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2025-12-09 11:30:20 GMT

This flag is the symbol of clumsy bureaucracy, paternalism, corruption, and anti-republican spirit. https://image.nostr.build/386bd39cd7f5e72d67093a6b3028a9d34ec47c10b87628686b226bf72db5cba9.jpg
The consequence of Brussels' degeneration into a vulgar socialist power clique: a civilizational rupture, warmongering as a last resort to cover up the debt collapse, the collapse of the economy—and as revenge, the hated population is forced into a digital censorship gulag, while European traditions and national dignity are hammered down with the most terrible invasion policy.
Brussels is the nucleus of the European cancer.
#EU #Brussels #WEF #Trump #Globalists #Migration #Merz #Ukraine

2025-11-18 20:13:45 GMT

Back in Málaga, thank God. Climate change has pushed temperatures down to one or two degrees in Germany. https://image.nostr.build/11eaa8d0e0eb51c3905ab04119bd8a6f2e9afe6f756d7be4055f513fe785de70.jpg

2025-11-18 13:32:19 GMT

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I lost it when Mamdani opened his stupid mouth

2025-11-18 12:42:57 GMT

Advertising to build up the #wareconomy is in full swing. Found at Weeze Airport. I'm curious to see how they plan to fill the empty capacity in industry, which currently employs around 8,000 people in #Germany. https://image.nostr.build/fef509f18e55bf8ca7fe533320457570179514318ffcb676eadae70ea74b37fe.jpg

2025-11-13 12:46:18 GMT

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Very true

2025-11-13 09:14:02 GMT

Just a reminder: this is exactly what debt spirals look like, illustrated here using the example of the crisis-stricken city of Munich. It is a symbol of what is currently happening across the country. Germany will no longer be able to escape the debt spiral. https://image.nostr.build/13d9271b684298f8b658a04fcd187bbbaea6ec34c4669959147790a5ac845320.jpg
#Germany #Merz #debtcrisis #EU #socialism #Klingbeil #Munich

2025-11-11 15:57:08 GMT

These statistics do not take into account the fact that in Germany, half of the entire social welfare system is also financed through labor. In net terms, this leaves much less. https://image.nostr.build/bde4baf3aa7132b0f2c71f8bdd82cc776a01d6e493a3a4c0fc82c55eaa2299c3.jpg
But in Germany, the state does a lot for its huge raid in terms of internal security, education, and the cityscape. This enormous achievement by Germany's huge bureaucracy should be worth something to the people there, shouldn't it? #germany #socialism #eu #taxes #taxesaretheft #freedom

2025-10-31 21:09:57 GMT

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Hi. Yes, I was restarting my work as free journalist. I am writing now for two german news media and some in the US. It was and is a wild ride.
Hope You're fine

2025-10-31 20:16:19 GMT

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Retarded squared

2025-10-31 19:37:03 GMT

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Far right conspiration

2025-10-31 19:27:09 GMT

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Christians

2025-10-31 19:24:59 GMT

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Rusiaaa

2025-10-31 19:20:45 GMT

...and so they created the holy church of #co2! https://image.nostr.build/bd33be53748751d9c5b19df4655a203115c04a63d7a80912677846f2bd1bfe1a.jpg

2025-07-10 05:08:41 GMT

This is fuel looking for its rocket. #btc https://image.nostr.build/76b8a899dbff5f85ca658f299ff189ac67345553834d4fa1068b77af56310671.jpg

2025-07-08 15:39:02 GMT

Collapse of the Social Machine
Social insurance is the crown jewel of Germany’s welfare-state engineers and statists. With its hypertrophic bureaucracy, it forms the power base of the party-state. It’s also the recruitment machine for ever more citizens bound into dependency—citizens who, much like the tens of thousands of Green Deal subsidy entrepreneurs, quietly submit to the country’s cartel of silence. Incentives rule...
And now, this gigantic bureaucratic power apparatus is crumbling before our eyes. Aging demographics, social migration, and the deindustrialization forced by aggressive ecological ideology are all eroding the levers of redistribution built into this dull, unreformable machine. The number of people making a productive contribution to Germany’s economy is shrinking, while the ranks of those living parasitically continue to swell.
A quick look at the numbers: this year, the pension system alone will require at least €123 billion in tax subsidies. Health insurance needs roughly €14 billion, and long-term care insurance another €1.7 billion. The collective deficit of Germany’s social funds will explode exponentially once the prolonged recession starts depressing tax revenues—something that’s all but inevitable.
Germany today is no longer the country I knew as a child in the 1980s. We’re witnessing a society coming apart at the seams—internally fractured, drifting away from bourgeois-meritocratic values, abandoning Western traditions and the cultural heritage of its forebears. And it no longer seems capable of repairing the damage it has inflicted upon itself.
Germany has been harvested to the bone, scarred by wind turbines, intellectually dumbed down, and turned wild in its urban spaces. The circus of the globalists moves on—and few even notice.
#Germany #EU #WesternCivilization #Socialism #WEF

2025-07-07 16:34:12 GMT

A nice democratic simulation of the #EU Commission. Here, citizens can have their say on the speed at which their jobs are being destroyed by the CO2 mania. #climatescam https://image.nostr.build/9a031b26e4fafc3ad5f6ab80218a8b0c064efdc64d5e759e6f6b96fbc5ce82b2.jpg

