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[Igor Prsa Diem25 🍉 @IgorPrsa]

@SpelaNovak Suunto 9 https://t.co/LpM7sqPTPC

[Igor Prsa Diem25 🍉 @IgorPrsa]

@SpelaNovak Suunto ima par modelov

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

I recently heard a leading public figure claim that high-income countries need more GDP growth in order to increase innovation in things like renewables, EVs, and life-saving medicine.

This makes little sense:

Why do we need to increase *aggregate* production, indiscriminately, from an already very high level, in order to get these specific innovations? Why do we need continued growth in fast fashion and industrial beef in order to innovate better energy systems and medicines?

We don't. This is massively inefficient and unnecessary. Instead, we can use industrial policy and public finance to target necessary innovations directly.

And this does not require high-income countries to achieve even higher levels of GDP. It can be done right now.

Look at China. China has led major innovations in exactly these technologies - renewables, EVs and life-saving medicines, as well high-speed rail, aerospace engineering, microchips etc - with a GDP per capita that is 70% less than that of the US. How? By leveraging industrial policy and public finance.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

I spoke yesterday in Paris about how socialist policy can enable us to overcome social deprivation and ecological crisis, by aligning investment and production with democratically determined objectives.

I noticed that some people assume socialism necessarily means 100% public ownership, but this is not the case. Yes, for many important reasons, we need public ownership of public services, utilities and the commanding heights, and yes we need a public finance system, industrial policy and credit guidance...

But there's no reason we cannot have private firms producing consumer goods like watches, beer, etc - the key is that they should be democratically owned and managed, by workers or communities empowered to determine the objectives of investment and production.

We know that when people have democratic control over production they are more likely to align it with social and ecological needs.

Socialism is ultimately about economic democracy: extending the principle of democracy into the realm of production. Cooperatives are an important step in this direction.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The imperial core has gained $15 trillion through exorbitant privilege since 1970, getting higher returns on foreign assets than what they pay on foreign debt. This privilege is financed by transfers from the global South, outstripping aid flows many times over.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Three years ago we started a new ERC-funded project called REAL, with three teams of brilliant researchers. Here are ten exciting papers involving my team that we've published so far, so you can see what we've been up to. And there's more to come... stay tuned! 🧵

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

IN PRAISE OF FRANCESCA ALBANESE

There is a question that visits me in the small hours, when sleep will not come and the mind turns over old stones. The question is this: “What would I have done in the 1930s, on the morning after Kristallnacht?"

Not what I say I would have done. Not what I hope I would have done. But what would I actually have done—when the trains began to run, when the neighbours grew quiet, when the cost of decency became the loss of everything?

Most of us, I think, would have done little. Not from malice. From fear. From the soft, creeping conviction that someone else will speak, that the situation is complex, that we must be 'reasonable'. Lest we forget, the ordinary is the extraordinary's alibi. And how we have clung to that alibi! How we still cling to it!

And then, every once in a terrible while, someone appears who does not cling. Someone who steps forward when others step back. Someone who speaks the name of the thing when everyone else is busy naming something else.

Francesca Albanese is that someone.

She stands before the world—alone, unarmed, armed only with law and language and a rare courage—and she says what the centrists will not say, what the foreign ministries will not say, what the editorial boards will not say. She says: "This is a genocide. And we are watching it happen."

Do not tell me that is hyperbole. Do not tell me the term is contested. She has not used it lightly. She has used it as a physician arrives scientifically at a diagnosis—not to wound, but to warn. Not to inflame, but to name.

And for that, they have come for her. Oh, how they have come for her. Smears. Investigations. Vicious editorials. Frozen bank accounts. Dispossession of the only apartment she had ever owned. The machinery of the respectable turned to crush her. Because the respectable cannot abide what she represents: a mirror held up to their complicity.

Let us, once again, travel back to the 1930s. Back to the few who stood up when the trains began to run laden with Jewish people.

There was Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese consul in Bordeaux. He defied his own government. He signed thousands of visas, by hand, for hours, until his fingers bled. He saved more lives than Schindler. And he died penniless, disgraced, erased.

There was a German officer in Warsaw named Wilm Hosenfeld. He hid a Jewish pianist in the rubble. He did not save thousands. He saved one. But that one—Władysław Szpilman—carried the memory. And memory is "the only haven from which we cannot be expelled."

There was Raoul Wallenberg. There were the villagers of Le Chambon. There were the anonymous, the quiet, the furious few who said: “Not on my watch.”

