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«L’argent, c’est de la liberté frappée. » / « Money is minted freedom. » // Fiodor Dostoïevski about crypto

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.

Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.

It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.

[Marion Maréchal @MarionMarechal]

Au lycée Jean-Renoir de Bondy, couve depuis quelques semaines une nouvelle affaire Paty.

Cette fois, le mobile n’est pas l’islamophobie imaginaire, mais une CPE qui se serait inquiétée qu’un groupe d’élèves d’origine africaine persécute des jeunes filles blanches en les accusant d’être responsables de… l’esclavage !

Voilà qui paye la rhétorique de repentance et de culpabilisation des Français de souche : des milliers de petits Gaulois innocents, victimes de racisme anti-Blancs. Le tout alimenté et récupéré par des députés LFI.

Et le pire, dans cette affaire qui éclate au grand jour alors même que le film L’Abandon est en salle : c’est la CPE qui a été suspendue ! Aucune leçon n’a donc été retenue par les académies scolaires.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

It always astonishes me how there is virtually ZERO public debate - or even public awareness - in Europe about the decisions that will most shape ordinary people's lives.

These days, the EU is drafting a new anti-China legal framework where - quite literally - the more affordable and competitive Chinese products are, the more illegal they'd become.

You'd think EU citizens would want to be informed about such things - as it couldn't be more consequential for their prosperity.

Yet I bet virtually no EU citizen is even aware of it, beyond a vague sense that there is some sort of trade dispute going on.

So what's going on exactly? It all centers around a new legal instrument the EU is drafting called the "overcapacity instrument" (https://t.co/mNpCMudYyS).

First of all, the very notion of "overcapacity" is pretty ridiculous to begin with, especially the way it's being defined by the EU, as it basically means being competitive enough to export.

By this definition of "overcapacity," pretty much every European industry that's ever run a trade surplus - German cars, French wine, Italian fashion - has been guilty of "overcapacity."

I'm not even exaggerating: if you read this study by the EU Parliament on "Industrial overcapacities, with a focus on China" (https://t.co/TcwEBoL8mD), they define "overcapacity" as building more capacity than your domestic market can absorb. So the moment you build capacity to export abroad, you're in "overcapacity."

Utterly ridiculous.

And what this "overcapacity instrument" is about is creating a permanent legal mechanism for the EU to block Chinese competition across whole sectors of the economy, if they happen to be in "overcapacity."

In effect, this means that if China is competitive globally in a given sector in such a way that it exports a lot, that's proof of overcapacity, and legally it'd mean that the entire sector can be restricted from the EU market.

Which means it really, factually, is a legal framework where the more affordable and competitive your products are, the more illegal they become.

Which is a CRAZY economic concept! 🤦‍♂️

Please note that it's different from the anti-subsidy legal instrument, which the EU has already put in place in 2023 (the "Foreign Subsidies Regulation": https://t.co/SvPKFyN0zo).

This "overcapacity instrument" would be above and beyond this: it wouldn't even matter if a particular sector was subsidized by the Chinese government or not, the mere fact of its competitiveness in exports would be grounds for restrictions in the EU.

It doesn't take a genius to understand how badly this could impact everyday people: this is European consumers being forced to pay more for worse products by law, so that uncompetitive European firms don't have to improve.

Politicians frame it as avoiding a "China shock 2.0" but really this is choosing an even steeper self-inflicted decline than is already the case, where EU citizens would subsidize mediocre EU companies that would have even less pressure to catch up. It's a hidden tax: subsidies for uncompetitive firms paid by consumers instead of governments, which in turn makes them less incentivized to become competitive.

The first "China shock" did de-industrialize Europe somewhat, but at least it made things cheaper for European consumers. If this becomes Europe's response to a second "China shock" not only it'd make everything more expensive but it'd do nothing for EU industry: you don't become competitive by banning the competition...

Look at China itself: the way it industrialized was NOT by banning Western firms but on the contrary by welcoming them strategically and learning from them. You learn to compete by... competing, duh!

What I find most shocking in all of this isn't even the policy itself - you can make arguments for and against protectionism, and reasonable people can disagree.

