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I francesi falliscono nel tentativo di riconquistare la colonia perduta del Niger.
Mai dimenticare che in Niger pochi anni fa gli USA hanno ceduto la loro base militare ai russi. E che i C-130 dati al nuovo governo nigerino sono “italiani” (…).
I nemici dunque sono i francesi, anche per l’Italia
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New Podcast - Episode #258 - Chris Sullivan and Decoding the American Economic Path https://t.co/peAuMCxifn
Not Canadian. Oh well, win some, lose some.
Treasury promised to sever every economic lifeline Tehran has left and finally end the threat of the Iranian regime. We also warned that Iran’s enablers cannot continue to enjoy access to the U.S. dollar and the global financial system. Banque Misr UAE decided to find out the hard way, and today, we are taking the first step in holding it accountable for its continued, egregious support of the Iranian regime.
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They announced the SIU last year without any further details than "we're going to mobilize European savings." I knew this thing was a card waiting to be played.
Last year I asked @grok to go through it.
(here's the short conversation https://t.co/8vTDHXCLoN… )
That could on
# 📰 BRUSSELS' NEW TARGET: YOUR SAVINGS
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**🇪🇺 Ursula von der Leyen just announced that she has European citizens' savings in her crosshairs.**
**"Europe has savings!" she declared. "Unfortunately, this savings is lazy!"**
**Her solution? A new "Savings and Investment Union" — to put those savings to work.**
**But here is the uncomfortable question: whose savings are they, really?** 🎯
---
## 💰 THE STATEMENT
Speaking at the *Rencontre des Entrepreneurs de France* in Paris on August 27, the European Commission President laid out her vision:
> *"Ten thousand billion euros of European households' savings are currently held in bank accounts. And a significant part of European savings is invested outside our continent. Europe must now put these savings at the service of its businesses."*
She called the current savings **"lazy"** — implying they are not being put to productive use. Her proposed "Savings and Investment Union" aims to **channel private capital** into EU investments, potentially unlocking **€470 billion in additional investment**.
**The message is clear: your money is not yours to keep. It is a resource to be mobilized.**
---
## 🧠 THE PATRIMONIALE QUESTION
**Is this a wealth tax?**
Technically, no. The SIU is framed as a **voluntary capital markets union** — encouraging citizens to move savings from bank deposits into investments. But the language is telling:
| What von der Leyen Says | What It Means |
|-------------------------|---------------|
| "Europe has savings" | Europe does not have savings — *people* do |
| "Savings are lazy" | Your prudence is a problem to be solved |
| "Put savings to work" | Your money should serve EU priorities |
| "Savings and Investment Union" | A mechanism to direct private capital toward state-defined goals |
**When a political leader calls your savings "lazy" and announces plans to "put them to work," it is worth paying attention.**
---
## 🔥 THE DOUBLE STANDARD
While von der Leyen eyes the savings of European households, consider the context:
| Reality | Irony |
|---------|-------|
| **The EU is spending billions on war** | Military aid to Ukraine is draining national budgets |
| **Energy prices are 2-3x higher than in the US or China** | Competitiveness is collapsing |
| **Deindustrialization is accelerating** | Factories are closing across the continent |
| **Yet the solution is "lazy savings"** | Not policy failure — your bank account |
**The elites who brought Europe to the brink of economic collapse now want to dip into your savings to fix the mess they created.**
---
## 📊 THE NUMBERS THAT MATTER
| Metric | Value |
|--------|-------|
| **European household savings in bank accounts** | ~€10 trillion |
| **Additional investment targeted** | Up to €470 billion |
| **EU energy prices vs US** | 2-3x higher |
| **EU dependency on imported fossil fuels** | Over 50% |
| **Additional cost from Middle East crisis** | €50 billion+ |
**The EU is bleeding money on energy dependency, war spending, and deindustrialization. Now it wants your savings to plug the gap.**
---
## ❓ THE QUESTIONS THAT REMAIN
🔹 **If European savings are "lazy," who made them lazy — citizens or the policies that destroyed returns on investment?**
🔹 **Why should households trust Brussels with their savings when the EU has failed to secure energy independence, industrial competitiveness, or peace?**
🔹 **Is this a voluntary investment framework — or the first step toward forced mobilization of private capital?**
🔹 **And where was this concern for "lazy savings" when the EU was spending billions on war rather than on economic resilience?**
---
## 🕊️ THE HARD TRUTH
Ursula von der Leyen has made it official: **Brussels is coming for your savings.**
- She calls them "lazy."
