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Mentite sapendo di mentire. Ecco le 63 raccomandazioni a tagliare il sistema sanitario pubblico e a privatizzarlo che la UE ha inviato tra il 2011 e il 2018 agli Stati membri. [emmaclancy.com/2020/02/17/di…]
Replying to @italy_exit
La Commissione europea non ha mai chiesto all’Italia tagli alla spesa sanitaria che rimane un'area di competenza nazionale. Anzi ha più volte sottolineato come la spesa italiana fosse più bassa della media UE: ec.europa.eu/health/sites/he…
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Fingere stupore
<L'ex Procuratore Generale ucraino Viktor Shokin: dopo il 2014 "tutte le nomine governative furono concordate con Washington perché consideravano l'Ucraina il loro feudo". Joe Biden fece pressione su Kiev per licenziare Shokin appena questi iniziò a indagare sulla società del gas
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L’unica analisi corretta è questa!
34,1 milioni di italiani pagano l'IRPEF. I contribuenti sono 42,8 milioni. La popolazione italiana è di 58,9 milioni. I minori sono 9,8 milioni. Ci sono 5,7 milioni di italiani in condizioni di povertà assoluta e 8,2 milioni in condizioni di povertà relativa. Ci sono 1,5 milioni di disoccupati, 2,5 milioni di precari, 12,5 milioni di inattivi, 1,7 milioni di NEET, 2 milioni costretti al part-time involontario e 1 milione di sottoccupati. Dal 1990 a oggi i salari reali del 50% dei lavoratori sono stati tagliati tra il 13% (cinquantesimo percentile) e il 41% (decimo percentile).
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34,1 milioni di italiani pagano l'IRPEF. I contribuenti sono 42,8 milioni. La popolazione italiana è di 58,9 milioni. I minori sono 9,8 milioni. Ci sono 5,7 milioni di italiani in condizioni di povertà assoluta e 8,2 milioni in condizioni di povertà relativa. Ci sono 1,5 milioni di disoccupati, 2,5 milioni di precari, 12,5 milioni di inattivi, 1,7 milioni di NEET, 2 milioni costretti al part-time involontario e 1 milione di sottoccupati. Dal 1990 a oggi i salari reali del 50% dei lavoratori sono stati tagliati tra il 13% (cinquantesimo percentile) e il 41% (decimo percentile).
La situazione pre-legge di bilancio:
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"Discorso senza alcun senso ampiamente smentito". Peccato che la stessa Eurostat spieghi che nonostante l'armonizzazione formale, le differenze metodologiche tra i vari Paesi nel computo e nella classificazione delle varie voci rimangono rendendo il confronto tra spese sociali e pensionistiche non omogeneo. ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statis…
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Discorso senza alcun senso ampiamente smentito. Poi non si capisce perché queste cose le si toglie sempre solo dai dati in Italia, ma dagli altri paesi no. I dati Eurostat sono già armonizzati. lorenzoruffino.it/p/pensioni…
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Ovviamente non è vero che la spesa pensionistica italiana è del 15,5% e che è la più alta d'Europa. La spesa al netto dell'assistenza e delle spese non pensionistiche (GIAS, Gestione Interventi Assistenziali, TFR) è di 258,02 miliardi, cioè l'11,7% del PIL. Più bassa della media UE (12,4 %). La spesa al netto delle tasse (come dovrebbe essere conteggiata per una questione di uniformità e di correttezza metodologica) è di 187,1 miliardi di euro (con un saldo positivo tra entrate e uscite di 60,9 miliardi di euro). Vale a dire l’8,5% del PIL. Clamorosamente più bassa della media europea e quasi la metà della spesa che viene comunemente attribuita all’Italia. Sommando invece tutta la spesa pensionistica e quella assistenziale, l'Italia è perfettamente in linea con la media dei Paesi europei: 21% (meno di Francia, Austria, Finlandia, ecc.) rispetto a una media del 20%.
