🐣 🇧🇪 🇧🇴 If current trends continue, then by the end of the century, there will be more Flemish in Bolivia than in Flanders. That should really make us think.

🔗 Dries Van Langenhove

The property lobby and mass-immigration: the case of Australia 🇦🇺

From the essay Boomers to Bust

🇺🇸 🇺🇸 ☪️ The East Plano Islamic Center plans to develop a 402-acre Muslim-only community near Josephine, Texas, featuring a mosque, an Islamic school, and housing.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/faith/2025/02/24/they-dream-of-building-muslim-centric-neighborhoods-near-dallas-will-it-work

🔗 AF Post

🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🕉 Radha Madhav Dham, originally called Barsana Dham is the main U.S. center of Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat, a nonprofit organization located on more than 200 acres of land in Hays County, south of Austin, Texas.

✡️ Radha Madhav Dham participates in inter-religious services such as Austin Area Interreligious ministries, Hindu-Jewish Solidarity Day.

🔶️ Various other Mayors of Austin and Governor of Texas have visited or offered commendations to Barsana Dham. 50,000 visitors from both Indian and Western communities participate in the lessons, religious programs and celebrations there.

🔶️ Radha Madhav Dham is an example of how builders of Hindu Temples in the US have replicated the sacred Geography of India, providing a familiar space and experience for Hindus from India, and fostering an identification with their adopted homeland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radha_Madhav_Dham

🇺🇸📂⁉️ The “Epstein Files” given to right-wing influencers at the White House are also entirely redacted, making them unreadable like the ones released online.

@TabZLIVE

🇷🇴⚖️⚡️ At midnight, the General Prosecutor's Officer ordered the preventive arrest of 21 people including the PMC Horațiu Potra and some of his close family after their homes were raided and multiple firearms, grenade launchers, ammunition, stacks of cash and gold bars were found by prosecutors.

Horațiu Potra, his son and his brother will have an international warrant as they were outside of Romania when their homes were searched.

Potra, besides his private military contracting work in Africa, has multiple bodyguard agencies and one of them was hired by Călin Georgescu to defend himself, his close family & other campaign staff. Several bodyguards of Georgescu were detained yesterday.

Potra is too being charged with undermining the constitutional order, violating the regime of arms & munitions, illegal pyrotechnics display and incitement.

🔗 https://hotnews.ro/ultima-ora-parchetul-general-a-anuntat-aproape-de-miezul-noptii-primele-propuneri-de-arestare-preventiva-in-dosarul-perchezitiilor-la-apropiatii-lui-calin-georgescu-1912264

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 📊 This year marks the first time any party group in the U.S. has had majority-level unfavorable ratings of Israel, with 60% of Democrats expressing that view — Gallup

🔗 Disclose TV

💰🔽💰Crypto markets in trade wars: Since trade war worries began on January 20th, crypto markets have erased -$800 BILLION.

⬛️ For 10+ years, Bitcoin was viewed as a decentralized HEDGE against uncertainty, but something changed.

🔶️ At first glance, you may think that trade wars would benefit crypto, a decentralized system.
In fact, from 2015 through 2023, Bitcoin and Gold were viewed as SUBSTITUTES. Now, Bitcoin and Gold are moving in opposite directions

🔶️ In fact, the inauguration of President Trump on January 20th marked the near-term TOP in crypto. Total crypto market cap has fallen from $3.7 trillion to $2.8 trillion in ~5 weeks.
Even more interesting is that President Trump is the most pro-crypto president in HISTORY.

🔶️ Crypto's correlation with risky assets as grown rapidly. Bitcoin has traded almost PERFECTLY in-line with the Nasdaq 100 since 2023. In 2024, the correlation coefficient between Bitcoin and the S&P 500 hit 0.88 at its peak.

🔶️ Additionally, we have very little precedent for crypto during trade war environments. During the last trade war, the total crypto market was worth just ~$300 million. Now, it's 10 TIMES larger with much more widespread adoption. This means the swings will broaden.

💰 Also, gold appears to have taken the spotlight as the global hedge against uncertainty. Gold ETFs bought a whopping 52 tonnes of the metal last week, the most since July 2020. Gold prices are now up +50% in 12 months and just posted their best year in over a decade.

🔗 Kobeissi Letter

🇹🇼⚓️ Map of recent suspected undersea cable sabotage incidents around Taiwan as of 2/26

🔶 In February 2023 there were two separate incidents resulting in the complete disruption of internet access to Matsu. Both are presumed to be deliberate.

🔶 On January 3rd of this year, a Chinese-crewed ship "Shunxin39" allegedly damaged the TPE undersea cable north of Taipei. It had sailed under multiple national flags, including Cameroon and Tanzania.

🔶 Finally, yesterday the TPKM-3 undersea cable was damaged by Chinese-crewed ship Hong Tai 58. As of writing this, it is presumed to be a deliberate attempt of sabotage.

🔗 TaiwanMonitor

🇺🇸 Donald Trump has begun a mafia-like struggle for global power

The rupture of the post-1945 order is gaining pace. In extraordinary scenes at the UN this week, America sided with Russia and North Korea against Ukraine and Europe. Germany’s probable new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, warns that by June NATO may be dead. Fast approaching is a might-is-right world in which big powers cut deals and bully small ones.

The administration is a swirl of ideas and egos but its people agree on one thing: under the post-1945 framework of rules and alliances, Americans have been suckered into unfair trade and paying for foreign wars.

This new system has a new hierarchy. America is number one. Next are countries with resources to sell, threats to make and leaders unconstrained by democracy. Vladimir Putin wants to restore Russia as a great imperial power. Muhammad bin Salman wants to modernise the Middle East and fend off Iran. Xi Jinping is both a committed communist and a nationalist who wants a world fit for a strong China. In the third rank are America’s allies, their dependence and loyalty seen as weaknesses to exploit.

Territory is up for negotiation, detonating the post-1945 rules. Ukraine’s boundary may be set by a Trump-Putin handshake. The borders of Israel, Lebanon and Syria have been blurred by 17 months of war. Some outside powers are indifferent to this. Yet Mr Trump has eyed up Gaza, as well as Greenland and in any Sino-American talks, Mr Xi could bid for territory, too, for example offering to limit exports in return for concessions on Taiwan, the South China Sea or the Himalayas.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/02/27/donald-trump-has-begun-a-mafia-like-struggle-for-global-power

https://archive.ph/dj6cr