2025-07-07 15:21:04 GMT

Battle for Free Speech: EU-Europe Deploys Its Artillery
In the struggle for narrative dominance and interpretive control, EU-Europe is pursuing a hard and consistent line. Dissenting voices and a growing opposition are met with narrowing discursive spaces. The new German government is also aligning with the Brussels chorus.
One thing cannot be said about Brussels and its national subsidiaries: inconsistency. Once a shared agenda is agreed upon and a procedural consensus is found, institutional and media-based defense mechanisms are built in parallel. These serve to immunize and narratively shield the actors, institutions, and beneficiaries involved in the machinery that transforms political will into reality.
SLAPP Lawsuits as Smokescreen
This is the context in which the German government is now operating. Chancellor Merz’s administration is preparing the national implementation of a largely underreported EU directive. It concerns so-called SLAPP lawsuits — Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation — legal intimidation tools used by powerful actors to silence critics, journalists, or whistleblowers through financially exhausting court proceedings. These lawsuits aim not at legal victory, but at creating pressure, fear, and ultimately bankrupting the opposing side.
The EU directive, officially framed as a protection mechanism for critical voices, gives national legislators wide leeway in interpretation and application. While Brussels speaks of “protection against intimidation,” Berlin is using the blueprint to expand judicial intervention rights and grant courts the power to determine what constitutes an “obviously unfounded” case.
The real target isn’t mainstream disinformation, but rather effective disciplining of critics of the government and the EU.
As a wave of substantive opposition to Brussels’ centralism mounts, a legal early-warning system is being formed, disguised as a protection for press freedom.
The legislative process is currently in inter-ministerial coordination. After cabinet approval, it will move to the parliamentary stage. If the federal government has its way, the law will come into effect this year — a striking example of how efficiently politics can work when it curtails individual freedom.
Climate of Suppression
Let us condense the Brussels agenda into its core elements: centralized capital allocation in sectors like energy; the introduction of digital control currency; the erosion of national cultures through mass migration; and the suppression of secessionist tendencies. In short, further power is to be funneled quietly and systematically from the regions into the Brussels center.
The symptoms of this centralism — economic and cultural decline, uncontrolled migration, and a looming debt crisis — are drawing public attention to foundational questions about the EU’s future.
Dissatisfaction with climate ideology and government overreach is also showing at the ballot box. A rising conservative right, embodied by figures like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, is finding common ground in opposition to EU centralism. A consolidation of this movement is likely, and it’s triggering defensive reflexes in Brussels and national capitals.
This awakening opposition has exposed the various immune systems protecting the regime: NGOs, state-funded media, subsidized business leaders, and a captured academic class dominate public discourse. Together, they set the narrative, isolate dissenters, and — where these defenses fail — seek to sterilize political opposition through media mechanisms. Firewalls in party politics, climate hysteria, and the borderless migration policy are the most visible front lines in this battle for narrative control.
Vectors of Centralized Attack
A visible rupture appeared with Elon Musk’s takeover of X. His multi-billion-dollar investment could mark a turning point in the history of postmodern democracy. With around 600 million users and the spread of sovereignty-enabling technologies like VPNs, the decentralized author ecosystem of X has stabilized and expanded.
That success has triggered fierce retaliation. Brussels is now pushing measures like criminal liability reversal, mandatory identity verification, and invasive surveillance software — classic tools of a control regime blind to the growing public backlash it now faces. Free media have made the problem of centralized power visible, and people are quietly withdrawing their consent.
Yet the EU persists, levying grotesque multimillion-euro fines on U.S. media companies. The battle lines are drawn: the EU versus a rising domestic liberty movement, increasingly backed by America’s renewed push for sovereignty.
Mounting Costs, Dwindling Control
Alongside these attacks, EU member governments are scrambling to subsidize their collapsing media ecosystems with taxpayer money. But this is a doomed effort: once dissenters find safe harbor, they rarely return to the island of curated, state-managed thought. The exponential cost spiral of this asymmetric fight remains misunderstood by its protagonists.
In trying to keep a failing eco-socialist narrative alive, governments are burning public money — and revealing the political-media cartel defending it. This paternalistic overreach is backfiring, fueling public rejection.
Greta Thunberg’s endless moral performances — from climate marches to Palestinian solidarity rallies — have become a symbol of a system that proclaims its moral superiority more desperately the more it loses its grip on the public narrative.
That the EU and its national arms are now rolling out their heavy guns in the information war — like the SLAPP directive — is deeply concerning. We learned from the COVID protests in Europe and Canada that the state is willing to use police force and underhanded methods to protect its power.
But this escalation reveals a deeper truth: the media consensus between rulers and ruled has broken down. Political messaging and its execution increasingly diverge from the people’s will, and manifest in polarized parliaments and a more unified opposition.
The debate space is heating up. And the battle lines are now crystal clear.
#eu #socialism #freedom

2025-07-07 07:57:38 GMT

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That's the marxist attack vector no. 1.

2025-07-07 06:12:07 GMT

France's Fiscal Reckoning: Is The Eurozone's Second Giant Next In Line?
France is caught in a debt spiral. Now the president of the French Court of Auditors is warning of the consequences of political inaction.
Pierre Moscovici has served as president of the French Court of Auditors for five years, overseeing regular audits of the nation's public finances. From 2012 to 2014, he was France’s finance minister and then spent five years as EU Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs. The man knows his way around empty coffers.
On Wednesday, Moscovici called on Prime Minister François Bayrou to take urgent steps to consolidate public finances. France’s budgetary situation, he said, has spun out of control, especially in 2023 and 2024. If a turnaround is not achieved soon, the capital markets will force one. “We can still act voluntarily,” he warned the government, “but tomorrow, the markets may impose austerity.”
For Now, Calm in the Bond Markets
Once the dominoes start falling, it goes fast. Investors dump French government bonds en masse. Yields spike, prices plummet, and refinancing the country’s massive debt becomes even more costly. Already, interest payments consume 10.6% of France’s state budget—roughly the same as education spending. As debt levels rise, fiscal maneuvering space shrinks.
With sovereign debt at 114% of GDP, the trap could snap shut unexpectedly. For now, European officials still point fingers at the U.S., whose debt ratios are similar. But no one can say how long that deflection tactic will work. Credit risk materializes suddenly—usually without warning.
Point of No Return
What we do know is this: historically, a debt ratio above 100% of GDP is already considered critical. At that point, even ambitious reform efforts are rarely enough to grow out of the mess. And unless the indebted country happens to issue the world’s reserve currency, capital markets will deliver their verdict—as we saw during the Eurozone debt crisis fifteen years ago.
What follows is familiar: central bank intervention to keep government finances liquid by running the printing presses—transferring the bill to citizens through inflation.
France has never been known for fiscal conservatism. Years of political stalemate, shifting majorities, and unstable coalitions have pushed annual deficits far beyond the Maastricht 3% threshold. In 2024, the deficit reached 5.8% of GDP. Even with early consolidation steps, it is expected to remain at 5.5% this year—far above the target.
No Economic Comeback in Sight
If French policymakers are banking on a comeback in economic growth, they may be disappointed. In May, the Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for manufacturing came in at 48.1 and for services at 49.6—both in contraction territory. PMIs reflect business sentiment, with readings above 50 indicating growth and below 50 signaling decline. They are considered early indicators of economic and industrial trends.
In other words: despite—or perhaps because of—massive government spending, the French economy is stuck in recession.
Contagion Risk
France’s brewing fiscal crisis is more than a national tragedy. Alongside Germany and Italy, France is under close scrutiny from analysts and investors worldwide. Can Paris pull off fiscal consolidation? Confidence in France’s creditworthiness has been shaky for years. In 2023, Moody’s was the last major rating agency to downgrade France’s AAA status, assigning a negative outlook.
If capital markets further downgrade French debt, the consequences would spill across the Eurozone. Here, the old rule applies: hang together, or hang separately. Bond markets tend to move from one weak link to the next, rigorously reassessing creditworthiness in crisis situations. Those who falter pay higher interest—or lose market access altogether. Moscovici knows this.
The pressure is mounting on national governments: either push through tough budget reforms or increase the tax burden on citizens.
The French Exception
France is a special case. With a government spending ratio of 57.3% of GDP, it ranks among the top welfare states in the world. Accordingly, the overall tax burden has risen to 45.6%—well above the EU average of around 40%. Citizens are already surrendering nearly half their income to maintain Paris’s welfare illusions.
Social peace is being purchased with money that no longer exists—financed by debt and propped up by the illusion of fiscal sovereignty. When even the nation’s top auditor demands consolidation, one thing is clear: it’s about to get serious. The social budget—the bedrock of the political quiet pact keeping unrest in the banlieues at bay—is at stake.
History teaches us: when governments cut social programs in France, social peace crumbles. Then the suburbs—from Paris to Marseille to Lyon—go up in flames.

