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Fauci’s Diaries Belong to the Public. Von der Leyen’s Belong to History.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has introduced a dangerously old-fashioned concept into public administration: when public officials conduct public business using public infrastructure, the resulting records might actually belong to the public. Not in Europe. The more powerful the official, the more private the public business becomes.

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The Princess and the Diary: Fauci Faces the Music He Wrote Himself

Tomorrow, Anthony Fauci sits in front of Rand Paul’s committee under subpoena. The man who spent years as the calm, authoritative voice of “the science” now has to explain the notebook he kept while the science was still arguing with itself in private. The diary is not subtle.

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Trump Mobilises Private Capital. China Is the Capital. Von der Leyen Mobilises the Taxpayer.

Trump got private companies to risk their own money on new nuclear technology. China deploys state capital like a corporation with territorial ambitions. Europe has discovered a third economic system: taxpayers assume the risk and the investition so Brussels can announce that investment has been successfully mobilised.

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Berlin Pride: Vehicle Enters Crowd, Islamist Suspect Identified – Anti-Right Demonstrations Already in Preliminary Talks

BERLIN – In a development that surprised absolutely no one still in possession of a functioning memory, a white van drove into a crowd near the Christopher Street Day celebrations in the Tiergarten on Saturday evening. One woman is dead. Roughly sixteen or seventeen others are injured, several critically. The driver fled. Police have identified a suspect already known to them from Berlin’s Islamist milieu. A manhunt is underway.

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The Holy Ghost didn’t help the Vatican devs secure the personal data

The Vatican’s official prayer app exposed personal data from 719,517 accounts. An ethical hacker reported it in January. Apparently neither heaven nor the developers could be bothered.

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Trump About To Open the EU Piggybank Audit

On Friday evening Donald Trump announced that the United States will immediately open a Section 301 investigation into the European Union’s practice of fining American technology companies. While the rest of the developed world argues about the next generation of AI, the European Union is proudly pioneering the controlled degradation of its own digital services.

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Europe’s Most Successful Technology Business Is Fining Foreign Technology Businesses

Google, Apple, Meta, Temu and AliExpress have all discovered Europe’s latest digital innovation: the regulatory invoice. The fines enter the EU budget, national payments continue rising and Brussels remains dependent on the same American and Chinese platforms it cannot reproduce.

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The Euro Discovers Birds: Europe Redesigns Its Money Because It Was Not Conceptual Enough

The European Central Bank has unveiled ten official design proposals for the next generation of euro banknotes. Europe has chosen giant eyes, anonymous citizens, migratory birds, rivers and EU institutions. Within hours the internet answered with air-conditioning units, street brawls, plastic bottles and Karl Marx.

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Bryan Johnson: Immortality as the Ultimate Form of Missing the Point

Anti-aging obsessive Bryan Johnson says he has created a newborn “clone” of himself called Baby Bryan. It is neither newborn nor a clone, but it may still tell us something important about the future of medicine, assuming Johnson can remain alive long enough to attend the product launch. Adult Bryan, meanwhile, remains occupied with the more difficult task of surviving a life from which most of the living has already been removed.

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Save Europe Act Is Racist and Goes Against European Values

Brussels has spoken. The European Commission has officially refused to register the Save Europe Act as a European Citizens’ Initiative. The reason is clear and final: wanting Europe to remain European is racist.