What's shocking is that virtually no European media outlet is explaining any of this to the public. This is unarguably one of the single most consequential economic decisions the EU will make this decade, affecting the price of everything, and it's being drafted in near-total silence.

No newspaper is running the headline "EU plans to make Chinese goods illegal if they're too affordable" - even though that's essentially what's happening.

But that's what you call a "democracy" with "freedom of expression" these days apparently...

[Régis Le Sommier @LeSommierRgis]

On verra ce soir, a l’issue du match, quel sera l’état de nos rues, combien d’interpellations, combien de policiers blessés. Ajoutons le climat sécuritaire, la progression exponentielle du trafic de drogue, la pauvreté, l’illettrisme qui gagne du terrain, l’immigration toujours pas stoppée.

Oui on peut dire qu’il est minuit moins une pour la France et pour l’Europe, et Poutine n’a rien à voir là-dedans…

[Rina Lu🇷🇺 @rinalu_]

Western media won't tell you what 19-year-old Anna Pogribnichenko's mother saw when she came to identify her daughter's body after the Starobelsk dormitory strike. So I will.

Anna did not die under the rubble.

"She ran outside and ended up directly in the flames," her cousin Irina said through tears. "She burned almost instantly. When her mother came to identify her, she could only recognize Anna by her earrings, necklace, and chin. The rest of her body was burned down to the bones."

Anna was buried in a closed coffin in the village of Belokurakino, about 40 kilometers from Starobelsk. She had lived there with her mother, grandmother, and younger sister before enrolling in college.

[JBG 🇫🇷 @j_bg]

🇩🇪 En Allemagne, un livre fait du bruit cette semaine : Der Wahrheitskomplex (« Le Complexe de Vérité ») de Norbert Häring, journaliste économique chevronné (ex-Handelsblatt, ex-FT Deutschland).

Sa thèse, présentée dans un long entretien à la Berliner Zeitung : depuis 2014, un réseau dense s’est bâti en Europe — administrations, ONG, fact-checkers, think tanks transatlantiques, militaires, services de renseignement — pour encadrer le débat public sur les sujets sensibles.

Häring l’appelle le « complexe de vérité ». Il décrit un dispositif largement financé sur fonds publics, qui exécute ce que l’État démocratique ne peut faire directement sans violer ses propres règles : signalement, déréférencement, disqualification, marginalisation des voix dissonantes.

Au cœur du système : la doctrine de « guerre hybride » et de « guerre cognitive » importée du monde militaire. L’Allemagne y aurait joué un rôle pionnier en Europe. Covid et guerre en Ukraine ont servi d’accélérateurs.

C’est ce que je document ici avec le #DSA qui est l’aboutissement de cette logique.

https://t.co/zkwMHIizs7

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Pure evil.

Zelenskys Nazis drag away a little Ukrainian boys father to die for Ursula Von Der liar and NATOs lost War on Russia

He cries, to no avail.

This is hard to watch, but should be shown on every TV screen in Europe and the USA.

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇺🇦 Military recruiters jump out at children’s playgrounds to mobilize dads.

One case already happened where a Ukrainian father was mobilized, and his little kid was given to childcare services after they figured out that he was the sole parent.

[Zlatti71 @Zlatti_71]

In Odessa, a little boy picked up a stone to save his dad from the 'people-eaters'.

His mother advised him to throw away the stone. The boy obeyed, but his dad was still taken away to fight for Zelensky.
- SK

[Alex Christoforou @AXChristoforou]

Russia to Iran... INTEL.
US to Ukraine...
Coup in 2014, $350B, ATACMS, Patriot AD, Command Center in Germany, F16s, Pilots, Mercenaries, HIMARS, Ammunition, Sanctions, SWIFT cut off, Drones into Putin residence, drone hitting energy, Seizing tankers, CIA dirty war... and INTEL.