2025-07-06 18:39:23 GMT

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When I'll go there the next time I'll do my part: I'll drink the old town of Düsseldorf dry! That's growth

2025-07-06 17:47:52 GMT

Germany’s Pension Ponzi on the Brink
If you’ve ever wanted to witness the slow-motion collapse of a Ponzi scheme, you might want to keep an eye on Germany’s public pension system.
Rhetorically and politically sugar-coated as a “pay-as-you-go” system — where today’s workers finance the retirement of yesterday’s — this bureaucratic redistribution leviathan is utterly dependent on an ever-growing pool of contributors. Problem is: Germany is aging, shrinking, and losing its industrial base.
Just in time for this demographic crunch — declining birth rates, increasing life expectancy, and longer pension payout durations — policymakers have decided to torch what’s left of the country’s industrial foundation in a green frenzy. Year after year, around €70 billion in value creation is being sent up the chimney, while more than half a million jobs have disappeared in recent years. That’s half a million fewer contributors to the pension Ponzi.
Tax Payer´s Money To Maintain The Illusion
To keep the locomotive rolling — even as it barrels in the wrong direction — the federal government now plugs the pension system’s gaping cash hole with roughly €123 billion annually from the general budget. In other words: workers pay a second time, in the form of taxes, to support the same unsustainable system they already fund through record-high payroll deductions.
With a government spending ratio now exceeding 50% of GDP, Germany has erected a full-scale hyperstate. Attached to its bloated bureaucracy are ever-growing administrative tentacles: layers of social insurance agencies and subsidized institutions now serving as the domestic enforcement arm of Brussels’ self-destructive Green Deal.
The coming deep economic depression, which has been foreshadowed by three years of quasi-permanent recession, will test just how resilient — and solvent — the savings and wealth accumulation of past generations truly are. It may be their prudence that softens the blow of the present generation’s green delirium.
Trapped in the Logic of a Ponzi Scheme and Keynesian Voodoo Economics
Entirely captive to the logic of Ponzi finance and Keynesian voodoo economics, Germany’s new federal government now plans its grand escape from all woes. With a debt hammer of one trillion euros over the coming years, it aims to wipe away every problem while putting the economy back on track.
Broadly speaking, the money is supposed to raise the defense budget to 5% of GDP, as demanded by the latest NATO summit, pour into the country’s crumbling infrastructure, and plug countless holes in the overstrained welfare apparatus.
We don’t need to go into detail here to recall that such stimulus-fueled bonfires leave behind nothing but more debt and inflation, misallocating printed capital into sectors with little or no real demand. It would suffice if politicians had even a passing familiarity with recent economic history — they’d realize they are once again slamming their heads against the very same wall as in decades past.
Socialists Debate Higher Contribution
Meanwhile, the SPD — junior coalition partner to Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU-led government — is currently debating raising the pension contribution ceiling by €500 to €8,050 monthly salary. This increase would translate to an additional yearly burden of over €1,116 for anyone earning that amount. In other words, those who already carry the lion’s share of the country’s fiscal load as the last remaining productive pillars of society would be hit with yet another surcharge. The welfare state and social peace, they argue, are worth this sacrifice.
The coalition partner CDU’s reaction was not long in coming. There was unanimous rejection of the SPD proposal to once again burden the country’s top earners. Wolfgang Steiger, Secretary General of the CDU’s Economic Council, stated:
“We strictly oppose the move to raise the contribution ceiling in statutory health insurance. It would further increase the cost of labor.”
That sounds good at first and has its merits. After all, it’s about time fiscal policy wielded the Milei chainsaw instead of continuing with the socialist cornucopia. Yet recent history has shown us that the CDU flips positions faster than expected.
It is, not least, Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s fault that trust in his party has hit rock bottom. After multiple broken campaign promises — like cutting the electricity tax or securing the country’s external borders once and for all — no one believes his party anymore.
After all, the community, acting as a global social welfare office, also needs to provide compensatory payments across other social insurance branches — which, thanks to successful recruitment efforts related to illegal migration, are facing significant special financing needs.
Germany is the Victim of Its Own Success
Two successful postwar generations built the capital and economic foundation on which the neo-socialist aberration could flourish — manifesting itself in an overgrown welfare system.
At the root of the problem lies not only the crushing tax and contribution burden in Germany but also its stagnating productivity, which together make rapid private capital formation nearly impossible for large parts of the population.
Even though politicians occasionally flirt with the idea of introducing elements of a capital-funded pension system, such proposals are a suicide mission in light of the sheer weight of the public pay-as-you-go system. Germans hold almost exclusively cash-based savings, which makes them highly vulnerable whenever the state — in concert with the ECB — fires up the inflation engine. On top of that, they remain deeply risk-averse investors, culturally and historically allergic to equity markets or private pension schemes.
Powerful Voting Block
The pension insurance provides the perfect case study. With over 21 million pension recipients, every reform attempt at the expense of this group faces a homogeneous voting block. Germany could raise the retirement age, which it is attempting to do to 67 years. It could reduce benefits, which it does not. Pensions are tied to inflation and productivity growth in the economy.
Politicians could reject the green-socialist agenda and return to the economic rationality of the free market to expand the contributor base and attract investment. They do not. The bureaucracy — the political front organization — is simply too powerful. Regulation is its product, and additional welfare recipients are its customers.
The path of least resistance will be taken: further increasing contribution rates for the productive pillars. Federal subsidies from the tax pool will supplement this to ease the pressure. But due to demographic development and the destructive economic policies in the EU, especially in Germany, the Ponzi scheme is steering toward an abyss.
#germany #eu #fiatponzi

