Håkan Karlsson

Truest words ever spoken, “You can silence 50 scholars with 1 fact, but you can’t silence one idiot with 50 facts.”

@Edward_Blom Ingen sommartid i Thailand 😊

Sommartid är djävulens påfund.

@ItsAllAboutTAIF Går det att se på nätet?

Vi ska dock inte glömma vårat J20-lag som kämpar för att nå en plats i högsta serien (U20 Nationell). Tycker vi TAIF-supportrar ge all support till dessa grabbar nu! 💚 👊 #TAIFJ20 #U20NationellSyd #U20RegSyd

@PontusPersson5 Finns väl inte ens en korrelation mellan starka fackförbund och ökade reallöner. Ökad produktivitet är, och kommer alltid, vara vad som driver upp reallönerna.

Det roliga är att en del tror att dagens fackrörelse representerar arbetarklassen. Den består till stor del av klägg som aldrig har lyft ett finger och bara väntar på att stänga ute arbetare med fel åsikter.

While modern governments debate the legitimacy of property rights, Sumerian merchants carved their contracts into clay tablets 5,000 years ago—and those tablets reveal a sophisticated understanding of private ownership that would make Mises proud. The cuneiform records from ancient Mesopotamia detail intricate property transactions: land sales, house transfers, field rentals, and livestock trades. These weren't primitive barter arrangements. Sumerian merchants understood collateral, interest rates, breach of contract penalties, and third-party arbitration. They grasped concepts that escape half the economics professors at Harvard today. Take tablet BM 17761 from the British Museum, dated 2100 BCE. A merchant named Ur-Shulpae sells a house to Lu-Nanna for 6 shekels of silver, with detailed property boundaries, transfer procedures, and penalty clauses if either party reneges. No king mandated this system. No central authority designed these contracts. Private individuals created this order spontaneously because they understood something fundamental: secure property rights enable prosperity. The tablets reveal zero evidence of price controls, minimum wage laws, or regulatory agencies. Yet Sumerian civilization thrived for over 1,500 years, developing writing, mathematics, astronomy, and metallurgy. They built the first cities, invented the wheel, and created the foundation of human civilization—all through voluntary exchange and private property. Modern statists claim markets require extensive government regulation to function properly, that private property needs state enforcement to exist. The Sumerians would laugh at such nonsense—if they weren't too busy getting rich through free exchange. Your smartphone contains more computing power than NASA used to reach the moon, yet you apparently need bureaucrats to tell you how much to pay someone for flipping burgers.

The Orbán mafia can see that it’s over. The "Dynasty" has begun moving its stolen wealth abroad. Orbán’s longtime ally and friend, György Matolcsy, the former national bank governor is now quietly liquidating his domestic holdings. Orbán’s oligarch, Lőrinc Mészáros, is securing his fortune. Orbán’s son-in-law, István Tiborcz, is shifting his assets abroad. Those at the very top already know that their power and their unchecked looting is coming to an end. They know the clock is ticking. That is why the scramble to abandon the sinking ship has begun. A TISZA government will uncover every case. It will review every contract. We will trace every financial transaction. We will know exactly where the money came from, who it passed through, and where it ended up. It will no longer be possible to make public money disappear without consequences, nor to move abroad what belongs to the Hungarian people. To @PM_ViktorOrban and his circle, we send this message today, in the coming 16 days, and especially on April 12: this era is over.

When I travel outside of Ukraine, I get daily intelligence updates online. This morning, I was briefed that U.S. military facilities in the Middle East and the Gulf region were photographed by Russian satellites in the interests of Iran. On March 24th, they imaged the U.S.–UK joint military facility on Diego Garcia located in the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. They also captured pictures of Kuwait International Airport and parts of the infrastructure of the Greater Burgan oil field. On March 25th, they took pictures of the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. The Shaybah oil and gas field in Saudi Arabia, İncirlik Air Base in Türkiye, and Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar were all imaged on March 26th. There are no Ukrainian facilities on this list. But who is helping whom when sanctions are lifted from an aggressor that earns daily revenue and provides intelligence for strikes against American, Middle Eastern, UK, and U.S.–UK bases and so on? When surveillance is carried out over facilities in Ukraine, we always understand that they must be protected, since plans are in motion to destroy them – energy and water infrastructure, military facilities, and so on. Everyone knows that repeated reconnaissance indicates preparations for strikes. How can sanctions be eased if this is what the Russians are doing? There must be pressure on the aggressor. And lifting sanctions is certainly not pressure. It looks strange. Sanctions are being lifted, while the aggressor is providing intelligence to strike facilities, including those of the countries that are discussing or have already lifted sanctions. From my conversation with journalists (3/3).

