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Curacao’s isla refinery is idle and needs major investment, seems dumb not to restart it as it processes Venezuelan crude into diesel.
@KubiliusA @DanJoergensen
Nicolas Overloop retweeted
Ladies & Gentlemen, we have managed to get the @EUCouncil ' EU Inc files. The ones that matter. The ones where we see the position of Each Member state: including who pushed the notaries' agenda.
Buckle up and Repost. 🍿 Now if you are from those Member States, make some noise.
Directly or through associations, politicians. Enjoy the thread 🧵 1/
Halleluja, France has seen the light now too.
Don't forget retail trading activity on stock exchanges too btw.
Stock market liquidity underwrites all private equity investment.
La baguette magique des États-Unis, c’est la retraite par capitalisation.
Quand les Américains financent leurs entreprises et même les start-ups françaises, c’est avec l’argent qui est dans les fonds de pension issus de leur système de retraite par capitalisation.
Le temps qu’on se dote de cette baguette magique qu’est la capitalisation, il faut investir : c’est le plan France 2040 : 200 Md€ pour l’IA et l’innovation en général.
RAM prices in 2026
I really do not understand the pricing on the new Mac Studio M5 Ultra.
A 256GB unit costs $10,799.
Upgrading that RAM to 512GB adds an extra $11,500.
You are paying more just to double the memory than it costs to buy two separate 256GB machines. And two machines give you twice the processors and twice the storage for less money.
How does this pricing strategy make any sense?
Surrealism in the 21st century.
Dali would be proud he started a movement that ultimately made it into Schengen Visa policies.
Russia is preparing for war in Europe, and they continue to be issued visas.
Spanish police have arrested a former Russian soldier after discovering an illegal weapons operation in Catalonia, near the French border.
Investigators uncovered a concealed workshop inside a rented warehouse in Figueres, approximately 25 kilometers from France. The facility contained 644 firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition, silencers and weapons components.
The seized arsenal is estimated to be worth €5 million.
Haiti is a quintessential case that the law doesn’t mean anything when not backed up with violence.
States should have zero tolerance to anybody challenging its monopoly of violence.
Democracy evolved after absolute monarchy for a reason.
DIFUNDAN URGENTE 🚨
ACTUALIZACIÓN: OPERATIVO HAITÍ - EL SALVADOR (Domingo 25 de Octubre 2026)
🚨 ÚLTIMA HORA: Máxima tensión y operativo secreto en Haití
El rescate de los cuatro técnicos de aviación de El Salvador entra en su fase más crítica bajo un estricto protocolo de seguridad. Esto es lo último:
❌ Bukele desmiente hallazgo: El presidente Nayib Bukele negó formalmente que los cuerpos quemados encontrados el sábado sean de los militares salvadoreños. La búsqueda continúa activa.
✈️ Fuerzas Especiales: Hace horas un nuevo contingente de 450 soldados de élite de El Salvador aterrizó en el Aeropuerto Internacional Toussaint Louverture de Puerto Príncipe con muy importante equipamiento militar mientras se prepara otro avión desde El Salvador.
🪖 Operativo bajo absoluto secreto: Las tropas salvadoreñas avanzan junto a la GSF (Fuerza respaldada por la ONU) en Croix-des-Bouquets bajo una discreción total para proteger la vida de los rehenes y personal movilizado.
🎯 Buscan al cabecilla: El objetivo principal del asedio es Wilson Joseph, alias "Lanmò San Jou", el temido capo de la pandilla 400 Mawozo. Mis contactos en el terreno señalan que se le busca intensamente y aparentemente habría logrado fugarse de su zona habitual para esconderse en áreas rurales de difícil acceso tras el avance militar.
💥 Ataques de distracción: Ante la presión del ejército, las bandas lanzaron tiroteos en el casco urbano de Delmas 19, 31 y 33, que causaron pánico y forzaron el desplazamiento de civiles debido a ráfagas de armas automáticas para dispersar a las tropas y frenar el rescate.
No dejes de ver los informes en 👇
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If every database on earth can be hacked then there is actual value in putting property and critical financial records on blockchain so that the attack is extremely expensive to execute.
Why not throw in the commonwealth and OPEC while you're at it.
BREAKING: US reportedly offers Ukraine EU membership if they drop NATO bid
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Reported US proposal per The Economist would see Ukraine get an EU membership path & investment package for dropping NATO bid. The US cannot offer or guarantee EU membership - that requires unanimous EU approval. No agreement announced.
kyivpost.com/post/87977 meduza.io/en/news/2026/1…
Most consequential change in Europe right now.
