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What can Europe do to deter America from seizing Greenland?
1. Making the U.S. aware of the implications of seizing Greenland
2. Preparing a deterrent package, by threatening to:
- Suspend U.S. trade deals
- sell-off of U.S. debt holdings
- Invoke EU mutual defense clause preemptively
1. Making the U.S. aware of the implications of seizing Greenland
2. Preparing a deterrent package, by threatening to:
- Suspend U.S. trade deals
- sell-off of U.S. debt holdings
- Invoke EU mutual defense clause preemptively
January 7, 2026 at 5:42 AM
What can Europe do to deter America from seizing Greenland?
1. Making the U.S. aware of the implications of seizing Greenland
2. Preparing a deterrent package, by threatening to:
- Suspend U.S. trade deals
- sell-off of U.S. debt holdings
- Invoke EU mutual defense clause preemptively
1. Making the U.S. aware of the implications of seizing Greenland
2. Preparing a deterrent package, by threatening to:
- Suspend U.S. trade deals
- sell-off of U.S. debt holdings
- Invoke EU mutual defense clause preemptively
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In Trump’s unhinged rant yesterday praising the roll back of childhood vaccines, he thanked 4 men by name
RFK Jr
Jay Bhattacharya
Marty Makary
Jim O’Neill
These men will have a special place in the history of the US anti-vaccine movement
RFK Jr’s wildest dreams are coming true, each & every day
RFK Jr
Jay Bhattacharya
Marty Makary
Jim O’Neill
These men will have a special place in the history of the US anti-vaccine movement
RFK Jr’s wildest dreams are coming true, each & every day
Once again, I implore media outlets to stop saying these are CDC decisions.
These are changes being made unilaterally by RFK Jr. against the expert advice of CDC scientists.
I note that RFK Jr. no longer recommends flu vaccine for kids in the midst of a horrible influenza year.
These are changes being made unilaterally by RFK Jr. against the expert advice of CDC scientists.
I note that RFK Jr. no longer recommends flu vaccine for kids in the midst of a horrible influenza year.
CDC overhauls childhood vaccine schedule to resemble Denmark in unprecedented move
The new U.S. guidelines recommend all children get vaccines for 11 diseases, compared with the 18 previously on the schedule.
www.nbcnews.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:17 PM
In Trump’s unhinged rant yesterday praising the roll back of childhood vaccines, he thanked 4 men by name
RFK Jr
Jay Bhattacharya
Marty Makary
Jim O’Neill
These men will have a special place in the history of the US anti-vaccine movement
RFK Jr’s wildest dreams are coming true, each & every day
RFK Jr
Jay Bhattacharya
Marty Makary
Jim O’Neill
These men will have a special place in the history of the US anti-vaccine movement
RFK Jr’s wildest dreams are coming true, each & every day
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Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
www.disconnect.blog
January 4, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
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3. Returning Venezuelan exiles and opposition networks find themselves without promised US support, army factions, militias, narco-gangs, illegal mining paramilitaries, Colombian insurgents like ELN pick sides and a country with 6 million weapons in circulation plunges into escalating conflict
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
3. Returning Venezuelan exiles and opposition networks find themselves without promised US support, army factions, militias, narco-gangs, illegal mining paramilitaries, Colombian insurgents like ELN pick sides and a country with 6 million weapons in circulation plunges into escalating conflict
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Anyone interested in EU defence and security might right now want to take a look at Dutch defence and security commitments to Curacao and other islands linked to the Netherlands just off the coast of Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Anyone interested in EU defence and security might right now want to take a look at Dutch defence and security commitments to Curacao and other islands linked to the Netherlands just off the coast of Venezuela
There is one language they will understand. Block all US Big social media in the EU. It's a bloody trojan horse. And hastly start finding and promoting EU-made tech alternatives on essentials. Comms, Banking, Military, Data.
The Trump administration says it is barring former European Commissioner Thierry Breton and four other European nationals from U.S. soil as part of a sanctions package targeting what it describes as digital censorship. politi.co/49hevbA
US sanctions former EU commissioner and four Europeans over efforts to curb online hate speech
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio named British and German citizens involved in efforts to curb the spread of disinformation are targeted by the visa ban.
www.politico.eu
December 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
There is one language they will understand. Block all US Big social media in the EU. It's a bloody trojan horse. And hastly start finding and promoting EU-made tech alternatives on essentials. Comms, Banking, Military, Data.
