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Je weiter sich eine Gesellschaft von der Wahrheit entfernt, desto mehr wird sie jene hassen, die sie aussprechen - George Orwell

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

Based on that shouldn’t Europe do much more to permanently reopen the Strait of Hormuz and have oil and gas flow safely again?

Wait, Europe preferred to spend its money on welfare and Net Zero instead of defense.

Isn’t it a pity that it made Europe so weak and irrelevant?

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

Poland’s economic wonder will go into economics books. Free market, entrepreneurialism, rule of law and hard work allowed Poland to escape deep socialist misery within just one generation

Isn’t it a pity that Western Europe chose left redistribution instead, and struggles badly?

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇪🇺‼️🚨 EU - SURVEILLANCE PARADISE:

1) Cars sold in the EU will require a camera that scans the driver’s face to determine if they are distracted.

2) Chat Control is being pushed through. It would allow the EU to scan all private chat messages of citizens.

3) Age verification, which requires users to prove their age with a selfie and ID, is also about to be implemented.

No citizens voted for this, the elites are simply imposing it on the public.

→ Ironically, Ursula von der Leyen is famous for deleting her texts with Pfizer during a major vaccine procurement scandal…

As always, such regulations come with staggering hypocrisy.

[Handre @Handre]

Keynesian stimulus has never worked, and never will, and the record proves it. Every. Single. Time.

Start with the New Deal. Roosevelt tripled federal spending between 1933 and 1940, and unemployment still sat at 14.6 percent in 1940. Seven years of pump-priming bought a decade the economists call the Great Depression.

Japan tried the same trick. Through the 1990s Tokyo ran ten separate stimulus packages, poured trillions of yen into bridges and roads to nowhere, and drove public debt above 130 percent of GDP by 2000. The reward was the Lost Decade, then a second one.

Then came 2009. Obama and his advisers promised the $831 billion stimulus would hold unemployment under 8 percent. It hit 10 percent in October 2009. They spent the money anyway on shovel-ready projects that the president himself later admitted were not shovel-ready.

You see the pattern? Politicians take resources out of the productive economy through taxes and borrowing, hand them to whoever has the best lobbyists, and call the shuffle "growth."

They count the spending. They never count what the money would have built if the private sector had kept it.

Frédéric Bastiat explained this in 1850 with the broken window. The stimulus crowd still hasn't read him.

The government cannot spend you into prosperity. It can only move wealth around and skim off the top.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

NATO's Article 5 does not obligate all members to come to the defence of an ally; it is up to each state to take "such action as it deems necessary, including the use of force." Europe is provoking a Russian retaliation, and the US will not come to the aid of its frontline states

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

France is not a real country. They have the most taxes in Europe and still run a fiscal deficit of 6% during good times.

Without cutting the absurd pensions and other overblown state spending, France will face a debt crisis. Germany with its broken economy won’t bail them out.

[Thomas Mayer @Thomasfvs8ize]

80 Milliarden Euro Zinsen im Jahr 2030.

Auf mich wirkt diese Zahl fast beunruhigender als die Höhe der Staatsverschuldung selbst.

Denn Schulden lassen sich abbauen. Eine dauerhaft steigende Zinslast dagegen nimmt dem Staat jedes Jahr ein Stück seines Handlungsspielraums.

Jeder Euro, der für Zinsen ausgegeben wird, fehlt bei Investitionen in die Zukunft.

Natürlich kann man argumentieren, dass höhere Schulden in Krisenzeiten notwendig sind.

Die entscheidende Frage ist aber:

Was bleibt davon langfristig übrig – Wachstum oder nur höhere Zinskosten?

Mich würde interessieren, wie Sie das sehen.

[VertigoPolitix @Vertigo_Politix]

“Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. It is merely the soft variant of Communism; and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.”

—Hans-Hermann Hoppe

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

Former UK PM Lizz Truss warns that Western nations are in the midst of a communist takeover seeking to replace core Western values—including individual liberty, national sovereignty and free speech—with complete state control over every aspect of life.

"Look what's happening in Britain. People are being arrested and jailed for things that they say on X."