- She says "Europe" has them — not you.
- She wants to "put them to work."
**But the reality is simple:**
**Your savings are yours.** They are the product of your labor, your prudence, your sacrifice. They are not a resource to be seized by bureaucrats who have mismanaged an entire continent.
**Europe's economic crisis was not caused by "lazy savings."**
**It was caused by:**
| Cause | Evidence |
|-------|----------|
| **Energy dependency** | Over 50% of energy comes from imported fossil fuels |
| **War spending** | Billions diverted to military aid, not economic growth |
| **Failed industrial policy** | Deindustrialization is accelerating |
| **Regulatory burden** | Competitiveness is collapsing |
**Now the same elites who created this crisis want to solve it with your money.**
**The message is unmistakable: Brussels is running out of other people's money.** 🎯
---
**💬 Is the "Savings and Investment Union" a genuine opportunity — or a backdoor wealth grab by a failing bureaucracy?**
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*Independent analysis. No ideology. Just facts.*
**Marco | Independent Analyst ⚖️**
---
## 📊 SOURCES USED
| Source | Content |
|--------|---------|
| ANSA | August 27, 2026 — von der Leyen: Savings Union by year's end |
| Tgcom24 | August 27, 2026 — €10 trillion in household savings |
| SoldiOnline | August 27, 2026 — €470 billion additional investment target |
| Eunews | August 27, 2026 — Savings and Investment Union details |
| European Commission | March 2025 — SIU strategy to channel savings to investments |
| Dossier #61 | Europe's collapsing defense industrial base |
| Dossier #73 | The Winter 2026-2027 — Europe's reckoning |
I've been asked a number of times over the past couple of years, why did you stop raising goats if you loved them so much?
This is only a small part of it. The rules in this country on dairy are 100x worse. Small farmers cannot jump the gap from hobby operation to small busin
@BTCsessions and I have a chat about Bessent, Carney and the financial carnage we've avoided so far. https://t.co/hypsBloNxw
So why did you agree to the stupid Carbon Capture scheme from Ottawa which left Alberta's oil patch more vulnerable to this?
It's time for you to shit or get off the pot, Danielle and lead Alberta forward rather than deferring to a maleducated electorate.
This should be the
Cut or tariff Canada's oil exports to the US? Horrible idea.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith does a fantastic jobs breaking it down:
"I cannot think of a more disastrous policy decision than cutting off or taxing Alberta's oil to the United States."
> US will respond with a 50%–100% tariff on fuels supplied to Ontario and Quebec.
> US refineries would replace Alberta heavy crude with Venezuelan oil, cutting Canada off as a supplier permanently.
> At least 500,000 jobs would be wiped out across Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec.
> Retaliatory US cuts to gasoline and diesel exports would leave eastern Canada stranded without fuel right as fall and winter begin.
> Canada has no reserves to supply Ontario and Quebec.
> The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) would nose-dive, devastating Canadian investments, and pensions.
What most Canadians don't seem to realize is that the current oil prices is generating substantial taxes for governments that softens the blow of the tariffs, and big portion of it comes from the US.
Market Report 8-26-2026: Bessent's Naughty List
Scott Bessent's announcement yesterday of Operation Economic Isolation was a statement that I do not believe Iran, their Middle Eastern partners, or London ever banked on hearing.
It was clear from the https://t.co/G6PI71Ya7j
Read this carefully. It connects a lot of dots as to what groundwork Carney has been laying to tie Canada into the EU's future plans to isolate the US from the Arctic and cut off any hope of a global realignment.
Carney doesn't care about the trade flows at this point. What he
1. Things will start to make sense if you read this carefully.
How does Carney plan to survive an economic battle with the United States?
The confiscated $350 billion Russian sovereign wealth fund isn't enough to keep Ukraine, Europe and now Canada afloat. That revenue source is burning fast.