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The EU has launched a Consortium for Digital Commons. Authorities were crystal clear on how large our digital autonomy challenges are today. I delivered a talk in which I outlined how dependent we are technically AND culturally on big tech & I offered some modest advice: berthub.eu/articles/pos...
Keynote opening Digital Commons EDIC: Moving beyond the Digital Uncommons - Bert Hubert
Last Thursday, 11th of December, saw the launch of the new Digital Commons European Digital Infrastructure Consortium. In attendance were delegations from the launching member states (and the observer...
berthub.eu
December 14, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The EU has launched a Consortium for Digital Commons. Authorities were crystal clear on how large our digital autonomy challenges are today. I delivered a talk in which I outlined how dependent we are technically AND culturally on big tech & I offered some modest advice: berthub.eu/articles/pos...
A próxima fragata será o NRP Fartazana.
Despacho que criou equipa para decidir €5,8 mil milhões de aquisições militares não foi publicado em “Diário da República”
Nuno Melo manteve em segredo o grupo que decidiu compras militares de 5,8 mil milhões
Despacho que criou equipa para decidir €5,8 mil milhões de aquisições militares não foi publicado em “Diário da República”
expresso.pt
December 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
A próxima fragata será o NRP Fartazana.
Para professor universitário, a falácia inferencial, a deturpação ideológica sobre o financiamento de políticas públicas, e a admissão da real consciência de e sobre classe, é obra. Uma súmula da governação. Isto para justificar colectivizar o risco e custo habitacional dos mais favorecidos.
December 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Para professor universitário, a falácia inferencial, a deturpação ideológica sobre o financiamento de políticas públicas, e a admissão da real consciência de e sobre classe, é obra. Uma súmula da governação. Isto para justificar colectivizar o risco e custo habitacional dos mais favorecidos.
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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'The key point is that if you think of unregulated social media as dangerous drugs, as you should, then we’ve become a nation in which drug lords control much of government policy. Social media billionaires have enough power to prevent us from protecting our own children.'
@pkrugman.bsky.social
@pkrugman.bsky.social
America Has Become a Digital Narco-State
Social media giants have bought our government, and are trying to bully Europe
paulkrugman.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:16 AM
'The key point is that if you think of unregulated social media as dangerous drugs, as you should, then we’ve become a nation in which drug lords control much of government policy. Social media billionaires have enough power to prevent us from protecting our own children.'
@pkrugman.bsky.social
@pkrugman.bsky.social
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It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
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A credible deterrence requires Polish authorities to have all the means needed to actually use the Bomb. Make the decision, deliver the warhead to the target, make it go boom.
A promise to help is better than nothing, but these things ought not to depend on the voters in another country.
A promise to help is better than nothing, but these things ought not to depend on the voters in another country.
the UK doesn't have an independent nuclear arsenal. they are reliant on trump for theirs.
France is the only country in Europe that has a genione independent nuclear deterrent and has already signed a treaty with Poland.
notesfrompoland.com/2025/05/09/p...
France is the only country in Europe that has a genione independent nuclear deterrent and has already signed a treaty with Poland.
notesfrompoland.com/2025/05/09/p...
Poland and France sign "groundbreaking" treaty, including mutual security guarantees
notesfrompoland.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
A credible deterrence requires Polish authorities to have all the means needed to actually use the Bomb. Make the decision, deliver the warhead to the target, make it go boom.
A promise to help is better than nothing, but these things ought not to depend on the voters in another country.
A promise to help is better than nothing, but these things ought not to depend on the voters in another country.
Uma thread, sumária mas informativa, sobre as novas regras, ordens, interesses, e poderes no mundo. As três páginas dedicadas à Europa devem, irremediavelmente, conduzir a um plano NATO 2.0. Decisões difíceis para a Europa e os europeus em breve. Acima de tudo, requerem coragem e princípios.
A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today.