Germany will probably make headway this year on a reform of its pension system that will help deepen European capital markets, Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing says bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Perfect excuse for @GiorgiaMeloni and @kmitsotakis to trigger a migration-related crisis with Libya and enact a total sea blockade. If Turkey escalates, Israel could enter and also Turkey can be blockaded as well as sanctioned.
Peace settlement should be migration control, unification, lifting of sanctions and extensive oil and gas investments in Libya.
EU would be protesting loudly to maintain ties with Turkey but ultimately has no jurisdiction on defence but maintain the mutual defence clause of the EU is absolute and has no opt-outs.
Libya without oil and gas exports and without food imports would destabilize very quickly and become dependent on Egypt and Algeria for supplies; two powers not aligned with Turkey.
If the Russians use their planes against the blockade then that would also sink the “Russia is not our enemy” narrative in Italy.
Maybe after the winter would be a good time.
Les miserables had a tremendous impact on the world through its plea for social justice and a compassionate society. It shaped French society for more than 150 years but for compassionate justice to work there was one major requirement.
The criminal wanted to change.
It’s hard to imagine they would pose for group pictures celebrating their crimes.
French society provides more than enough opportunities for those who want to work for it.
Showing compassion with the lazy, hostile, extractive or outright stupid people makes no sense either and the vigilant application of the full force of the law is in fact, exactly what they deserve.
Everybody in life has a calling, for some that’s to be the bad example that deters others from copying you.
For those kids it’s probably too late but compassion and welfare should be withdrawn so they may learn to value what the poor of the 19th century built up on blood, sweat and tears.
For what it’s worth, I think merging 3 lethargic companies into one is not going to help and the EU would be better off having them compete aggressively for R&D procurements jointly procured through the EU.
Anti-trust had to be reformed in order to allow one to win, not to slap them together into one superlethargic company.
The damage for SpaceX is massive
"The European Union is working toward fast-track antitrust approval for a satellite joint venture between Leonardo SpA, Airbus SE, and Thales SA, which is positioned as Europe's response to SpaceX"
The actions of the 🇺🇸 US administration have consequences.
Recent reports from 4 sources confirm that both Elon and Trump supported the restrictions of Starshield, which confirms my earlier posts stating that SpaceX is involved and part of it.
The Telegraph on Oct. 16 reported that it was Musk who proposed the speed cap to Trump — and Trump "agreed," one source said.
That sounds very likely to what really had happened including Elons denial to have any responsibility (half true) and Trumps lie which is just one more of the many he spreads every day. finance.yahoo.com/economy/po…
I don’t understand why Morocco and Turkey/Qatar are struggling to finance their natural gas pipeline projects.
Both are diversification projects from Russia. @kajakallas @bundeskanzler
Going to be an interesting European Council this week.
I have a suspicion that Trump’s pro-Russian spiel is tolerated by the republicans because it has a narrative of forcing Europe to become independent militarily through negative control (scare tactics).
So far this narrative fits the facts better than a Manchurian candidate.
The MFF discussion this week is critical for European sovereignty, yet is getting a lot of pushback cause the fiscal situation deteriorated.
But then again, not everything fits the narrative well such as the Houthi takeover of Bab-el-mandeb and the lifting of sanctions. That one fits much better in the Manchurian candidate narrative.
Trump would have the incentive to maintain both narratives as plausible either to appease Putin and to appease Republicans capable of impeaching him or to make sure negative control over US allies has the desired effect of setting up a British-style balance-of-power strategy.
Potentially both narratives are valid and Trump is juggling blackmail, impeachment and Americanism.
❗️Last night, the operation of Starlink terminals in Ukraine was restricted.
Connectivity began to drop when moving at speeds exceeding 160 km/h. As a result, a number of critical missions were disrupted.
SpaceX likely took these measures at the request of the Trump administration. Also last night, when Kyiv was attacked by ballistic missiles, Ukraine did not receive intelligence regarding their launch— a failure that could have led to higher casualties.
Ukraine did not attack Russian oil refineries, yet Trump has already begun imposing sanctions on my country. Meanwhile, sanctions against Russia have been eased.
Nicolas Overloop retweeted
‘failed state’ Belgians watching the French torch their place for a fourth century in a row.
#BlocusLycées
