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🇨🇳🇹🇼 TWO-STATE SOLUTION FOR CHINA & TAIWAN One Strait. Zero War. China and Taiwan need a new peace framework based on coexistence, democracy and deterrence — not invasion, blockade or forced unification. My proposal: 1. Two governments, two political systems, peaceful https://t.co/sH1xfjZgGi #TwoStateSolution #ChinaTaiwan #PeacefulCoexistence #CN #TW

The whole world is proud of the high-quality technological cooperation between a Hungarian and an American company. Only the Brussels backed Hungarian government is trying to ruin the company's international reputation for nothing. In whose interest is this? #TechCooperation #Hungary #InternationalReputation #HU #US #BE

The government is putting up Carbon tax, they say, to push people into public transport. And then they put up the price of public transport which will push people back into cars. In reality its all about money. https://t.co/2AHIrNqtb7 #CarbonTax #PublicTransport #ClimateFinance #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

It's now confirmed that Donald Trump will be in Dublin on Saturday 12 September. He needs to be met with a massive show of opposition. He's not welcome. The bootlicking of the Irish government doesn't represent the people. https://t.co/TMbhViAtEL #TrumpInDublin #Protest #NotWelcome #IE

Nya avtal för mer kärnkraft! Idag träffade jag Studsvik och deras amerikanska och sydkoreanska partners som nu går vidare med utvecklingen av fyra nya reaktorer – totalt 1 200 MW kärnkraft i Sverige. Ett viktigt kvitto på regeringens arbete för ny kärnkraft och våra fördjupade samarbeten med USA och Sydkorea, inklusive Technology Prosperity Deal. Nu går vi från ord till handling, från planer till konkreta projekt. För Sverige ska inte bara ha en stolt kärnkraftshistoria. Vi ska ha en stark kärnkraftsframtid. Så bygger vi Sverige starkt. ————————————————— New agreements for more nuclear power! Today I met with Studsvik and their American and South Korean partners as they move forward with plans for four new reactors – adding a total of 1,200 MW of nuclear capacity in Sweden. This is a strong vote of confidence in the Government’s work to pave the way for new nuclear power – and in our growing partnerships with the United States and South Korea, including through the Technology Prosperity Deal. We are moving from words to action. From plans on paper to real projects on the ground. Sweden should not only be proud of its nuclear past. We are building a strong nuclear future. #Kärnkraft #Sverige #Energi

What's grimly amusing is that the government attempts to use public support for UNIFIL are completely undermined by Kaja Kallas saying the quiet bit out loud - this is not replacing UNIFIL, it's about strengthening the Lebanese Armed Forces internally in a brewing civil conflict. #UNIFIL #KajaKallas #LebanonConflict #LB

But China has national champions in DRAM and NAND of its own, and these companies have every incentive to catch up to their Western competitors. They are also being restricted and sanctioned by the U.S. government, further bifurcating China's chip industry from the world's. https://t.co/V9y9DPEVuy #ChinaTech #Semiconductors #ChipIndustry #CN #US

@CharlieWalsham_ What has caused the widespread medicalisation of children? What is the root? What is trans dignity actually? Please lay out the “middle ground.”Schools, after-school clubs, media, publishing, the arts, public services, private companies, NGOs and government: this is very serious #Medicalisation #TransDignity #ChildWellbeing #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.

If environmentalists and associated government bodies actually cared about the environment they would update their thinking + strategies after reading this, and make substantial changes to policies. But they usually only care about preserving power/influence/control, so they'll #EnvironmentalPolicy #Sustainability #PowerDynamics #Therearenospecificcountrymentionsinthetweetprovided.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

It's pathetic watching the government assure their European "partners" that Ireland will join the new arms race. We have more than 17,500 people homeless, a million people on hospital waiting lists, but the government wants to triple arms spending. https://t.co/e17gkGtWN9 #Ireland #ArmsRace #Homelessness #IE #EU

France just wiped Google and Microsoft off 2.5 million government computers. Germany moved 30,000 PCs off Windows. Denmark binned Microsoft Office. All of it in the last 18 months. Here's exactly what they replaced it with, and how to do the same tonight: https://x.com/mahim_aibrief/status/2094699876650987602