Francesca Albanese is their heir. Not because she carries a gun. Not because she hides refugees in her basement. But because she does something equally dangerous in a world that has perfected the art of not seeing. She sees. And she speaks.

She does not speak as a diplomat. Thank Goodness she doesn't! Diplomats have given us the language of "there are arguments on both sides" and "restraint" and "proportionality." Diplomatic language is the perfumed grave of moral clarity. No, she speaks as a jurist. As a human being. As a woman who has looked into the abyss and refused to call it a "complex geopolitical landscape".

Edna O'Brien once described a character who "had the recklessness of those who have already lost everything worth losing." Francesca Albanese has not lost everything. She has her dignity, her office, her voice, her family. But she has calculated the cost of speaking truth to power. And she has decided that that cost is infinitely less than the cost of silence.

What is that cost? Let us name it. She has been called antisemitic—she, who stands on the ground of international law forged in the ashes of Auschwitz and the fires of Nuremberg. She has been called a conspiracy theorist—she, who cites every source, every footnote, every UN resolution. She has been called naive—she, who understands better than most the machinery of realpolitik.

These accusations are not arguments. They are the spittle of the threatened. Because Francesca Albanese threatens something very precious to the powerful: the right to commit atrocity without being named.

Friends, the 1930s did not arrive with jackboots and pogroms on day one. They arrived in small increments. With "reasonable" restrictions. With "proportional" measures. With the silence of the respectable.

We tell ourselves that we would have been different. That we would have been Sousa Mendes. That we would have been Wallenberg. But most of us, I fear, would have been the neighbours who later said, "I didn't know."

Francesca Albanese knows. And she refuses to pretend otherwise.

So let us praise her. Not with statues or awards she does not seek. But with something harder: with our own refusal to look away. With our own voices, raised in places that are safe for us but dangerous for her. With our own bodies, if it comes to that.

A brave woman, who was injured while demonstrating outside a US nuclear military base in 1982, the infamous Greenham Common, had told me that "the heart is a hunter for what it cannot have." But I say the heart is a hunter for what it will not lose. And what we will not lose is the memory of those who stood up when standing up cost everything.

Francesca Albanese is standing up now. In our time. In our name. Under our indifferent sky.

Let us stand with her.

Not tomorrow. Not when it is safe. Now.

[Extract from a speech in Athens on Sunday 3rd May 2026]

[Levica @strankalevica]

Pri interventnem zakonu desnice ni nobenega razvoja. Dovolj je pogledati, kdo bo imel koristi in kam bo šel denar.

🏢 Znižanje dohodnine na oddajanje premoženja v najem in sprostitev airbnbja koristi lastnikom najemniških nepremičnin, torej morda petim, največ desetim odstotkom prebivalcev. Najemnine se zaradi teh ukrepov ne bodo znižale. Gre za transfer iz javnih financ – torej od uporabnikov javnih storitev - družin s šolajočimi se otroki, študentov, upokojencev, obolelih, policije, gasilcev - k najemodajalcem.

🛒 Tudi od znižanja davka na dodano vrednost za osnovna živila najbrž ne bo imel prav nič, saj se bo nižji davek prelil v višje marže trgovcev. Na to kaže nedavna praksa v Sloveniji in na Hrvaškem.

💰 Omejitev višine prispevkov za prejemnike plač nad 7.500 evrov bruto, evfemistično imenovana "razvojna" kapica, koristi približno enemu odstotku prejemnikov najvišjih plač. Torej gre za transfer od omenjenih skupin k tej skupini.

🏥 Tudi s tem, da bodo zdravniki iz javnega zdravstva lahko delali pri zasebnikih prek s.p.-jev, delavec ne pridobi nič; kvečjemu bo to oslabilo javno zdravstvo, zaradi česar je verjetneje, da bo delavec nekoč za zdravstveno storitev moral doplačati. Omogoči pa višje zaslužke v zasebnem zdravstvu; torej je tudi tu transfer jasen.

🏭 Samodejna prekinitev delovnega razmerja ob izpolnitvi upokojitvenih pogojev ter možnost »polnega dvojnega statusa« upokojenca mu bosta težko prinesla koristi, saj prav tovarniški delavec najteže dela tudi po izpolnitvi upokojitvenih pogojev. In določbe glede samozaposlenih zanj ne veljajo.

‼️Po drugi strani so glede na pričakovano javnofinančno škodo zelo verjetni rezi v pravice, ki jih ta delavec zdaj uživa zaradi svojega nizkega dohodka.

