In Iran i ragazzi vengono messi a morte perché vogliono vivere liberi come in Occidente. In Occidente i ragazzi (solo alcuni, per fortuna) scendono in piazza con le bandiere dell’Iran, della Corea del Nord, di Hamas, di Hezbollah. Qualcosa è andato storto.

Ad ogni italiano l’appoggio all’Ucraina è costatato 3 centesimi al giorno e 11 euro l’anno. Mi sembra un costo modico per garantirsi libertà e democrazia . Sono stufo di sentire stronzate

L’Hotel de Ville di Limoges, sopravvissuto a due guerre mondiali, centro della Resistenza francese durante l’occupazione tedesca, oggi è stato divorato dalle fiamme appiccate dai criminali ai quali gli intellò lisciano il pelo in pensosi dibattiti sul “disagio degli studenti”.

French journalist Paul Amar: “They came prepared. They had the addresses of town halls. They had addresses of Jewish shop owners. In a street in Marseille, all businesses owned by Jews were set on fire. Businesses run by Muslims weren’t”

Premise: Incentives drive all human behavior. The corollary: How to destroy a country: A vast social security and support system that serves as a magnet for those who would rather not work. An open immigration policy that does not screen immigrants to determine their ability and willingness to provide for themselves and their families. An open immigration policy that does not screen for political and/or religious ideologies that are a threat to the country. Economic incentives large enough to incentivize immigrants on the state dole to have large numbers of children, but insufficient for educated and economically productive mothers to be able to quit to raise a family. The declining fertility of the most educated and productive women due to their delay to begin a family as a result of their desire and/or need to advance their careers, among other reasons, to live a life they deem consistent with their educational achievements and/or to repay their student debts. Amnesty programs that give citizenship and voting power to illegal immigrants without consideration of their economic productivity or their threat to the country due to their religious or political ideologies. The changing demographics and increased population due to the above factors. The state responding to protests by increasing social support. The continued failure to punish and hold accountable violent and looting rioters. Government managed by a massive and growing unelected bureaucracy. Government fraud, waste, and abuse contributed to ballooning budgets. Anti-business legislation that makes it difficult for businesses to compete in a global marketplace being disrupted by AI, including restrictions on firing even poorly performing employees. Overly burdensome, globally uncompetitive, corporate taxation. Continuous increases in personal taxes to raise funds to provide for the rapidly growing welfare state. The substantial majority of the tax burden levied on a small percentage of the population. A growing percentage of the electorate paying no taxes and receiving welfare. The introduction or threat of a wealth tax including the taxation of unrealized gains, i.e., taxes on paper wealth. The flight of the most productive business builders and highest taxpayers to lower tax countries with lesser security concerns. A growing percentage of the electorate voting for candidates that support increased welfare and laws favorable to, and/or that match the cultural and ideological needs and desires of a growing unproductive immigrant population. The rapid rise in anti-semitism and inadequate efforts to address this hatred. Increased borrowing by the state to fund the growing social burden. Higher sovereign interest rates due to all of the above. The resulting need to reduce expenditures to make the math work. Increasingly violent protests that make life less livable for the productive and law abiding citizens leading to their accelerated departure. And so on…

This is what it looks like when civilization ends.

We owe £3 trillion. We spend more on working-age benefits than we raise in income tax. Our social security budget is five times our actual security budget. And these two are pretending to be gap-year vloggers in Bangkok.

Se should all be worried - when a so called "progressive" newspaper panders to every NIMBY and neo luddite trope The Guardian share.google/kLPSsX3T9mmDhyd…

We are now allied with Russia to lower the price of diesel that is sky high because of our war against Iran, who is being supported by…. Russia Do i have that right?