2025-07-05 11:48:13 GMT

With its public debt ratio of 63%, Germany might still have the chance to escape the debt spiral if it were to introduce radical reforms now, such as the dismantling of its sprawling state and social system.
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The country would have to reduce its public spending ratio from 50% to below 30% and gradually reintroduce the rules of the free market economy. In short, it would have to radically reject Brussels' eco-socialism.
It is ethically irresponsible for the Green Fritz, together with 'debt Lars', to put together a coalition of losers and now lead the country into this very debt trap. It is kowtowing to the central body in Brussels to keep the highly indebted eurozone alive with fresh credit at the expense of the Germans.
#eu #merz #germany #debtcrisis

2025-07-02 19:25:23 GMT

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Enjoy it

2025-07-02 19:24:52 GMT

I am not a fan of Bitcoin ETFs and only recommend holding BTC in self custody and cold storage. But the fact that Blackrock earns more with its Bitcoin ETF than with its S&P ETF shows which direction institutional capital has taken. The severe shocks in the traditional financial markets the over-indebted states the uncertainty in the bond market will measure the role of Bitcoin as a credit collateral and investment form without third party risk in a way that we can hardly estimate at this moment. #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/4662968ad7cad7774329dbc6c4e5968492c0663d21def609bdb7e7813da0346a.jpg

2025-07-02 09:54:54 GMT

The US dollar on a dive. The low DXY will facilitate the refinancing of the dollar-indebted world and thus stabilize the dollar. The end of the dollar as a reserve currency is not in sight. #usd https://image.nostr.build/adf71077df6afca420c84527ad130d99c9355d1f1bd94557bd1c74fb53b4342c.jpg

2025-07-01 11:39:41 GMT

Summer Season – Season of the Apocalyptic Cultists
Summer is here—and with it, the degenerate climate brigades. Heat triggers them: panic-mongering hysterics, usually employed by state-funded institutions, state weather channels, or statist media pros. They're the annoying background noise of this beautiful season, lurking like ticks in tall grass, waiting to ruin your picnic in the park. Add to that the meteorological Picassos, forever painting the forecast in volcanic hues—the wet dream of postmodern apocalypse fetishists.
A personal confession: I got rid of my TV a long time ago. But thanks to X and a few media platforms, I still keep up with the hysteria. Turns out, ditching the screen was one of my best decisions—an effective way to dodge the shrapnel of degenerate manipulators and profiteers feeding off the widespread intellectual rot.
And yet, I can hardly believe that half the population still hasn’t built up immunity to this madness. The zeal with which they attempt to guilt us—as consumers and producers—for warm temperatures, dressed up in ridiculous climate jargon, reveals one thing: they know we’ve entered the final stage, the injury time of their dream—an all-encompassing control regime built around CO₂ emissions and climate regulation.
But the final, decisive goal will be scored by the rational ones. The enlightened. The people who live ethically, who genuinely care about nature, yet clearly see that the climate panic is nothing but a narrative gateway into totalitarian control. When that goal hits the net, the parasites won’t be able to handle the celebration.
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#eu #climatescam #freedom

2025-06-30 17:35:37 GMT

Defiant and Unteachable: The ECB Is Trapped
EU-Europeans are a peculiar bunch. Despite repeated failures with centralist economic planning, they cling stubbornly—like children to a bowl of candy—to their ambition of transferring the most vital sectors of the economy into the hands of Brussels’ bureaucratic caste. Unpopular industries like automotive, chemicals, or aviation are smashed with a regulatory sledgehammer. The heart of the economy—the energy sector—is placed under direct state guardianship. The so-called Green Deal, a Keynesian-style centrally planned substitute economy, is meant to replace traditional energy sources. The results are predictable: deindustrialization and a massive exodus of investment to non-European countries.
Always involved in this process: the European Central Bank. It’s expected to grease the wheels of Brussels’ colossal subsidy machine with artificially cheap credit. The fact that the ECB, after its eighth rate cut in record time, has once again pushed its key interest rate down to 2%—deep into negative real territory—doesn’t trouble the central planners in the Frankfurt Tower. ECB board member Joachim Nagel even claimed today that the “neutral rate” had been reached. In a sense, he’s right: after years of zero interest policy, the Eurozone economy has grown so dependent on cheap credit—sometimes outright subsidies—that it can no longer function or service its debt under conditions of real positive interest rates. That’s what economists call a “zombie economy.” The wave of bankruptcies, such as the recent collapse of battery cell manufacturer Northvolt, is the logical outcome of centrally planned industrial policy.
Worse still for the central planners in Frankfurt and Brussels: their transatlantic counterpart, the Federal Reserve, is proving far more determined and resilient. It continues to hold its rates at 4.5%, embracing a real positive return on capital to allow market corrections to unfold. In the U.S., short-term pain is seen as the price of long-term health.
Europe, by contrast, has grown addicted to its subsidy habit. It is ensnared in a hyper-statist welfare model, doing everything it can to defer both economic and social pain. How long that can go on is anyone’s guess. But one thing is certain: tensions are rising across the markets. The day is drawing near when these pressures will erupt in a seismic shock—and the tectonic plates of the economy will violently shift into a new configuration.

2025-06-30 07:31:53 GMT

Oil Price in a Tailspin – And With It, the Global Economy?
Neither trade wars, nor threats to blockade global shipping bottlenecks, nor even hot wars seem capable of jolting oil prices out of their catatonic slumber. Forget “Drill, baby, drill” – U.S. shale needs higher prices to justify capital expenditure.
Yes, the twelve-day conflict between Israel and Iran briefly pushed prices up by as much as 15%, but the rally quickly fizzled. Brent now wobbles well below the $67 per barrel mark. Dead calm, little motion. In the U.S., the rig count has dropped to just 432 – the lowest level since autumn 2021 and down 11% from last year. The message is loud and clear: prices are too low.
Meanwhile, OPEC+ has announced an output increase and delivers now 411,000 barrels per day. At the same time, U.S. producers are shutting down rigs because prices no longer cover costs.
So what’s keeping prices this low? A sluggish global economy? A flood of supply? Derivatives speculation? Likely a mix of all three.
But one thing is certain: the weakening world economy, shrinking trade flows between the U.S. and China amid tariff tensions, and declining maritime traffic are increasingly mirrored in oil markets. The price tells the story.
#oil #usa #opec

