tony fernandes is one of my favorite entrepreneurs that no one talks about
the amount of shit this guy has survived / attempted over the last 25 years is ridiculous
> spent 14 years in the music industry & had zero airline experience
> mortgaged his house + put in his own savings to take over a failing airline for $0.25 alongside $11m in debt (got 2 airplanes to start with)
> three days after the deal went through, 9/11 happened
> turned it profitable within roughly a year
> then survived SARS, bird flu, the 2004 tsunami, record oil prices & the global financial crisis
> in 2014 one of their planes crashed, killing all 162 people onboard
> then covid grounded basically the entire airline and pushed the company into financial distress
> instead of just waiting for travel to return, they tried turning airasia into a super app: food delivery, ride hailing, parcels, fintech, hotels, flights etc
> that eventually became MOVE - which today has 16m+ monthly users and did $1.3b in gross bookings in a single quarter
> spent almost 6 years restructuring the entire company after covid
> completed the restructuring in 2026, separated the airline from Capital A & finally exited its financial distress status
> then immediately went back on offense and ordered 150 airbus A220s, the largest A220 order ever, with options for another 150
> they even tried to cancel my boi for posting a shirtless image of him getting massaged in the office
every time i feel down, people like tony serve as a reminder that this journey is supposed to be freaking hard
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Today we announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the supplemental Biologics License Applications for the 2026-2027 formulas for Spikevax® (COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA) and mNEXSPIKE® (COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA), containing the JN.1-lineage XFG subvariant of SARS-CoV-2 to help prevent COVID-19.
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President Biden's Preemptive Pardon of Fauci
Beginning of pardon period precisely coincides with NIH review of Ralph Baric and Peter Daszak's proposal for NIH grant “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence” by John Leake
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The documentary evidence is overwhelming that Anthony Fauci:
-Knew that Daszak, Baric, et al. were conducting GoF research with their colleagues at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (a Chinese biosecurity lab connected with the Chinese military).
-Knew that Baric et al. were creating SARS coronavirus variants capable of infecting and causing pathogenesis in humans.
-Knew that the NIH continued to fund (and therefore to endorse) the research of Baric et al. even after the federal pause on GoF in October 2014.
-Knew that Moderna patented the genetic sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site in 2016.
-Knew that his own NIAID began collaborating with Moderna in 2016 to develop an mRNA vaccine against coronaviruses.
-NIAID Collaboration with ModernaPrior to the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists at NIAID’s Vaccine Research Center and the biotechnology company Moderna had collaborated for four years on mRNA vaccines for other emerging infectious diseases.
-Knew (documented in his private email correspondence with eminent virologists in February 2020) that the genome SARS-CoV-2 displayed clear features of lab manipulation.
-Fraudulently concealed that SARS-CoV-2 was produced in a lab by directing the publication of The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2, authored by the same virologists who had just told him in private that the virus appeared to have come from a lab.
All the above is clear documentary evidence that Anthony Fauci was a leading conspirator in perpetrating a massive crime against humanity, fraudulently concealing it, suppressing early treatment for it, and promoting the dangerous, experimental mRNA vaccine that NIAID (of which he was the director) developed with Moderna. The preemptive pardon must be overturned.
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Senate Governmental Affairs Cmte Chair Paul on Fauci testimony Wednesday: In January of 2020, he already was acknowledging that the virus didn't originate in the marketplace for years. He's been telling that. If you interviewed him last week, he's probably still telling you. The reason we think it came from nature is because they had these exotic animals, and that's where SARS came from previously. But he knew. He already knew. And we've known this for a while that other people knew, but we didn't know. He actually knew and was acknowledging that it didn't. The earliest people who got Covid were not associated with the marketplace. The Chinese CDC was saying this in January of 2020. He knew it. He told Dear Diary. But to the public, he commissioned this paper called Proximal Origins. And in it they go on and on, saying it's implausible that it came from the lab
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Opposing the Clarity Act because digital assets have been used for fraud is shortsighted and intellectually dishonest. Every medium of exchange (e.g. cash, checks, wires, ACH, and credit cards) has been used for fraud. What stops fraud is giving law enforcement the tools, resources, and legal clarity to go after criminals. I say this as someone who has worked directly with local law enforcement, Secret Service, FBI, and DOJ to go after criminals.
The Clarity Act contains explicit mandates designed to combat financial crime, strengthen anti-money laundering enforcement, and enhance law enforcement collaboration.
Section 201 — BSA & Sanctions Compliance for Digital Commodity Entities: Formally brings digital commodity brokers, dealers, and exchanges under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and OFAC sanctions rules. Entities must build formal AML/CFT programs, designate compliance officers, conduct independent audits, and file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) with FinCEN.
Section 202 — Risk-Based Examination Standards: Mandates that Treasury and federal regulators establish tailored, risk-based examination standards to audit the adequacy of reporting obligations, customer verification, and AML/CFT programs across registered entities.
Section 203 — Public-Private Information Sharing Pilot (Preventing Illicit Finance Through Partnership Act): Authorizes a formal 5-year pilot program for federal agencies (DOJ, FBI, DEA, Treasury, FinCEN, IRS-CI, OFAC, Secret Service, and DHS) to share live threat intelligence directly with designated private sector entities. This creates explicit safe harbor protections for platforms assisting law enforcement in freezing and seizing illicit funds in real time.
Section 204 — Independent Financial Technology Working Group to Combat Terrorism & Illicit Finance: Establishes an interagency working group (Treasury, DOJ, FBI, Secret Service, DHS, ODNI, and blockchain intelligence firms) to track, analyze, and report annually on illicit usage by foreign terrorist organizations, state sponsors of terrorism, and transnational criminal syndicates.
Section 205 — Crypto Kiosk / ATM Regulation: Directly targets kiosk-based scams and consumer fraud by mandating operational registration, transaction limits, and a dedicated, rapid-response contact point specifically for law enforcement investigations.
Section 305 — Temporary Holds Safe Harbor: Explicitly allows exchanges and digital asset service providers to place short temporary holds on suspicious transactions, including upon receipt of a formal written request from law enforcement, without fear of private civil liability.
Section 302 & Section 401 — SEC & CFTC Anti-Fraud Enforcement: Explicitly grants/preserves market manipulation and anti-fraud enforcement powers for both the CFTC (over digital commodity spot markets) and the SEC (over registered digital asset platforms and permitted payment stablecoins).
Section 308 — Preservation of State Anti-Fraud Authority: Clarifies that nothing in the federal market structure preempts or limits state securities regulators or attorneys general from prosecuting fraud within their jurisdictions.
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