Of course he name drops an obscure Italian-American communist who was against America's participation in World War 2 and was investigated by the FBI for his ties to the international communist party. Of all the great men and women of Italian descent who've contributed to New York City and the United States, this is the idiot he picks. He is physically incapable of being anything other than a loathsome propagandist for communism. As the most prominent Italian-American in city government, please allow me to formally disinvite you from ever mentioning Italian heritage ever again. And yes, we Italians came here to work, create businesses, dig the subways, build the buildings -- and it was indeed a struggle. A struggle a rich kid like Zohran could never know. But we didn't ask for any handouts. There was no welfare, millions of us came here knowing there was only ourselves, our work, and our community -- and we thrived. We wanted to become Americans, and our people were proud to learn the language and wave the American flag. And when the time came, millions of Italian-Americans returned to Europe to fight World War 2, my father included. Many of them had to fight their own former countrymen in Mussolini's Italy. And they did exactly that, because they were nothing less than Americans. Quite the opposite of the current immigrant situation championed by people like Zohran, where we invite lazy and entitled foreigners to loot the treasury without asking anything in return, as they resentfully fly the flags of their own nations -- and could never be counted on to defend America. My mother was a widow who raised five children on her own, working in a button factory. We didn't take a penny of government assistance. We relied on ourselves. It was hard work, but we did it, and we were grateful. And today I sit on the City Council, representing the very neighborhood I grew up in. That's what being an Italian-American in New York means. Not the communist propaganda Zohran is pushing here. It's about hard work, independence, heritage, and most importantly, pride in being an American above all else.

23 arrests at the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march resulted in endless news articles and MP’s condemnation. 20 arrests at a typical Palestine march - including assaulting police officers and Nazi salutes and there’s silence from everyone. Why is that?

“Anyone who wants reparations based on history will have to gerrymander history very carefully. Otherwise, practically everybody would owe reparations to practically everybody else.” — Thomas Sowell

What exactly have they got against the Battle of Britain pilots? Would they rather the other side had won?

May come as a bit of a surprise to those of us who were following Paul's writings in the 2010s when he was railing against Eurozone "austerity craziness". With interest rates at the zero lower bound, he argued that fiscal consolidation in a depressed economy was self-defeating: multipliers were large, so cutting deficits deepened the slump and did little for debt ratios. France was one of his recurring examples. It turns out that French policymakers were listening to him. In every big recession, they massively increased spending. But the multipliers were not as big as advertised. Deficits didn't pay for themselves. Government debt/GDP is a persistent state variable. Bond yields are not. If the only reason you're changing your mind is because yields are up, then your advice wasn't that good to begin with. Op-eds and blog posts arguing against French austerity (list generated by Claude) “Franc Thoughts on Long-Run Fiscal Issues,” blog post (Conscience of a Liberal), August 11, 2011. Argues there are limits to deficits but they are not relevant now. “Those Revolting Europeans,” NYT column, May 2012. Welcomes Hollande’s election as a rejection of austerity. (Title and date from memory; please verify before citing.) “The Plot Against France,” NYT column, November 11, 2013 (online November 10). Attacks the S&P downgrade; calls French fiscal prospects “distinctly nonalarming.” “France by the Numbers,” blog post, January 2014. Mocks French elite pessimism after Hollande’s supply-side turn. “Scandal in France,” NYT column, January 17, 2014. Calls Hollande’s embrace of austerity and supply-side doctrine scandalous. “The Fall of France,” NYT column, August 29, 2014 (print, p. A23). Says Hollande folded to austerity demands; France “isn’t Greece” and not fragile. Related: defenses of the French model, not explicitly about austerity 7. “What’s the Matter With Europe?”, NYT column, May 2017. Argues France is a fairly successful economy that gets bad press from welfare-state critics. 8. Twitter thread, November 5, 2019. Argues France gets bad press not borne out by the facts.

