Avoid..

 

When it comes to eating healthy, knowing what to avoid is just as important as knowing what to eat. Nutritionists often recommend cutting certain foods from your diet to improve overall health, boost energy, and help you feel your best. Many of these foods might be staples in your pantry, but they can negatively impact your well-being over time. By making small changes and eliminating these items, you can set yourself up for success.

Processed meats like bacon, sausage, and deli meats are often packed with preservatives, sodium, and unhealthy fats. Eating them regularly has been linked to increased risks of heart disease and certain cancers. 

Many processed meats contain nitrates, which can be harmful when consumed in large amounts. Instead of processed meats, try choosing fresh, lean options like chicken or turkey.

Swapping these out can significantly improve your long-term health.

Petro..

 

The BRICS bloc who is ridding the petrodollar could doom the US and its geopolitical influence. Because of the currency’s importance, the country is allowed a certain amount of leverage. This is crucial as the country has to ensure the stability of the asset on a global scale.

This leverage is a key reason why the country is able to do things like weaponize the currency in sanction practices. 

Oil-exporting countries have an interest in ensuring the US dollar is strong. At the end of the day, the system supports a collective effort to benefit the Western currency.

If that went away, it would be chaos for the West. If BRICS could somehow challenge the system enough to change, the US would be forced to play by international rules. 

Therefore, the currency would no longer be vital to global economics. Altogether, leading a collective effort to embrace a new status quo, regardless of what it means for the Greenback or the West

Not Now..

 

Benvenidos..

 

Near..

 

Israel’s military says it has encircled Jabalya, northern Gaza and launched a new ground operation, after seeing signs of Hamas rebuilding, despite nearly a year of fighting and strikes in the territory.

The attention shifts to Lebanon after Israeli forces escalated their attacks on the Hezbollah militant group, Israel continues to operate across Gaza and is again focusing on an area it previously said was rid of Hamas.

Elsewhere in Gaza, at least 25 people are confirmed dead after Israeli airstrikes hit a mosque and a school in the center of the territory, hospital officials say. Israel said Hamas was embedded in both buildings.

One year of killings and it seems that the circle is completed, and the end became the beginning of a new killing.  

Squatters..

 

Almost two dozen disheveled squatters tormented and terrorized the residents and businesses surrounding a vacant $4 million Brooklyn brownstone they commandeered.

The young miscreants stole packages off neighbor’s porches, threatened passersby, damaged private property, got high on the stoop, and set off fireworks in the early morning hours, neighbors told The Post.

The squatters — including one who walks with a cane busted into an attached carriage house behind the building. They then used sheets of corrugated steel to barricade those doors. Computers stored inside were also stolen, allegedly. [ NY Post.]

Finance..

 

While the BRICS alliance is strengthening its banking system, the US seems to be on a downhill. In the last three years alone, 15 US banks collapsed renewing fears of financial instability across the country. 

The BRICS bloc has pushed de-dollarization efforts especially since it expanded its numbers. Now, the pressure is mounting on the US dollar, as the country’s banks face over $500 billion in unrealized losses, according to a new report.

A finance expert at Florida Atlantic University revealed that the United States’ unrealized losses on investment securities are over $500 billion as of the end of Q2 2024. This is a slight downtrend from the first quarter of the year: a decrease to $513 billion from $516 billion.

 However, it’s still a significant loss for one of the strongest economies in the world. 

Banks are now saddled with more than half a trillion dollars on the balance sheets in their papers. The development shows that the US banks are at risk while the central banks of BRICS are massively accumulating gold to hedge against the US dollar.

Cappuccino..

Danish scientists discovered that, for example, cappuccino has a greater anti-inflammatory effect than an Americano. But that doesn't mean that a cup of black coffee is unhealthy. During the studies, researchers also confirmed that coffee contains minerals and antioxidants, which can reduce the risk of cancer, type 2 diabetes, and dementia. Thanks to the caffeine content and its appetite-suppressing properties, it can help treat obesity. However, the type of coffee is not insignificant.

Danish studies focused on the fact that proteins found in milk and antioxidants from coffee together double the anti-inflammatory properties in immune cells. This means that coffee with milk impacts health differently than black coffee. Scientists used a model of artificial inflammation in cultures of immune cells to study the anti-inflammatory effect of combining polyphenols with proteins. Still, it can be assumed that such a combination would benefit the human body equally.

Everything indicates that white coffee has more anti-inflammatory properties than black coffee

Victim..

 
One of the most damaging, at least monetarily, was the lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James alleging that Trump overstated the values of some of his properties for the purpose of getting lower interest rates on real estate loans.

It was a weak case, at best, for two reasons. 

First, it was politically motivated.  James had run for office on a platform of pursuing Trump. "We will all rise up and resist this man," she once told a campaign crowd, "and ultimately, we'll bring him down." 

Second, the trial revealed, in the words of this newsletter [Washington Examiner] , "that there were no victims, that the loans were paid back in a 'timely and total' fashion, that the lending institutions made the loans based not on Trump's representations but on their own research, and that some of those institutions were eager to do business with Trump again." 

The suit should never have been brought, but even after James decided to go ahead, any penalty should have been small. Just a thought.

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