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Here there is an accurate take on what's going on: A New Far-Left Dictatorship Is Coming to Europe - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

I went to the French Riviera. It was really nice there! In Spain everyone is against the Catalan amnesty, which is portrayed very favourably in media like The Guardian... but here everyone is against it, the army, the judges, the citizens. Actually Pedro Sánchez did not have that "proposal" in...

I am back from a short vacation only to see Spanish politics are getting worse and worse. The country is heading towards a disguised dictatorship and things are looking pretty bad here. Mass protests over amnesty deal in Spain as hard-right condemns ‘coup’

She's a bit too late for this. The US has fallen behind in privacy and data protection laws. And the EU does not really enforce laws regarding those issues. Politicians have sold themselves to Big Tech. Kamala Harris to call for urgent action on AI threat to democracy and privacy | Artificial...

All the fun was in the small print... but now... "poor" PayPal: FCA acts against PayPal and QVC as more Britons turn to buy now, pay later | Borrowing & debt | The Guardian

Just for general information... apparently Google has an "Appeals Department" that reviews again your genuine reviews of businesses, restaurants, bars, shops and institutions on Google Maps, after they are unilaterally deleted by Google, applying censorship to boost the score of restaurants...

The House In Tarragona Of Ukrainian Journalist Anatoli Sharii Was Attacked With Molotov Cocktails (worldnationnews.com) It seems Zelensky also wants to silence journalists who are critical of his regime. News in Spain covered this story today and apparently the house of that Ukrainian...

I still do not see the "AI boom" anywhere. Commuter trains keep breaking up all the time, and keep coming delayed, and Google consistently fails on predicting it, and, even worse, updating train information that is available on screens at the stations and also over the PA system... So much for...

The dark side of Big Tech: constant scams. Booking.com customers targeted by scam ‘confirmation’ emails | Scams | The Guardian

Make Amazon Pay sounds pretty good. The company has to be held accountable, and pay all the avoided taxes due in Europe. Exhausted Amazon staff fight back against retail giant at global UK summit | Amazon | The Guardian

Some of them were victims of a scam. Others said that there were commissions and charges to buy and sell, and also there's lots of volatility. It's not a safe investment. Looks like a huge bubble.

The Winklevoss brothers were some of the main promoters and advocates of cryptocurrencies. About Bitcoin and other crypto, I do not know anyone who has made money out of it. Some of my friends "invested" and for a while they were making paper profits. All of them lost money. One of them...

Another crypto scam: Cryptocurrency firms sued over ‘$1bn investor fraud’ by New York state | Cryptocurrencies | The Guardian

For instance? I read all the hype about AI but Google cannot tell me accurately if the next commuter train is going to be delayed. Specifically about Bitcoin, why would any country back Bitcoin if central banks are going to launch their digital currencies?

What about those people who lost their "key" to their crypto account? Like that British chap who is looking for his old discarded computers or hard drives in a massive dump... because he had Bitcoin stored there, and his "key". So who would take that political cost? Massive layoffs...

It's my life experience. I have lived it.

More restrictions: Binance to Halt New UK Customers From Using Crypto Exchange - Bloomberg

True, hyperacusis does not improve. It just changes or morphs into other hearing conditions. Thus, severe hyperacusis may turn into a combination of less hyperacusis, recruitment, tinnitus and hearing loss. One can live with hearing loss, depending on the frequencies affected. The most...

But you did not answer my question. How politicians are going to justify massive lay-offs in the public sector (specially since they are doing just the opposite: hiring people in the public sector to make unemployment data look better)? Yesterday I was strolling around Barcelona and found...

I do not see why governments would do that. Political decisions are not based on economic substance or common sense, but on sheer political interest. We - sadly - know a lot about that with the current Spanish government. Why would a government make the public administration shrink? That would...

I do not see how anyone can do that without government backing. Basically someone has to enforce all that and guarantee its authenticity. Who's going to do that? Who's going to enforce any breach of a contract?