L'Italia spende per le pensioni più di ogni altro paese europeo e passiamo il tempo a parlare di come mandare più gente in pensione. Nel frattempo, paesi come Danimarca e Paesi Bassi accanto alla pensione pubblica hanno accumulato risparmio vero. Ne parliamo nella newsletter.
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#SDENG of the day
Replying to @annapaolaconcia
No che non è vero, è una balla. La Bundeswehr dice una cosa completamente diversa. Dice che "dal 2022, sono state registrate oltre 700 segnalazioni di possibili sorvoli di droni su installazioni militari in tutta la Germania" e che "Non tutte le segnalazioni di sistemi senza pilota si sono poi rivelate tali. In alcuni casi l'allarme è stato attivato dalle luci di posizione di un velivolo". Soprattutto non fa nessun riferimento alla Russia. Nessuno. bundeswehr.de/de/drohnen/ers…
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Many of us can see through the NATO propaganda — i.e., a false flag is coming — yet we are totally unequipped to deal with the fallout. Brace yourselves.
Russia is preparing to attack several European nations. Can you believe there are people who say Russia wants “peace”? Everyday I feel like we live in a distorted world. We see one thing and are told something else. It is very disorienting.
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In questa lunga intervista con L'Adige abbiamo parlato della vittoria di Afd nelle recenti elezioni della Sassonia-Anhalt, della crisi della Germania, del divario tra Est e Ovest, di guerra, di immigrazione e del BSW di Sahra Wagenknecht. giornaleadige.it/2026/09/14/…
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Replying to @annapaolaconcia
No che non è vero, è una balla. La Bundeswehr dice una cosa completamente diversa. Dice che "dal 2022, sono state registrate oltre 700 segnalazioni di possibili sorvoli di droni su installazioni militari in tutta la Germania" e che "Non tutte le segnalazioni di sistemi senza pilota si sono poi rivelate tali. In alcuni casi l'allarme è stato attivato dalle luci di posizione di un velivolo". Soprattutto non fa nessun riferimento alla Russia. Nessuno. bundeswehr.de/de/drohnen/ers…
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"Più di 700 incursioni russe sul territorio tedesco". Lo ha scritto davvero.
“A te la guerra piace” Cosa dovrei rispondere a una scemenza del genere? Hai veramente perso il lume della ragione per affermare questa scempiaggine. Ma tu sai, ma non lo sai, che qui in Germania abbiamo avuto più di 700 incursioni russe sul territorio tedesco? Non lo sai
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Il post distorce un rapporto ufficiale della Bundeswehr: dal 2022 oltre 700 segnalazioni di possibili sorvoli di droni su installazioni militari in Germania, non tutte confermate come droni e senza attribuzione a "incursioni russe". bundeswehr.de/de/meldungen/d… tagesschau.de/inland/bundesw…
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Propongo una legge di iniziativa popolare che imponga ai vertici politici italiani (Presidente del Consiglio, Ministri) e a tutti i parlamentari di maggioranza di arruolarsi e andare a combattere sulla linea del fuoco in qualsiasi guerra “giusta” decideranno di coinvolgere il nostro Paese. Incluse quelle “di difesa”, naturalmente. D’altronde anticamente i re e i condottieri combattevano. Che ne dite?
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What the hell is a “Russian false flag attack”? It’s either a Russian attack or a NATO false flag attack. Sounds like someone got the scripts mixed up...
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Romano Prodi è stato un protagonista indiscusso della distruzione dell'Italia: ha svenduto l'IRI, ha tagliato violentemente la spesa pubblica e ha cancellato la sovranità monetaria del Paese con l'adozione dell'euro. Una vita dedicata a difendere gli interessi stranieri contro quelli italiani.
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I profitti finiranno agli azionisti di ENI ed ENEL. Quello di maggioranza è proprio il Ministero dell'Economia e delle Finanze da lui presieduto.
