romano benedetti

Circondato dal metodo juncker Autoctono nel deserto di EUtopia.I figli sono un dono non un diritto.Ringrazio il Padre Nostro per "A
livella".

[romano benedetti @RomanoBenedetti]

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[Alberto Bagnai @AlbertoBagnai]

Forse non è chiaro: per mettere in discussione il principio di indipendenza della BC servirà una guerra mondiale. https://t.co/hc6GlcOvKu

[Michele Arnese @Michele_Arnese]

"La prima sezione civile del Tribunale di Milano ha condannato i giornalisti del Corriere del Sera a risarcire quasi 30 mila euro al professor Alessandro Orsini, che nel giugno 2022 fu additato dal quotidiano di essere una sorta di cospirazionista filorusso. In attesa di eventuali ricorsi, c’è un primo verdetto: era diffamazione. Il 5 giugno di quattro anni fa il Corriere pubblica un’inchiesta dal titolo: “Influencer e opinionisti. Ecco i putiniani d’Italia”. Le firme sono tra le più autorevoli, ovvero Monica Guerzoni e la vice-direttrice Fiorenza Sarzanini. Il richiamo in prima pagina non lascia dubbi: “La mappa ricostruita dagli 007”. La foto di Orsini campeggia in bella vista, del resto è il bersaglio più facile e popolare. (...) Secondo il giudice, “pubblicare e consentire la pubblicazione di un articolo che attribuisce all’Orsini la qualifica di membro di una Rete organizzata di filo putiniani finalizzata alla propaganda, alla controinformazione e, soprattutto, al boicottaggio del governo integra una condotta lesiva dell’immagine e della reputazione personale e professionale dello stesso”". (Fatto quotidiano)

[Lidia Undiemi @Lidia_Undiemi]

Il consenso informato a persone a cui veniva detto che gli avrebbero sospeso lavoro e stipendio, oppure la vita sociale? Qualcuno ha ancora il coraggio di chiamarlo "consenso informato"? Non è nemmeno teorizzabile il "consenso" in tali casi. Che vergogna che abbiamo vissuto.

[La durezza del vivere @durezzadelviver]

Un riarmo tedesco al di fuori del perimetro NATO costituisce un pericolo enorme, dovrebbe essere evidente.

[La durezza del vivere @durezzadelviver]

Hanno provato a cavalcare il dragone, gli è andata male (solo loro potevano crederci!) e adesso frignano.

[fan @NoodleHairCR7]

The most shameless video of the World Cup Final

Enzo Fernandes kicks Cubarsi, an Argentina player fakes an injury and falls down, Enzo gets a red, Messi goes upto the ref pointing to Arg player down saying he’s injured review the foul 😭

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Chinese AI models are wiping billions off Big Tech right now.

Google just lost $200 billion in a single day, and the model it needed to fight back still isn't ready.

Gemini 3.5 Pro, Google's most powerful model, is months behind schedule.

Alphabet stock dropped 4.4% that same day.

The Deepseek moment is happening again, and the new model is FAR bigger.

On the same day Google's delay leaked, a Beijing lab called Moonshot released Kimi K3.

It is the largest open model ever built, with 2.8 trillion parameters.

It took the number one spot on the Frontend Code Arena, a live coding leaderboard, passing Anthropic's best model.

And Moonshot is giving it away for free on July 27.

The genius part:

Anyone with enough computers can download it and run a frontier level AI without paying a cent to a US company.

A single task on Kimi K3 costs about 94 cents.

The same work on some American models costs nearly double.

So why would a company keep paying premium prices for a model it can now get for free?

The entire US AI business is built on selling access to models that cost billions to train.

If a free Chinese version does most of the same work, that pricing power starts to crack.

And Kimi is close to the best. On one closely watched intelligence ranking it scored 57, just behind the top American models GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5, and ahead of Claude Opus 4.8.

Bank of America told clients that Kimi proves Chinese labs can keep making big leaps even with limited chips.

And the founder of Moonshot, Yang Zhilin, learned to build AI as a researcher INSIDE Google.

Google literally wrote the 2017 paper that made all of these models possible.

