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[Cees @CeesCees72]

Morgen komt er waarschijnlijk een framende uitzending over FvD op televisie.

Lees dit geweldige artikel dat de mechanismen erachter blootlegt:

https://t.co/lpdIKWOBoc

[Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Thomas Sowell: "I was just doing some research on Detroit and it's decline, as they kept raising the city income tax, the revenues kept falling.

Barack Obama was asked by Charles Gibson in 2008, why he wanted to raise the tax rate because he will raise more revenue if he does the opposite, and his response was that, 'it's a matter of social justice'. He didn't care about the consequences.

If he can get people to be mad at the rich and vote for him, it's a political success. He doesn't care whether the government collects more revenues or not."

[Crazy Moments @Crazymoments01]

Not me watching this and realizing I've been doing it the hard way 😭 Why is this so smart 😳

[Engineering Knowledge @DP0STS]

Work Smarter, Not Harder 💡

[The HighWire @HighWireTalk]

Del Bigtree traveled to Milan to screen "An Inconvenient Study" and returned with something he didn't expect: firsthand testimony from Italian scientists, doctors, and media insiders confirming that the fear campaign that made Italy the terrifying face of COVID in early 2020 was manufactured, not organic.

The footage of military trucks rolling through Bergamo carrying what the world was told were coffin after coffin became one of the defining images of the pandemic.

Professor Alberto Contri, former board member of RAI Television, Italy's largest public broadcaster, and former president of a national media and advertising nonprofit, was watching from the inside. The trucks carried one coffin each. The incentive structure that made the death count explode was identical to what happened in the United States: hospitals received five times the government reimbursement for a COVID diagnosis over any other, and every doctor who administered a vaccine injection received 80 euros per shot, enough to take a physician from 3,000 euros a month to 20,000.

Some doctors were paid. Others were convinced by television virologists with undisclosed pharmaceutical contracts. When Contri asked Italy's most prominent vaccine advocate on a live talk show whether he had 14 active contracts with pharmaceutical companies, the man removed his earpiece and walked off camera.

Dr. Rosanna Chifari Negri, the first physician in Europe to formally document neurological side effects of the COVID vaccines, told Del this was a pilot project, planned in advance with precision. She is now treating patients in their 40s and 50s with Alzheimer's disease and ALS, conditions she had never seen at those ages before the vaccine rollout. She traces the mechanism to prion-like sequences identified in the vaccine by researchers in Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier's group, and considers the evidence not a belief but a clinical certainty.

Del also sat down with Dr. Alberto Donzelli, who expressed deep appreciation for "An Inconvenient Study" and called for the results to be brought to Italian politicians alongside a request for a replication study conducted by researchers from both sides of the debate

Del closes with a personal note: he is not done reporting on COVID internationally, and will be traveling to Poland, France, and Japan in the coming weeks to continue the investigation. Zero Spike, the team behind augmented NAC, made the Italy trip possible.

[Mary J. Ruwart Ph.D. @MaryRuwart]

Ayn Rand’s warning perfectly captures the libertarian nightmare: a government unbound by rules while citizens are chained by permission.

In a free society, individuals possess natural rights to life, liberty, and property.

Government’s only legitimate role is to protect those rights through objective law.

When the state can do anything it pleases—print money, regulate speech, seize assets, conscript labor—while citizens must beg licenses to work, travel, build, or trade, the inversion is complete.

Rights become privileges granted or revoked at bureaucratic whim.

This is not governance; it is rule by brute force disguised as “public policy.”

The result is predictable: stagnation, corruption, and the erosion of human dignity. Innovation dies under red tape.

Entrepreneurship flees confiscatory taxation.

True liberty evaporates when every action requires the ruler’s approval.

As Rand observed, this path leads back to history’s darkest chapters—where the individual exists only to serve the state.

Libertarians reject this inversion. Rights are not permissions; they are ours by nature. Government must be strictly limited, or freedom perishes.

[Harm Beertema @harmbeertema]

‘De regering zal „geen akkoorden sluiten met politici die oproepen tot geweld tegen vluchtelingen of de omvolkingstheorie verspreiden”. De motie van Jesse Klaver die daartoe opriep, haalde dinsdag een meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer.’

De meest antirechtsstatelijke partij van allemaal, de partij die betrokken was bij terrorisme, die een Senator had die zich liet opleiden in een terreurkamp in Jemen, die betrokken was bij een schietpartij met onze politie, de partij waarbij de huidige partijleider een bomkoffer werd gevonden, de partij die rechtstreekse banden onderhield met de moordenaar van Pim Fortuyn, die partij sluit andere partijen uit op basis van zelfverzonnen beschuldigingen die kant noch wal raken.

