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This morning, Europe woke up in grief and disbelief after yesterday’s horrific attack in Krakow. Our flags fly at half-mast in honour of the victims and the brave first responders. They stand for European unity and solidarity. Stronger than hatred. Stronger than extremism.

After DOGE, Elon came to a conclusion most people missed. He tried to reform the state from the inside. He failed. And he said it plainly: the government can't fix its own deficit. Nobody in power actually wants to cut. The machine protects itself. So he drew the only logical conclusion. If the state can't be reformed, there are only two ways this ends. Either global bankruptcy. Debt keeps compounding, interest payments eat the budget, and the system collapses under its own weight. Or robots. AI and robotics grow the economy so fast that the debt becomes manageable, and abundance makes the old fights over scarcity irrelevant. Here's the part almost nobody sees. For two centuries, capitalism has had a marketing problem. Its gains are real but slow and invisible. 2% growth a year doesn't feel like anything. Your life gets better over 30 years and you never connect it to the system that did it. Meanwhile, the left's promises feel immediate and concrete: a check, a subsidy, a benefit. That's why the left wins on promises even when it can't deliver them. Capitalism produces the wealth, socialism takes the credit. Robots break that asymmetry. When productivity doubles in a few years instead of a few decades, people will see it. Things get cheaper, services get better, opportunities appear, in real time. For the first time in history, people will connect capitalism and their rising standard of living directly, almost instantly. The causal chain becomes visible. And that changes everything politically. So there are two scenarios. Scenario one: we stay in the current inertia. No breakthrough, or a breakthrough we regulate to death. The debt wins. Living standards stagnate, then fall. A frustrated electorate turns to whoever promises the most, and that pushes toward a hard collectivist left. But collectivism fails, as it always does. And when it fails, the most organized, most disciplined collectivist force left standing isn't the old left. It's radical Islamism. Bankruptcy, then communism, then something worse. Scenario two: robots win. Abundance arrives, and it arrives visibly. The link between free enterprise and prosperity becomes obvious to everyone. And this is the key point: it becomes obvious to everyone, including the minorities the left was counting on. Because their long-term incentive is the same as everyone else's. A kid in the suburbs gains infinitely more from a booming, abundant West than from a bankrupt state handing out promises it can't keep. Abundance is the most powerful integration machine ever built. That's the Western renaissance. The West doesn't need to win the culture war by arguing. It needs to win it by delivering. And for the first time, it has the technology to deliver fast enough for people to notice. The race isn't left vs right anymore. It's robots vs bankruptcy.

🚨 PARAGUAY 🇵🇾 RIOTS IN THE STREETS AFTER 3 MILLION PEOPLE GOT LOCKED OUT OF THEIR OWN MONEY The central bank shut down Ueno Bank, one of the biggest banks in the country. 3 million customers. About 60% of all adults in Paraguay. Salaries. Pensions. Savings. FROZEN. No app. No cards. No ATMs. Even $380 million of the state pension fund is stuck inside. Covid locked people inside their homes. This locked them out of their own money. Then it turned POLITICAL. President Santiago Peña, the right-wing friend of Milei and Kast, was a SHAREHOLDER in Ueno's holding company until 2025. And the man he picked to run the central bank in 2023 used to run Ueno. Within 24 hours: • the central bank chief signed his resignation after Peña asked for it • Ueno's CEO handed himself in to police, 5 more executives DETAINED • crowds in central Asunción demanding Peña's exit • the opposition pushing to impeach him The last time Paraguay's banks broke, in 1995, more than half of them went down. If you want the parts of this story Paraguay's government would rather you never heard, follow me.

The oceans - not human industrial activity - are the regulatory engine that maintains global climate stability. Earth, by all physical metrics, should be renamed Ocean. We inhabit an ocean world where deep waters cover 72% of the globe to an average depth of 2.3 miles. Land comprises a mere 28% of the planet's surface, and all human infrastructure combined occupies just 1% to 3% of that remaining land. Crucially, the oceans hold 86% of the surface carbon reservoir and absorb over 90% of retained thermal energy, while the atmosphere holds just a fraction of a percent of each. Because of this vast oceanic thermal capacity, Earth’s climate is buffered within longer-term geological regimes. Currently, our planet remains bound to the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, with an average global temperature of roughly 15°C. This is well below (at least 10°C lower) the long-term planetary average of 24°C seen throughout most of biological history. Carbon dioxide was not the primary driver of these macro-level shifts. The current ice age structure began 34 million years ago with the thermal isolation and glaciation of Antarctica, later intensified by the closure of the Isthmus of Panama and orbital Milankovitch cycles. The modern world emerged during the current 2.58-million-year Quaternary Glaciation. This is a sequence of 100,000-year long glacial cycles, periodically paused by brief, roughly 15,000-year warm interglacials. All human civilisation, agriculture and technological progress has unfolded within the latest of these: the Holocene interglacial, which began 11,700 years ago. Measuring current conditions against these geological baselines reveals a very different picture than the skewed narrative of a runaway warming crisis. Roughly 10% of Earth's land area remains permanently capped by glacial ice (15 million square kilometers) - nearly a third of its extent during the Last Glacial Maximum peak 20,000 years ago. The vast majority of this ice resides in Antarctica, the largest and thickest ice sheet on the planet, extending up to 4.8 kilometers deep and holding 90% of global ice volume. The Earth has a built-in natural stability, which has guided the planet throughout the entire rise of life on land.

Poland has a growing economy. As money-creation by lending only works in a growing economy, the EU would like to see this economy integrated in the EU. And joining the euro. Especially the latter. Why? Polish growth then can be used to facilitate (and pay for) the stagnant economy’s of other EU-nations. EU needs growing economy’s to keep the euro alive. Eventually, also Poland will become like Germany. Burden of debt will become too large, taxes too high and society suffers. Conclusion: we need to abandon the euro. Change to a money-system that serves society. Present system serves the financial sector. But the financial sector does not contribute to society with useful labour. How to change? Read my book and website, it’s for free. I do not have any interests other than trying to change the world into a better place for my children. betergeld.nu/en/