René .｡.:*🥀 🇵🇸 Siempre Tw 🐦

Gritamos, berreamos, moqueamos, chillamos, maldecimos, porque es mejor llorar que traicionar, porque es mejor llorar que traicionarse (M. Benedetti)

[Valy 🎩🎭 @liderfiscal]

Los archivos de Epstein, olvidados por la guerra entre EE. UU.-Israel-Irán, vuelven a ser tendencia en las redes sociales

¿Nos ayudas con el #RTMasivo?

#TrumpEpsteinPedoCoverUp

[Javier Echeverría @JEcheverriZ]

“Gaza ha ardido esta noche.

El genocidio continúa... para quien aún le importe.”

[Javier Espinosa @javierespinosa2]

Israel alcanza su cénit de ocupación de territorio en cuatro décadas. El ejército ha ganado el control de unos 1.000 kilómetros cuadrados en Líbano, Siria y Gaza desde 2023 https://t.co/GJqZQnzSf0

[Alexander Stahel 🌻 @BurggrabenH]

I doubt the barefoot hike. I'm no fan of the Christopher Columbus complex, and I happen to admire elites who develop a country rather than exploit one. So let me explain what is actually going on here.

I did, among others, property across Eastern Europe during my years at Babcock & Brown, and I spent the better part of a decade fighting a court case in Romania against people who tried to defraud my land title. I won. And here is the lesson I paid for: the one thing that separates an investable Eastern Europe from an uninvestable one is European Union membership. It is the guardian of the rule of law in an otherwise wild East, the easiest place in the world to lose your money.

That is the lens through which I read what is happening on Sazan Island.

You see, there was a time when Western elites saw themselves as custodians of institutions, rules and the places they touched. That instinct is fading. What remains too often is the Columbus reflex: arrive by yacht, "discover" land that people already know perfectly well, and treat the rules as obstacles reserved for everyone else. And then have the wisdom to go on camera and brag about it. Jesus. No wonder Albanians are now on the streets in their thousands.

"We were on a friend's boat and stopped for a swim. That's how we found it. We swam to the island. We went on a hike, barefoot all the way up to the top, and we were just captivated."

What she "found" has been there for millions of years, in the Adriatic, not "the Mediterranean." It has a name. Sazan Island sits where the Adriatic meets the Ionian: a former military base, Italian and then Cold War, including a Soviet submarine base, inside a protected national marine park that has been open to the public since 2017 via boat tour from Vlorë. An island crawling with snakes, including the nose-horned viper, Europe's most venomous. So much for the barefoot hike.

Nothing was discovered, and nothing justifies any entitlement. Quite the contrary.

What actually happened is that Jared Kushner set out to cash in on his father-in-law's temporary power as President of the United States. That status means precisely nothing in Switzerland, with its seven centuries of direct democracy and institutions no outsider can buy. But it means everything to a weak man like Albania's prime minister, Edi Rama, cornered at home, courting Washington, and now under criminal investigation for how his government handed this deal away. Kushner understands that asymmetry perfectly. And he wants to exploit it. Period.

In Albania, he can. Albania is chronically bureaucratic, the long tail of its communist heritage, a home-grown Stalinism so absolute it broke even with Moscow and sealed the country off from the world. That legacy is the same one that ran, and still runs at times, from Sarajevo to Tirana, from Bucharest to Belgrade: decades of one-party rule that hollowed out the courts, the press and property itself, and left a vacuum filled by the personalised, strongman power of a connected few. It is the soil in which corruption flourishes, and Albania's greatest vulnerability.

And on that soil, in one of Europe's poorest countries, the island's protected status was suddenly changed in December 2024, in the weeks between Trump's election victory and his inauguration. Just like that. The public-tender rule was bypassed. "Strategic Investor" status went to a Kushner-linked SPV before the inauguration: no business plan, no feasibility study. Wonderful. Because Ivanka "discovered it". Right? Wrong.

A country vulnerability like that can be met in two ways. A responsible investor sticks to the rules and ties his fortunes to the country's long-term development, because that is what makes returns durable in the first place. And that will take a lot of time and upfront investment, with a highly uncertain reward. That's called risk-taking.

A powerful one, on the other hand, willing to bend the rules, as this deal suggests the Trump family is content to do, sees only something to exploit.

The subsequent damage runs far deeper and longer than a few harmless bungalows built without a proper concession. What is happening here is that Kushner is becoming part of the problem that corrodes Albania's path into the European Union. That is the real issue here. Just like the issue when JD Vance travelled to Europe and openly campaigned for illiberal politicians while lecturing Europeans about democracy. Who do these people think they are? Guardians of democracy?