Now the people who studied its work are using it to destroy Google, and handing it out for free.

What happens next:

Kimi K3's weights go public on July 27.

Google reports earnings on July 22, and everyone will be asking the same question about Gemini.

If free models keep topping the charts, every valuation built on paid AI access has to be rewritten.

What do you think?

[EndGame Macro @onechancefreedm]

Almost everyone I talk to genuinely do not understand how ordinary families are making this work anymore, especially those raising children and the uncomfortable answer is that many of them are not. People are maintaining the appearance of financial stability by carrying credit card balances, stretching vehicle loans across 6 or 7 years, dividing everyday purchases into installments and quietly falling behind.

The numbers reveal what the headline economy often conceals.

Childcare

Center based childcare now averages roughly $1,372 per month for one child and approximately $2,333 per month for two children, or about $28,000 per year. Infant care can cost between $1,560 and $1,800 per month for each child.

Vehicle Payments

The average new car payment is approximately $770 per month, while the average used car payment is around $531 and the average lease payment is about $619. Nearly 20% of new car buyers now have monthly payments exceeding $1,000.

The Basic Family Math

One average new car payment combined with childcare for two children already consumes roughly $3,100 per month, or more than $37,000 annually, before paying for housing, groceries, insurance, utilities, healthcare, clothing or taxes.

Credit Cards

Roughly 13.1% of credit card balances are at least 90 days delinquent, approaching the approximately 13.7% peak recorded during the Great Financial Crisis.

Auto Loans

Serious auto loan delinquencies are approximately 5.6% overall, while subprime delinquencies of 60 days or more have reached roughly 6.8%, the highest level in 32 years. The stress remains concentrated among weaker borrowers, but that is often where broader economic deterioration begins.

Buy Now, Pay Later Usage

What began as a small checkout convenience has developed into a major parallel credit system. The largest providers originated about 180 million pay in four loans worth more than $24 billion in 2021, nearly 10x the number issued in 2019. Estimated United States transaction value later climbed toward $70 billion, while adult usage increased from roughly 10% in 2021 to 16% by 2025.

Buy Now, Pay Later Stress

One survey found that 47% of users made at least one late payment, compared with 41% the previous year and 34% two years earlier. Most late payments may eventually be resolved, but the trend still reveals widespread short term cash flow pressure.

Millions of working families are no longer comfortably funding their lives from current income. They are financing childcare, transportation and ordinary consumption through increasingly fragile layers of debt.

From the outside, the economy still appears functional. Underneath it, a growing share of families are not getting ahead or even holding steady. They are simply postponing the moment when the arithmetic finally catches up with them.

[𝔸𝕣𝕖𝕫𝕟𝕠 🦋 @Arezno]

“Hola, no me conocéis, soy Unai Simón, el portero de la selección española”

[GiovanniZibordi @GiovanniZibordi]

IL PETROLIO non è raro, scarso o in via di esaurimento. Non è fatto da dinosauri morti o di "fossili". È il secondo liquido più comune sulla Terra dopo l’acqua. L’intera truffa del “combustibile fossile” è stata inventata dai Rockefeller e dal Smithsonian alla fine degli anni 1800 per creare scarsità artificiale e far schizzare i prezzi a livelli folli.

Ti hanno rifilato la bugia biotica così avresti creduto che l’olio sia una zuppa finita di dinosauri o altri resti "fossili" che sta per esaurirsi. Il petrolio è abiotico. È un minerale liquido cotto in profondità nel mantello terrestre sotto pressioni schiaccianti e calore rovente. È il lubrificante naturale per le placche tettoniche e il grasso che mantiene oliati gli enormi ingranaggi del pianeta. Ecco perché i pozzi prosciugati negli anni ’70 si stanno riempiendo di nuovo oggi. La Terra sta pompando olio fresco dal basso e lo rigenera senza sosta. Non si esaurisce. Stiamo risucchiando il lubrificante dal motore del pianeta e ora l’intera macchina inizia a tremare. Più terremoti. Faglie che scricchiolano. Placche che stridono. Coincidenza? No.