Giorgetti lancia l’allarme: «Lo choc energetico finirà nelle bollette». Timori per industria e inflazione trib.al/y0k0OtG
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L'Italia ha già dato 17,3 miliardi di euro all'Ucraina tra finanziamenti diretti e indiretti. È il terzo Paese UE per finanziamenti dopo Germania e Francia.
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‼️🚨 New book announcement! 🚨 ‼️ I’m delighted to announce the upcoming publication of my new book, The Brussels Empire: The EU’s Coup Against Democracy, which I consider to be the ultimate distillation my decade-and-a-half of work on the EU. The book will be published in late October by the wonderful German publishing house Westend — and for now will be available only in German. I’m still looking for an English-language publisher so if you know any publishers who are interested in EU- and NATO-critical views, let me know 🙂 I just received this great quote from renowned German sociologist Wolfgang Streeck: “As an independent journalist, Thomas Fazi is one of the most knowledgeable and astute observers of the European Union. Fazi is able to identify and explain developments and interconnections that the conventional wisdom of academic EU research — largely funded by the very entity it studies — refuses to even consider. Unlike that approach, Fazi’s new book treats the EU and its functions within the European state system not in a technocratic manner, but rather from a political perspective. It shows just how far the EU has already succeeded in eroding the sovereignty of its member states — and, with it, their democratic potential”. Here is a detailed summary of the book: The European Union (EU) was founded on promises of peace, freedom, prosperity and strategic autonomy. What does it stand for today? War, censorship, authoritarianism, economic stagnation, if not outright deindustrialisation, and geopolitical vassalisation to Washington’s diktats. The EU has not merely failed economically, falling steadily behind the world’s other major advanced economies. Far more troubling, it has mutated into a quasi-dictatorial, pseudo-imperial power — one that sets the terms on which 450 million people work, trade, consume and invest; that continues to dismantle Europe’s welfare states in the name of austerity; that financially coerces entire states into compliance; that overturns national laws and constitutions at will; that runs multi-billion-euro propaganda operations and engages in widespread online censorship; that interferes directly in national elections (Romania, Hungary, etc.); and that extra-judicially sanctions its own citizens, stripping them of basic civil rights. All of this, while remaining almost entirely insulated from democratic pressure and largely beyond the control of the governments that nominally constitute it. This is the product of a long process of creeping “Commissionisation” and supranationalisation of Europe’s decision-making process. Over the past decade, the EU’s institutional centre of gravity has shifted decisively towards the European Commission, which has steadily colonised policy areas once reserved for national governments — fiscal policy, public health, foreign affairs, defence. The mechanism has been remarkably consistent: each successive crisis — the sovereign debt crisis, Brexit, the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine — has served as a pretext for the Commission to assume new powers, issue “emergency” decisions and quietly lock in permanent shifts in the architecture of EU authority. None of this has required formal treaty change. It has happened by stealth, outside the arena of public debate, through what scholars term “integration by stealth” — and the result has been a steady, cumulative erosion of national sovereignty and democratic accountability. Even former European Council President Charles Michel recently accused von der Leyen of creating “a super-authoritarian governance”. To compound matters, the EU now stands at the forefront of an aggressive rearmament/war drive against Russia — one that has already inflicted serious damage on European economies, and risks dragging the continent into open conflict with the world’s largest nuclear power. And yet most citizens remain largely unaware of the EU’s role in steadily dismantling the democratic, economic, political and social rights of Europeans. It is this hidden reality that this book sets out to expose: how Brussels’s opaque machinery actually works, who it serves and at what cost. However, this book also addresses those critics — on both the left and the right — who challenge the EU’s current policies and yet continue to cling to the belief that the EU can be democratically reformed. Even among most contemporary critics, the EU