I'm noticing the growing possibility that Europe becomes very poor in the course of the next 10-20 years. You have the following factors:
- Heavy industry totally uncompetitive against China, automakers etc. rapidly losing ground
- Services industry totally uncompetitive against AI
- No natural resources, or regulatory hurdles making their extraction impossible
- No access to the new economy (no AI, no data centers, uncompetitive energy sector)
- Client states caught in one-way welfare ratchets, spend reallocation + investment well-nigh impossible
This seems under-contemplated. And we're talking really, seriously dirt poor: taken to its logical conclusion, many countries will have much, much smaller services and manufacturing industries -- economies may become much more heavily skewed toward natural resources and energy markets, where Europe has made it impossible for itself to compete.
And I'm not saying that this is likely to happen, it's an extreme case. But the probability is greater than zero and appears to be growing. The EV of that is so negative that it's surprising to me that it's not coming up more.
I paid with 6 Crypto Cards to see whose cashback actually reaches me
Same purchase, same shop in Europe, all six within four minutes. Every card had to turn euros into dollars first, and that rate comes out of the cashback
Promised, what reached me, and how it is paid:
- @wirex_one (Bespoke): 8%, about 7.8%, in USD you can claim within a day
- @useTria (Premium): 6%, about 4.3%, and it can take up to 12 months to arrive
- @ether_fi (Luxe): 3%, about 3%, in ETHFI you claim after 7 days, from $5
- @Plasma (Core): 3%, about 1.8%, paid weekly in XPL
- @RedotPay (Pro): 3%, about 0.5%, as card credit that expires in 30 days
- @KASTxyz (Standard): 1.5%, below zero, as card credit after a 14-day lock
KAST takes about 2% on the rate, more than its 1.5% back, and adds $0.10 on anything under $25
EtherFi and RedotPay both promise 3%. On EUR 1,000 a month that is about $36 back from EtherFi, and $11 lost with RedotPay once its $18 cap kicks in
How much of your card's cashback actually reaches you?
A privacy-first DNS resolver just chose to leave an entire country rather than lie to its users.
Quad9 is shutting off its free DNS service in France on November 24, after a French court ordered it to block domains that BeIN Sports claimed were facilitating sports piracy.
Quad9 refused.
"We categorically refuse to alter or lie to you about the DNS responses you receive in a way that opposes your expectations."
The court had actually reduced the fine to just €1,000 per day. Quad9 still walked away. Because the real problem was not the fine. It was the precedent.
Complying would mean either applying French copyright law to Quad9's global DNS infrastructure, or using geo-blocking methods that Quad9 considers technically unreliable and ethically compromised. Either way, the integrity of the service breaks.
This is what it looks like when a privacy tool takes its mission seriously. Most services would have quietly blocked the domains and moved on. Quad9 chose to exit instead 👏
F@lse Fl@g cyber attack incoming so that they can bring the "solution" which will be a CBDC centralized programmable digital currency.
It's so f*cking obvious, what do they think people are stupid?
Crypto was meant to solve this by making these parasites obselete. End the fed. End the banks. Remove the middlement.
Instead we got a bunch of fiat-maxis begging for regulation.
No one should be keeping money in banks. Especially now. Not safe.
Self custody your funds. Use Monero. Use no-Kyc off-ramps. For your own safety.
Do you get it yet? Make your moves before these scumbags pull their next stunt.
⚠️ Bitcoin Core 32.0 arrive... il corrige une fuite que peu de gens ont vue
Si tu diffusais tes transactions via Tor avec l'option privatebroadcast, la connexion de secours pouvait sortir du proxy Tor
Ton adresse IP pouvait donc fuiter !
La version ajoute aussi des défenses contre la saturation des services onion, et prévoit d'abandonner l'ancien chiffrement d'I2P
La version est déjà taguée sur GitHub
L'annonce officielle est imminente...
Wer anfängt, seine persönliche Freiheit zu hinterfragen, hinterfragt zwangsläufig auch das Konstrukt Staat.