Stiamo depredando l’olio che mantiene la crosta terrestre scivolosa come si deve e il sistema si sta bloccando letteralmente. La cosiddetta “teoria fossile” è il più grande trucco economico della storia umana. Il vero petrolio greggio ha quasi zero marcatori biologici. Nessun azoto, nessun fosforo, niente che sopravviverrebbe se venisse da organismi morti.

È puro idrocarburo polimerico, roba primordiale dalla formazione stessa della Terra. Thomas Gold ha provato ad avvertire il mondo. Ha dimostrato che idrocarburi come metano e olio risalgono dal mantello profondo, non da paludi antiche. L’establishment ha distrutto la sua reputazione perché la verità farebbe crollare l’intera loro griglia di controllo.

Se la gente sapesse che l’olio è praticamente acqua di rubinetto per il pianeta, generata all’infinito dal basso, l’intera geopolitica parassitaria di guerre, sanzioni e manipolazioni dei prezzi svanirebbe da un giorno all’altro. Non vogliono che tu sappia che la Terra produce il suo olio. Hanno bisogno che tu sia spaventato, dipendente e paghi a caro prezzo mentre prosciugano il pianeta.

[🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 @apocalypseos]

🇷🇺 When the Global Economy Collapses: A Chinese Professor’s Prediction by Sergey Glazyev

While Wall Street analysts draw their growth charts, prominent Chinese economist Jiang Xueqin sounds the alarm and delivers a merciless verdict to the world:

“In one year, you will face mass unemployment, a global stock market crash, corporate bankruptcies, soaring flight prices, and energy crises worldwide.”

According to the professor, the world is standing on two giant time bombs created by the United States: the private credit bubble and the AI bubble. And the phenomenal rise of neural networks is not built on real technology:

“The artificial intelligence bubble is entirely fueled by foreign liquidity — mainly from Japan and the Persian Gulf states.”

But those sources are drying up before our eyes. War is choking oil exports from the Middle East. Japan is drowning under the weight of sanctions, losing markets for its industrial goods. The global machine is starting to stall.

Less than a year remains until, according to the professor, the entire structure collapses under its own weight.

In short, Xueqin has stated the obvious. You don’t need to be a fortune teller to see it coming.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

British Steel was collapsing.

Britain could not shut it down, because that would make the UK the only G7 country without primary steelmaking capacity.

So it brought in Chinese capital.

Jingye spent six years and £1.2 billion rescuing British Steel, upgrading equipment, preserving jobs, paying taxes, and keeping Britain’s industrial dignity alive.

Then, once the company could stand again, London seized control.

This has nothing to do with national security;
it's simply the instinct for greed ingrained in the DNA of an empire.

Jingye demands £1 billion in compensation.

Britain offers less than £100 million — and even hides behind an “independent assessment” before paying what it already owes.

This is how empire behaves when it loses the ability to build.

It invites foreign capital when it is desperate.
It steals the asset when it becomes valuable.
Then it calls the theft “rules.”

China has to set a price for this.

Otherwise every Chinese company overseas is being told the same thing:

your money is welcome,
your technology is welcome,
your jobs are welcome,
your taxes are welcome—

until the West decides your ownership is inconvenient.

The British Empire used warships to force open China’s doors, ushering in a century of humiliation.

Britain poisoned the Chinese people with opium, looted and burned the Old Summer Palace, and stole China’s wealth.

Now Britain is using modern legal costume to repeat an old imperial habit:

take Chinese wealth,
deny Chinese rights,
then lecture China about rules.

With great skill.
And with great self-righteousness.

This is why Chinese public anger is boiling. Many are demanding that Beijing stop treating British state fraud as a normal commercial dispute or another round of polite diplomacy.

History must not repeat itself, no matter the method.

The empire died.

The theft instinct survived.

[Gold Telegraph ⚡ @GoldTelegraph_]

The Gold Goes Home

People forget how quickly the world can change.

In February 1965, Charles de Gaulle stood in front of hundreds of journalists at the Élysée Palace and said the one thing no Western leader was allowed to say.

He called for the world to return to gold.

Not to the dollar. Not to promises.

To the one asset, he said, that "has no nationality" and is "eternally and universally accepted."

Washington laughed at the old general.