🚨🪖🇮🇹🇷🇺 Guido Crosetto, ministro della Difesa italiano: "Io voglio partire dal presupposto che nessuna nazione sia nemica di nessuna. Poi però sono costretto, perché faccio il ministro della Difesa, non faccio il commentatore da bar, a cercare di circoscrivere ogni pericolo che possa riguardare la mia nazione e guardo i fatti. Ogni giorno noi subiamo centinaia di attacchi cyber alle nostre infrastrutture di ogni tipo, civili e militari. La gran parte di questi attacchi vengono da due nazioni: la Russia e la Cina. Ogni giorno noi subiamo sui nostri social, e su altri canali, tentativi di disinformazione e di indebolimento dell'opinione pubblica. E questi arrivano dalle stesse due nazioni. Più Russia o più Cina? Più Russia, che ha una storica presenza in Italia, non soltanto attraverso i nuovi strumenti. Perché la Russia è presente in Italia dal dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, attraverso i suoi servizi, in modo superiore a qualunque altra nazione, anche perché aveva un humus di penetrazione superiore a qualunque altra nazione. Noi diamo anche per scontato che non ci possa essere un carro armato russo, anche perché prima dovrebbe attraversare un po' di stati e le Alpi per arrivare qua. Ma dall'altra parte io vedo un atteggiamento di ostilità. Allora, nessuno è di parte, ma secondo voi la NATO, le nazioni della NATO, noi, UK, Francia, Stati Uniti, chiunque sia il presidente, potrebbero mai decidere di invadere la Russia? Cioè, secondo voi un parlamento occidentale di qualunque di queste nazioni approverebbe mai un'invasione della Russia? No. Il racconto in Russia è che la NATO sta circondando la Russia per invaderla e che la Russia sta reclutando centinaia di migliaia di soldati - sono arrivati a un milione e mezzo - per difendersi da un'invasione della NATO. Siccome i russi non sono scemi, sono analisti molto più profondi di noi, sanno perfettamente che la NATO non invaderà mai la Russia. Chiediamoci perché hanno trasformato il 50% della loro economia in un'economia di guerra da cui sarà difficile tornare indietro? Questa è una preoccupazione. E hanno raggiunto il milione e mezzo di soldati reclutati dopo aver perso sul fronte Ucraina ogni mese più di 30.000 giovani. Perché la Russia il prezzo che sta pagando per andare avanti in Ucraina sono 30.000 tra morti e feriti ogni mese. Quindi perché questo atteggiamento? Non lo so. Non voglio dare una risposta che in qualche modo sia allarmistica. So che devo però preoccuparmi di fronte a un atteggiamento di questo tipo". x.com/dariodangelo91/status/…

今天《纽约邮报》发表社论，标题是“诺奖委员会再次令自己蒙羞”，因把和平奖颁给了以“极端反以色列偏见而闻名”的南非律师。社论说，皮莱获诺奖的重要原因，就是因为她“对以色列的仇恨”。该社论结尾说：“川普总统不必为自己未能获得该奖而感到难过。事实是，获得这个奖并不值得。”下面是该社论译文—— 他们又搞砸了：诺贝尔委员会再次令自己颜面尽失。 《纽约邮报》社论 2026 年 10 月 9 日 诺贝尔委员会又一次令自己蒙羞，将2026 年和平奖授给了纳维·皮莱，这位南非的法律活动家以及前联合国人权专员，因其极端的反以色列偏见而闻名。 皮莱获得该奖的主要理由，似乎是她错误地指控以色列在加沙实施了“种族灭绝”。 但她几十年来一贯的反以色列偏见一直是她职业生涯的显著特征。 多年来，皮莱一直错误地指控以色列是一个“种族隔离”国家，尽管事实上犹太人和阿拉伯人在以色列享有平等的权利和投票权——这一点在南非的实际种族隔离制度以及阿拉伯和穆斯林世界的其它地区从来都不是如此。 在那次针对以色列的最后一次攻击（指2021年5月哈马斯用大规模火箭弹攻击以色列）之后，皮莱领导了一项不公正的联合国调查，该调查针对的是所谓的以色列侵犯巴勒斯坦人的权利，并几乎未提及巴勒斯坦人的不当行为。 她甚至曾将以色列对哈马斯的战争与卢旺达大屠杀相提并论，将这个犹太国家描绘成罪魁祸首。 到2023 年，就连拜登政府也对此感到厌倦了，拜登政府带领20多个国家要求终止她的“独立国际调查委员会”（对以色列）的不公正审判。 皮莱在针对以色列的同时，还因无视其它国家（包括一些世界上最恶劣的独裁政权）的实际人权侵犯行为而臭名昭著。 这种偏见会助长战争，而非和平。 但皮莱对以色列的仇恨并没有妨碍她获得诺贝尔奖；相反，这正是她获奖的重要原因之一。 事实上，皮莱与众多被质疑的和平奖得主一样，其中最突出的例子就是巴勒斯坦的头号恐怖分子亚西尔·阿拉法特，他后来还发动了另一场针对以色列的战争。 唐纳德·川普总统不必为自己未能获得该奖而感到难过。事实是，获得这个奖并不值得。

Poland dumped communism and tripled GDP per capita from 1992–2020. “Late-stage capitalism” is when your economy grows old enough to forget how shit the alternative was.

