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Without music, life would be a mistake

[Geert Noels @GeertNoels]

Veel mensen die me aanspreken denken dat "de sterke schouders" de anderen zijn.
In België betaal je echter al vanaf 4700 euro/maand (brutoloon) 50% (+gemeentetaks).
In Nederland vanaf 6500 euro.
In de meeste landen betaal je nooit meer dan 50% belastingen. En zo hoort het ook.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Trump asked the people to vote as if he were on the ballot. THEY DID. Thank you Americans from coast to coast.

[Ellen Vermorgen @elvermo]

Onderhandelaars twisten blijkbaar of men vanaf 2de of 3de woning extra belast moet worden

Aandelenbelegger ontmoet fiscus al vanaf EERSTE kleine aankoop

(Géén pleidooi vr meer taksen; wel veelzeggend over behandeling in 🇧🇪 v kleine belegger tov eigenaars vastgoedpatrimonium)

[VRT NWS @vrtnws]

Duitsland legt pensioenfundament voor elk kind: overheid stort maandelijks geld op spaarrekening https://t.co/raa6MWyDKT

[Ellen Vermorgen @elvermo]

pov passieve beleggers die toekijken hoe fondsbeheerders een delta hedged factor neutral tail risk protected cross-asset framework optuigen

[Michel Maus @MausMichel]

“Mocht prijs van de dienstencheques geïndexeerd zijn geweest dan was de prijs nu 12,5€” volgens de Vlaamse regering.

Mocht men de belastingschijven van de erfbelasting hebben geïndexeerd, dan betaalden we nu pas 27% vanaf 450.000€ ipv zoals nu vanaf 250.000€.

https://t.co/6CmxQr3Wan

[Ellen Vermorgen @elvermo]

#2️⃣1️⃣🎧

Ik denk tot dusver onze hoogste ranking in de CIM-cijfers

De beurs van de niche naar de mainstream, waar ze thuishoort 😘📈

[Ellen Vermorgen @elvermo]

'The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights'

RIP Gloria Steinem 💖

[Medi @Medi014]

50 jaar Rough Trade: ‘Het is een mythe dat bands geen labels meer nodig hebben’
https://t.co/jZGs5GWw7x

[Medi @Medi014]

Stop destroying EU micro-businesses: Immediate moratorium on cross-border EPR fees - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/aRQg5dLt61 via @Change

[Ellen Vermorgen @elvermo]

The game they love is run by an institution corrupted to its core

FIFA, you don’t govern football, you disgrace it

[Medi @Medi014]

Rettet das Cassiopeia – Räumung stoppen, Kulturstandort RAW-Gelände erhalten - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/6lWIaRkwHb via @Change

[Medi @Medi014]

https://t.co/PCt4hlzSY5

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

If you keep raising the height higher and higher, eventually... 😂

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

“Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them.”

Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.

[Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman]

Riveting, extraordinary and brutally honest speech by Mark Carney, Canada's prime minister. God, I wish we would have European leaders like this.

Here's an excerpt:

In 1978, the Czech dissident Václav Havel, later president, wrote an essay called “The Power of the Powerless,” and in it he asked a simple question: how did the communist system sustain itself?

And his answer began with a greengrocer.

Every morning, the shopkeeper places a sign in his window: “Workers of the world unite.” He doesn’t believe in it. No one does. But he places the sign anyway to avoid trouble, to signal compliance, to get along. And because every shopkeeper on every street does the same, the system persists — not through violence alone, but through the participation of ordinary people in rituals they privately know to be false.

Havel called this living within a lie. The system’s power comes not from its truth, but from everyone’s willingness to perform as if it were true. And its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack.

Friends, it is time for companies and countries to take their signs down.

For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the rules-based international order. We join its institutions, we praised its principles, we benefited from its predictability. And because of that, we could pursue values-based foreign policies under its protection.

We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, and we knew that international law applied with varied rigor, depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.

This fiction was useful, and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.

So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality.

This bargain no longer works.

Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.

Read/listen in full: https://t.co/1Cxm0Kxz7a

[Medi @Medi014]

Beursrally | Meerwaarde gezocht
https://t.co/Hh0Tkjpqko

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Sadly brilliant cartoon.

[Ria Laenen @rialana]

Ik weet, het is veel: Venezuela, Groenland, Oekraïne, ...maar wat in Iran gebeurt, verdient echt wel meer aandacht. Het regime van de ayatollahs wankelt zoals nooit tevoren sinds 1979. Er zijn al eerder protesten geweest in het verleden maar van deze omvang waren die nog nooit.