Then again, now you might understand why banker Mark Carney created the Defense, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB) as the vehicle to transfer Russian funds, laundered through Ukraine, into a Canadian Bank that he controls.
https://t.co/ehRZlxGU67
And so it begins….
Trump wants to steal the midterms. He knows the GOP can’t win if he doesn’t. His approval rating has absolutely cratered. The only people who still support him are a loud, delusional minority. And there’s no reason to believe groups like Heritage and Claremont wouldn’t shamelessly try to justify whatever Trump does to undermine our elections.
No, Shamiqua Autopen is signaling to her Commie Brethren that it’s go time.
NEWS: The Supreme Court’s 6-3 conservative majority just handed Trump an initial victory in his push to restrict mail-in voting ahead of the 2026 midterms, lifting a court order that blocked key parts of his executive order in 23 states.
The ruling does not decide whether Trump’s actions are ultimately legal.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned Trump is seeking to “foment chaos ahead of the November elections.”
We’re so going to balance the budget by the end of this administration, if not sooner.
The whole ‘deficit’ is nothing but fraud which is just flow for the entire system to lever up and use against us.
🚨 HOLY SMOKES: Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Oz have just announced OVER *ONE MILLION* PEOPLE are on Obamacare with NO Social Security number…
🤯🤯
It’s one big racket! Shut it down!
“They submit applications for fake people and enroll stolen identities all to collect millions of dollars in fees from insurance companies for selling plans they never legitimately sold!”
“The Obamacare marketplace is plagued by fraud, in large part because the Biden administration dismantled basic program integrity guardrails.”
“More than a million people enrolled in Obamacare without social security numbers on file. That is a glaring warning side of fraud.”
“If even a single person was on Obamacare with no social security number, we should have found out why are we paying people who we don't know if they actually exist.”
“Shady insurance agents and other bad actors have been getting paid to enroll unsuspecting Americans in health plans they never signed up for.”
“Thanks to this aggressive enforcement strategywe've already eliminated thousands of fraudulent policies and we're just getting started.”
“We’re also working with insurers to cancel every policy that should never have been issued and recover every tax payer dollar that was fraudulently paid out.”
This is why we need to pass Trump’s plan!
The reason everyone is out for Bessent's head this morning is because he's clearly in charge of the next phase of the Iran operation.
Too many take the easy limbic route to grind their personal axe, doing the heavy lifting...
...And that operation flows right back to London, B
Candy Two-Face and the Backstabbers
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For this morning:
The big news of the week didn't really hit me until we got to the weekend, but I guess these trade talks between the US and Canada were important.... to someone. No offense to the Canadians in the audience but we really have bigger fish https://t.co/hTUVYKJzPt
Carney's job was to extract as much as he could from Canada for his Davos masters while simultaneously turning Canada into a failed state on the US's northern border.
It's the same strategy they ran in Mexico. There are few things that will make me happier than watching Mark C
Canada Cannot Win a Trade War. It Needs a rational honest Strategy.
The prize in Canada’s confrontation with Washington is continued access to the world’s largest economy, sitting directly next door. The United States is a roughly $32 T market. China may be the second-largest economy, but it is far away and cannot replace the commercial advantages of geography, common infrastructure, familiar legal practices, and deeply integrated North American supply chains.
Canada cannot win a trade war with its largest trading partner. It can defend itself, impose focused costs where it has leverage, and negotiate hard. But it cannot plausibly inflict equivalent damage on an economy many times its size while remaining so dependent on access to that market. The U.S. still takes roughly 72 percent of Canadian goods exports.
That is why the objective should not be performative escalation. Broad retaliatory tariffs may satisfy an understandable desire to hit back, but they raise prices for Canadian families, increase input costs for Canadian firms, and risk making Canada a less attractive place to invest and manufacture. Tariffs can be a temporary, targeted negotiating tool; they are not an economic-growth strategy. Trade wars end at negotiating tables, not through successive announcements of measures that harm one’s own economy.
The reaction from much of Canada suggests that the country has not yet absorbed the seriousness of its predicament. The instinct has been to demand visible defiance, treat retaliation as proof of resolve, and turn a structural economic challenge into an emotional political contest. That is backwards. Performative policies helped bring Canada to its present position; more performative politics will not get it out.