Then France stopped laughing and started converting.

Through the mid-1960s, the Banque de France redeemed hundreds of millions of American dollars for American gold, ship after ship, drawdown after drawdown.

And de Gaulle's economist, Jacques Rueff, kept telling the world exactly what the game was:

America could spend more than it earned, forever, without consequence…  a "deficit without tears," he called it, because it paid its bills in paper only it could print.

Finance minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing gave the arrangement the name that stuck:

America's "exorbitant privilege."

The pressure worked too well.

On August 15, 1971, President Nixon closed the gold window rather than keep paying out metal.

The last link between the dollar and gold was severed on a Sunday night, on television, precipitating a period of confusion and shock.

France asked for its gold.

The world got the fiat era instead.

Keep that story in mind. Because sixty years later, France just did it again and almost nobody noticed.

The quietest repatriation in history

Starting in July 2025, the Banque de France began unwinding its position at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

But there were no armoured convoys.
No transatlantic flights.
No diplomatic incident.

Instead, across 26 separate transactions over seven months, France sold 129 tonnes of old bullion sitting in the New York Fed's vault, bars so old some dated to the late 1920s, cast before modern purity standards existed and bought back the identical tonnage in Europe.

Newer bars. Higher standard. Stored in Paris.

Repatriation without a single bar crossing the Atlantic.

And here's the part that should make every treasury official weep:

They got paid to do it. By selling old New York stock at record prices and repurchasing in Europe, the Banque de France booked a realized gain of roughly €11–13 billion, nearly $15 billion, enough to swing the entire central bank back to profit for the year.

All 2,437 tonnes of French gold, the fourth-largest hoard on Earth, now sit in La Souterraine, the vault carved into the rock beneath Paris.

Governor Villeroy de Galhau insists the move was "not politically motivated."

Of course he does.

Central bankers always say that.

France is not alone.

Watch what they do, not what they say.

Germany repatriated 674 tonnes from Paris and New York, a program announced in 2013 after German politicians grew tired of being told their gold was fine, trust us, no you can't audit it.

Turkey pulled 220 tonnes out of the Federal Reserve.

The Netherlands brought home 122 tonnes.

Poland repatriated 100 tonnes from vaults in England.

And the vaults themselves tell the story in aggregate.

The share of central bank reserve gold stored in London has fallen from 64% to 57%.

The New York Fed's share has dropped from 17% to 14%.

Percentage point by percentage point, decade by decade, the metal is migrating home.

Onto sovereign soil.

The bigger picture

This is not happening in isolation. It's happening inside the largest shift in reserve behaviour in a generation.

Gold now exceeds US Treasuries as a share of global reserves for the first time since 1996.

Read that again.

The world's central banks,  the issuers of fiat currency, the operators of the printing presses, collectively hold more of their reserves in a 5,000-year-old metal than in the debt of the United States government.

And a record 45% of them say they plan to buy more gold in the next twelve months.

Ask them why, and you'll get the paragraph about diversification.

But diversification doesn't explain the geography.

You don't move gold out of London and New York to diversify.

You move it because possession has started to matter again.

Because you watched $300 billion of Russian reserves get frozen with a keystroke.

Because you've realized that gold in someone else's vault is not gold. It's a claim on gold.

And a claim is just another word for credit.

The lesson?

Countries are beginning to think differently, not only about how much gold they own, but where they hold it and in what form.

Old bars are being upgraded to modern standards. Foreign custody is being converted to domestic possession. Claims are being converted to metal.

But strip away the financial engineering, and it's the same instinct that sent French ships across the Atlantic in the 1960s.

The same instinct that has moved men and nations for five thousand years.

When nations lose confidence...
They ask for their gold.

The last time France asked, the entire monetary system broke within six years.

This time, nobody's even pretending the window is open.

If you enjoy stories like this, please share it. Last week I wrote a story about JPMorgan. I will continue writing stories like this every weekend.