Consider what the Albanian path actually looks like right now. The Balkans, like much of post-communist Europe, are chronically corrupt. But they are also full of people fighting to turn their countries toward something better, and EU accession is the single most powerful tool they have. It forces the one thing that actually develops a country: predictable rules, secure property, contracts that hold, and the credible belief that the same rules apply to everyone.

That belief is what brought the great wave of investment into Poland. Its absence is why Romania and Bulgaria remained under special monitoring for years after accession. The rule of law that eventually held in that Bucharest courtroom, and saved me, exists because membership forced it into being. Brussels learned the lesson. Today enlargement runs on a "fundamentals first" basis.

Which is exactly where Albania stands.

Last month it became only the second candidate after Montenegro to clear those rule-of-law benchmarks, with the EU's own enlargement commissioner describing SPAK, the very prosecutor now investigating this deal, as the country's "most trusted institution." The concession lands squarely on the chapters that decide membership: the judiciary, justice and public procurement. So this is not a side issue to Albania's European future. It is a direct test of it.

And that is why this does not help. It does the opposite. A single family connected to the presidency of the United States showing that the rules bend on demand corrodes the one asset a poor country cannot afford to lose: the belief, hard-won and easily lost, that the rules are real.

Then those same people have the chutzpah to complain about corruption in Eastern Europe and lecture the world about American exceptionalism. It is all so deeply wrong. And make no mistake, it erodes our democracies too, ever so slightly.

The thousands in the streets of Tirana understand all of this instinctively. They are not protesting a resort. They are defending the only thing that gives their country a future and hope: the rule of law applied equally to all.

And make no mistake about who the brave ones are. They are not on a yacht. They are on the street of Tirana and inside SPAK, because in Albania, stepping on the toes of the powerful is done in the knowledge that the danger is real. Confronting entrenched corruption in the Balkans has cost prosecutors, judges and journalists their their lives. That is the issue here, ladies and gentlemen!

I doubt Ivanka loses any sleep over any of this. Her concern is closing the deal while her father remains in office. And on a timeline that tight, a public tender, one they may well have won fairly, becomes an inconvenience rather than a safeguard.

That is the difference between a custodian of capitalism and democracy like Warren Buffett and the late Charlie Munger and a primitive land-grabber without any moral compass and integrity.

[Cultura Inquieta @culturainquieta]

El placer de no hacer nada, la capacidad de desacelerar y apreciar la vida sin culpa, de estar presente en el aquí y el ahora. 🌊 ☀️

📹: Un vídeo de Leen Lakkis

🎧: A Summer Place‘, por Billy Vaughn and his Orchestra

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Betore Rome, there was Carthage. Before Carthage, there was Tyre.

What you see in this image are not merely ordinary columns; they are the historical columns of Tyre in southern Lebanon are iconic Roman architectural remains. They are part of an ancient Phoenician city-state that is now a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Israel is currently demolishing Tyre—a city more than 5,000 years old. Europe, Princess of Tyre, gave her name to those who, today, let her city be destroyed without saying a word.

We are watching history beirg erased in real time by Israel.

[Shefqet Fejzo🇦🇱 @ShefqetFejzo11]

#albaniaisnotforsale

Brussels, Belgium today🇦🇱❤️

[BMcArthur @bmcarthur20]

I stand with the people of Albania. Stop Jared Kushner and Ivanka from building a $1.4 billion resort and threatening the environment.

WATCH:

#DemsUnited

[René .｡.:*🥀 🇵🇸 Siempre Tw 🐦 @RenePerle]

¡El poder del pueblo!

La revolución de los flamencos. 🦩🦩❤️🌿

[╰┈➤ 🇮🇪 Brònzy 🇮🇪 @BronzyGuevara]

Albania has officially drawn the
line, Sazan 'lsland is being cleared. In an stunning turn of events, Albanian authorities have
launched an active enforcement operation to kick
out foreign developers and private security
personnel occupying Sazan Island. The decisive
action marks a total collapse of the controversial €1.4 billion luxury real estate deal that aimed to turn the protected national marine reserve and
former military base into an exclusive private playground for global elites,
The eviction comes after four consecutive weeks of historic
hundred-thousand-strong protests that completely
shut down the capital city of Tirana, refusing to allow their native coastlines and ecologically sensitive wetlands to be privatized by foreign
investors, the Albanian public unified under a
single, unyielding demand: "Albania is not for sale, the courts faced with a historic political crisis, mounting
domestic fury, and a widening anti-corruption
investigation by special prosecutors (SPAK), the
government was forced to pivot, by deploying state forces to reclaim Sazan lsland, Albania has
sent a clear message to international billionaires
and foreign developers trying to bypass environmental protection laws, This historic victory for citizen-led activism proves that the collective voice of a nation can successfully overpower backroom corporate deals and protect sovereign land.
The people spoke, and the
government had to listen.

