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[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Americans realizing they spent $75 billion fighting Iran, then another $300 billion rebuilding Iran, just to reopen the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the war started

[Pascal Laurent @Pascal_Laurent_]

C'EST À CAUSE DU RÉCHAUFFEMENT CLIMATIQUE, DE L'UKRAINE OU DU DÉTROIT D'ORMUZ ?

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Don't forget to check under your bed for Russians

[The Duran @TheDuranReal]

Kallas isn't Europe's diplomat. She's its loudest ideologue.

Never negotiated with Trump.
Never negotiated with Putin.
Never negotiated with Xi.

Yet her job is to coordinate a foreign policy that barely exists.

Europe isn't at the table. It's on the menu.

[Kirill Dmitriev @kadmitriev]

🎾 Mirra Andreeva 🇷🇺 is a @rolandgarros champion!

[Freya Lawson @Freyabuilds]

🚨 TWO BULGARIANS JUST KILLED THE STREAMING INDUSTRY.

It's called Stremio + Torrentio. You get 4K content from Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, and HBO Max — combined — for free.

Here's how it works.

Stremio is the player. Polished interface. Works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, and TV. Install it once and it looks like any premium streaming app.

Torrentio is the addon. Add it to Stremio in one click. It scrapes every major torrent provider simultaneously and delivers the best available stream straight to your player. 720p, 1080p, 4K. You choose the quality. It finds the source.

→ No account required
→ No subscription
→ Works on every device
→ 4K and HDR supported
→ Subtitles built in

Netflix can't touch this. There is no central server to seize. No company to sue. No domain to kill. It lives on your device and pulls from the open internet.

The entire streaming industry runs on one assumption. That you'll keep paying $70/month instead of spending 5 minutes on GitHub.

That assumption just died in Sofia, Bulgaria.

MIT License. 100% Open-source.

Get the addon here: https://t.co/WFPHfYeKaG

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Security intervened to prevent any display of the Russian flag in celebration of 19-year-old Mirra Andreeva's victory. We are being indoctrinated by our radical political-media establishment to hate an entire nation.

[Pascal Laurent @Pascal_Laurent_]

🇺🇦 La liste d’attente de quatre ans pour l’achat de superyachts est entièrement composée de fonctionnaires ukrainiens...
C’est ce qu’a révélé Stephen Kuhn, fondateur de la société Take America Back Inc.
« Je viens de parler au téléphone avec un fabricant de superyachts, et les commandes des fonctionnaires ukrainiens et de leurs familles sont déjà programmées pour les quatre prochaines années. Des centaines de millions de dollars en superyachts, tous provenant d’un seul pays. Pendant ce temps, les contribuables occidentaux au Canada, au Royaume-Uni, en Europe, en Amérique et en Australie financent tout cela », a-t-il déclaré.
« Ils ramassent les gens dans la rue pour les envoyer au front, les mobilisent dans l’armée, et les gens se suicident pour ne pas aller à la guerre. Pendant que les fonctionnaires achètent des superyachts. C’est la plus grande opération de blanchiment d’argent de l’histoire moderne », a ajouté Kuhn.

[Handre @Handre]

Switzerland built the world's most prosperous society by doing exactly what every government expert told them not to do: staying neutral, keeping taxes low, and letting markets work.

While the EU suffocates its members with 170,000 pages of regulations, Switzerland maintains bilateral trade agreements that preserve sovereignty. Swiss GDP per capita hits $94,000 versus Germany's $51,000 and France's $45,000. The Swiss franc remains one of the world's strongest currencies because the Swiss National Bank can't print money to fund Brussels bureaucrats. Meanwhile, EU nations surrender monetary policy to unelected technocrats who inflate away savings to finance welfare states.

The regulatory contrast is staggering. Switzerland ranks 4th globally in economic freedom while EU heavyweights like Germany (16th) and France (64th) plummet under Brussels' command-and-control apparatus. Swiss unemployment sits at 2.1% compared to the eurozone's 6.4%. Swiss labor markets remain flexible while EU employment laws make hiring workers feel like adopting teenagers forever.

Brussels promises prosperity through harmonization, but delivers stagnation through standardization. Every EU directive removes another price signal from the market, replacing voluntary exchange with political allocation. Swiss neutrality isn't just about avoiding wars (though that 200-year peace dividend helps). Economic neutrality means staying out of supranational central planning schemes that turn dynamic economies into managed decline.