2025-06-30 06:37:14 GMT

Canada Retreats on Digital Tax—Trump’s Tariff Whip Hits Its Mark
That was fast. Just days after announcing a punitive digital tax aimed squarely at U.S. tech giants—and being promptly met with a tariff whip from Donald Trump—Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney has tucked tail and pulled the plan. What we’re witnessing in Ottawa resembles the chaos in Brussels: a globalist outpost in full panic mode, lurching without strategy, caught off guard by geopolitical gravity.
These erratic moves betray the same confusion spreading across the Western managerial class: they have no idea how to respond to America’s looming reshuffle of global trade. And more than that—they still don’t know what to do with the unruly figure of Donald Trump. His tariffs are real. As real as the quiet protectionism long practiced by the EU and Canada. Suddenly, the world isn't operating according to the neat prescriptions of the Eurocrat’s socialist playbook, where Brussels reigns without dissent.
Still, nothing changes in Europe. Faced with the coming trade talks, the continent doesn’t budge an inch. Except for provocations—like Germany’s own Canada-style digital tax proposal targeting U.S. firms—there’s little but strategic inertia. Heads are buried in the sand. They’re running down the clock.
Carney’s tax gambit was a second probe—a second attempt to goad Trump into a misstep. But Trump held the line. He knows exactly what he’s facing: a cartel of power that has never learned to lose. A bloc accustomed to issuing demands while giving no ground. The very hard nut Trump always said he would crack.
Whether they like it or not, America is preparing to smash the protectionist cartel with sweeping tax reform, deregulation, and a fully national trade doctrine. And Trump will make sure realism returns to the world stage. He’ll expose the Europeans for what they are: protectionists dependent on trade and imported energy—still clinging to a postcolonial defiance, unwilling to accept that the world has turned.
#usa #canada #eu #wef

2025-06-29 17:28:57 GMT

March into Green Socialism
It has become impossible to ignore: socialism is resurging—this time cloaked in green environmentalism—and has moved from an endemic condition to a proliferating phase. Numerous failures, such as the case of battery cell manufacturer Northvolt, offer critical insights into its current stage of development.
For advocates of liberty, it is essential to dissect these cases, replay them publicly, and confront the overwhelming dominance of the statist media machine with facts and clarity.
The Northvolt case reveals we are now in a late-stage form of socialism. Corporatist structures, combined with a sprawling web of subsidies and a cordon sanitaire of NGOs and state media, provide the bureaucratic state with formidable protection. Within it thrives a new functionary class, empowered to implement ideological experiments with little resistance.
In the final phase of this socialist experiment, we should expect high levels of social and economic volatility—very much in line with the predictions made by the authors of The Fourth Turning. The absurd and grotesque will alternate with economic crises and violent clashes between state forces and fragmented social groups. The apparatus of the state will deliberately escalate its divisive agenda, seeking to distract from the true cause of decline: the collapse of the hyperstate.
What follows remains uncertain.
Two paths lie ahead. One leads—true to Europe’s historical tendencies—toward total control. This is the path actively pursued by the EU and Germany. The second path would require a European interpretation of liberty, similar in spirit to Argentina’s bold experiment under President Milei.
Given current developments in Brussels, Berlin, and London, I am skeptical that the second path has any real chance of prevailing.
#eu #climatescam #usa

2025-06-29 16:00:14 GMT

High time to start the machine again. #climate #climatescam #socialism https://image.nostr.build/fd035fe155be151308b5d39a126b8045acc7d5b35776e641b95b4c0304fd9cc8.jpg

2025-06-27 05:41:36 GMT

A quick final thought on the NATO summit. Does anyone here in Europe really believe that Donald Trump is stupid enough to fall for this ridiculous shitshow? Does anyone really believe that even one country is able to divert 5% of its GDP to defense spending while budgets are collapsing, the social crisis is worsening and the recession is deepening?
The fact that these political figures have crawled around Trump only shows how urgently the Europeans, and the EU is almost identical to NATO, now need the Americans to keep their projects going (think of Project Ukraine).
With the best will in the world, I can't imagine that Donald Trump would let these people get away with such a ridiculous announcement and such promises. But they are acting according to the familiar pattern and according to the motto: we'll get through the few years of Trump somehow. Then we'll install our people again.
That won't work this time.
#nato #trump #eu

2025-06-24 06:27:24 GMT

At 10 million dollars, it may only be a small amount, but it is a clear sign of where things are heading: Texas has passed its Bitcoin law and will now acquire Bitcoin for its state reserves for the first time. We are indeed living in different dimensions: while the majority of Germans still consider Bitcoin to be digital play money and the state is firing its previously looted coins into the market at the lowest possible price, Bitcoin is being integrated into the financial system in the USA. Anyone who looks closely knows why: it is the perfect vehicle to escape the impending bond crisis. #Bitcoin #Texas #USA https://image.nostr.build/9692608a58e80b0cf42e5b2751ee313d708d1bfc849285b8ed5ea3fd7a0bd2cc.jpg

2025-06-23 16:49:26 GMT

As an immediate reaction to the Iranian attack on the US base in Qatar, the oil price falls sharply. Gold hardly moves at all. The cruciak markets are signaling no extreme escalation in sight. So far. #USA #Iran #oil

2025-06-23 12:46:49 GMT

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BTC and 10% USD. If You are active in the markets, there'll be problems in the european banking sector which will offer good short opportunities. But not right now

2025-06-23 12:45:02 GMT

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I can imagine a deflationary credit event. A real estate collapse or sth like that. Would be a short lived but hard hit

2025-06-23 08:46:57 GMT

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Remember 2008-2009? Now add AI and the debt spiral

2025-06-23 06:28:43 GMT

Congratulations, NATO! It is remarkable that the bankrupt states and bloodless economies of Europe and Canada have now managed to wrest a 5% spending target. A cheap and infantile propaganda and fear campaign have sufficed to catapult the military industrial complex into a new dimension. In the end, no one in these circles should really worry: Russia is still good for something. And now let the hunger games begin #nato #EU #recession #debtcrisis #russia https://image.nostr.build/f6f8b1501a44b2e6aaf990377c9d89ea6bd2bf9001d92243b2099ddc40455890.jpg

2025-06-22 21:27:59 GMT

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I see deflation on the horizon

2025-06-22 21:27:23 GMT

Everything is moving towards zero again. Interesting to see how the #SNB is backing the #ECB in its program to devalue the currency and prevent capital flight with even lower interest rates. #euro #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/69a905ee80459dabc3472e0b89684d251ed23dba3a561660fc79c7a090a61249.jpg