Canada’s vulnerability is not solely the product of Trump Hamiltonian economic strategy. It reflects decades of domestic neglect: weak business investment, stalled productivity, regulatory complexity, barriers to internal trade, delayed infrastructure, and economic policies that too often favour subsidies and protection over competition, capital formation and globally competitive firms.
The consequences are increasingly visible. Canada’s investment per worker was only 85 percent of its 2014 level by 2023, while business research-and-development spending of roughly 1.8 percent of GDP lagged both the OECD average and the United States. These weaknesses did not begin with the present dispute. But the dispute has exposed them.
Emotional responses should not become national strategy. Anger at Washington, and the temptation to reduce everything to hostility toward one American president, obscure a more durable reality: U.S. trade policy is increasingly tied to national security, industrial policy and geopolitical power. That shift will not disappear with one election or one negotiator.
Canada needs firmness without fantasy. But it must also accelerate energy, transport and trade infrastructure; Canada needs to deregulate, improve investment competitiveness; lower internal barriers; strengthen productivity; diversify exports; and restore fiscal discipline.
Canada needs time it’s does not have. Canada needs finesse. Not what has been on display recently.
Canada cannot replace the American market overnight. The task is to secure access to it while fixing the domestic weaknesses that have made Canada so exposed. Decades of neglect are coming home to roost.
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I really wish people on Twitter would spend more time contemplating the value of real leaders and their instincts rather than the hyperbole of those willing to sell their soul for a thousand clicks.
Iceland has a breed of sheep that nobody breeds for meat, because for a thousand years it has been bred for one quality only. Judgement.
They are called forystufe. Leader sheep. Taller, longer in the leg, narrower through the body, oddly marked, and always at the front, with their heads up while the rest of the flock has its head down. When they move, the flock moves. Nobody votes.
A proven leader sold for two or three times the price of a good sheep. Bloodlines became famous. When a great one died, the farm kept the head.
And the claim attached to them sounds like folklore until you read the records. They know the weather is coming, sometimes a full day out. If the leader will not leave the barn on a morning that looks perfectly fine, you do not move the flock. Farmers arranged their winters around the opinion of a sheep, and wrote it down as fact.
Autumn round-up, 1884. A large flock is being driven across the interior when a blizzard comes down on open sand and rock. Every landmark goes. You cannot pitch a tent on that ground and turning back is worse than going on.
At the front is a ram called Surtur, from Svinavatn, already known as a superior leader. The fjallkongur, the man running the round-up, makes a decision. He hands the whole thing to the sheep and tells his men to stay together.
A third of the way across, Surtur stops, turns, and walks back down through the flock to find the men. His face is packed solid with ice and he cannot see. They clear it. He returns to the front and walks back into the weather.
He comes back for the same service several more times that night. Nobody has to fetch him.
Then he stops and will not move at all. The men feel about and find grass under their boots, which tells them they are off the desert and nothing else whatsoever.
At dawn the storm eases and they work out where they are.
They are standing on the exact spot the round-up stops every year after crossing the sands. Surtur had halted there since he was a lamb. Afterwards the fjallkongur told his owner that without the ram, men would have died out there as well as sheep.
There are fewer than 1,500 leader sheep left, all of them descended from one district in the north east. Iceland recognised them as a breed of their own in 2017. There is a small museum out there, run by a local teacher, with the heads of the great ones on the wall and a coffee blend named after the animals. The saying on the wall is that if you wear clothes made from their wool, you will always find your way home.
Genetic work has since confirmed they really are distinct from every other Icelandic sheep. The folklore was right. Folklore usually is, out where the weather kills people.
No laboratory. No pedigree software. No genome. Just farmer after farmer, century after century, watching which animal was at the front when the light went, and breeding from that one.
A thousand years of selecting a sheep for its judgement, and at the end of it they built it a museum.
And here we are, in the country that calls them stupid.
So, Axios is admitting that the Trump admin is not lying. Did pigs learn to fly or is reality the harshest of all mistresses?
AXIOS: U.S. military quietly established a Strait of Hormuz shipping corridor handling ~10 million barrels of oil daily
Define “they”. If you’re saying the BoE and the ECB then yes.
If not, then go back to fasting.
They are manipulating the Yen.
They are manipulating Treasuries.
They will fail.
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