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What most people already understand, even without the economic terminology, is that firms like BlackRock operate less like investors and more like modern feudal landlords.

They buy essential infrastructure,water networks, ports, energy grids, data centres, and other public necessities, often using vast amounts of borrowed money and paying prices that ordinary market participants cannot match.

Once the acquisition is complete, the debt is pushed onto the acquired company itself.

The result is simple: the public pays.

Consumers repay that debt through higher water bills, rising energy prices, increased fees, and declining service quality.

The infrastructure becomes a cash-extraction machine.

Profits flow upward to shareholders and executives, while the financial burden flows downward to ordinary households.

When the model inevitably breaks down, the consequences are socialised. Communities are left with crumbling infrastructure, polluted rivers and failing services.

Thames Water's £14 billion debt mountain and repeated sewage scandals are a stark example of what happens when financial engineering takes precedence over public stewardship.

The executives who loaded the company with debt have already collected their bonuses.

The investors have already taken their returns.

And when the system finally reaches its breaking point, taxpayers are expected to pick up the bill.

Privatise the gains.

Socialise the losses.

That is the business model......

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The “immoral act” was apparently a kiss on the forehead. They were newlyweds who decided to spend their honeymoon in Mecca. According to reports in Bangladesh, Saudi authorities refused to consider they were a couple, and the forehead kiss was an expression of appreciation to Allah for a beautiful bride. Their bodies have arrived in Bangladesh in two coffins for traditional burial rites.

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There’s a sentence in Zbigniew Brzezinski’s The Grand Chessboard, published in 1997, that Europeans should have read more carefully.

He called Europe America’s "essential geopolitical bridgehead" on the Eurasian continent.

Not a partner. Not an ally in the full sense of the word.

A bridgehead.

A military term. The position you seize on hostile territory to enable further operations.

Brzezinski was one of the most honest American strategists of the 20th century, and he was honest about this:

Europe’s role in American grand strategy was not to become a sovereign power in its own right. It was to remain the western anchor of American Eurasian dominance.

Close enough to matter. Dependent enough to manage.

For decades, Europeans read that as flattery.

The energy bills since 2022 have translated it accurately.

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This Makes Me Suspect Israel Is Behind France's Riots Netanyahu's minister Amichai Chikli is practically CELEBRATING the chaos and warning Britain and Belgium are NEXT. We have seen the CHAOS already starting in Belgium. This, plus Netanyahu's Europe bashing, makes me wonder if Israel has a hand in fueling this unrest.

When I watch Europe being smashed, I get déjà vu.

I understand what French Jean feels - the owner of a looted shop in Paris.

We were all robbed and raped too - those who simply wanted to live by the rules.

In Kyiv on Maidan in 2014. I was there every day as a journalist. Our office was right in the epicenter, on the central square where the protests were.

Every day a drunk, unwashed Vasyl who came down from the mountains, with baseball bat in hand, asked me where I was going. No one authorized him. But he decided he had the right. And European politicians supported a coup.

What did I feel? Helplessness. The same as the conscript soldiers who were doused with water in the freezing cold. The same as the police who had Molotov cocktails thrown at them and were burned alive. The same as people in Paris and Milan feel now.

That’s when I understood. The worst thing for us and for the state is when the crowd gains power. When the rules stop working. Because sooner or later it all ends in anarchy. And everyone suffers.

Today millions of Europeans feel the same helplessness. The very ones who told us 12 years ago: “This is normal. This is freedom. This is revolution.”

Fate is an interesting thing.

Europe must walk this path to the end. When you produce chaos, one day chaos will swallow you.

And for people like me, it was an excellent lesson. Those who kept their minds during the general madness became even stronger. We are ready to give our lives so our children can live where law and rules work. And I know that’s worth living for.

Not enough people know this: in practice, the IMF is controlled by the US.

The US is the only country that has de facto veto power at the IMF because the biggest decisions require an 85% supermajority of total voting power. The US' vote share is 16.5%

This was by design, and the supermajority threshold was actually moved in 1978 so that the US vote share would continue to give the country veto power.

We should not see the IMF as an organisation that serves global development.

We should see is as an organisation that serves mainly Western interests — and, above all, US interests. https://x.com/haugejostein/status/2112230474676412712

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