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Germany’s China chokepoints — MarketStack
A leaked document from Germany’s top business lobby shows it privately backs forceful de-risking from China, despite the costs to its own members. — Noah Barkin via PoliticStack.
When Russia invaded Ukraine, Germany had no fast alternative to natural gas — triggering a price spike that hit roughly tenfold at the peak, the threat of industrial rationing, and costly state bailouts. The BDI memo is essentially the lobby admitting it’s walked straight into a bigger version with China. Read more about the story, which was top of the first edition of PoliticStack — a new MarketStack-adjacent publication launched this week, built to scan and surface original journalism from every politics beat on Substack.
Where did the 40,000 Iranian death toll number come from?
The figure was repeated in the run-up to the war and hardened into accepted fact. But The Anti-Imperium argues the figure traces mainly to two regime-change-aligned sources who published large, unverified numbers within days. — Team Zeteo, via PoliticStack.
Mainstream wires reported discrepancies but didn’t assemble this forensic chain. Read more about the story and its author on the first edition of PoliticStack.
Ticker mentions on Finance Substack this week — MarketStack
Across 1,432 notes, 1698 articles, > 600 publications from 30 May - 6 June.
You can now regulate your nervous system in The Terminal.
The 4-7-8 pattern for inhale-hold-exhale also expands to a full page visual.
Why 4-7-8?
Exhale-dominant breathing lengthens the gap between your heartbeats. The effect is statistically significant in both normally rested and sleep-deprived adults. — Research.
That lengthening gap is your vagus nerve hitting the brake, letting the calming branch of your nervous system take the lead. So the strongest lever, physiologically, for activating the parasympathetic nervous system is something that paces your breath with a longer exhale than inhale (4-7-8) — that’s what actually flips the parasympathetic switch.
Stay regulated. Stay calm. Good luck.
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