2025-06-21 14:58:21 GMT

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When RE markets enter a secular decline You'll see what happens to Your 'fixed-rate' mortgaged

2025-06-21 14:57:17 GMT

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You never witnessed falling real estate prices,my young friend

2025-06-21 12:30:32 GMT

Please, people, don't buy real estate with debt in Europe. It's a capital grave. #btc #demographics #realestate https://image.nostr.build/73db606b6dee859c3088406a85b8614d8fac14c3c9f798d656760c768070187b.jpg

2025-06-21 10:16:32 GMT

Mainstream media always tries to explain to me that #bitcoin has no function... #moe #sov https://image.nostr.build/e2136448cd37e1f6d7d4a2def1d9b9c9d603a28d47a4f98765472fee138995ac.jpg

2025-06-20 10:48:00 GMT

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Our globalist friends

2025-06-20 10:46:16 GMT

🇨🇭 The SNB cuts rates to 0% — real rates already deep in negative territory. A coordinated move with the ECB to stem capital flight. Is a return to negative rates next? #SNB #ECB #Interestrates #CapitalFlight #Inflation #btc

2025-06-17 19:23:03 GMT

Now is the time for false flag events. Be on your guard, USA. Some want the maximum blood toll to achieve their own goals cheaply. #israel #ukraine #usa #trump #eu

2025-06-16 18:10:28 GMT

Uranium shares have been rising for eleven weeks. A sign that nuclear energy is on the rise globally. The fact that 'economic expert' #Merz doesn't recognize this is part of the ideological mutilation of the German economy. #cdu #Germany https://image.nostr.build/7bdbc884194f0d3efb24092bf13a4de8dc232fcbe51baa37c6778fcafb8e8d5e.jpg

2025-06-14 09:23:41 GMT

The latest escalations on a geopolitical level should now make the last person realize the importance of #Bitcoin. Those who are spatially immobile will see it as a last chance to save themselves economically. BTC is an expression of maximum individual sovereignty. https://image.nostr.build/38a5447b870c639e069059d9cfb9406db5e256fa54a40d366d3966c9b086a8b4.jpg

2025-06-06 16:47:22 GMT

Industrial production in #Germany has fallen by 9% since 2021. This is the backbone of this country's economy. How do the Russia neurotics want to finance a war against the evil empire with this collapsing economy? #eu #russia https://image.nostr.build/645c334d88ccabc673b2c20e9c3b038915be9ec5980f468ed796dd85f66a1ac4.jpg

2025-06-05 12:34:11 GMT

In the #eurozone, the old keynesian loser playbook is playing out: the #ECB makes credit cheap (today by 25 bps), the states pump fresh credit into the defense sector and their broken infrastructure without rhyme or reason. It turns out as usual: higher debt mountains no productivity growth. And the learning curve is a straight one with no slope.

2025-06-04 10:57:59 GMT

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Euro, not inf adjusted. GDP is around 4 66 bio usd

2025-06-04 10:56:42 GMT

Is the temperature now rising like a hockey stick after the eruption of #Ätna? What else could be quickly broken now? There are still industrial remnants in creepy Germany #climatescam #co2 #socialism

2025-06-03 16:20:28 GMT

Cash record on German bank accounts! To put it bluntly: stupid capital is and remains the perfect counter-indicator, while the #fiat ponzi is crumbling. #btc https://image.nostr.build/13a494a799df94a590bebf416107066903ba1e5014500495c61e8461f475bf2e.jpg

2025-06-03 10:44:13 GMT

It seems that the #Ukraine war has triggered what was long overdue: the end of the reserve status of fiat money. And the wave of flight is only just beginning to pile up #bitcoin #gold https://image.nostr.build/20c6a34e8c21df96c52cf6b5e48be2a06fe050ca406efc7b0e9d4183735f9d04.jpg

2025-06-03 06:17:36 GMT

#Bitcoin mining and Bitcoin strategic reserves could be interesting vehicles to break away from the economic hitman #IMF or to keep these people at bay like #Sberbank is doing with the Bitcoin Bond.

2025-06-01 17:05:56 GMT

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Oh yes

2025-06-01 17:05:36 GMT

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10 years of declining productivity and 500k new jobless is a economic depression

2025-06-01 17:00:03 GMT

And #Bitcoin will You buy a lot of time as the fiat ponzi crumbles. . https://image.nostr.build/6c83ee1d5eaa691cbc51060ff11dc8f145a0847085bcf2ec71f623573756f9ae.jpg

2025-06-01 07:54:31 GMT

I have good news for all pacifists. Before 'economist' #Merz and his socialists can set up their war economy, the German economy will have sunk so low that the plans of the central planners will go up in smoke. #Germany is in an economic depression. https://image.nostr.build/c3cc3b762d05f5754d34c2d4425645597d097bd5b0bdb6fabaa9a3d40002c4f9.jpg

2025-05-30 14:41:57 GMT

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and that's exactly what God created alcohol for

2025-05-30 14:25:48 GMT

The #USD represents half of all international payments. The #euro was largely killed off when Russia was joined by no one except Moscow really wanted this trashy currency. So much for de-dollarization. https://image.nostr.build/5f0fa5f277ae709b95b51dbcfc95070ca56c12719cf9ccda7347c156be4cffa9.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5f0fa5f277ae709b95b51dbcfc95070ca56c12719cf9ccda7347c156be4cffa9.jpg

2025-05-29 17:51:31 GMT

The left, public servants and slaves of bureaucracy celebrate the departure of Elon #Musk and the temporary failure of #DOGE. In doing so, they reveal all their stupidity and servile pettiness. They are nothing without their overlord, the state. #usa #eu

2025-05-26 10:10:25 GMT

That's what you get when you regulate sectors before they even exist, like the #EU does. This is stupid politics, thrown together by bureaucrats and socialists. https://image.nostr.build/8e2af06e0ec02fe661cd5647a65bef9ed169f2c2db2f229e626d704d1b3e8b6c.jpg

2025-05-25 15:36:21 GMT

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The Europeans want everything but peace with #Russia. These kinds of escalation attempts are shameful and too obvious. The USA should withdraw and confront the Europeans with reality. #eu
#nevent1q…e9ea

2025-05-25 14:51:22 GMT

After a short trip to Rome, 'Esperanza' is back in #Málaga. Welcome home, bonita. #españa #spain https://video.nostr.build/404a0faf4a2a42b0e9c57c84014d56768f8bb80b697fbc7c66ee33c3e44bb2bb.mp4

