George Sasu

One of the most beautiful versions of Hotel California I have ever heard. It's magical.😱 🎶The Eagles - Hotel California - | Moyun

Das hat niemand kommen sehen! Die Europäische Zentralbank schlägt plötzlich Alarm und fordert alle Bürger offiziell auf, sofort einen Notvorrat an Bargeld zu Hause anzulegen. Während der digitale Euro klammheimlich vorangetrieben wird, warnt die EZB nun selbst vor dem absoluten Systemkollaps durch flächendeckende Stromausfälle und den totalen Ausfall von EC-Karten und Apple Pay. Wer jetzt kein echtes Geld im Haus hat, steht im Ernstfall vor dem Nichts und kann nicht einmal mehr Wasser oder Lebensmittel kaufen. Die Uhr tickt unaufhaltsam.

‼️The first brigade to fight against the Russian aggression started its training in Germany.

The housing situation in Portugal is a travesty. Median net salary in Portugal is around 1200€. The average rent for a one bedroom apartment in Lisbon? Around 1300€ in 2026. Want to buy instead? It’s 400,000€. One salary literally isn’t enough for even the smallest house. Young people have no future. Entire generations are going to be plunged into poverty and homelessness. And what do the governments do? Nothing. They literally don’t care. Radical change is needed or something disastrous is going to happen.

This is an extraordinary document written by the research arm of China's spy agency (the powerful MSS, basically the CIA and the FBI all wrapped in one) that absolutely zero media has picked up on. As far as I can see, I'm the first person to write about it even though it was published (in Chinese) on May 13th on chinadiplomacy.org.cn, a website of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The document contains perhaps the most authoritative description of where China thinks its relationship with the U.S. stands, and where it’s headed. The title of the report is “The Great Global Transformation and the Path to U.S.–China Coexistence” and I provide a full translation of it in my article, the link of which is at the bottom of this post. To summarize briefly the most important - and, perhaps, surprising - aspect of the document: China's spy agency - the one institution whose entire job is to worry about the U.S. threat - has largely stopped worrying. That's really what transpires from the document. They use a strategic framework borrowed from Mao's "protracted war" theory and, according to this framework, America's offensive phase is finished and China weathered the storm intact. The question is no longer "how do we survive America?" but "how do we manage America?" - and they're proposing a six-step relationship recovery program. I'll let you read the full document as well as my analysis of it here: open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbert…

A German neuroscientist published a book in 2012 arguing that smartphones are quietly producing the first generation in human history whose brains will shrink before they turn 30, and the media spent the next decade trying to destroy him for saying it. His name is Manfred Spitzer. He runs the Psychiatric University Hospital in Ulm and directs Germany's largest transfer center for neuroscience and education. The book is called Digitale Demenz, which translates as Digital Dementia, and it became one of the best-selling popular science books in German history almost the moment it was published. The press hated him for it. He was called Germany's most controversial brain scientist, accused of being a Luddite, a moral panic merchant, and a fearmonger who hated children. None of that stopped the book from being translated into more than a dozen languages, and almost none of it engaged with the actual neuroscience he was citing. The phrase digital dementia did not even start with him. It started with South Korean doctors in the late 2000s, who noticed something strange in their clinics. Patients in their twenties were arriving with memory complaints that had previously only shown up in much older adults. Forgetting numbers they used to know by heart. Losing the ability to recall directions in cities they had lived in for years. Struggling to remember conversations from earlier the same day. The doctors connected it to the rise of smartphone use, which had hit South Korea harder and earlier than almost any other country on Earth. Spitzer picked up the phrase and built an entire book around the neuroscience that explained it. The core thesis is brutally simple. The brain behaves like a muscle. It grows when you use it, and it atrophies when you do not. Every cognitive task you outsource to a device is a task your brain is no longer practicing, and the neural circuits responsible for that task are no longer being reinforced. Over time, they weaken in exactly the same way an unused muscle weakens. Spitzer was not arguing that smartphones would give you Alzheimer's. He was arguing that decades of cognitive outsourcing would produce a measurable decline in the underlying machinery, long before any clinical diagnosis would catch it, and that the decline was already showing up in young adults. The mechanism is what made him impossible to dismiss. By the early 2010s, there was already deep evidence that the brain physically remodels itself in response to use. London taxi drivers who had memorized the entire street map of the city had measurably larger hippocampi than the average person, which is the brain region responsible for spatial memory. Musicians who practiced for thousands of hours had thicker auditory cortices. Spitzer's argument was just the dark side of the same finding. If the brain grows in response to use, then it must shrink in response to neglect. And if every cognitive task adults used to perform with their own memory, navigation, arithmetic, attention, and reading was now being handled by a glowing rectangle in their pocket, then the regions responsible for all of those tasks were quietly being underused for the first time in human evolutionary history. Then the supporting data started landing. A 2020 study at McGill University tracked 50 regular drivers and measured GPS use. The heavy users had weaker spatial memory than the rest, and when researchers retested a subset three years later, those users had declined the fastest. The same hippocampus London cabbies had built up by ignoring shortcuts was being slowly hollowed out in everyone else by accepting them. A 2024 MIT study scanned the brains of people writing essays with and without ChatGPT. The AI group showed 55 percent weaker brain connectivity than the group writing on their own. 83 percent of the ChatGPT users could not recall a single line from essays they had written minutes earlier. The damage stayed even when the tool was taken away. A 2024 paper out of Norway recorded EEG scans of students writing words by hand versus typing them. The handwriting condition lit up the entire learning network. The typing condition produced almost nothing. Every one of these findings is exactly what Spitzer predicted in 2012. The most uncomfortable line in his book is the one almost nobody in the German press wanted to print. He pointed out that the people building these devices were not letting their own children use them. Steve Jobs did not let his kids near an iPad. Bill Gates capped his children's screen time at 30 minutes a day. The senior engineers at Google were sending their kids to Waldorf schools that banned screens entirely. The people who knew the most about what these products were doing to the developing brain were the ones protecting their own families from them, and almost nobody on the outside was asking why. The generation he was warning about is now in their twenties. The first cognitive scans of what we did to them are starting to come back, and the pattern is exactly what he said it would be. The brain you were born with is not the brain you will die with. You are training it every day. The only question is which direction.

