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[dj @dirkj999]

@podevyns @GeertNoels @jandecaluwe Is dit herkenbaar ?

[Mark @Mark4XX]

WE STAND AT THE GATES OF HELL BELIEVING IT IS PARADISE: THE COUP THE MASSES REFUSE TO STOP

German philosopher Hans-Eckardt Wenzel, who lived half his life in the GDR and half in unified Germany, delivers a devastating diagnosis that leaves no room for comfort. We are already deep inside a sophisticated coup that dismantles rights and silences opposition without a single pistol being drawn. The same public that once questioned power now accepts division, fear, and speech bans as normal background noise while the West’s long dominance collapses under its own arrogance. Why does no one fight back?

THE COUP D'ÉTAT 2.0 IN ACTION
➡️ Wenzel describes a coup d`etat with charming modern features: no tanks in the streets, no violent takeover, just clever blocking of opposition recounts and special decrees that sideline dissent.
➡️ On the EU level, sanctions are weaponized against anyone holding a different opinion, effectively suspending the Grundgesetz for those who refuse to fall in line.
➡️ These are updated versions of 1930s special provisions, executed more skillfully so they look almost legal while stripping away constitutional protections.
➡️ The playbook was rehearsed during Corona politics and then escalated with the Ukraine war, where Germany and the EU have launched zero serious initiatives for peace.
➡️ The result is a permanent coup that operates in plain sight yet remains invisible to a population trained not to see it.

THE MYSTERY OF MASS PASSIVITY: WHY THE PEOPLE DO NOT RESIST
➡️ Protest has been systematically discredited and fragmented through divide-and-rule tactics that were perfected during the pandemic.
➡️ Society was split between the compliant and the non-compliant, breaking families, trust, and the very possibility of unified resistance.
➡️ Fear is mobilized by reviving the ghosts of the past, while new thought bans label any critical question about the war as sympathy for the enemy.
➡️ Even those who knew the conflict could have been prevented early on remain silent, because speaking out now feels dangerous or taboo.
➡️ People have been trained to see resistance itself as the greater threat, leaving the coup unchallenged and the public strangely calm.

THE DECLINE OF THE WEST: HYBRIS AT THE CULTURAL ENDPOINT
➡️ Western civilization has reached its cultural endpoint, born in the Renaissance from the arrogant belief that it was superior to every other culture and entitled to dominate them.
➡️ This hybris has blinded the West to its own decay, while real momentum and possible solutions now shift toward BRICS nations, Africa, India, and China.
➡️ Wenzel, who experienced the end of the GDR, recognizes the same erosion of serious dialogue and reality here, but with one crucial difference: this time there will be no soft landing.
➡️ The true catastrophe, as Walter Benjamin observed, is not that disaster suddenly arrives but that everything continues as before while the slaughter goes unnoticed.

THE BOTTOM LINE

Wenzel shows a society that stands at the gates of hell yet still tells itself it is paradise, divided by design, stripped of language, and convinced that nothing can be done.

This is how civilizations end: not with a bang, but with the quiet surrender of those who were taught to mistake their own silence for peace.

HT: YouTube Patrik Baab

[Neverforgetniki @nikitheblogger]

Gerade in den Nachrichten: In den meisten Krankenhäusern in Deutschland gibt es keine Klimaanlage. Viele öffentliche Krankenhäuser stehen unter Spardruck!
Ok... Verstehe ich das richtig? Kranke Deutsche müssen bei 40 Grad liegen aus Kostengründen, aber Merz schickt 100 Milliarden der Ukraine?

[dj @dirkj999]

@HannoLustig Same city. Eat your Christmas tree. All for the climate. https://t.co/qWNFjVNgrg

[dj @dirkj999]

@PeterLBrandt The selloff doesn't feel like a liquidity event when you're in it. It feels like everyone else knows something you don't. That's the feature that makes the pattern repeatable — the discomfort is real even when the logic is sound. Nothing new. Enjoy the summer.

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

Remarkable statement by the person most responsible for closing all nuclear plants. German greens should really face a reckoning for their grand anti-nuclear crusade, which had two main achievements: citizens struggle with high energy costs and the planet is dirtier and warmer.

[dj @dirkj999]

@freegolds https://t.co/eedUQn08EO

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

How China Built the World’s Biggest Train Station on Top of a Mountain

Welcome to Chongqing East Station: China's $7.8 billion high-speed rail megaproject. 1.22 million square metres. 40,000 peak workers. A 16,500-tonne steel tube truss roof assembled on the ground and hydraulically slid 57 metres upward onto 41-metre tree-shaped "Huangjue" columns.

• How 40,000 workers built a 1.22M m² station in just 38 months on a mountain
• The sliding assembly method — why the 16,500-tonne roof was built on the ground first
• The Huangjue tree columns — 41-metre branching steel structures designed for earthquake resistance
• Stainless steel cladding installation at 57 metres above a mountain slope
• Why Chongqing East Station is now the largest railway hub in the world
• The high-speed rail network connecting Southwest China to 14 major cities

[dj @dirkj999]

Hybrid impoverishment.

A process whereby impoverishment occurs simultaneously through multiple channels — economic, social, cultural, psychological and/or political — that mutually reinforce one another.

If systemic → it is the unintended result of capitalism, globalization, and technology
If intentional → it resembles a deliberate strategy to keep populations weak, distracted, and dependent.
The effect is the same either way.

[dj @dirkj999]

@FinanceFilosoof https://t.co/pOS2POOiLG.

[dj @dirkj999]

@freegolds Voor de Jannekes en de Miekes is er "kijkgeld"="Geld om naar te kijken". Optie 1: Kijken hoe politici uw belastinggeld innovatief laten werken=evaporeren. De innovatie is dat er geen return is. Optie 2: En er is ook "kijken naar de weelde van de 1 percenters". U kijkt toch ook?

[dj @dirkj999]

@FrankPeeters4 https://t.co/NXFl9Q9s0M

[dj @dirkj999]

@freegolds "Het nieuwe sparen = sparen voor een ticket van de volgende Samson show".

[dj @dirkj999]

@thomas_spaas Straks zijn alle kranten gratis.

[dj @dirkj999]

@FinanceFilosoof Het Laagste Nieuws. HLN. Ze werven aan.

[dj @dirkj999]

@GeertNoels Hoeveel goud hebben de Europese landen in bewaring gegeven in de US ? Misschien is het tijd om dit terug te halen, of worden we ook deze keer nog eens het bos in gestuurd met een setje speelkaarten ?

[Mega Geopolitics @MegaGeopolitics]

BREAKING: 🇩🇪🇺🇸 Multiple german politicians are now pressuring Germany to bring back more than $100 billion in gold from the U.S. because trust in Washington is falling - Bild

[The Stig 🪙 @StigvdA]

If any European nations still have their #gold held anywhere else than in their own countries.. Start to repatriate it. Especially if it's held in the US.

[dj @dirkj999]

@LukeGromen @freegolds is waiting...

[dj @dirkj999]

@ProofOfMoney Geospacial temporality defines the value of money !

[dj @dirkj999]

@tijd Als burger voel ik me elke dag opnieuw GE-GIJ-ZELD. En niet enkel op het vlak van energie. Ik voel me gegijzeld mbt energie, maar ook mbt koopkrachtbescherming, belastingen, SZ en pensioenregeling, mileu, transport, huisvesting en immigratie. Niemand is verantwoordelijk.