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The public in the Czech Republic perceives renting as a less advantageous alternative to a mortgage for owning housing, although the analysis shows that rent is financially more accessible in many cases than mortgage payments, which have significantly increased in recent months. #bydlení #hypotéky #nájem (translated)

Hurricane Simon, one of the strongest hurricanes in the northeastern Pacific, generated atmospheric gravity waves at altitudes of tens of kilometers above the Earth, as shown by nighttime image analysis conducted by the NOAA-21 satellite. #HurikánSimon #AtmosférickéVlny #Meteorologie (translated)

Tomas Kapler rejected the claim that Europe cannot compete with Starlink because it cannot build rockets and satellites and does not have the money for it. He stated that SpaceX completed 165 Falcon 9 flights in 2025, while Amazon reserved 24 launches of the European Ariane 6, which has already launched 100 of its satellites. He also mentioned the German startup Isar Aerospace, the prototype of a reusable rocket in Sweden, and more than 900 million euros that the European Space Agency invested in a new generation of rockets. For comparison, he noted approximately 400 million dollars from NASA for the development of Falcon 9 and the Dragon capsule. Kapler cited examples of European space technologies, including the Galileo navigation system, which he said is used by over 4.5 billion devices, the Finnish company ICEYE and its radar satellites, and the share of Thales Alenia Space in the living space of the International Space Station. He also wrote that Airbus, Thales Aerospace, and Leonardo are merging their space divisions into a company with 25,000 employees, while the EU network IRIS², with 348 satellites, moves towards full deployment. He challenged the claim of a lack of European capital by estimating that European households hold 12 trillion euros in cash and accounts, and Europeans own American stocks and bonds worth 8 trillion dollars. According to him, 300 billion euros in savings flow out of Europe each year. As a sign of change, he mentioned the creation of a single market for savings and investments and Danish pension funds, which he said began to divest from American government bonds. In the field of research and technology, Kapler reminded that three out of the last four Nobel Prize laureates in Physics were born in Europe and stated that the number of applications from scientists working in the USA addressed to the European Research Council has more than doubled. He also mentioned Italian designer Federico Faggin, the London origins of DeepMind, and co-founders of OpenAI born in Poland and Slovakia, and the Dutch company ASML, whose machines are essential for producing the most advanced chips for artificial intelligence. As further examples of European contributions to American space programs, he cited the NASA spacecraft module, which he said was assembled in Bremen, and the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope by an Ariane 5 rocket. Kapler concluded that Europe has been repeatedly written off and reminded that Airbus has been delivering more aircraft than Boeing every year since 2019. According to him, Europe has gradually approached greater self-sufficiency in rockets, satellites, capital, and technologies. #Evropa #technologie #vesmír (translated)

The analysis by the insolvency administrator revealed that the fallen cryptocurrency firm Edo Mr Trade was paying out money to investors from the deposits of other clients, and only a tenth of the promised portfolio remained in the investment accounts. #kryptoměny #investice #EdoMrTrade (translated)

Prime Minister Andrej Babiš announced that the ministries of health, finance, interior, and defense will prepare an analysis of the operations and the possibility of merging the Health Insurance Company of the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic and the Military Health Insurance Company, with the merger potentially taking up to 1.5 years and costing 500 to 600 million crowns. #zdravotnípojištění #fúze #analýzahospodaření (translated)

The analysis of this year's Senate and municipal elections revealed unexpected results and raised key questions about the future of political parties, particularly regarding Andrej Babiš's ability to revive ANO and withstand pressure on Vít Rakušan. #volby #politika #Česko (translated)

Prague's public transport will remain extremely cheap compared to other European metropolises even after a possible increase in the Lítačka price, an analysis shows, revealing that even after raising the price to 5000 crowns per year, Prague will have one of the highest public transport availability ratios relative to the average wage. #MHD #Praha #Lítačka (translated)

Prime Minister Andrej Babiš admitted the catastrophic result of the ANO movement in the Senate elections, where it did not win any mandates, and plans its restart, while commentator Petr Hartman warns that this analysis may be superficial. #Volby2026 #AndrejBabiš #Politika (translated)

Non-profit organizations and influencers in the Czech Republic are gathering millions and influencing politics, with an emphasis on transparency and informedness being an increasingly discussed topic, as shown by the analysis of Transparency International. #transparentnost #nevládníorganizace #dary (translated)

Vít Rakušan stated that the president vetoed a new law on civil servants, which he claimed was prepared by the government coalition and was supposed to replace the current civil service law. He cited threats to the independence of public administration, the absence of expert discussion, and a missing impact analysis as the reasons for the veto. Rakušan described the government's reaction to the veto as a retaliation against the president for exercising his constitutional right. He claimed that the coalition called the MPs together to override the law instead of engaging in debate and arguments. According to Rakušan, public administration needed experts who could work without fear of political pressure. He warned that employees under the threat of dismissal might yield to ministers, for example, when recovering improperly paid subsidies. #politika #vláda #prezident (translated)

The author stated that Ukrainian drones crippled the Russian technological giant, but it was unclear whether they also disabled Russian troll farms. He added that data analysis from Cloudflare Radar confirmed automated traffic originating from the Yandex network. https://t.co/rFvRP6YaW9 #Ukrajina #Drony #Technologie #UA #RU (translated)

Jan Betlach claimed that the official list of the dead from Gaza also included Palestinian assailants killed during the attack on October 7, although he stated that they died in Israel. He noted that 364 attackers were identified by name, and 80% of them appeared on the list. Betlach further wrote that of the 91 identified bodies that Israel returned to Gaza after the ceasefire, most belonged to assailants killed in Israel on October 7. According to him, about a third of them were already on the list before the bodies were returned. He also claimed that in Gaza, it was enough to report a presumed death without providing the body or its location. The website Genocide in Gaza (Gigaza) documented at least 68 of these men according to Betlach, stating that they died in airstrikes in Gaza. Betlach argued that Israel had possession of their bodies and that, according to the website’s own data, most died on October 7, when there were no Israeli soldiers in Gaza. He added that Gigaza listed airstrikes as the cause of death for 94% of approximately 50,000 documented fatalities, and therefore questioned the reliability of its data. #Gaza #Izrael #konflikt (translated)

Member of the European Parliament Zdechovský was confused by a suspicious graph that claimed Russian data centers had been attacked and activity around the AfD on social networks had sharply dropped, while an analysis by the German website RohText questioned its validity due to a lack of metadata and sources. #Rusko #Dezinformace #AfD (translated)

Vláďa Foltán stated that data analyst Harry Enten described how Republicans originally expected that redistricting in Texas would bring them five seats; however, according to him, it is now most likely that they will gain none. Foltán added that in his opinion, no one reports on polls better. https://t.co/hdsW0UFFe7 #volby #politika #analýza (translated)