[Javier Echeverría @JEcheverriZ]

“Albania ha marcado oficialmente el límite: la isla de Sazan está siendo desalojada. En un giro inesperado, las autoridades albanesas han puesto en marcha una operación para expulsar a los promotores inmobiliarios extranjeros y al personal de seguridad privada que ocupan la isla de Sazan…

El desalojo se produce tras cuatro semanas consecutivas de protestas históricas con cientos de miles de personas que paralizaron por completo la capital, Tirana, negándose a permitir que sus costas y humedales, de gran valor ecológico, fueran privatizados por inversores extranjeros.

El pueblo albanés, unido bajo una única e inquebrantable exigencia: «Albania no está en venta», se enfrentó a una crisis política histórica, a la creciente indignación popular y a una investigación anticorrupción cada vez más amplia llevada a cabo por la Fiscalía Especial (SPAK). EL GOBIERNO SE VIO OBLIGADO A CAMBIAR DE ESTRATEGIA, DESPLEGANDO FUERZAS ESTATALES PARA RECUPERAR LA ISLA DE SAZAN.

Albania ha enviado un claro mensaje a los multimillonarios internacionales y a los promotores extranjeros que intentan eludir las leyes de protección ambiental. Esta histórica victoria del activismo ciudadano demuestra que la voz colectiva de una nación puede imponerse con éxito a los acuerdos corporativos secretos y proteger el territorio soberano. El pueblo habló y el gobierno tuvo que escuchar.”

[Javier Echeverría @JEcheverriZ]

“Los griegos están siendo presionados igual que los albaneses.

Un fondo de inversión israelí está privatizando agresivamente 200 hectáreas de la playa occidental de Kalamata, cercando la costa pública para construir viviendas.

Quieren crear futuras colonias.”

EEUU e Israel han comenzado a colonizar Europa.

[Javier Bauluz @javierbauluz]

El médico encarcelado Hussam Abu Safiya envió un mensaje pidiendo contactar al periodista Anas Al-Sharif para que las voces y el sufrimiento de los prisioneros pudieran transmitirse al mundo, sin saber que Anas ya había sido asesinado hace meses… 👇👇👇👇

[Javier Espinosa @javierespinosa2]

Dos muertos y casi un decena de heridos en un nuevo ataque de Israel contra Beirut. Netanyahu está empeñado en mantener su guerra perpetua y sigue insistiendo para sabotear cualquier pacto entre Irán y EEUU

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Incredible Albanian people.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Thank you President 🇸🇮.
Palestine is the moral compass of our time.
From Spain to Slovenia there is hope for Europe. A Europe that puts people above banks and markets, rights above profits, and respects int'l law regardless of political calculus.

[Juan Pina @JuanPina]

Albania era el país más proamericano y atlantista de Europa. Hasta eso ha destruido el trumpismo.

[serbestiyet @serbestiyetweb]

Arnavutluk’ta “Flamingo Devrimi” protestoları 7. gününde

🔺Tiran’da Ivanka Trump ve Jared Kushner’in 2 milyar dolarlık lüks tatil köyü projesine karşı protestolar büyüyor.

🔺Projenin flamingoların yaşadığı koruma altındaki lagünleri ve kıyı ekosistemi tehdit ettiği için flamingolar, protestoların simgesine dönüştü.

🔺Projeyle ilgili yolsuzluk soruşturması başlatılmıştı.

🔺Arnavutluk basınında çıkan son iddialara göre Kushner’in şirketi yatırımdan çekilmeyi değerlendiriyor

https://t.co/fLjPrZ3cwo

[Javier Bauluz @javierbauluz]

Israel acaba de asesinar a Ali en el sur de Líbano. No era un combatiente. No estaba armado
Ali era enfermero. Lo cazaron con un dron y lo ejecutaron se dirigía a su trabajo en el hospital Hiram en Tiro. Israel no apuntan a combatientes
Está apuntan a personas que salvan vidas

[Julián Casanova @CasanovaHistory]

'España partida en dos': una Guerra Civil de viñeta y rigor https://t.co/yUToBQ4qHs via @elindepcom