is regarded as a well-meaning project that somehow, at some point, lost its way — though there is disagreement about when exactly that happened, why or who is to blame. This book proposes a different thesis: that the EU’s current incarnation is not a deviation from a previously positive path, nor from its founders’ original intentions, but rather the inevitable culmination of a project that was inherently elitist, anti-democratic and authoritarian from its inception. What we are witnessing today is not a degeneration but a revelation — a project finally showing itself for what it always was. The book argues that the entire process of European integration, even in its pre-EU incarnations, should be understood primarily not as an economic project but as a political one: one aimed at disempowering mass democracy, which elites had sought to contain since the Second World War and which, by the mid-1970s, had come to be seen as a lethal threat to the capitalist status quo. The vehicle for this was an assault on the nation-state — democracy’s primary institutional expression — to the benefit of transnational capital and domestic oligarchies. This process reached a turning point with the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, which effectively embedded neoliberalism into the very fabric of the European Union — a shift that the creation of the euro then locked in once and for all, by depriving (most) member states of the most fundamental pillar of economic sovereignty: the power to issue their own currency. In so doing, it transformed member states into something resembling colonies of Brussels and Frankfurt. The book argues that this amounted to nothing less than a constitutional and juridical coup d’état — albeit an unusually discreet one. The book also shows that the EU has not merely served as a vehicle for shifting the balance of power in favour of capital, but has been a core instrument of Europe’s subordination to Washington and the transatlantic war lobby. Indeed, the European Union has historically played a key role in entrenching the continent’s dependence on the United States. Contrary to the popular narrative that frames the creation of the EU — and, before it, the European Economic Community (EEC) — as a counterweight to American power, the reality is that Washington actively championed European integration as a Cold War bulwark against the Soviet Union, channelling its support through organisations such as the American Committee on United Europe (ACUE), whose vice-chair at the time was none other than Allen Dulles, then head of the CIA. This support likely stemmed from the calculation that exercising control over a single supranational “government” would prove easier than managing dozens of individual national governments. Indeed, the EU, including in its earlier iterations, has always been wedded to Atlanticism, an allegiance that has only intensified since the end of the Cold War. This is why the EU’s technocratic establishment, and the European Commission in particular, has historically been more closely aligned with Washington than with Europe’s own national governments. Recent events bear this out. Ursula von der Leyen — dubbed “Europe’s American president” — has used the Ukraine crisis to push through a further expansion of the Commission’s top-down executive powers, producing a de facto supranationalisation of EU foreign policy (despite the Commission having no formal competence in this area), while ensuring the bloc’s alignment with — or, more accurately, its subordination to — US-NATO strategy (not just on Russia but also on Israel/Gaza), and sidelining dissenting voices such as Hungary and Slovakia, all at the expense of Europe’s own core interests. Finally, the book concludes that the EU is structurally irreformable, because supranationalism itself is an inherently flawed model. This failure becomes even more apparent when the EU’s approach is set against the rest of the world’s. The major transformations in the global economy over the past decades — the development of new technologies, the spread of global value chains, the growth of trade, the rise of China — required none of the conditions of the European Single Market, let alone those of the EU itself or its single currency. On the contrary, economies outside the EU — the United States, China and the rising economies of Asia and Latin America — have achieved growing prosperity and deepening international connectivity without comparable supranational structures or monetary arrangements. Instead, these countries have leveraged their national autonomy to adapt flexibly to global change, pursuing a more decentralised approach to economic and political cooperation. The experience of non-Western nations in particular demonstrates