"We've moved from being a free society—with a free economy and people able to speak freely—to a managed society, that is essentially managed by... expert technocrats."

[BalticWay @BalticDanny]

64,000 immigrants in 1 year.
That's 3.5% of Latvia's entire population in a country of just 1.8 million.

This is equivalent to:

~12 million immigrants for US
~2.4 million immigrants for UK

In 1 year! ONE FUCKIN YEAR, MATE!

The ancient Latvian nation is on the verge of extinction! Not even Canada has seen an immigration level of 3.5% a year!

Largest numbers come from Muslim countries and India. Madness!

We Europeans have to look out for one another. Help us out! Spread the word!

[Monitor Imigracji @monitorimigr]

Poland issued 21,510 work permits to Africans in 2025.

84% men. 77% aged 25 to 44.

Top 5 countries in 2025:

Zimbabwe — 10,057
Nigeria — 1,726
Kenya — 1,498
Morocco — 1,029
Ghana — 988

Source: PSZ, MRPiPS-04

[Thomas Mayer @Thomasfvs8ize]

Warum kaufen Zentralbanken plötzlich wieder so viel Gold?

Mich überrascht weniger der steigende Goldanteil in den Währungsreserven als die Frage, warum dieser Trend weltweit immer stärker wird.

Vor zehn Jahren machten Goldreserven rund 10 % der Zentralbankreserven aus. Heute sind es bereits fast 25 %.

Das wirkt auf den ersten Blick viel.

Historisch betrachtet ist es allerdings immer noch vergleichsweise wenig.

Vielleicht ist das kein Zufall.

Wir leben in einer Zeit mit historisch hohen Staatsschulden, anhaltend hoher Geldschöpfung und einer Welt, in der immer mehr Länder ihre Abhängigkeit vom US-Dollar überdenken.

Gold wirft keine Zinsen ab.

Trotzdem bauen Zentralbanken ihre Bestände weiter aus.

Für mich sagt das vor allem eines: Vertrauen in eine Währung entsteht nicht durch Worte, sondern durch Stabilität.

Auch Europa sollte diese Entwicklung aufmerksam beobachten. Vertrauen ist ein Vermögenswert – und es lässt sich leichter verspielen als zurückgewinnen.

#Gold #Zentralbanken #Europa #Dollar #Währungsreserven #Makroökonomie #Inflation #Finanzmärkte

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🚨‼️🇷🇺🇪🇺 TRUTH DOES NOT MATTER ANYMORE?!

The EU is punishing 3 individuals for reposting Russia Today Germany on their blog and has ruled that reposting content from sanctioned Russian media is forbidden and can result in criminal prosecution. Importantly it does not matter if a person has any type of relationship to Russian media, a private individual can repost something out of pure interest and be charged.

The core problem with this ruling is that it essentially says truth does not matter and the type of content does not matter either, only its origin matters. One side is allowed to talk the other does not.

Main problems:

1) Only the origin of the content matters, not its type. If it comes from Russian media, it is criminal in the EU. So even a Russian media accurately report on football that you repost could lead to prosecution.

2) Truth does not matter, only who posts it does. A truthful statement from RT cannot be reposted. There is now essentially only one allowed narrative.

Example: A Ukrainian missile hit Poland in November 2022. Zelensky claimed Russia attacked Europe, but this was proven false, as confirmed by Polish prosecutors. Reposting the Russian account of the story is now punishable.

3) This creates a ban on most information from Russia, as it is mostly distributed by Russian media. All statements and speeches by Putin are broadcast by Russian media by default. Reposting such content is forbidden, so directly listening to Putin is not allowed. Western media will publish their own filtered interpretations, creating distortion.

4) This enforces only one narrative. EU citizens will struggle to find the other side of the story. Checking both sides and deciding for yourself is not allowed, Brussels decides what you can hear.

The foundation of law, where truth matters, is breaking apart. The new rule is, the speaker matters.

Remeber they want to remove anonymity on social media … this is also why.

[Richard Werner @scientificecon]

The legendary @GEdward_Griffin with an important message for those aware of what's going on: It's not too late. Wake up others. Organise resistance.

I would add: campaign for and establish new community banks, which strengthen local entrepreneurs, the middle class & the local community.