“Socialism Was Good in Theory” That sentence assumes the theory was never seriously challenged. It was. Long before the Soviet Union existed, before Lenin seized power, and before socialism had been tested on a national scale, major thinkers were already attacking its foundations—from very different directions. Five of them stand out. Tocqueville: Equality Can Become Servitude In 1848, Alexis de Tocqueville drew a sharp distinction between democracy and socialism. Both spoke about equality. But Tocqueville believed they pursued it in fundamentally different ways. Democracy, in his view, sought equality while preserving individual freedom. Socialism risked achieving equality by expanding the power of the state over the individual. His warning was essentially this: equality is not automatically liberty. A society can pursue equality so aggressively that it begins sacrificing the independence that makes political freedom meaningful. Bastiat: Follow Where Redistribution Leads Two years later, Frédéric Bastiat attacked socialism from a different direction. His question was deceptively simple: What happens when the state acquires the authority to take from some people and give to others in the name of justice? Bastiat called this “legal plunder.” His concern was not merely that redistribution might be expensive. It was that once government becomes the instrument through which competing groups obtain benefits from one another, politics can turn into a permanent struggle over who controls the machinery of redistribution. The problem, therefore, wasn’t simply how much the state redistributed. It was the principle that made redistribution legitimate in the first place. (bastiat.org⁠) Nietzsche: Equality Can Become Resentment Nietzsche approached socialism neither as an economist nor as a constitutional theorist. He attacked its psychology. He saw modern egalitarian movements as part of a much older moral impulse: resentment toward exceptional individuals and suspicion of strength, ambition and hierarchy. For Nietzsche, the danger was not simply that everyone might become economically equal. It was that a culture could begin treating excellence itself as something morally suspect. The goal would cease to be lifting people upward. It would become bringing the exceptional downward. Böhm-Bawerk: Challenge the Economics Then came Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk. In 1896, he turned his attention specifically toward Marx’s economic system. His criticism was not primarily moral or political. It was technical. Böhm-Bawerk argued that Marx’s theory of value did not adequately explain how the labor values developed in Capital could be reconciled with the actual prices Marx subsequently needed to explain. In other words, he attacked socialism where it claimed to possess a scientific economic foundation. The argument became one of the central criticisms of Marxian economics and helped launch a debate that would continue for generations. Mises: The Calculation Problem Then, in 1920, Ludwig von Mises attacked an even more fundamental question: Even if socialism is morally desirable, how would a socialist economy actually know what to produce? A functioning economy has millions of competing uses for scarce resources. Build a bridge or a hospital? Use steel here or there? Produce more machinery or more consumer goods? Under private ownership and markets, prices for capital goods provide information about relative scarcity and opportunity costs. Mises argued that abolishing private ownership of the means of production also removes the genuine market prices necessary for rational economic calculation. The problem wasn’t simply that socialist planners might make bad decisions. It was that the system deprived them of the very economic signals required to systematically compare those decisions. (Mises Institute⁠) And that was the sequence. Tocqueville challenged the political premise. Bastiat challenged the moral and legal mechanism of redistribution. Nietzsche challenged the psychology behind egalitarianism. Böhm-Bawerk challenged Marx’s economic theory. Mises challenged the possibility of rational central economic calculation. Five different thinkers. Five different objections. And all of them came before the Soviet Union had demonstrated what large-scale socialist government would actually look like. So “socialism was good in theory, but bad in practice” is not an argument. It is a historical claim that requires you to explain why these theoretical objections were wrong. The interesting question isn’t whether socialism had critics. It did. The interesting question is whether socialism ever adequately answered them” - ChatGPT

Full solidarity with Germany following Russia ´ hybrid attack at the Leipzig airport. Moscow' objective is obvious: escalate and divide. They must not succeed. I call on the Slovak government to demonstrate where it stands. Today it's Germany, tomorrow it could be anyone. #SolidarityWithGermany #Russia #HybridAttack #DE #RU #SK

AI-ready governments require more than technology. They require capable institutions and empowered people. 🌍 35,000+ MOOC learners 🏛️ 50+ SPARK-AI institutions 🤝 117 countries represented Explore @UNESCO’s work to advance #AIForThePeople: https://t.co/sIRuzqJz47 https://t.co/njgdgglWI0 #AIForThePeople #MOOC #UNESCO #117

It has taken the German government nearly a month to state the obvious: Russia was behind the Leipzig airport attack. An announcement of what consequences Russia will face expected later today. Merz apparently not bothering to announce it himself so Putin unlikely to be worried. https://t.co/fV9DIiPh9B #Germany #Russia #LeipzigAttack #DE #RU