2025-05-25 13:25:37 GMT

While European media point to the debt crisis in the #USA to distract attention from their own debt chaos, the tree is burning at home. There will soon be a lot of propaganda work to distract from their own failures. #EU #Bitcoin #debtspiral https://image.nostr.build/4cc6dd783c0283be450a3947585245f25f569941d9a956a39f3e0de00e8fec13.jpg

2025-05-25 10:17:42 GMT

Year after year, the same ritual: 'economists' paid by the state calculate the economy to be better than it is and are then forced to make embarrassing downward corrections. #Germany has been in #recession for many years, only the sprawling state sector covers it up statistically. #socialism https://image.nostr.build/e37957ed269d58bcc959f34d988e22b773cec2acda6050fa900a1379ba7148b5.jpg

2025-05-23 17:58:21 GMT

Donald #Trump is quite right in his assessment of the #EU. The #EU runs a protectionist powerhouse with subsidy engines like no other economy except #China. Free trade is not on the agenda of Brussels' central planners. https://image.nostr.build/9a8479cf9ee83c3e28a1c0a24ef26bcd034c3ad9859a647f5e55833a9f83993d.jpg

2025-05-23 12:51:26 GMT

#Trump is right: without massive pressure, the Europeans would never budge from their protectionism. Not a millimeter. It's all just empty talk. #EU

2025-05-23 11:44:20 GMT

Every day that God has created #Bitcoin is sold off in Europe. In view of the self-destructive policy of the #EU, I interpret this as a positive sign. Too many Europeans have lost the compass that guides them through reality.

2025-05-21 20:35:12 GMT

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2025-05-21 15:29:44 GMT

The punishment for #Brexit was the planned migration crisis in #UK. This is how these globalists work. #wef https://image.nostr.build/5eaa1565c2616c64a5f200861819f37ae6897f39d9c2951ecea7443ae7147bea.jpg

2025-05-21 06:28:33 GMT

What is happening in Japan is a warning to all: those who do not own hard assets now will be swept away in the next flood of liquidity with which the central planners ensure their own survival. #bitcoin #gold #inflation

2025-05-21 05:34:36 GMT

Who would have thought that a national debt of 260% could lead to refinancing problems? The media stabilized the narrative that national debt is less of a problem if the own population bears it. These people think the masses are incredibly stupid. #japan #yen #debtspiral #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/435c8306a84a4736d9f52f508711413c58c43b0a0412f2e2824ea6de0505646a.jpg

2025-05-20 15:50:04 GMT

Seen through the eyes of Europeans, Donald #Trump's policies often seem volatile and unpredictable. This is also because everything here is smothered in a sticky socialist slime. We are no longer used to someone tackling problems like the proliferation of the hyperstate. #eu

2025-05-19 15:47:56 GMT

Spain is a vassal of the #EU socialists in Brussels. To cover up the overregulation and political failure on the housing market, the owners of tourist apartments are now being attacked. Why aren't hotels being expropriated to create living space? #tourism #spain #propertyrights https://image.nostr.build/9cfbf54fae7518b1381eeb9a5cc7c3d69991815b0e659069c955625539c1ef60.jpg

2025-05-18 10:05:57 GMT

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Well said

2025-05-18 09:52:21 GMT

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Merz ist ein Dummkopf. Ich kenne den Dödel seit 25 Jahren durch meine Medienarbeit für Unternehmerverbände - ein Davos-Asset

2025-05-18 09:49:26 GMT

Despite the fact that the euro is a total misconstruction, it has basically held up well. There is still some residual purchasing power left. For us bitcoiners, of course, it's a joke. #bitcoin #gold #euro #fiatponzi https://image.nostr.build/ab40a73468fdbb5911f6bf5308a461c6ee104f9c6a8cc98e20f656236e3d7f08.jpg

2025-05-17 17:55:39 GMT

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And it shows that a lot of Eurocommies really love being goverened. And this in a bad way.
#nevent1q…7qlk

2025-05-17 17:47:40 GMT

But the mainstream media in the #EU have told us that the #USA is losing massive amounts of capital! Moreover, #ChIna was supposed to be the stronger party in the trade conflict. That was all nonsense again. #Trump #tariffs https://image.nostr.build/d33d107d0c6f3656748013488eafc8ede0c1841f0a7580533be92bda90c9523b.jpg

2025-05-17 14:36:42 GMT

Frage an die deutschen bros: War das der 'kick in the nuts', der die Liberalsozialisten der hippen #FDP am Ende ins Nirwana 'gedowngraded' hat? #Dürr
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2025-05-17 13:40:58 GMT

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Low energy Erdo

2025-05-17 13:14:30 GMT

China reduces, the Europeans continue to build up their US Treasury holdings. Interesting! The European media want me to believe that the reserve asset is at an end. Bullshit once again! They are trying to prevent the dollar shortage.
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2025-05-17 09:17:49 GMT

That can't be right! Our #EU commies regulate everything so professionally and nobody wants to invest here? I think we should raise taxes further - that should attract massive investment. #socialism #ecb #recession https://image.nostr.build/f49add03b9055c0ae2c96acb082949070cbd8c928a5498e37f1b9d6f770db18a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/0332b86b989dcafc676da34ab71e876031032cd20eaa628945ea4fa062d853ca.jpg

2025-05-17 08:45:20 GMT

The Germans are hard-working savers - well-behaved, staid and predictable. Do they suspect that 'economic expert' and central planner #FriedrichMerz will melt the purchasing power of their cash Himalayas like ice in the sun with his trillion-euro debt program? #Merz #Debt #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/616d5f110125a3f22f47a3fcd66a216d7946e0ae827b72b5e71fdb1f5e1f1955.jpg

2025-05-13 16:43:32 GMT

Before the negotiations with the #EU, it must be clear that these central planners can only be met with the toughest pressure. These people thrive on regulation, protectionism and controlling the population. These negotiations could be more difficult for #Trump than those with #China

2025-05-13 06:20:35 GMT

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Imagine what happens when they find out about fiat debasement (will happen the last day it exists).... they immidiately know its Trumps fault

2025-05-12 06:10:59 GMT

Many are angry that #Merz also lied in the case of #bordercontrols. But this is standard political phraseology. Nothing will change in #Germany until the middle class has lost the illusion of wealth. That will take time, but things have been going downhill for a long time. https://image.nostr.build/703323487b4a592f7d1b8af393cec25ecbdd544a513561d5bbf6023a9a5a58f6.jpg

2025-05-10 11:25:54 GMT

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It'll catch its part. In the long it will win. But a lot slower than we think IMO

