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Last 20 seconds of Virtus-Olympiacos: - Virtus misses the winning shot - Olympiacos, leading by 1, has the last possession. They just need to hold the ball to win - Moore dives like an angel on Fournier and touches the ball, which ends up with Montero, on whom he dives again like Toldo against the Netherlands at Euro 2000 - Carr retrieves it and throws it to 6 meters high where Diarra arrives and dunks in an alley-oop while being fouled - Virtus up by 1 with 11 seconds left, is it over? Not a chance - Montero scores the winning basket with 6 seconds left. Bartzokas celebrates with arms raised. Is it over? Not a chance. - Carr invents a three-pointer from 8 meters while off balance at the buzzer, marked, with his body aimed at San Luca and his hands towards Imola, then sends all the teammates away who hug him to tell everyone he urgently needs to make a phone call In this historical period, seeing an Italian team beat the European champions is as likely as a real cut in fuel taxes. Seeing an Italian team, considered by everyone to be the Cinderella of the Euroleague, beat the European champions by scoring 96 points, playing at a thousand miles an hour, destroying the best defensive system in years, and managing the incredible feat of silencing Bartzokas, is pure utopia. What a hell of a basketball evening. (translated)

The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, declared that he does not intend to attack Europe, but that he will respond to any aggression, while also defending the potential use of all of Russia's military arsenal, including nuclear weapons, if the enclave of Kaliningrad is isolated. (translated)

To think about: In April 1946, Nazi leader Hermann Göring explained in his cell in Nuremberg exactly how political power really works. He said that ordinary people never demand war or crisis, but you can always get them on board. The recipe is simple: tell them they are in danger, and accuse the critics of endangering the community. That eighty-year-old formula is today the exact blueprint behind the permanent state of crisis in which we are kept. We see this in the conflict between Europe and Russia over Ukraine, where fear is used to push through billions in weapons without real democratic debate. But it doesn’t stop at geopolitics. We saw the same recipe with COVID-19, and now with climate change and the energy transition. It penetrates into our immediate living environment, such as the Environmental Vision Fryslân or the planned closures of the Wadden nature. While island residents are excluded, the elite discusses coercive 'system changes' at the Springtij Forum on Terschelling. The control over the narrative has now gone frighteningly far. Unheard Netherlands (ON!) is being ousted from the public broadcasting system, and through new legislation, there is an open search for ways to ban right-wing opposition parties. This is exactly where history painfully begins to rhyme with the 1930s, when critical media and parties were gradually silenced under the guise of 'public order' or 'safety'. The lines of this coordinated policy go directly to international networks and think tanks such as NATO, the World Economic Forum (WEF), and the UN with their coercive SDGs. Through programs like the Young Global Leaders, politicians worldwide are being trained to roll out exactly the same crisis narratives in their own countries. Our local democracy seems to have become an execution office for a predetermined global agenda. The great eye-opener that Göring left us is that this mechanism works in every system. Once a population is made afraid enough of an invisible enemy (whether it is a virus, an aggressor, nitrogen, or CO₂), it willingly surrenders its freedom, its diverse media, and its common sense. Fear is the ultimate weapon to steer the masses. This pattern only stops when we cease to blindly follow that automatic pilot of fear. Will you let history repeat itself, or will you say no? (translated)

"According to my scenario, the first series of strikes would be conventional. However, if Europe does not capitulate, unfortunately, we will have to use nuclear weapons. Some European countries would cease to exist." Influential Russian foreign policy strategist Sergey Karaganov told S. Rosenberg that "if they continue this war – the European war with American assistance against Russia on Ukrainian territory – sooner or later we will feel the need to escalate." (translated)

Russia's "special election operation" in September strengthened V. Putin's power, but experts believe he intends to continue the invasion of Ukraine despite significant losses, while Russia is intensifying its hybrid campaign against Europe to reduce military support for Kyiv. (translated)

In France, dozens of universities/schools are now closed. Lyceums are burning. Teachers and police are injured. The extreme-left mayor is complicit. In Liège, they are closing preventively. “Students' protest.” Are we really going to leave the defense of our values to Vlaams Belang and Rassemblement National? When will traditional parties (across Europe) really talk about security and integration? (translated)

"We take nothing away from anyone, we steal nothing, and we nationalize nothing." In response to a question at the Russian Valdai Discussion Forum about whether European companies could get their assets back in a "favorable scenario" with the West, Putin replied: "Yes, they would get them back." (translated)

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte warned during the awarding of the International Peace Prize in Münster about the growing Russian threat and emphasized that Europe is currently a target, calling for continued military readiness and cooperation between the Netherlands and Germany. (translated)

Heinen calculates a 2% return for 'small savers and investors'. I want to show you how ridiculously low that is. The average return on stocks is 12%: - S&P 500 or AEX - Over 40 years - With reinvestment of dividends It is distributed like this: - 25% of the years have negative returns (average -15%) - 75% of the years have positive returns (average +20%) In the positive years, you already pay tax with a 20% return on an asset of 5,000 euros and a tax-free result of 1,000 euros. Now the tax-free asset limit is 59,357 euros. Soon, the equivalent for investors will be 5,000 euros. "Yes, but many people are savers." That's right. That's exactly what we want to move away from. If there is one thing that we can agree on in Europe and the Netherlands, it's that people need to invest more. By the way, I think we should completely abolish the tax-free result and translate it into a lower rate. It's a logical concept for vab, but it mainly causes disruptions for vwb. (translated)