The EU's answer to Switzerland's success? Punitive measures and threats to cut off market access unless the Swiss submit to Brussels rule. Nothing exposes the coercive nature of the European project quite like watching bureaucrats demand that free people abandon the policies that made them rich.

[Smart Money Crypto @Smart_Money]

🤬 EUROPA WIRD ZUM NORDKOREA DES WESTENS!

Die EU plant, gegen VPNs vorzugehen. Schwarz auf weiss aus Brüssel: das neue Alters-ID-Verifizierungssystem darf "nicht durch VPN-Zugang umgangen werden".

Lass das einen Moment sacken.

Der gleiche Apparat, der den größten technologischen Umbruch unserer Generation komplett verschlafen hat. Während in Kalifornien OpenAI, Anthropic und xAI die Welt neu schreiben, hat Europa eine 144-seitige KI-Verordnung produziert. Kein einziges relevantes Modell auf eigenem Boden. Keine eigene Infrastruktur. Aber das dickste Regelbuch der Welt.

Der gleiche Apparat, der jedes Jahr Milliarden in Programme schickt, deren Ergebnisse niemand mehr prüft. Fahrradwege in Peru. Gender-Workshops in Bangladesch. Klima-Trainings für Beamte in Marokko. Jede Position steht im Haushalt. Niemand fragt mehr nach, ob das wirkt.

Der gleiche Apparat, der seit Jahren ein Gesetz nach dem anderen rauspresst, das niemand bestellt hat. Cookie-Banner auf jeder Webseite. Lieferkettengesetz, das den Mittelstand ruiniert. Verbrenner-Aus, das man jetzt heimlich wieder zurückrollt. DSGVO, die hauptsächlich amerikanische Anwaltskanzleien reich gemacht hat.

Bei Innovation: stumpf. Bei Geldverschwendung: kreativ. Bei Bürgerkontrolle: chirurgisch.

Genau dieser Apparat will jetzt regeln, welche Webseite ein 17-Jähriger in Düsseldorf öffnet. Verkauft wird das Ganze unter dem Wort "Jugendschutz". Im Inneren steckt etwas anderes: die Möglichkeit, jeden Klick einer Person zuzuordnen, die zuvor ihre Identität bestätigt hat.

Ein VPN ist die digitale Variante davon, die Vorhänge zuzuziehen. Es sagt der Behörde: was ich online lese, recherchiere, schaue, geht euch nichts an. Genau das soll jetzt weg. Nicht weil es illegal ist, sondern weil es unbeobachtet ist.

Schau nach China. Schau nach Iran. Schau nach Nordkorea. Das erste, was diese Regime gemacht haben, war nicht Pässe einsammeln. Es war VPNs verbieten. Die Reihenfolge ist immer dieselbe: erst die digitale ID, dann die Werkzeuge der Unbeobachtbarkeit, dann die Definition, was du überhaupt noch sehen darfst.

Wir sind gerade beim zweiten Schritt. Und niemand redet das Risiko durch. Niemand fragt, was passiert, wenn ein deutscher Whistleblower 2030 keine Möglichkeit mehr hat, anonym auf einen Server zuzugreifen. Niemand fragt, was die nächste Regierung als "Schutz" definiert, sobald der Mechanismus erst einmal steht.

VPN ist nicht das Werkzeug von Kriminellen, sondern von Journalisten, Anwälten, Ärzten, Aktivisten und von allen, die noch verstanden haben, dass Privatsphäre ein Grundrecht ist und kein Bonusprogramm der Regierung.

Brüssel verschläft die Zukunft, finanziert Unsinn am anderen Ende der Welt und reguliert seine eigenen Bürger ins Mittelalter. Aber bei einem ist man jetzt plötzlich hellwach: wenn jemand im eigenen Haus die Vorhänge zuzieht.

Denke wenigstens darüber nach, ob die EU noch richtig für dich ist.

[Elias @iam_elias1]

Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy.

Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes.

The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled.
The conclusion is one sentence.
"At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand."

An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody.
Here is how you get there.
A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself.

Because the workers who were fired were also customers.
When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation.

The loop has no natural exit.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements.
Every single one failed in the model.
The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger.