Why the head on a man's penis is larger than the shaft? Several years ago, Great Britain funded a study to determine why the head on a man's penis is larger than the shaft. The study took two years and cost over 1.2 million pounds. The study concluded that the reason the head of a man's penis is larger than the shaft is to provide the man with more pleasure during sex. After the results were published, France decided to conduct their own study on the same subject. They were convinced that the results of the British study were incorrect. After three years of research at a cost of in excess of 2 million Euros, the French researchers concluded that the head of a man's penis is larger than the shaft to provide the woman with more pleasure during sex. When the results of the French study were released, Australia decided to conduct their own study. The Aussies didn't really trust British or French studies. So, after nearly three hours of intensive research and a cost of right around 75 dollars (three cases of beer), the Aussie study was complete. They concluded that the reason the head on a man's penis is larger than the shaft is to prevent your hand from flying off the end and hitting you in the forehead.

A rare Pampas cat, also known as a colocolo, that lives in the forests of Chile. With fewer than 100 individuals left in the wild, experts call Muñoa's pampas cat one of the most endangered felines in the world and warn it go extinct within 10 years as its natural habitat is cleared for cropland.

🚨This is the European Parliament in one sentence: Elected MEPs walk out in protest when the globalists in parliament decide to honor the plausible former KGB agent Angela Merkel. The EU’s response? Fill their empty seats with random people so the ceremony can continue. Random civilians. Public servants. People who have NO legitimacy to occupy the seats of democratically elected officials, having chosen to turn their backs on those who bear an overwhelming responsibility for the destruction of Germany and Europe (Wir Schaffen Das, Energiewende) This would be unthinkable in any real parliament on Earth. But in Brussels? Completely normal. The EU isn’t a parliament. It’s a farce. Share if you agree 💪

Ia sa vedeți cum, imediat ce se va vedea de unde vin banii către ONG-uri, începem brusc să consumăm pasta de dinți la fel ca ceilalți europeni, nu mai suntem știrbi și urâți, nu mai suntem nici bețivii și nici proștii Europei, așa cum ni se stoarce lămâia prin tot felul de statistici false emanate pe baza datelor culese sanchi de oneghiștii noștri, de 36 de ani încoace. Toate hahalerele astea cu școlile neterminate care pozează cu tupeu în intelectuali și trăiesc pe picior mare din banii din ONG-uri, sanchi societate civilă, ne-au făcut în toate felurile, cât să ajungem toți să credem că suntem ultimii oameni și să îi implorăm pe stăpânii lor să vină să ne preia cu totul și să ne scoată la liman. Cum să fim noi cei mai proști, când toți copiii românilor plecați din țară sunt mereu cei mai buni din clasa lor, în timp ce ai lor pun degetul ca să se semneze? Sunt sute, mii de analfabeți în Europa care nu știu nici sa isi facă semnatura, lucru nemaintâlnit in Romania, unde chiar si cei nascuti la inceputul secolului XX erau alfabetizati, măcar cu 4 clase acolo, dar puteau citi și scrie. Cum să fim noi cei mai bețivi, când în Polonia sau în tarile nordice în fiecare weekend "doamnele" înveșmântate în blănuri scumpe se târăsc în 4 labe pe trotuarele din gata barurilor și domnii sunt păziți de poliție în parcările din porturi in fiecare weekend, după ce se întorc din croazierele de o noapte, că e bautura mai ieftina în afara apelor teritoriale, nu poartă accize și taxe? Cum să fim noi cei mai nespălați când europenii stau cu râpul pe ei, umblă cu unghiile netăiate și murdare și cu ciorapii găuriți? Când straiele țăranilor lor au fost mereu gri sau negre, să nu se vadă jegul, în timp ce ale noastre au fost mereu albe, din cap până-n picioare, și la câmp și la horă? Cum suntem noi cei mai necivilizați, când ăia tușesc sau strănută în lift sau autobuz și nu pun mâna la gură, nu știu să dea prioritate sau să cedeze locul în autobuz? Nu suntem cu nimic mai prejos decât orice cetățean european, ba din contră! Toate lăturile alea aruncate în capul românilor din 89 încoace au fost produse de aceste ONG-uri sanchi civice care doar cu asta s-au ocupat. Cu distrugerea propriului neam. Pe bani! Pe mulți bani care ACUM trebuie neapărat să iasă la iveală, să vadă toți că împotriva României a fost o adevărată politică de exterminare. Fizică și psihică. Și așa, poate se conving de adevăr și cei care încă mai cred că "civilii" ăștia au vreun rol benefic in societate. Nu au, sunt doar niște viermi.