Wie viel Staat verträgt die Freiheit überhaupt?
Libertarismus, Anarchokapitalismus und andere Gesellschaftsmodelle bieten Antworten.
Schon mal davon gehört?
Why does everything a government touches turn to shit?
Every tax, regulation, and price control produces an economic consequence its architects either ignore or actively conceal from you.
Murray Rothbard's Power and Market, published in 1970, tears apart the intellectual cover governments use to justify intervention. Rothbard builds the case like this: no form of state interference improves on the voluntary exchange economy. Every intervention distorts prices, misallocates capital, and ultimately harms the very people the policy claimed to protect.
Take price ceilings. New York City imposed rent control in 1943 as a wartime emergency. Eight decades later, landlords still face legal caps on rents, and the city faces a perpetual housing shortage. Capping prices below market rates destroys the incentive to supply. Investors channel capital elsewhere, housing stock deteriorates, and you pay more for less under the table through bribes, key fees, and "finder's fees" to brokers.
Rothbard also categorizes interventions. Autistic intervention forces you to act or refrain without directly involving your property in exchange. Binary intervention forces an exchange between the state and a private party. Triangular intervention forces exchange between two private parties on state-dictated terms. The specificity matters because each category produces distinct distortions, and grouping them all as "regulation" lets politicians dodge accountability for the specific damage each one causes.
Then there is the calculation issue. Governments do not possess the price signals needed to allocate resources correctly. Mises already proved this in 1920, and Rothbard extends the argument: intervention actively destroys the information system that makes optimization possible in the first place.
Free market thinkers after Rothbard have added data, case studies, and formalized models. None have overturned the logic. Governments intervene, prices lie, and you bear the cost.
🚨🇷🇺🇪🇺 Putin calls Europe "schizophrenic":
"They are constantly talking about the threat from Russia and preparing for war with Russia, which, in my view, is a kind of political schizophrenia."
Housing crisis? Russia.
Economic problems? Russia.
Political failures? Russia again.
At some point, European leaders might have to take responsibility for their own countries...
Writer: Samuel
France is bankrupt and won't recover. So are Spain, Greece, and Italy, each with greater debts than their GDP. Germany is about to drop off.
After that, the EU is financially finished and can only survive as a war economy in hopes of defeating Russia to seize its cheap resources. More likely, the USA will do deals with Russia and the EU is finished altogether.
Europe can't afford not to continue the war with Russia. So when Zelenskiy calls on 9.5 million Ukrainians to return home to rebuild the country, he means to buy time to send them to the front lines next.
You'd be very stupid to go back to Ukraine if you care about your life.
🚨🐔 BRUXELLES VEUT FAIRE REVENIR LE POULET BRÉSILIEN EN EUROPE !
Les importations avaient été suspendues en septembre à cause de doutes sur le respect des règles sanitaires européennes.
Et maintenant, Bruxelles envisage de les réautoriser dès novembre !
La France et la Roumanie réclament encore des garanties. Et le Brésil fait aussi face à une maladie qui touche ses volailles !
Et malgré tout ça, Bruxelles envisage de rouvrir les portes au poulet brésilien !
L’Europe nous protège 😂
Ensemble on est plus forts🤡
Un vote est prévu les 16 et 17 novembre.
Source : Reuters, 21 octobre 2026.
#PouletBrésilien #SécuritéAlimentaire #Agriculture #UnionEuropéenne
✒️ EUROGENDFOR : LA POLICE SECRÈTE DE L'EUROPE QUE PERSONNE N'A ÉLUE.
Vous êtes-vous déjà demandé pourquoi rien de ce qui se passe dans les places d'Europe n'est le fruit du hasard ?
Paris en flammes, Berlin militarisée, Bruxelles, Rome, Londres. Partout la même scène : manifestations autorisées qui deviennent des pièges, infiltrés, matraques, arrestations préventives, fichages de masse.