that national sovereignty need not hinder international partnership — and can in fact enhance it. These countries increasingly favour looser arrangements, such as BRICS and ASEAN, over the EU’s model of supranational integration. Where the EU’s model demands a high degree of sovereignty-sharing, binding regulation and a strong central authority to enforce laws across member states, BRICS and ASEAN allow countries to cooperate while retaining substantial control over domestic policy. Such arrangements deliver economic cooperation without mandating policy harmonisation, allowing member states to pursue their own economic models while still fostering regional growth through a more flexible, consensus-based framework — one with the added benefit of enabling cooperation between countries with markedly different political, economic and value systems. This framework reflects an emerging preference for multipolarity and is shaping a new model of international collaboration that diverges sharply from the EU’s supranational approach. Could this model serve as the foundation for a new, post-EU framework in Europe? One thing is clear: Europeans who care about peace, democracy and the continent’s future need to unite in opposition to the EU before it is too late. INDEX · Introduction Part 1: The Making of the Brussels Empire · Chapter 1. Liberalism Against Democracy · Chapter 2. An Elite Project From the Very Start (1950s-1960s) · Chapter 3. The External Constraint: From the EMS to Maastricht (1970s-early 1990s) · Chapter 4. The Euro and the Pre-Crisis Decade (1990s-2000s) · Chapter 5. Crisis and Revolt: The Euro Crisis and the First Populist Wave (2009-2019) · Chapter 6. The Covid-19 Pandemic: The State of Exception as the New Normal · Chapter 7. The Russia-Ukraine War: Von der Leyen’s “Geopolitical Coup” Part 2: Anatomy of the Machine · Chapter 8. How the EU Works — and How It Undermines Democracy · Chapter 9. An Economic Critique of Supranational Integration · Chapter 10. The EU’s Propaganda-Censorship Complex · Chapter 11. The Lawless Empire: The EU’s Sanctioning of Individuals · Chapter 12. The Managed Ballot: From Soft Power to Direct Electoral Interference · Chapter 13. The Politics of Hyper-Vassalisation · Chapter 14. What Future for Europe?
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🇬🇷🇩🇪 #Grecia – Il ministro delle Finanze Kyriakos #Pierrakakis, in visita a Berlino, ha consigliato al vice-cancelliere tedesco Lars #Klingbeil che la #Germania implementi le riforme necessarie alla luce della stagnazione economica e dell'aumento del debito. Il ministro ha citato il modello greco come ispirazione per riforme "inizialmente dolorose, ma capaci di ripagare nel lungo periodo".
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Il fallimento della Ue (e dell’euro, suo tossico sottoprodotto) spiegato bene e in breve. Da affiggere in tutte le strade e recitare a memoria ogni mattina in tutte le scuole di ogni ordine e grado.
Macron's former Prime Minister, who is candidate at France's next presidential elections, proposes to "build the United States of Europe" 👇 I've been hearing this discourse ever since I was a child, that we cannot compete with the US and China without a strong Europe. Which, granted, makes a lot of sense on paper: if you're to compete against giants, you've got to be a giant yourself. Logical, right? Except, in practice, the exact opposite occurred. Just look at the evolution of relative share of global GDP (visualcapitalist.com/ranked-…): in 1992, the year of the Maastricht treaty (which officially created the EU), the countries making up the EU used to have 28.8% of global GDP which was actually more than the US (25.7%) and China (1.9%) combined! Fast forward to today and both the US and China's shares have grown - in the case of China it's grown considerably - but Europe's share has shrunk to around 17%, the same share as China, losing about 40% of its economic weight in a mere 3 decades. Which means that, very concretely, more Europe - and there has been, treaty after treaty, more and more Europe - has so far meant more and more economic irrelevance. The more we built Europe - this supposed economic giant on paper - the smaller we got economically. And it's not a China story, it's not that simple: if it were, the US's global share of GDP would have shrunk alongside Europe, but it just didn't. Which means it's really a Europe problem. And, unfortunately, it's not just the economy. More Europe has meant more irrelevance and weakness in just about all fields that matter. Take foreign affairs for instance. There used to be a time when Europe's voice mattered in the world - or at least that of the countries making up Europe. When, say, De Gaulle could, in the space of a single year, pull France