@tedcruz I proudly stood in the way of your AI-data center amendment to the Big Beautiful Bill that would have given those companies immunity from the law. In fact, @mtgreenee and I got it stripped from the bill. Did your big tech cronies still let you cash their checks after you failed?

Was the Massie primary rigged by AIPAC? Massie lost by almost the exact amount of mail in ballots this election. Massie has run against opponents in primaries since 2014, and they usually receive about 15,000 votes to Massie's 50k. In this election, however, Massie's opponent mysteriously received 57,000 votes, 1/5 from mail ins from the elderly, above 65. That's a 1 in 200 probability! 2020 (June 23): 84,683 total votes Thomas Massie: 68,591 (81.0%) Todd McMurtry: 16,092 (19.0%) 2022 (May 17): 66,874 total votes Thomas Massie: 50,301 (75.2%) Claire Wirth: 10,521 (15.7%) Alyssa Dara McDowell: 3,446 (5.2%) George Washington: 2,606 (3.9%) 2024 (May 21): 52,593 total votes Thomas Massie: 39,929 (75.9%) Michael McGinnis: 6,604 (12.6%) Eric Deters: 6,060 (11.5%) 2026 (May 19): 105,367 total votes Ed Gallrein: 57,822 (54.9%) Thomas Massie: 47,539 (45.2%) Where did all these extra anti-Massie voters materialize from? Ed Gallrein was invisible, unlikeable, and vastly unpopular. He got 30 people to show up for a stump speech with Hegseth. Guess election rigging is now bipartisan.

If Raul Castro can be indicted for ordering the downing of 2 unarmed civilian planes - Pete Hegseth can be indicted for ordering the bombing of at least 58 unarmed civilian boats.

God bless Thomas Massie. He walks out of this with his honor intact. He’s a patriot & kept his integrity. As long as the voters give their votes to whoever can run the most ads we will have politicians who are purchased by foreign governments & corporate interests.

China banned an Nvidia chip while Jensen Huang was literally in Beijing. The chip - designed specifically to comply with US export controls so Nvidia could still sell in China - was added to the banned goods list on Friday. Huang arrived Thursday. Here's the uncomfortable truth about export controls: Nvidia sold $17bn in chips to China in 2025. That number is now heading to zero. In its place, Huawei has built the CloudMatrix 384 which is an AI cluster China claims outperforms Nvidia's best product by 67% in compute. US export controls were designed to slow China's AI buildout. What they actually did was give Huawei a captive market, accelerate domestic chip development, and get China to the point where it's comfortable banning Nvidia entirely. The policy worked exactly as China wanted.

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it. Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago. IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued. The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk. The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit. Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.”  Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million. The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out. This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president. Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues? nytimes.com/2026/05/19/adm…

Another day, another rabidly idiotic statement. There is truly no overstating how much of a walking disaster Kallas is for Europe. Yesterday she called China a "disease" for Europe (specifically "cancer"), and now she's saying the EU can't have a Middle East strategy because - brace yourselves - there's just too much going on there. This comes among hundreds similarly idiotic statements - basically every time she opens her mouth. When you choose people like this to be your voice to the world, you deserve every ounce of irrelevance and mockery coming your way.

Der finnische EU-Abgeordnete Sebastian Tynkkynen verließ gemeinsam mit mehreren Kollegen aus Protest gegen die Verleihung des EU-Verdienstordens an Angela Merkel den Plenarsaal. Damit das nicht auffällt, hat die EU ihre leeren Plätzen mit zufälligen Personen auffüllen lassen.