[Mars @StanMars_Alpha]

@pati_marins64 What if this Chinese missiles story was a narrative crafted to provide an off-ramp to the US ?
After their bluff didn’t work on Iran, they could use it to say « well conditions have changed because of Chinese involvement and we have now to cancel or postpone the operation. »

[RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa]

Let's not forget. A few years ago, in a single night in Germany, 1,200 women were sexuaIIy assaulted by North African and Arab Muslims. And if you remember, you will be investigated and arrested. They want us to remain silent, but they won't succeed. We want mass deportations, every last criminal and undocumented.

[Russians With Attitude @RWApodcast]

I am going to address this disgusting blood libel one more time.

1. There are no "half a million" or even "twenty thousand" "kidnapped" children. When the Russian negotiators in Istanbul asked for a list, the Ukrainians gave them 339 names; upon checking it, it was found that many of these children are adults, or live in Europe. The rest are children who were evacuated from combat zones.

2. These children are mostly orphans. Specifically, orphans from Donetsk and Lugansk. Meaning, many of their parents were KILLED by the UKRAINIAN ARMY in 2014-2022. Demanding to hand over these children to the murderers of their parents is insane.

3. Others are children of junkies and alcoholics who were removed from their parents' care by the Ukrainian government and placed in orphanages. Civilized countries don't really have orphanages anymore. The state of orphans in Ukraine is similar to the crisis Russia experienced in the 90s and 00s, only Kiev, of course, never bothered solving it. In civilized countries, orphans are placed in foster families. Ukraine didn’t give a damn about these children until they were "kidnapped". You are free to google photos from Ukrainian orphanages on your own.

4. Now all these junkies and alcoholics have lined up to scream that their kids were abducted by the evil Russians. And the worst thing is, and I wish the Russian government wouldn't do that, but Russia ACTUALLY returns evacuated orphans whenever the Ukrainian side demands it. There is a perfectly functional diplomatic mechanism for family reunification. Russians and Ukrainians meet in Qatar and exchange names and children are returned to their families without any problems whatsoever.

Again, this mechanism is fully functional, right now, and it has been working for years. Russia is so sensitive about this stuff that we ACTUALLY return children to the Ukrainian junkie scum that abandoned them so they can do photo-ops with Zelensky's wife. Not only does Russia not "kidnap" children, but it goes out of its way to take children from nice foster families and return them to Ukrainian lowlives who are biologically related to the children and suddenly remembered about this face. And, of course, the Ukrainian government immediately forgets about the children after the photo-ops.

5. In Russia, these orphans (an overwhelming majority of whom are from Russian-speaking regions of so-called "Ukraine" that are now part of Russia and were abandoned by the Ukrainian state and society), are placed in nice foster families. This is referred to as "kidnapping". The government gives them free trips to the nicest, most expensive summer camps. This is referred to as "placing them in North Korean reeducation GULAGs". They go to Russian schools and are integrated into Russian society. This is referred to as "cultural genocide".

This whole thing is profoundly evil. There is really no benign explanation¹ for why they are so laser-focused on bringing this up and making it a key part of their demands for a peace. Russia saves Russian orphans from the Ukrainian army and places them in the best conditions they could possibly find themselves in. When the Ukrainian side presents some alcoholic lowlive who abandoned his child, Russia returns these kids to them. This is the only thing Russia is doing wrong about the whole situation.

¹Of course, Ukraine is the child trafficking capital of Europe, and has been ever since 1991, and there are probably people in the West who are really mad about Ukrainian orphans going to Christian foster families instead of the Epstein Islands of this world. You are free to research how many Ukrainian children who were "evacuated" by Western NGOs since 2022 have "gone missing", though it's probably going to ruin your day.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.

However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.

When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.

The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.

Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

6yr old German girl is cut with a bladed article at school, where 95% of the children are of a migrant background.

Being the only native child, she quickly became ostracised and bullied.

This will become every school if remigration isn't implemented.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇪🇺 LAGARDE: EUROPE NEEDS MIGRANTS - OR IT STOPS GROWING

ECB chief Christine Lagarde just stood in Jackson Hole and told the world:
Europe’s economy only works if the borders stay open.

Migrants are the backbone of post-pandemic recovery, she says.

They’ve filled half of all new jobs since 2022.

Germany would be “6% poorer” without them.

Spain owes its bounce-back to imported labor.