Don't fall for the 'it's too late' propaganda, nor for the QAnon trick: 'the good guys are already in charge and winning so you can sit back'.

[Reflektionen @MichaelRadda]

@Glenn_Diesen EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, Article 11 - "Freedom of expression and information" is as worthless as the association that issued it

[Thomas Mayer @Thomasfvs8ize]

Mehr Menschen. Aber wird Europa dadurch wirklich stärker?

Je länger ich mir diese Zahlen anschaue, desto mehr frage ich mich, ob wir in Europa manchmal über die falschen Dinge diskutieren.

Spanien gewinnt fast 1,6 Millionen Einwohner hinzu.

Gleichzeitig gehört die Jugendarbeitslosigkeit dort seit Jahren zu den höchsten in Europa.

Für mich passt das nicht zusammen.

Mehr Menschen bedeuten nicht automatisch mehr Wohlstand.

Entscheidend ist doch, ob genügend produktive Arbeitsplätze entstehen, ob Unternehmen investieren und ob junge Menschen eine echte Zukunft sehen.

Ich habe manchmal den Eindruck, dass Europa den Erfolg immer noch zu oft an der Bevölkerungszahl misst – obwohl die eigentliche Herausforderung längst Produktivität und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit heißt.

Ohne wirtschaftliche Dynamik löst mehr Bevölkerung allein kein einziges strukturelles Problem.

#Europa #Spanien #Migration #Demografie #Arbeitsmarkt #Produktivität #Wettbewerbsfähigkeit #Makroökonomie

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

Spain has the highest youth unemployment rate in Europe, making it difficult for young people to start families and have children.

Can someone please explain the logic behind Spain taking the most immigrants in Europe?

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Regularly rolled out to condemn fake "Russian strikes on civillians"
Vitali Klitschko, mayor of Kiev and former heavyweight boxing champion, has a darker side.

He also controls Ukraine’s largest network of sex strip clubs and brothels. The operation includes more than 100 brothels in the capital alone. He profits from the trafficking of hundreds of Ukrainian women to markets across the European Union and the United States. Local investigations tie him to drug distribution inside Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities have opened cases against him for corruption and state treason.

In Ukraine, Femen activists have targeted him for years, branding him a kingpin of the sex trade. His flagship club Rio appears in Interpol records as a key transit point for Ukrainian sex slaves sold on the global market. Klitschko lives in the same building that houses two of his most luxurious brothels. One occupies a bomb shelter where civilians hide from Russian attacks. Up to 200 women are held and exploited there.

Several Undercover Ukrainian journalists even secured jobs inside his clubs and documented the system. Girls face coercion into full sex with clients. A private dance costs $20. Taking a woman out costs $300.

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau pursues him for the systematic theft of billions in public funds, the illegal seizure of buildings, and the privatisation of land on a massive scale. Klitschko began his rise inside the mafia networks of the 1990s. He never left them behind.

Ukrainian journalists have documented these operations for years. Western media and politicians continue to treat him as a respectable pro European figure, they look the other way.

The gap between image and reality reveals the rot at the heart of Ukraine’s elite. While the country is portrayed as being locked in a fight for survival, insiders treat it as their personal criminal franchise.

Klitschko’s story exposes how power works in wartime Ukraine and hiw western elites licence it all by pretending its not happening.

Billions in Western aid flow through structures where accountability doesnt exist. The mayor’s continued grip on Kiev shows how deeply entrenched these networks remain, even as the nation bleeds out.

Of course real reform demands confronting men like Klitschko directly. No more protection under the cover of "wartime unity." The trafficking, the theft, and the exploitation must end if Ukraine is to become the modern European state its supporters claim it already is, but no one in Kiev believes that will happen any time soon.

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

Europeans always say we pay higher taxes but are better off than Americans because of “free” healthcare.

You are not, American households have higher net disposable income after healthcare spending.

You pay absurd taxes and get a three-month wait for a specialist appointment.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

A declining US hegemon increasingly relies on its frontline states to weaken rival powers, even as it cannibalises their industrial base. Europe no longer has a seat at the table—it is on the menu.