of an investor’s job to consider exactly what it would mean for their portfolio. So far the possibility of a world war has barely caused a tremor in the markets.Â
In short, it does not look anything like the panic you might expect if the odds of the world entering into war were edging higher. The brightest conclusion is that such odds really are close to zero. A darker one is that, like the investors of 1914, today’s may soon be blindsided. History points to a third possibility: that even if investors expect a major war, there is little they can do to reliably profit from it.
The easiest way to understand this is to imagine yourself in 1914, knowing that the first world war was about to arrive. You would need to place your bets quickly—within weeks, the main exchanges in London, New York and continental Europe would be closed. They would stay that way for months. Would you be able to guess how many, and which way the war might have turned by then? If you wisely judged American stocks to be a good bet, would you have managed to trade with a broker who avoided bankruptcy amid a liquidity crisis? You might have decided, again wisely, to trim positions in soon-to-be war-strained government debt. Would you have guessed that Russian bonds, which would experience a communist revolution and Bolshevik-driven default, were the ones to dump completely?
War, in other words, involves a level of radical uncertainty far beyond the calculable risks to which most investors have become accustomed. This means that even previous world wars have limited lessons for later ones, since no two are alike. Mr Ferguson’s paper shows that the optimal playbook for 1914 (buy commodities and American stocks; sell European bonds, stocks and currencies) was of little use in the late 1930s. Investors in that decade did try to learn from history. Anticipating another world war, they sold continental European stocks and currencies. But this different war had different winning investments. British stocks beat American ones, and so did British government bonds.
In the first place, if Moscow and Beijing are content with a purely diplomatic and public relations victory, they do not need to do anything at all. US virtual silence in the face of Israel’s indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza is doing it for them. Yet again, the United States has used its UN security council veto to defend Israel, as the solitary opponent both of all the other UNSC members, and a large majority of the general assembly. As western (and some US) diplomats have remarked (off the record), unfaltering US support for Israel has shredded the Biden administration’s strategy of competing with China for influence in the “global south”.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the western reaction to it, the charge has been made across most of the non-western world (including by US partners like India) that the west has one standard for white victims, and a much lower one for everyone else. The Biden administration (and many European governments) have now in effect confirmed this.
Witness (in a widely circulated clip) the US national security council spokesperson John Kirby choking back crocodile tears over Russian bombardment of civilians in Ukraine, then justifying Israeli “collateral damage” in Gaza – although according to UN figures, Israel has already killed almost as many Palestinian civilians in two weeks as Russia has killed Ukrainian civilians in 20 months. Equally striking has been the refusal of the Biden administration to do anything to help the 500-600 Palestinian American US citizens trapped in Gaza. If anyone wants evidence to argue that in the eyes of Washington some US citizens are more equal than others, they need look no further than this.
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