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265. The Exchange Fund achieved record-breaking performance last year, delivering an investment income of $330 billion. As at the end of last year, the total value of assets under the Exchange Fund exceeded $4.1 trillion, which would suffice to maintain monetary and financial stability in Hong Kong. On the premise that the Exchange Fund's function to maintain the stability and integrity of the local monetary and financial systems will not be compromised, I propose, under the Exchange Fund Ordinance, transferring $75 billion in each of the coming two financial years, totalling $150 billion, from the Exchange Fund to the Capital Works Reserve Fund in support of the NM and other infrastructure projects.

Paul Chan has proposed taking HK$150 billion from the Exchange Fund, which is used to keep the US dollar peg within the 7.75-7.85 trading band, and transferring it to Northern Metropolis infrastructure projects.
It would be the first such withdrawal since 1984

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So I feel very strongly that there aren’t enough good resources to tell people what mobile games are actually fun and not just a Delaware corporation lunging for your wallet and I’m going to start a thread. Sam’s IOS Game Thread START:

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

Kash Patel says he now has a lead that Savannah Guthrie's mom is being held at either the NCAA Final Four or the Masters golf tournament, plans to personally investigate.

Orla Joelsen V @OJoelsen 0..• The Arctic Command has this afternoon evacuated a crew member from a United States submarine. The crew member required urgent medical treatment and has been transferred to the Greenlandic health authorities and the hospital in Nuuk. The evacuation took place within Greenlandic territorial waters, 7 nautical miles off Nuuk. It was carried out by the Danish Defence Seahawk helicopter. The helicopter was deployed from the inspection vessel Vædderen. -Arctic Command : Greenland Cruises 7:48 PM • Feb 21, 2026 • 279.7K Views

Actual story is that an American sailor on a submarine got sick within Greenland’s territorial waters, where he should not have been (?!?) Then Trump announced he was going to send a hospital ship but …

Another reason conspiracy theorists are desperate to rewrite the history books about this is that it came out that a lot of their internet hangouts were built by pedophiles who specifically said in their emails "we can weaponize these people because they are the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet"

Also quite apart from it being rich white right-wing men (as it always is) instead of the Secret Woke Mind Virus, they imagined it as a bunch of hypercompetent anime villains whereas in reality it was just dudes emailing each other in plaintext asking for directions to the Sex Trafficking Island

"The Epstein files proved them right!"

No they fucking didn't. You can't describe a conspiracy whose major actors are a secret elite composed mostly of marginalized people that doesn't actually exist, then suddenly declare you were right because a completely different conspiracy was uncovered.

"We owe conspiracy theorists a huge apology"

No we fucking don't. They were talking about a secret conspiracy of gay trans Jewish lizard people. The Epstein files uncovered a conspiracy of rich, straight, white, right-wing Christian men, which these motherfuckers never even considered.

Love this graph of U.S. tariffs as a proportion of total government revenue

Buckingham Palace has a long and ruthless tradition of distancing itself from scandal. Nothing matters to the Firm more than the perpetuation of the Firm itself.

Be wary of stories that seek to put Charles and Co in a good light because a lot of it is nothing more than crisis and PR management.

Is this up there with the Ghana Parliament "Harry Maguire" analogue?

Swedish opposition politician compares the country’s government to… Tottenham 😆

Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation Guardian review of US justice department files reveals Epstein interacted with six CBP officers. The officer investigated denied any knowledge of trafficking underage girls

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented.

Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, younger brother of Britain's King Charles, leaves Aylsham Police Station after being arrested and questioned by detectives on suspicion of misconduct in public office in connection with Jeffrey Epstein reut.rs/4qL0VUg 📷 Phil Noble

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David Raya's pass maps from the first and second half of the Wolves game last night.

Panic.

BREAKING: Statement from King Charles III on the arrest of his brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Says he supports police and "the law must take its course."

China's auto exports went vertical in Dec. '25. All those cars go to EM (red), not the G10 (blue). That complicates EU efforts to protect its car makers. China's export surge is decimating EU export markets. There's not much EU tariffs can do about that...
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First senior member of the royal family to be arrested since Charles I...

Lots of chat about the *last* English royal to be arrested, but who was the first? The Anglo-Saxons typically bumped off their rivals, so I'll start the bidding with Odo, bishop of Bayeux, arrested and imprisoned by his half-brother, William the Conqueror, in 1082.

As per national guidance, the police won't be officially naming this Norfolk man in his sixties arrested over suspicion of misconduct in public office!

Is this a “canary-in-the-coalmine” moment, similar to August 2007?
This will be on the mind of some investors and policymakers as they assess the news that, quoting the FT,the “private credit group Blue Owl will permanently restrict investors from withdrawing their cash from its inaugural private...

Failure to rotate and improve the squad in January coming home to roost

Identity of woman filmed with Prince Andrew at Jeffrey Epstein’s house revealed The woman filmed with Prince Andrew at Jeffrey Epstein’s New York home has been identified as the socialite daughter of a former prime minister of Australia, according to reports. The Sydney …

Katherine Keating, the daughter of former PM Paul Keating, was not only caught on camera in 2010 leaving Epstein's NYC townhouse while Andrew M-B was visiting. SHe's also all over the files and I have to say there has not been a lot of coverage of that fact in Australia. nypost.com/2019/08/20/i...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the brother of the UK’s King Charles, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. It comes after further details of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein emerged, the BBC said.

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It’s Gavin Newsom’s show for now [FREE TO READ] But America’s Democratic voters will be a much tougher sell for the California governor than foreigners

“History might look back on the Trump years as the moment Silicon Valley’s broligarchs took control of our future. Newsom is uncomfortably close to the tech billionaires. Middle America on the other hand seems to be ripe for AI populism.” Me on the Dem early front runner. as.ft.com/r/60533d91-8...