You truly are a crypto-conspiracy theory bro.
EU Catch-All |German Gvt Collapse; Sarkozy trial in France
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Batt Boy
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Since WWII, their gold has long been held outside the country. in 2013 they started bring some home, but even today, only about 50% in in Germany. Close to 40% is in NYC with the remainder split between London and Paris. In reality, they have only controlled their own gold since late '51.
AlbionAmerican
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And you lack any reading comprehension skills. Please go ahead and tell me what the conspiracy is? It's a literal fact, see below.
Countries are truly only sovereign if they can pay their own debt, meaning, as long as America holds Germany's gold, they really aren't sovereign, neither is the rest of Europe as long as they all bend their own sovereignty to Germany's economic needs.
My apologies. Sorry about that.And you lack any reading comprehension skills. Please go ahead and tell me what the conspiracy is? It's a literal fact, see below.
Countries are truly only sovereign if they can pay their own debt, meaning, as long as America holds Germany's gold, they really aren't sovereign, neither is the rest of Europe as long as they all bend their own sovereignty to Germany's economic needs.
You’re a “gold standard,” crypto-conspiracy bro.
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Far-right Herbert Kickl gets his chance to form government in Austria
Anti-immigrant and Russia-friendly FPÖ is now in pole position to lead in Vienna.
Far-right Herbert Kickl gets his chance to form government in Austria
Anti-immigrant and Russia-friendly FPÖ is now in pole position to lead in Vienna.
www.politico.eu
“… Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen met with Kickl in Vienna on Monday morning and gave him the task of forming the new government, after coalition talks between mainstream parties collapsed late last week after the liberal NEOS quit negotiations.
… On Saturday, conservative Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer announced his resignation, saying that “no agreement” was possible with the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) “on key points” toward forming a government.
On Sunday, the new leader of Nehammer’s conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), Christian Stocker, said that the ÖVP would “not refuse talks with the FPÖ.”
The anti-immigrant and Russia-friendly FPÖ, which was founded by former Nazis in 1956, won the most seats in the National Assembly in September’s elections, but was initially blocked from forming a government with all other major parties refusing to work with it. …”
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Slovakia:
“It’s been 35 years since riot police in Prague suppressed a student demonstration, kicking off the extraordinary 12-day Velvet Revolution of 1989 that ended communist rule in Czechoslovakia.
How difficult it is now to convey the reverence that Czechs and Slovaks felt for democracy back then.
… More than a generation later, in 2025, those earnest hopes seem fustily quaint. Former Communist Party member Robert Fico is now in his fourth term as prime minister of independent Slovakia. Meanwhile, in Czechia, Andrej Babiš — who also served in the Communist Party and even with Czechoslovakia’s ŠtB state security — is on track to return to the premiership in fall 2025 elections, with his populist ANO party running above 35 percent in the polls.
It’s no longer enough to say, as democratic apologists once lamented, that voters feel nostalgic for communism.
The problem is far more grave: A critical mass of people now believes that liberalism, the purported alternative, was always mere cynical performance art — allowing Washington and Brussels to grab power in Central and Eastern Europe after Moscow was forced to relinquish it, with corporations replacing collectives and hamburgers pushing out halušky (potato dumplings).
… So when Dzurinda’s government, which lasted until 2006, became implicated in a multiyear political corruption scheme that became known as “Gorilla” — involving millions of euros in kickbacks and potentially billions in public assets — politicians weren’t the only casualties. The body count ultimately included the liberal democratic order they had fronted.
Gorilla was a surveillance operation run by Slovakia’s secret service (SIS) that purported to document multiple one-on-one meetings in 2005 and 2006 featuring an oligarch, a minister in the Dzurinda government, a senior privatization official and an opposition leader.
The meetings, held in a private apartment in Bratislava, were recorded by SIS officer Peter Holúbek, a counterintelligence analyst, using new eavesdropping tech code-named “Gorilla,” which couldn’t be detected in sweeps for bugs. Holúbek recorded his targets chatting freely about the coordinated bribery of state officials to approve sales of major state assets. Virtually every national political party was implicated, along with dozens of public officials. …”
“It’s been 35 years since riot police in Prague suppressed a student demonstration, kicking off the extraordinary 12-day Velvet Revolution of 1989 that ended communist rule in Czechoslovakia.
How difficult it is now to convey the reverence that Czechs and Slovaks felt for democracy back then.
… More than a generation later, in 2025, those earnest hopes seem fustily quaint. Former Communist Party member Robert Fico is now in his fourth term as prime minister of independent Slovakia. Meanwhile, in Czechia, Andrej Babiš — who also served in the Communist Party and even with Czechoslovakia’s ŠtB state security — is on track to return to the premiership in fall 2025 elections, with his populist ANO party running above 35 percent in the polls.
It’s no longer enough to say, as democratic apologists once lamented, that voters feel nostalgic for communism.
The problem is far more grave: A critical mass of people now believes that liberalism, the purported alternative, was always mere cynical performance art — allowing Washington and Brussels to grab power in Central and Eastern Europe after Moscow was forced to relinquish it, with corporations replacing collectives and hamburgers pushing out halušky (potato dumplings).
… So when Dzurinda’s government, which lasted until 2006, became implicated in a multiyear political corruption scheme that became known as “Gorilla” — involving millions of euros in kickbacks and potentially billions in public assets — politicians weren’t the only casualties. The body count ultimately included the liberal democratic order they had fronted.
Gorilla was a surveillance operation run by Slovakia’s secret service (SIS) that purported to document multiple one-on-one meetings in 2005 and 2006 featuring an oligarch, a minister in the Dzurinda government, a senior privatization official and an opposition leader.
The meetings, held in a private apartment in Bratislava, were recorded by SIS officer Peter Holúbek, a counterintelligence analyst, using new eavesdropping tech code-named “Gorilla,” which couldn’t be detected in sweeps for bugs. Holúbek recorded his targets chatting freely about the coordinated bribery of state officials to approve sales of major state assets. Virtually every national political party was implicated, along with dozens of public officials. …”
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Greenland’s leader wants independence from Denmark as Trump hovers over Arctic island
“It is now time to take the next step for our country,” Greenlandic Prime Minister Múte Egede says in hinting at 2025 referendum.
Greenland’s leader wants independence from Denmark as Trump hovers over Arctic island
“It is now time to take the next step for our country,” Greenlandic Prime Minister Múte Egede says in hinting at 2025 referendum.
www.politico.eu
“… Greenland, the world’s largest island with a population of around 60,000, was a Danish colony until it became self-ruling with its own parliament in 1979. It remains a territory of Denmark, with Copenhagen exercising control over its foreign and defense policy.
… Egede, who has led Greenland since 2021 and hails from the pro-independence Community of the People (IA) party, said Denmark’s relations with Greenland had not created “full equality,” and that the island deserves to represent itself on the world stage.
“Our cooperation with other countries, and our trade relations, cannot continue to take place solely through Denmark,” he said.
Under a 2009 agreement with Denmark, Greenland can declare independence only after a successful referendum — which Egede appeared to hint at holding in tandem with the island’s upcoming parliamentary election in April. …”
Mulberry Heel
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It would appear that authoritarian, anti-immigrant right-wing populist movements are in the ascendance nearly everywhere, except for maybe the UK (which overwhelmingly rejected the Tories last year) and Australia (which kicked out their right-wing PM in 2022). Beyond that it's hard to find much good news anywhere right now. And I'm sure that someone will come along to point out that even the UK and Australia aren't in great shape either, but I'll take whatever positivity that I can get right now.