There are some wind farms in "empty Spain" which is basically the whole inner country aside from Madrid metropolitan area. We have population living along the coast, in Madrid and also in Zaragoza, and the rest of Spain is empty. The wind farms have a visual impact, they use up a lot of land...

That's horrible. Why would anyone do that? Is there a real estate interest behind that horrible act? Like re-classification of land etc? In Spain summer fire "happens" because sometimes the land is re-classified and turned into buildable land (not exactly urban, but still a place where...

For example?

Microsoft says the IRS has demanded $28.9B in back taxes, and they still have to wait for the European invoice of unpaid taxes to arrive. EU citizens are already sick of paying so much tax while Big Tech pays NOTHING in Europe.

Amazon staff in Coventry will go on strike. Good luck for them! They are on the right path to achieve better terms and conditions, and better pay for their hard work.

It's funny how American politicians are classified, haha... If RK Jr is left wing, then, what's the Spanish "government"? Yesterday, asked about Hamas and the war in Israel, Spain's vice president Yolanda Díaz said "she cannot be sure Hamas is a terrorist group". Amazing, huh? I don't see how...

Today the radical communists in Spain have decided to "pardon" people from their own political party, who stole at least 600 million euros. Does this happen in the US too? Do presidents pardon people who were in office, from their own party, who have been convicted in court from stealing public...

In the US an attempted coup d'état by Trump supporters was condemned and some of the offenders were jailed. As a comparison, in Spain there is a "government" formed by radical communists who want to ILLEGALLY pardon those who attempted a coup d'état in 2017: Mass protest in Barcelona against...

The SBF trial is a reminder that crypto is a rotten business. Now the new heavily promoted scam is AI. As it turns out, Google is unable to predict that a commuter train (short distance to the city centre) is heavily delayed, but apparently they own an AI technology that can change the world...

I don't remember the last time I went to the cinema. Soooooooooo long ago. Years... I actually do not remember what I watched last.

We have this feeling in Europe too. In Spain there are a bunch of kleptocrats in power right now. The extreme and radical left is in office and ruining the country fast; they are radical communists. And the opposition parties are routinely blocked because a bunch of ex-terrorists and separatists...

The EU as a block is just committing suicide by passing nonsensical legislation like this: Historic EU deal reached on how to manage sudden rise in asylum seekers | European Union | The Guardian Everyday the leftist media are reporting on the invasion of Europe by ILLEGAL immigrants and the EU...

NYC did the right thing banning Airbnb and I hope Europe follows suit and the major European cities ban Airbnb, which is only bringing grief to their citizens, together with a huge and absurd real estate bubble.

Trump faces at least $250M USD in fines etc. Donald Trump confronts New York fraud claims on first day of trial If he is convicted and liable to pay that fine, his real estate business will crumble...

The new EU competition commisioner should look into this too: Travel website Booking.com leaves hoteliers thousands of dollars out of pocket | Business | The Guardian

Citizens want politicians who care about their country, not about someone else's problems: Robert Fico wins Slovakia election with anti-Ukraine stance EU and US citizens are being forced by their governments to send their hard-earned tax money to be stolen in Ukraine: Europe Express. Battling...

It does not look like politicians are doing much to make "sanctions" work... Everton owner received £400m from Alisher Usmanov companies, documents suggest | Alisher Usmanov | The Guardian

Another judicial setback for Donald Trump: Donald Trump committed fraud as he built his real estate empire, New York judge rules | Donald Trump | The Guardian

Booking's "arguments" are just laughable. The usual tech bullshit... EU regulators have to make these companies comply with the law... and pay their taxes, by the way. Booking accuses EU regulators of acting unlawfully in blocking Etraveli deal

The chap has to review Spanish history. And this is the "top" diplomat in the EU. If his opinions on the Ukraine war are as wrong as his take on Spanish history, the EU is in trouble, haha. Migration could be ‘dissolving force for EU’, says bloc’s top diplomat | European Union | The Guardian...