out of NATO (adst.org/2014/06/france-has-…), ask American troops to leave French soil (humanite.fr/histoire/general…), and then fly to Phnom Penh to tell a packed stadium that the US had no business waging war in Vietnam (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phnom_…). Try to picture a single European leader doing even one of those three things today. Heck, in 2009 France got **back** in NATO, a sad illustration that the "strong Europe" we were promised as a counterweight to the US has in practice meant ever deeper subordination to it. It's even written in black and white in the Lisbon Treaty itself (eur-lex.europa.eu/resource.h…), which states that NATO "remains the foundation" of its members' collective defence. So much for the independent giant... Or take another critical dimension of power: technology. The countries of Europe used to sit at the technological frontier: Concorde, Ariane, the TGV, the World Wide Web invented at CERN, etc. A reminder that as late as 2007 a single European company, namely Nokia, sold 4 out of every 10 mobile phones on the planet. Today look at the ASPI Critical Technology Tracker (aspi.org.au/programs/critica…): out of the 74 critical technologies of the future, in how many is any European country in the lead? Answer: not a single one of them. And I'm not even speaking about energy, culture, and a dozen other fields where the story is identical. On energy alone: European companies now pay 2 to 3 times more for their electricity than their American and Chinese competitors, and just last year Brussels pledged to buy $750 billion worth of American energy as part of a trade "deal" for which it received, in exchange, 15% tariffs on its exports. Some giant... Long story short, there is the logic on paper and then there is the logic in practice: when you see that the patient has been getting steadily sicker for 3 decades, and that the doctor's only answer, year after year, is to increase the dose of the very same medicine, at some point you have to question the medicine. Or the doctor. De Gaulle, coming back to him because he was in my view one of the most prescient statesmen we ever produced, saw it coming clear as day: as early as 1962 he warned that a supranational Europe, having dissolved the only entities capable of having a will and a policy of their own - nations - would have no policy at all, and would end up following someone else's. He warned that "there would perhaps be a federator, but he would not be European" (fresques.ina.fr/de-gaulle/fi…). In the same 1962 press conference he also beautifully said that "Dante, Goethe, Chateaubriand belong to all of Europe to the very extent that they were respectively and eminently Italian, German and French. They would not have served Europe much had they been stateless men and had they thought, written in some integrated Esperanto or Volapük." That was his conviction: that Europe's genius is really the sum of its singular geniuses, and that you cannot add them up by melting them down. If you make some sort of soup out of French, Italian, Greek, and Spanish cuisine, all thrown in the same pot, you don't get all the flavors at once. Instead, you've destroyed four of the world's great culinary traditions to produce something no one wants to eat. I'm not anti-European, by the way, and neither was De Gaulle. I do believe - and so did he - that Europe should be a power in its own right. What De Gaulle called a "European Europe": independent of Washington, speaking with its own voice, master of its own destiny. He simply understood that only nations can carry such an ambition, because only nations have a will. Which is the great irony of this whole story: those who claim to want a strong Europe are busy dismantling the only thing that could ever make it one - the sovereignty of nations.
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L'iperinflazione non c'è mai stata. I due picchi a doppia cifra tra gli anni 70 e gli anni 80 sono stati dovuti alle due crisi petrolifere, cioè a cause esogene, e non hanno ovviamente riguardato solo l'Italia. La lira fluttuava come l'euro. Né più, ne meno. Dall'ingresso nell'euro a gennaio del 1999 all'ottobre del 2000 (22 mesi) l'euro si è svalutato del 26% (come la lira dall'agosto del 1983 al marzo del 1985). Dall'ottobre del 2000 al luglio del 2008 la quantità di euro necessaria per acquistare un dollaro è diminuita del 45.8%, cioè si è rivaluto dell'84.6%. Come la lira che fra il marzo del 1985 e il novembre del 1990 rivalutò dell'86% sul dollaro. I salati prima dell'ingresso nella UE erano automaticamente adeguati al costo della vita grazie alla scala mobile e quindi il potere d'acquisto non è mai stato intaccato dall'inflazione.
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