Dit is die partij 👇🏼

https://t.co/cBnX3zkXl5

[Beyond Democracy @frankkarsten]

https://t.co/izAEtzvr4K

[Jimmy keng @jimmy_keng]

@DavidBCollum @AaronSiriSG Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History
By Dr. Suzanne.

Read this book, Dave

[Dave Collum @DavidBCollum]

@AllmarkLorraine @AaronSiriSG The Real Anthony Fauci
Sickening
@SharylAttkisson's "Follow the Science"
Moth in the Iron Lung

[Dave Collum @DavidBCollum]

I am virtually positive that if you read @AaronSiriSG's "Vaccine Amen" you will never get another vaccine of any flavor. It is also true that if I tweeted this in 2020, I would have been booted off Twitter by the Vaccine Gestapo. (I have more books for you if interested.)

https://t.co/NlIBJGcf7j

[Mary J. Ruwart Ph.D. @MaryRuwart]

Frank Herbert’s quote from Dune (1965) explains a fundamental flaw in governance: power doesn’t corrupt good people—instead, it attracts those who are already corruptible or pathological.

In other words, individuals with unhealthy personality traits (such as narcissism, sociopathy, or an excessive thirst for control) are naturally drawn to positions of authority like a magnet.

Once in power, these people tend to abuse it, creating recurring problems for governments throughout history.

The insight shifts the focus from “power corrupts” to the self-selecting nature of who seeks power in the first place.

[Handre @Handre]

Milton Friedman's greatest regret.

The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous.

Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time.

Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude.

This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent.

Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Since the 1980s, the Sahara has shrunk by roughly 8%. Satellite data show widespread greening, a pattern that is playing out across the planet.

Around 50% of Earth's vegetated land has become significantly greener, an area roughly three times the size of the United States.

The dominant driver is not rainfall or land use change, it is rising atmospheric CO2.

Higher CO2 lets plants photosynthesize more efficiently, they lose less water, they tolerate heat and dryness better.

The effect is strongest along desert margins, across the Sahel, the Middle East, Australia's interior and the southern edge of the Sahara.

Rising CO2 is making the deserts, and the planet as a whole, greener.

[matrixbot @thematrixb0t]

Medic Kevin McPadden rushed to the World Trade Center to help save lives on 9/11… and what he witnessed at WTC Building 7 was so shocking that this was shadowbanned by social media for years.

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman: “Keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending, because that’s the true tax.”

“If you’re not paying for it in the form of explicit taxes, you’re paying for it indirectly in the form of inflation or borrowing.”

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Voltaire passed away today in 1778.

There are two quotes of his I always come back to:

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

and

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms says land that sold for £500 an acre a few years ago now goes for £5,000. He is being moved off ground his family has worked for generations, because he cannot outbid the people buying it. The buyers are corporations, and they have no intention of farming a single acre of it.

Here is how the trick works. A company keeps emitting carbon exactly as before. Same factories, same flights, same supply chain, same product. Then it buys a Scottish hillside, plants some trees, and announces to the world that it is now carbon neutral, or, if it is feeling brave, carbon negative. The emissions never fell. It simply bought a landscape to point at.

Take BrewDog. In 2020 it bought a 9,300-acre Highland estate, propped up with public grant money, and promised a million trees and the crown of the world's first carbon negative beer business, removing twice the carbon it emitted, forever. By 2023 roughly half of the 500,000 trees it had managed to plant were dead, killed by drought, with critics noting the planting was drying out the peat and releasing carbon of its own. The advertising regulator ruled its carbon-negative claims misleading. In 2024 it quietly dropped the badge and dismissed the entire carbon credit market as a flood of cheap schemes whose benefit was "questionable, maybe even non-existent." Then it sold the estate to a firm whose actual business is selling carbon offsets.

That is the whole model in one story. Public money in. Dead trees out. A green halo worn for four years and then dropped. The farmer who used to be on that land, gone. The hillside passed to a company that exists purely to sell other people the right to keep polluting.

This is no fringe case. In one recent year, half of every estate sold in Scotland went to investment funds, corporations and charitable trusts rather than anyone who would farm it. A third of the deals for plantable land are now done off-market, in secret, precisely so the local community never gets the chance to bid.

So this is what net zero looks like on the ground. A man who produced food is priced out of his own glen. A corporation that produced emissions buys the glen, calls itself a force for good, and sells the carbon. The land stops feeding anyone. Nobody's emissions actually went down by a gram.

The food was real. The farmer was real. The carbon saving is a line in a slide deck.

And we have somehow decided the villain in all this is the man with the sheep.

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

"I STOPPED BELIEVING THE IPCC AFTER CLIMATEGATE (2009). MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING IS JUST GROUPTHINK, THERE IS NO SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS ON IT. IT'S POLITICAL: SCIENTISTS ARE "GREEN" ACTIVISTS & LOBBYISTS" - Dr Judith Curry