Maybe it's not so hard to design chips. In my opinion, Huawei makes the best cellphones for the normal user if we look at a quality-price ratio. And those cellphones last. I had one for 6 years... Huawei makes processor breakthrough in flagship smartphone

Maybe in Europe we're better off with the Russians and the Chinese (the new "evil axis") instead of following and embracing American "ideas" that are destroying Europe. Europe should have deployed Huawei's 5G because that's the best technology and, by the way, Huawei makes the best cellphones...

I am afraid the oil companies will not share it with you. Today Von der Leyen and Meloni are going to Lampedusa in Italy to witness the invasion of Europe, with constant waves of illegal immigration that is fostered and tolerated by EU institution, which then use the money of European taxpayers...

I think the EU should look after itself and mind its own business and do what's best for Europeans. And for us the best option is embracing Chinese Tech and Chinese EV and purchasing Russian oil and gas. However, the Lagarde and Von der Leyen pair are ruining the EU. Von der Leyen is flooding...

Those German builders did not complain when the ECB spent 10 years printing money non-stop and giving it away with zero interest rates. German builders warn of crisis as they scrap record number of projects

People queuing to pay twice the price Nvidia declined to pay for Arm. This will not end up well. Strong demand pushes Arm to close IPO order book early Big Tech is incredibly overpriced. On the upside, if those companies do not pay any tax or comply with any laws and are NEVER held...

US politicians must have been greased like their counterparts of the European Commission, who never achieve anything against Big Tech: Google prepares for biggest US antitrust showdown since Microsoft The world has never been so unfair, with billionaires not paying anything and the rest...

Not me, I am not a fan of gold. I think it would make sense in a country with a weaker currency, although the Euro is going downhill vs the USD: 8 weeks going down... If Lagarde wasn't the useless clown she is, the ECB would raise rates by at least 50 basis points this week.

It's Europeans who are losing here. We are paying crazy taxes just to maintain this nonsense of sending at least 20 billion euros per year to Ukraine, plus weapons, plus other "aid". On top of that Europeans are paying crazy prices for oil, gas and energy while the US is profiteering from the...

If the data I saw were correct. 3M will be paying around 17.000 USD per military veteran injured (those who sued). It's a pittance. It's nothing in exchange for ruining their hearing. And 3M has been held accountable only because the US government was paying a ton of money to those veterans for...

Ukraine is totally corrupt and the EU keeps sending money to those crooks. European taxpayers should not be forced to fund this nonsense. Ukraine’s defence minister resigns after Zelenskiy removes him from post | Ukraine | The Guardian We are sending money to Ukraine just to be stolen by...

The radical communists of the Spanish "government" say officially that inflation is at 2.6% and core inflation is at 6%. However a litre of olive oil (in Spain, world's largest producer) used to cost 3 euros and nowadays costs 12.59 euros and around 6 euros "on sale". Inflation is through the...

I hope those useless EU polticians make Big Tech comply with the law this time: EU aims to curb Big Tech as it lists services to be regulated under Digital Markets Act Europeans have the right not to have their data stolen by US companies. Consumers should have the choice, when they buy any...

The EU is run by idiots, same as Spain is being destroyed by the radical communist "government" of Pedro Sánchez. It makes no sense at all to buy Russian oil and gas through third parties. EU politicians are screwing up European taxpayers while paying tribute to the US and oil resellers.

I don't see why EU taxpayers should shell out another 24 billion euros to be stolen by Ukraine, the second most corrupt country in Europe (only second after Russia). Why are we paying for someone else's war and bearing the consequences of rampant inflation?

@Elmer B Fuddled, amazing cliffs!!! It looks a bit like Skye...

It's a great investment for the US because the US is selling oil and gas to Europe at prices that are a steal, a total rip-off. People barely use the car anymore... everyone tries to avoid it. I am starting to think that freedom nowadays happens only in what the Western World consider second...

Of course in the end nothing will happen to Amazon. In the EU they never pay fines and sanctions... it's just ridiculous. Amazon threatened with legal action over sales of ‘unapproved’ drugs

Sad loss: Ukrainian pilot who led push for F-16s dies in training exercise If politicians had common sense they would make all the parties involved sit together, talk, and stop the nonsense in Ukraine striking some sort of deal. That would be the best outcome for everyone but sadly that won't...