Igor Feketija

[DiEM25 @DiEM_25]

Thiago Ávila and all of the activists abducted by the genocidal state of Israel but must be freed immediately.

It is absolutely disgusting that our European politicians remain silent on this.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

BREAKING: The Israeli naval vessel that abducted the 180 Sumud Flotilla crews off the coast of Crete (an act of piracy and a gross violation of the Law of the Sea) is intend on victimising two of them: Saif Abukeshek, a Spanish citizen of Palestinian origin, and Thiago Ávila, a Brazilian citizen who has distinguished himself with repeated attempts to break the illegal, genocidal, Israeli blockage of Gaza.

Unlike the remaining abducted members of the Sumud Flotilla crew, which the Israeli navy disembarked in Crete, Saif and Thiago are detained and bound for an Israeli prison. This is a double violation of International Law: First, Israel abducted them illegally at sea. Second, Israel is now transporting them, violently, illegally, to one of its notorious prisons.

Meanwhile, the Greek government is cooperating fully in Israel’s criminal behaviour, effectively surrendering its search and rescue obligations and conniving with Israel to victimise the brave crews of the Sumud Flotilla who are steadfastly, through their activism, defending International Law as well as the verdict of the International Court of Justice which has clearly and unequivocally declared Israel’s continued naval blockade of Gaza and its occupation of the Palestinian territories illegal.

Through their complicity and their silence, the Greek government, the European Union, the mainstream media, the West more generally, are flouting, indeed they are trashing, their supposed, much publicised, ‘Western values’. Let us all demand:

· The immediate release of Saif and Thiago
· An end to Israel’s criminal behaviour in international waters
· The termination of Israel’s illegal Gaza blockade
· That the Greek government and the European Union cease and desist from lending logistical and moral support to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its ethnic cleansing campaigns in E. Jerusalem and the West Bank

[Reframe @AJReframe]

"A study [by] the Lancet Global Health that found that since 1971, unilateral sanctions imposed by the US and the EU on the Global South countries have killed 38 million people." – @jasonhickel

Watch the full episode @VarshaGandikota ⤵️
https://t.co/E0x7q27zYU

[Brigita Skela Savič @BSkelaSavic]

Želeli ste, podatki OECD, iščite naprej, gradiva je dovolj. Res je, zasebniki so bolj prijazni in si vzamejo več časa kot v JZ. Pri nas zasebniki delujejo, ker si pomagajo s kadri iz JZ. Če ni ČV v JZ, ni potreb po zasebnikih, svoje prispeva še ZZZS. https://t.co/x0SM6yQxk8

[Nicola Perugini @PeruginiNic]

Almost 800.000 signatures: “EU citizens cannot tolerate that the EU maintains an agreement that contributes to legitimize and finance a State that commits crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement.” https://t.co/k917AsC3aN

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

For people in Europe, one of the most important objectives for political mobilisation now is to remove the US military bases. They are a menace to humanity, they are a threat to popular sovereignty, and every one of them must be closed.

[Save Our Citizenships @LetsStopC9]

Western “democracies” are not addicted to war by accident. Capitalism requires empire: cheap labour, cheap land, cheap lives. When the Global South seeks sovereignty, it is bombed back into affordability. This is not foreign policy failure, it is the system functioning as designed.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Sanchez is correct in refusing to allow the US to use joint military bases to carry out their war crimes against the people of Iran. He demonstrates real spine here, and models leadership to the rest of Europe.

He is also correct to reject increased spending on NATO, which only enriches US military contractors, increases US power, and deepens European dependency. NATO spending does *not* help the people of Europe, it helps the US military industrial complex.

But he should go further. Spain, and all other sane European governments, should shut down the US military bases altogether, and withdraw from NATO.

NATO is not a "defense" alliance. It is a platform for the projection of US imperial power into Asia and Africa. This is fundamentally *not* in the interests of the European people, not in the interests of the rest of the world, and should not be tolerated.

[Igor Prsa Diem25 🍉 @IgorPrsa]

@Centrifuzija @marjamilic @megafotr @PKladnik @seba1337 @petrasovdat Accumulating etf, pa ni nobenega dela z vlaganjem.

[Leeloo @Leeloo_feminist]

Korupcija nam je u genetskom kodu. Niko ne voli da čeka red, svuda da ima neku vezu, ako moze peticu a da ne uči i posao gde ništa ne radi. Da li smo mi kao drustvo za uredjen sistem ili za sistem gde imamo nekog svog?