🧵
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Uma thread, sumária mas informativa, sobre as novas regras, ordens, interesses, e poderes no mundo. As três páginas dedicadas à Europa devem, irremediavelmente, conduzir a um plano NATO 2.0. Decisões difíceis para a Europa e os europeus em breve. Acima de tudo, requerem coragem e princípios.
The past 70 years of sovereignty and defence of European States were intertwined with US interests, vis à vis NATO and NPT. Treated like vassals, and called cowards. Good enough for Iraq, though. We must go our separate ways. Neither military tech, nor big tech. Desolé. #BuildBuyEuropean
Christopher Landau on Wednesday slammed European NATO allies for prioritizing their own defense industry over American arms suppliers, according to three NATO diplomats. But much of this was driven by Landau's rhetoric about abandoning NATO. www.politico.eu/article/chri...
Top US official berates Europe over cutting American industry out of defense buildup
Washington is unhappy that some European arms programs limit U.S. participation.
www.politico.eu
December 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The past 70 years of sovereignty and defence of European States were intertwined with US interests, vis à vis NATO and NPT. Treated like vassals, and called cowards. Good enough for Iraq, though. We must go our separate ways. Neither military tech, nor big tech. Desolé. #BuildBuyEuropean
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“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:44 AM
“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”
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1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
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Europeans will have to handle chaos from Trump and Vance's erratic incompetence every few months so there is no use panicking.
Better to calmly find ways in the short term of slowrolling Washington diplomatically while preparing for a post-American world
Better to calmly find ways in the short term of slowrolling Washington diplomatically while preparing for a post-American world
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Europeans will have to handle chaos from Trump and Vance's erratic incompetence every few months so there is no use panicking.
Better to calmly find ways in the short term of slowrolling Washington diplomatically while preparing for a post-American world
Better to calmly find ways in the short term of slowrolling Washington diplomatically while preparing for a post-American world
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The Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement contained secret protocols over the division of Poland. Who's to say the Putin-Trump agreement doesn't contain secret protocols over the division of Europe. I'd be very concerned for eg. the Baltics and Moldavia. Putin will not stop.
November 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement contained secret protocols over the division of Poland. Who's to say the Putin-Trump agreement doesn't contain secret protocols over the division of Europe. I'd be very concerned for eg. the Baltics and Moldavia. Putin will not stop.
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as Phillips O'Brien also points out, this plan has been in negotiation for a long time, probably since Trump took office.
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
The Long Con Comes To An End
The Trump Administration Takes Off The Mask (Again)
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
as Phillips O'Brien also points out, this plan has been in negotiation for a long time, probably since Trump took office.
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Um tópico com intervenções com figuras do #PSD que denunciam uma proposta desequilibradora das relações laborais, virado para o passado e que penaliza o Trabalhador.
Segue o 🧵:
Segue o 🧵:
O #PSD pretende subverter a base do #CodigoLaboral, quando insinua que existe para dar competitividade às empresas e que existe uma correlação igual de forças entre empresa e trabalhador, algo naturalmente desigual. A legislação do trabalho mitiga esse desiquilibrio.
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O único propósito da revisão salarial é baixar os salários. Uma aberração ter o Ministro da Economia afirmar que o Código Laboral existe para dar competitividade às empresas. Enquanto continuar esta conversa de culpar os Trabalhadores por tudo, a incompetência de quem gere estará sempre protegida.
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Um tópico com intervenções com figuras do #PSD que denunciam uma proposta desequilibradora das relações laborais, virado para o passado e que penaliza o Trabalhador.
Segue o 🧵:
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Na anuência silenciosa, a cumplicidade da direita, da comunicação social, ou dos lúcidos fora da dita bolha político-mediática. O carácter do eleitorado, ora iletrado, racista, xenófobo, ou autoritário, normalizou a Spinunviva, e normalizará o ódio também. Literacia e princípios, quem diria.
Nova rubrica. Obrigado a todos os que participaram e autorizaram a divulgação
November 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Na anuência silenciosa, a cumplicidade da direita, da comunicação social, ou dos lúcidos fora da dita bolha político-mediática. O carácter do eleitorado, ora iletrado, racista, xenófobo, ou autoritário, normalizou a Spinunviva, e normalizará o ódio também. Literacia e princípios, quem diria.
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Da liberdade de informação traçada a azul
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Da liberdade de informação traçada a azul