BREAKING: Denmark's former foreign minister “shocked” over Nobel prize to Navi Pillay. “She is not qualified,” says Per Stig Møller. When Denmark was attacked by Muslims over cartoons of Mohammed, Pillay refused to help. “Her response was that we should introduce censorship.” 🧵

So people keep going back to “Israel invaded the land” and “Israel stole the land” and “Nakba-this” and “Nakba-that” and all sorts of other stories about why they justify Oct 7 and why Israel is in the wrong. Let’s clear a few things up. The land that is now Israel was lived in by both Muslims and Jews for a long time. If you want to get technical about who was there first, it was the Jews. How do we know this for a fact? Well, first of all, Jews have been around for about 2000 years longer than Muslims. Not enough for you? OK. How about the fact that the word “Israel” is mentioned in the Quran about 43 times. Palestine? Never once. Jewish people have been around longer than Muslim people have – fact. Jewish people were living in the place where Israel is much longer than Arabs have – also fact. In about 1250 BCE, the Jewish people went to what was then called Canaan – where Israel sits today. This is when they escaped slavery in Egypt, and wandered the dessert for 40 years. 1250BCE. About 1860 years before the founding of Islam. Fast forward to modern times. 1940s. Yes, there were both Arab-Muslims and Jews living on the land that is now called Israel. And yeah, there was fighting. On both sides. After the Holocaust, the push for the Jewish people to have their own country intensified. During WWII, too many countries turned their backs on Jews. A Jewish homeland would ensure that Jews always had somewhere to go. There could never be another Holocaust, another ethnic cleansing of Jews. Additionally, the UK was tired of dealing with all the fighting in the British Mandate of Palestine (what Israel was called before it was Israel), and wanted to wash their hands of it. So what did they do? They offered to split the land amongst the two groups living there. The Arab-Muslims and the Jews. Sounds fair, right? Each could have their own State, completely autonomous. Pretty good deal, wouldn’t you think? I think it was a good deal. The Jews thought it was a good deal. Do you know who didn’t think it was a good deal? The Arab-Muslims. Do you know why? Because they didn’t want the Jews to have anything. So the day after Israel became a nation, the Arabs attacked. 5 Arab nations attacked, in what would be known as the Arab-Israeli war. Do you know what else it became known as? The Nakba. Nakba for catastrophe. Because they lost. The Arab world says it’s because Arabs were displaced. But they chose to be displaced. Because they chose not to accept their own nation. They left. They ran away. Because they thought the Jews would lose and they'd be able to go back. The Arabs have been fighting ever since. At some point in time in the 1960s, the Arab-Muslims who were trying to claim Israel as theirs, started to refer to themselves as Palestinians. Land has been offered. A Palestinian state has been offered. All that the Palestinians had to do, was accept Israel’s right to exist. To stop attacking and trying to destroy them. Why don’t the Palestinians have their own State? Because they refuse to. They refuse to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist. Muslim nations in this world, take up 29.13 million square km. Israel is 21,671 square km. Jews have 0.1% of the land that Muslims have. And according to the Radicalized Muslims, that’s too much. This isn’t about the land. This is about Radicalized Muslims not wanting Jews to exist.

Gaza Ministry of Health has now released mortality numbers for 2025. For the first time since the war, they give numbers for all deaths, including natural deaths. In 2025 there were a total of 24,650 deaths in Gaza. 18,870 (76.6%) of these were violent, of which 17,286 (70.1%) were due to "war operations" and 1,584 (6.4%) were classified as accidents. There were a total of 5,780 (23.4%) non-violent deaths, including disease, old age, and all other causes. 5,780 deaths is about the same as the annual non-violent mortality in Gaza before the war, and the age distribution is similar to 2022. There is no significant excess of non-violent deaths. In other words, despite frequent and loud claims to the contrary, there seems to be very few indirect deaths due to the war in Gaza in 2025. As there were 50,227 births in 2025, this gives a natural population growth of 25,577 or 1.2% in Gaza in 2025, which is higher population growth than most countries in the world and more than the world average. There are currently ~6,000 births/month in Gaza, per GMH. Assuming a similar number of non-violent deaths in Gaza in 2026 as in 2025, that means there are currently 12x more births than deaths in Gaza, and that Gaza is now experiencing one of the highest population growths in the world.