Ce n'est pas du chaos. C'est un scénario.
Et l'UE veut nous imposer un contrôle total.
Et l'outil, ils l'ont déjà. Il s'appelle EUROGENDFOR.
QU'EST-CE QUE C'EST VRAIMENT ?
Il s'appelle European Gendarmerie Force. EGF.
Son siège est à Vicence, en Italie. Dans la caserne Chinotto.
Née en 2007. Opérationnelle depuis 2010.
Sept nations fondatrices :
Italie (Carabinieri), France (Gendarmerie), Espagne (Guardia Civil), Portugal, Pays-Bas, Roumanie, Pologne. Lituanie partenaire, Turquie observatrice.
Sur le papier, c'est une force de « gestion de crise » hors d'Europe.
Dans la réalité, c'est une force militaire aux pouvoirs de police, spécialisée dans le « contrôle des troubles civils ».
Le plus grave ?
Elle bénéficie d'une immunité totale.
Ses sièges sont inviolables.
Ses archives ne peuvent pas être contrôlées.
Ses membres jouissent d'une immunité diplomatique et ne peuvent pas être poursuivis par les tribunaux de l'État où ils opèrent.
Compris ? Une police étrangère, armée, qui peut entrer chez toi et qui ne répond à aucun juge, à aucun parlement, à aucun citoyen.
Qui l'a élue ? Personne.
Qui la contrôle ? Personne.
Qui en parle à la TV ? Personne.
POURQUOI MAINTENANT ?
Parce que l'Union européenne le sait : le projet s'effondre.
L'euro, les sanctions suicidaires, l'austérité, l'immigration incontrôlée, la guerre voulue en Ukraine. Les gens se sont réveillés.
Et quand les gens se réveillent et descendent dans la rue, la démocratie ne suffit plus à les contenir. Il faut le casque.
EUROGENDFOR n'a pas été créée pour aller en Afghanistan. Elle a été créée pour Paris, pour Berlin, pour Rome. Pour quand nous, Européens, dirons STOP.
C'est la police secrète de l'UE.
Le bras armé du Grand Reset. Ceux qui devront « rétablir l'ordre » quand ils imposeront l'identité numérique, la CBDC, les passes, les rationnements et un contrôle social total.
D'abord, ils te désarment médiatiquement, en t'appelant no-vax, no-war, complotiste.
Ensuite, ils te fichent.
Ensuite, ils t'envoient ceux de Vicence.
Ce n'est pas de la sécurité.
C'est une dictature en uniforme.
Et nous, nous dormons.
Analyse réalisée par @itsmeback_
There will be no ceasefire, no freeze - and no European "peacekeepers" in Ukraine. The war will continue until Ukraine surrenders and NATO is humiliated. After the Minsk betrayal, Putin learned he can't trust the West:
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
To buy time to build up Ukraine's army, Merkel admitted that NATO and #Ukraine never intended to honor the Minsk accords. Now, as Russia is advancing into its historical territories, the Eurocrats say Russia must agree to a ceasefire and a freeze. Russian response: "Nyet means Nyet."
#UkraineWatch🇺🇦: Kyiv’s legislators are among the MOST CORRUPT in the world
They rank 141st out of 143 countries for legislators using public office for private gain, according to the newly released @TheWJP 2026 Rule of Law Index.
UKRAINE GOVERNMENT = CORRUPTION AND CHAOS.
🇺🇦 Ukraine just got a NATO shopping card.
Kyiv can now buy weapons, ammo and military gear through NATO’s central procurement agency, which could mean faster deliveries and bulk prices instead of haggling country by country.
Need 30,000 uniforms? Ukraine just tells NATO, and the agency goes and buys them.
Ukraine’s relationship with Washington is at its lowest point since the Oval Office blowup, and Trump’s envoy was in St. Petersburg yesterday talking peace with Putin, so the timing is definitely interesting.
When one ally stops picking up the phone, you find a wholesale club.
Source: FT / Writer: Julie