No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it.
Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion."
Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem.

Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it.
Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place.

Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University ·
https://t.co/4m8E9jQNYm

[0xNobler @CryptoNobler]

🚨 BREAKING

TRUMP INSIDER WITH 100% WIN RATE JUST OPENED A $28,000,000.00 OIL LONG AHEAD OF THE U.S. MARKET OPEN.

THIS GUY JUST WENT ALL-IN AFTER 12 SUCCESSFUL TRADES IN A ROW AND $93 MILLION IN PROFIT.

HE DEFINITELY KNOWS OIL PRICES WILL SKYROCKET ON MONDAY…

[Miss Jo @therealmissjo]

Do you know what this is?

It is a Bentley. Average price is about Euro 300k.

According to Richard Leopold, Bentley’s regional director, the top three cities where the most Bentleys were sold in 2025 are:

1. Padua (Italy)

2. Rotterdam (Netherlands)

3. Kyiv (Ukraine)

Wait. What? Ukraine? You mean the Ukraine that just got another Euro 90 billion from the EU?

Two fun facts:

The average price of a Bentley sold in Kyiv is Euro 400k because they are buying the top end models.

Demand for Bentleys in Kyiv has more than doubled in the three years since the war started.

So if you are in the UK or EU, you can go back to struggling to pay for your supermarket shop this week, and take comfort that your taxes are being well used to prop up the luxury car market in Kyiv.

[The Duran @TheDuranReal]

A good day for Europe? Saddling 450 million EU citizens with another €90B in debt - without their consent - is reckless governance.

Europeans, already squeezed by inflation, stagnating wages, and rising costs, will once again be forced to carry the burden of others’ debt while their own societies are neglected.

Enough of the self-congratulatory rhetoric. Start delivering to your own citizens instead of lecturing the world.

[Richard Werner @scientificecon]

Bulgarians are smart.

They didn't take the gene alteration injections.

Now they enjoy the lowest excess mortality.

And their brains work brilliantly, no mind fog. So they elected an honest and good guy as prime minister.

Congratulations!

https://t.co/RLy4Yf0XGj

[The Duran @TheDuranReal]

While the West funds an “existential war,” for Ukrainian elites its seems to be business as usual - luxury deals, foreign assets, untouched lifestyles.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨The oil crisis is worse than anything in modern history. Nobody is panicking. That's the problem...

Here's what's actually happening in plain English: the world uses 100 million barrels of oil a day.

Right now, 15 to 20 million of them are missing because of the Hormuz blockade.

That gap is bigger than America's entire daily oil usage.

You haven't felt it at the pump yet because every country has been burning through emergency stockpiles.

JP Morgan says those reserves run out around April 20th. That's literally now.

Oil is in everything. Not just gas.

It's how your groceries get to the store, how fertilizer is made, how factories run.

Fertilizer prices are already spiking.

That hits food prices in about 6 months.

The stock market is at an all-time high acting like nothing is wrong.

Main Street consumer sentiment is at historic lows.

One of them is lying.

Historically, it's never been the person filling up the tank.

The last two times something like this happened, the market fell 21% and 52%.

By summer, gas, groceries, and basically everything else could cost noticeably more.

[Ash Crypto @AshCrypto]

🚨THIS IS VERY SUSPICIOUS

Energy facilities around the world are getting blown up, and no one knows the exact reason.

Here's a list of major oil refineries/energy facilities being blown up this month:

3rd April: Russia's Major Oil Export Terminal
4th April: Russia's Crude Distillation Unit
7th April: India's Power Plant
9th April: Mexico's Refinery
14th April: India's Power Plant
15th April: Australia's Energy Refinery
20th April: Russia's Oil Refinery
21st April: India's Oil Refinery
21st April: Romania's Power Plant
21st April: Texas Oil Rig

A few of them have been blown up by drones, but most of them mysteriously caught fire.

And this is happening when the world is already going through its biggest energy crisis in decades.

Is someone deliberating trying to push the world economy in Lockdown 2.0 by choking up global energy?

[Solitaire @b_stefka]

Vous souvenez‑vous quand vous avez rejoint X ? Moi, oui ! #MonAnniversaireX

[Solitaire @b_stefka]

@liz_churchill10 "Hardcore anti-immigration nationalist" ??
You certainly don't know what you are talking about!!