Or: Europe can’t function without a permanent influx of cheap, disposable workers.

Let’s be real:
A continent that deliberately hollowed out its birth rate and normalized 32-hour workweeks now wants to patch the hole with human imports, while ignoring the social fracture it’s already created.

Lagarde’s argument isn’t even economic - it’s ideological:
Let wages lag
Shrink the native workforce
Punish dissent as populism
Outsource growth to people who don’t vote (yet)

No plan to rebuild a sustainable demographic. No investment in automation. No rethink of work itself.

Just open the tap wider - and call it “resilience.”

This isn’t a growth strategy.
It’s a Ponzi scheme with passports.

Source: ECB, Politico

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Dear @FLOTUS

Here's a letter written by a kid from Donbass. It's written directly to you in response to your letter to President Putin.

Dear Mrs. Trump,

My name is Faina Savenkova, a child who lives in the war that you mentioned in your letter to President Putin. Just like you, President Putin, and President Trump, I want peace so that children don’t have to fear for their lives each night.

I’ve lived under Ukrainian army shelling in Donbass for 11 years. To stop this war and save the lives of children in Donbass and Ukraine, we must urge President Zelensky to act. Memorials in Donetsk and Lugansk honor the many children killed by Ukrainian attacks, and the violence continues, fueled by Europe and former President Biden.

In 2021, I appealed to the United Nations for peace, but the Ukrainian terrorist site “Myrotvorets” leaked my family’s personal information, leading to death threats against me. Nearly 400 children’s personal information are on this site, endangering their lives.

President Zelensky could shut this website down but he refuses to. You can help ensure Ukraine follows international laws and its own laws to protect children. I know you have the power to make a difference!

We, the children of Donbass, Belgorod, and Kursk, didn’t start this war. I’ve always stood for children living in peace, without fear. As someone fighting for children’s rights, I am sure you understand me. We’ve lived under Ukrainian shelling for too long, and our dream is simple. Please help us see a peaceful sky above.

Thank you, Mrs. Trump!

[Florian Philippot @f_philippot]

Dictature totale ! ⤵️

La ministre macroniste Aurore #Bergé vient d’annoncer la création d’une « coalition d’associations » qui seront chargées de « traquer la haine en ligne » (selon leur propre définition) pour censurer davantage encore !

En lien avec l’ARCOM et conformément au droit européen (le règlement #DSA).

« Cette coalition comprend Le Crif, la Fédération des centres LGBTI +, Flag !, la Licra, M’endors pas, le Mouvement du Nid, Osez le féminisme, le Planning familial, Respect Zone, Sos Homophobie, SOS Racisme et Addam » selon Bergé
(cf : https://t.co/kyQxgH4IHV)

Ces associations vont être encore plus massivement « subventionnées par l’État pour pouvoir embaucher des personnes en charge de cette tâche » !…

➡️ La France transformée en Euromacronistan tyrannique devient irrespirable !

Tout ça doit être dégagé et la liberté d’expression rétablie !

[Jean MESSIHA @JeanMessiha]

Nadia Murad, survivante yazidie de Daesh :

« J'ai été violée tous les jours pendant six mois.
Ils ont tué ma mère parce qu'elle était trop âgée pour être une esclave sexuelle.
Ils ont tué tous mes frères parce qu'ils refusaient de se convertir à l'islam.
Ils nous traitent d'adorateurs du diable. »

Les musulmans de l’Etat islamique doivent être exterminées.

[Florian Philippot @f_philippot]

Je suis plus que jamais convaincu qu’il faut supprimer toutes les subventions publiques à la presse !

Toutes, sans exception !

Seuls les titres qui trouvent un lectorat survivront. Et ce sera parfaitement logique.

Ce que j’ai vu encore hier soir avec @OuestFrance et @LeTelegramme, un effondrement éthique, moral, déontologique, professionnel, une déchéance par esprit militant, m’a renforcé dans cette idée : bossez bien, soyez honnêtes ou crevez !

La démocratie ne s’en portera que 1000 fois mieux et la feuille d’impôt des Français aussi !

Relayez si vous êtes d’accord !