— GT

[Claudio Borghi A. @ClaudioBorghi]

Durante la pausa della per ora noiosa finale, leggendo i messaggi, vedo che la proposta di legge Lega su "Difesa Sempre Legittima" sta mandando ai matti un sacco di gente. Ottimo. E quindi la ridiffondo. Lettura libera iscrizione gradita. Basta la mail 👇

https://t.co/QBiNwuKSub

[W @_common_W_]

Argentina are the only team out of all 48 participants not to have a single VAR intervention against them, despite committing the most fouls in the tournament. Do you even realize how insane that is?

[Francesca Totolo @fratotolo2]

Precisazione della famiglia Roggero, come da verbali delle udienze pubbliche di primo grado del processo di Asti

“Quella notte (di 21 anni fa), il ragazzo, fidanzato di una figlia di Mario Roggero, non si limitò a darle qualche schiaffo ma la raggiunse con alcuni pugni che le causarono lesioni, seguiti dal terrore di un duplice tentativo di investimento con l'auto, prima di abbandonarla al buio in una strada isolata…

Mario, poi, non fece irruzione in casa di nessuno e non aggredi nessuno. Citofonò per chiedere spiegazioni e, solo dopo che il padre del ragazzo minacciò di scendere con un fucile, prese dall'auto la pistola scarica la e legittimamente detenuta. L'arma fu mostrata solo all'esterno, come deterrente.
L'unica reale violenza fisica la subì proprio Roggero, colpito al volto da un pugno del padre del ragazzo, a cui scelse coscienziosamente di non reagire”

N.B. È vergognoso che si cerchi ancora di screditare un uomo già in carcere, pubblicando fatti senza prima verificarli.

[Cambiacasacca @Cambiacasacca]

Il fatto che l'unione europea abbia aperto procedura si infrazioe contro tutti 27 gli stati per quella cacata delle case green, dimostra come l'ue non c'entri nulla con noi, ma sia solo un virus, o meglio un cancro che difende solo se stesso a costo di uccidere i corpi ospitanti.

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

The Chinese president stood on a stage in Shanghai and laid out China's entire AI playbook in one speech.

It was his first-ever in-person appearance at the World AI Conference. I went through the whole thing and pulled out everything that matters.

- he opened with his signature maxim that great changes unseen in a century are unfolding across the world.

- he said AI development should not be a solo performance by a single country but a symphony of international cooperation.

- he reaffirmed China's commitment to open source AI in the name of openness and shared benefit.

- he warned against overstretching the concept of national security in AI, where one country puts its own security above everyone else's.

- he said China opposes the emergence of new historical injustices in AI, one of the strongest-worded lines in the speech.

- he pledged 5,000 AI training opportunities for developing countries over the next five years, naming ASEAN, the Arab League, the African Union, CELAC, the SCO, and BRICS.

- he committed to giving 30 countries access to a Chinese AI weather system that provides early disaster warnings.

- a day before the speech, 29 countries signed the agreement creating a new World AI Cooperation Organization headquartered in Shanghai.

strip away the politics and one thing stands out to me. he didn't pitch benchmarks or chatbots. he pitched AI as infrastructure, weather warnings for countries that lose thousands of lives to storms they never saw coming, and training programs for regions the AI boom has skipped.

meanwhile most of the Western AI conversation revolves around which lab ships the next frontier model.

I don't care who wins the race. I care whether the computing power reaches the people who need it.

The full speech is below, and it's worth your time.

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

Chinese billionaire & venture capitalist Eric Li explains why China🇨🇳 is winning the competition against the US🇺🇸:

‘In America, you can change the party but you can’t change the policies. In China🇨🇳, you cannot change the party, but you can change the policies.’

‘China is a vibrant market economy but it is not a capitalist economy. There’s no way a group of billionaires could control the politburo, as billionaires control US policymaking.

So in China, you have a vibrant market economy, but capital does not rise above political authority.’

[Stefano Re 🧱 @Stefano_Re]

Il famoso "consenso informato in divenire".
Chissà se per questi dementi valeva anche in forma retroattiva.

[Riccardo Romani @RRomani1973]

Questo passaggio della #Pepoli è il più agghiacciante. La scienza che non capisce i suoi stessi numeri quando mostrano che i vaccinati si infettavano di più.
La stessa scienza che però era sicurissima quando si trattava di inoculare i bambini. Siate stramaledetti, merde!