2025-05-10 10:59:17 GMT

We are moving towards a system where international trade could be settled through neutral assets. This could significantly reduce trade distortions caused by currency manipulation. #gold #bitcoin #china #yuan #usa https://image.nostr.build/70423dafcdaf6eb09ec4ab317701d0dc77c5b2380ebd515e67351b0cac0ee7cb.jpg

2025-05-09 15:27:24 GMT

EU: CAPITAL CONTROL PHASE BEGINS
Spain will fine you €150,000 for withdrawing €3,000 in cash—unless you give 24h notice.
This is how it always starts: a bankrupt EU, creeping controls, and the quiet theft of your property.
#CapitalControls #Spain #FinancialRepression
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2025-05-08 17:49:29 GMT

Wasn't #Leo the pope who saved Rome from being sacked by the Huns? Then the choice of name of the new pope would indeed be an interesting hint. I suspect the barbarians are somewhere between Brussels and Davos! #wef #pope #rome #eu #socialisml

2025-05-08 14:37:24 GMT

This is how it works in the engine room of the hyperstate: parasitic areas expand, the crucial elements and qualitative factors wither away. And the figures from the #USA - what does it look like here in the #EU, where the public sector is the last 'growth' sector? #socialism https://image.nostr.build/0edc70189ce984445f727dc0120529875bc7e45d9a46140ca5e475e79e8cfd83.jpg

2025-05-08 13:22:37 GMT

The globalist problem of #UK compressed into one image. #wef https://blossom.primal.net/00a41bb264886a760f07d72d2f29c5138ddb90823dfa07878e7f4919af053f7c.jpg

2025-05-07 06:11:39 GMT

GM,
The fact that the globalist #FriedrichMerz failed in his first attempt to become chancellor yesterday seems to have been a small glitch in the matrix. The speed with which the machine compensated for this error is impressive. Normally, a second round of voting would not take place until two weeks later. This means that the pressure on the globalists' cauldron is steadily increasing, especially after their debacle in Romania. And it was also wonderful to see how Donald #Trump belittled the carney parasite from Canada yesterday. We are clearly making progress!
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#EU #germany #wef

2025-05-07 05:08:10 GMT

EU To End Gas Imports From Russia At The End of 2027
Just a week after a massive blackout on the Iberian Peninsula, Brussels is once again turning its focus to energy policy. This time, it’s about a final break: a complete halt to Russian gas imports by 2027.
On Tuesday, the European Commission, under President Ursula von der Leyen, unveiled its roadmap for cutting off Russian gas supplies. The plan includes multiple measures: by the end of 2025, no new gas contracts with Russian providers can be signed within the EU. Existing contracts must expire or be terminated by the end of 2027. The aim is to force a total supply freeze from Russia. What will happen with deliveries routed through third countries — currently about a fifth of Russian gas supplies to the EU — remains unclear.
An Ambitious — and Possibly Blind — Exit Plan
Brussels’ exit strategy is ambitious, but it may also be dangerously shortsighted. The facts speak for themselves: Russian gas still accounts for 13 to 16 percent of the EU’s supply, including indirect routes through intermediaries. In a twist of irony, Russian gas imports in Q2 of this year — at 12.7 billion cubic meters — exceeded even those from the United States, which stood at 12.3 billion.
Given the fragile state of Europe’s energy grid and its heavy import dependency, it’s unclear how this void will be filled. In fact, surging gas demand in Italy, the Czech Republic, and France caused Russian gas imports to increase by 18 percent in 2024. Workarounds via third countries remain embedded in the market. Europe’s industry is still deeply dependent on conventional energy sources.
The International Energy Agency estimates that by 2030, only about 50 percent of the EU’s gas demand can be met through non-Russian sources. Not even the most aggressive push for renewables will be able to close the looming gap.
A Centralized Procurement Monopoly to the Rescue?
Brussels’ answer: centralization. The EU plans to counter the complex energy market with a new supranational energy agency wielding centralized purchasing power. But whether this top-down approach can reconcile national interests with wildly varying energy needs remains highly doubtful.
The structural flaw is all too familiar — just look at the European Central Bank. Brussels’ bureaucratic ambitions regularly clash with member states’ priorities, sparking recurring tensions.
So, how exactly will Europe plug its energy deficit? For now, we’re offered the usual Brussels jargon: more renewables, more diversification, and expanded LNG imports from countries like the U.S. and Qatar. New LNG terminals and supply routes are in the works. Funding will likely flow through institutions like the European Investment Bank (EIB) and Germany’s KfW.
But Brussels also falls back on its go-to dogma: subsidized energy efficiency programs and enforced consumption cuts in industry and households. In short: everyone will have to tighten their belts.
Bleak Outlook for European Industry
None of this bodes well for Germany’s industrial base, which has borne the brunt of the EU’s sanctions regime since the start of the Ukraine war. Electricity prices for German manufacturers have doubled since then. Compared to their American competitors, the difference is stark: German firms without subsidies pay about €0.18 per kilowatt hour, and those with subsidies around €0.12. In the U.S., the same power costs just €0.03 to €0.04.
The cost pressure is now translating into cold, hard numbers. Factory closures at BASF and production halts at Volkswagen are wiping out tens of thousands of jobs. In 2023 alone, Germany lost around €65 billion in direct foreign investment. Much of that capital likely went to the United States, where the government is aggressively fueling a manufacturing revival — through deregulation, tax cuts, and strategic tariffs.
On top of that, the U.S. is fast-tracking fossil fuel and nuclear energy projects, offering industries the kind of stability that is vanishing in Europe. America’s departure from ideological energy policy may prove to be a decisive competitive edge, while Brussels ties itself into moralistic knots over Russia and green virtue signaling.
Legal Roadblocks Ahead
But even Brussels’ plan isn’t legally watertight. To dissolve existing gas contracts with suppliers like Gazprom, the Commission must invoke “force majeure” or hardship clauses. Given that Russian suppliers — especially via TurkStream — have largely honored their contracts, legal challenges seem inevitable. Expensive, drawn-out lawsuits may soon follow — exactly what Brussels hoped to avoid.
Europe’s industry is gasping for air. While Brussels lectures about “strategic autonomy” and “climate responsibility,” industrial capacity is quietly drifting across the Atlantic. The price of ideological energy policy is steep: economic decline, a fragile energy infrastructure, and a slow erosion of prosperity.
Those who think steel can be forged and factories run on moral superiority are in for a rude awakening.

2025-05-06 19:49:53 GMT

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Interesting. Thank You

2025-05-06 19:07:05 GMT

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Who tf sends real money to a state? It may be paradise state no.1...