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I am starting to believe more and more that these people are just confused and need help. They start the day with the introduction of a 36% tax on investing (the highest in the world) and end the same (!) day with the announcement of a study to stimulate investing fiscally. 🙃 (translated)

Did you know that @adrianm10 and @TuiterEscolar instead of going to Disney or Miami, will have to travel to Spain? 😘 There is no longer VISA, only Mastercard. By the way, both brands are Jewish. They can use welfare cards. (translated)

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The municipality council of Katwijk has approved the construction of a billion-dollar factory by the American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, which will produce medicines for 3 billion dollars, despite concerns from residents about environmental and safety aspects. (translated)

Katwijk stemt in met komst miljardenfabriek Amerikaanse farmaceut
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The municipal council of Katwijk has approved the permit application for the construction of a billion-dollar factory by the American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, where diabetes and weight loss pills will be produced and approximately 500 people will be employed, despite residents' concerns about environmental impact and safety. (translated)

Katwijk stemt in met komst miljardenfabriek Amerikaanse farmaceut Eli Lilly

Lula with a 5-point lead in the first round of valid votes. The same scenario as in 2022. If the 5 points are confirmed at the polls, he won't lose the election. (translated)

URGENT! Lula expands advantage over Flávio Bolsonaro in the second round, reveals Datafolha survey. The star continues, heading towards the TETRA! (translated)

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The municipal council of Katwijk has approved the construction of an American pharmaceutical factory worth 2.6 billion euros, despite concerns from locals about the impact on the landscape. (translated)

Katwijkse gemeenteraad geeft groen licht voor komst Amerikaanse megafabriek

Disney has GREAT COLLABORATIONS and LAUNCHES planned in Fortnite for the next two years. Dana Walden, president and chief creative officer of Disney: "we have a series of launches in the next two years that will demonstrate the value of the partnership with Epic Games" (translated)

The statement comes a day after Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that Moscow considers European factories producing weapons for Ukraine as potential military targets. (translated)

EU povjerenik: Ruski napad na tvornicu oružja značio bi napad na NATO
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If I'm not mistaken, most military vehicles also run on diesel. If you want to fight a nice war with Russia as @SecGenNATO, the fuel is out. And then? Solar panels on the tanks? Sails? No? Can't be done? Then push? Can @jpaternotte, @rubenbrekelmans, and @RobJetten do that? Jan shouldn't nibble too much on the Ozempic or else he will blow away. And then with @DefensieMin as a siren on the bow? No? Can't do that? So electric then? With the engineers who install the charging stations? Although, for that, we don't have enough natural gas again. And if I'm not mistaken, the scarcity in diesel is closely related to the scarcity in kerosene. If you want to bomb Russia with your mighty F35s, your tank is already empty above Germany. You have to go the rest flying. Do we maybe still have the F35PG* variant in our collection? Can we fly that towards Russia from the Vaalserberg with favorable winds? Can that be done with all the bombs and grenades? We don't have the latter either? Jesus... Or can we let that F35 fly on LPG? That would be nice. The price of LPG usually doesn’t go up that fast. There is another problem: you can only bomb during the day if you want to refuel everywhere. At night, that’s only possible along the highway. But then you do have a runway. But even this isn't without problems: I have a Mercedes R500L, an eight-cylinder. With a small LPG tank. In no time, you find yourself at the pump with that thing. And you get cramps in your thumb because you have to hold that button for so long. With such an F35, you would have to land and take off about 20 times quickly to get to Russia. The return journey is less problematic. #Putin has enough gas. Although, I’m not sure he has the right tank connection. And I think you have to press the installation button for a very long time before the tank of such an F35 is full. Who is going to do that? @DefensieStas? He can probably handle it. Then he can still press his mustache somewhere (against something). Can we maybe send the navy? We still have a few frigates, right? What do you say? Cannon broken? You don't need that at all: you can't hit anything with it anyway. Just ask the Americans. They have experience with that by now. Well. All quite tricky. But our leaders will surely find a solution. One of the recurring themes in the decline of superpowers throughout history is that the powers that be increasingly disconnected from reality in the (dozens of) years leading up to it and then suddenly realized that the (military) power they thought they had was no longer there at all. Does that seem familiar to you? I think #Putin is pouring himself an extra glass of vodka tonight. And that Xi Jin Ping is having a lavish dinner tonight with Peking duck, babi pang pang, and Bam Goreng. *Paraglider. (translated)

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National coach Xavi Hernández takes responsibility for the disappointing first half of the Netherlands against Greece, where the team was 2-0 down before managing a 2-2 draw in the second half. (translated)

Bondscoach Xavi neemt schuld op zich na zwakke eerste helft Oranje: ‘Dat is mijn fout’

Rob, I'm just jumping in. Team Netherlands, red-white-blue, the same freedom. Beautiful imagery, you surely have a premium ChatGPT account? But may I remind you that just four days ago you were at the D66 congress proclaiming that you were going to ‘hit certain people hard.’ And now suddenly it’s one big warm nest? Pressing question, if we all count, what about the members of parliament who just walked out during @biemyati's maiden speech instead of listening to her argument? Or don't @fvdemocratie members of parliament belong to Team Netherlands? Or am I misunderstanding, and does ‘we are all different’ only apply if the other has a different skin color or sexual preference, but is a member of @D66? You are the prime minister of the whole country, @RobJetten, not just of the people who applaud when you use aggressive language about ‘well-organized organizations’ that undermine our democracy. Show us that you are truly the prime minister of everyone, including the Dutch people you want to ‘hit hard,’ because indeed all Dutch people are different, but all deserve the same freedom, dignity, and the right to be heard, even if their political beliefs don’t agree with yours. Right? (translated)

The Left Party's sister party is behind the massive riots in France. This according to intelligence reports. The Center Party is right in their stance when they refuse to support a government that includes the Left. The movement Nooshi's party is a part of is fundamentally hostile to our entire... (translated)

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Thibaut Courtois stated in an interview that Manchester City has, in a sense, distorted the competition, while the British Prime Minister is also getting involved in the case regarding the club's serious financial violations. (translated)

Thibaut Courtois: ‘City heeft in zekere zin de competitie vervalst’, ook Britse premier mengt zich in zaak

Voting on the government’s vote of no confidence always reminds one sad fact - that in the Chamber sits also Josef Váňa, who once every six months stands up and says "against the proposal." And that is all of his work. Interestingly, the donuts have nothing against that... (translated)

Received a message from someone in Bozar. The director led the concert. Due to the loss of subsidies, he refused to do it "in Dutch as well." It remains astonishing how many people and institutions take it for granted to live at the expense of others. The absurd reactions today prove that once again. (translated)

The armed forces are also done with all the nonsense from Derk 'Little Kissinger' Boswijk (CDA). (translated)

I am informed that these police vehicles are on their way to Ceuta. It is likely that in the next few hours the eviction of Playa del Trampolín will be carried out. The question is: what will this eviction trigger? Will they be sent back or will it cause a stampede throughout the city? We will see… (translated)

"Israel puts journalists down in Gaza as Hamas fighters, but provides no evidence," headlined @NOS in August 2025. Israel did provide evidence, but it was generally not shared with the news consumer. Will @NOS also do this with this new video from @IDF? 1/5 (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)