Yonatan, an October 7th survivor: "They beheaded people, cut their fingers, raped, and put a grenade next to a dead body's head. A girl who saw her boyfriend murdered in front of her eyes. They shot her legs and let her watch him die." Never forget.

A Polish dance group, Fair Play Crew, drew global attention by recreating on stage the stiff and synchronized movements of 1980s fighting video games, such as the classic International Karate. I've seen this so many times, still cracks me up 😂

@Sakine Är i Thailand 6 timmar före er i Sverige och ligger fortfarande i sängen och myser med flickvännen. Funderar på att beställa hem lite mat då jag inte orkar med att frångå AC:n i rummet och utsätta mig för 30 graders värme utomhus lätt bakis.

Då har man vaknat fyra, slitit med bokmanus och hunnit springa. Vad gör ni slöfockar då?

Se ett lite längre reportage om både svenska Stridsfordon 90/CV90 och Stridsvagn 122 hos den ukrainska 21:a mekaniserade brigaden och hör mer detaljer om hur de räddar ukrainska liv samtidigt som de får ryssarna att jaga dem med stridsvagnar. Svensk text. 🇺🇦🤝🇸🇪

WARNING: LONG THREAD 🧵 Dear Americans, Your political and media class has sold you a very convenient fairy tale for decades - the tale of how your tax dollars pay to defend freeloading Europe. While it's an emotionally satisfying narrative, it's also wrong. THE U.S. DOES NOT SUBSIDIZE EUROPEAN DEFENCE. You are not running a charity, you are running an empire. And empires are costly. Your forward deployments, your bases, your carrier groups, etc. - they are the pillars of a global security architecture that mainly serves you: to protect your trade routes, your currency, your corporate supply chains, your ability to project force anywhere on the planet in hours and days, not months. Let’s walk through this like adults, and not emotional toddlers, shall we?

Trump announced lifting of some oil sanctions on Russia. The SAME DAY we send OUR soldiers to defend YOUR bases with weapons developed at the cost of Ukrainian lives, you let those who killed them rebuild their cash reserves so they can kill more of us. FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE!!!!

Unreal numbers 👀⚡️ "JPMorgan estimates that, had Germany not phased out nuclear power, the country would have generated 50% less electricity from fossil fuels and 84% less electricity from natural gas in 2024. Electricity prices in Germany would have been around 25% lower, and the country would have imported half as much electricity.."

Dr. Keyan Zomorodi explain what’s really happened in Iran “You know when you hear us Persians say that we've been foreign occupied by Islam, what we mean is genuinely the people that have taken us over, these guys are right here. (He shows Iran leaders) They are not even Iranian, they are not even Persian. These lot are Arab Islamists who have come into our country, taken us over and forced our people to follow their rules. Look at the flag that they replaced ours with. (Shown in video) Can you see the small letters embedded within the flag? These are Arabic letters. Our own people can't even read the flag. This is the level of foreign occupation we're talking about, and I think not many people are aware of the situation. So it's important to spread this message so you guys understand what we are going through here and why we're so passionate about getting our land back”

UN secretary general Guterres didn’t come to the UN floor to lecture the IRGC about “international law” and morality when they massacred over 30,000 protesters six weeks ago—but he did congratulate them on the anniversary of the revolution they committed that massacre to protect. You won’t find a better illustration of how broken and corrupt the international system has become since its slow hijack by Third Worldists—or of why morality always trumps law, particularly “international law.” America and Israel are literally saving the world from wicked clowns and hypocrites like Guterres. Shut it all down.

Alltför ofta drivs rapporteringen i public service av ett färdigt narrativ. Här faller det ihop. @ChristerSfeir visar en djup historisk kunskap om Mellanöstern och plockar metodiskt isär resonemangen. Man hör nästan programledarens uppgivenhet – hon rår inte på hans argument. sverigesradio.se/artikel/kan-kr…

Pirates stole an entire Irish village. A hundred and seven men, women and children. Taken from their beds. Sold in North Africa. Only two ever came home. It was 1631. And it was normal. For thousands of years, the sea belonged to pirates. Barbary corsairs enslaved over a million Europeans. They raided as far as Iceland. No nation on Earth could stop them. So Britain built the largest navy in history. And went hunting. They smashed the slave ports of North Africa. Three thousand people walked free in a single day. They chased pirates across the South China Sea. Ocean by ocean, the hunting grounds went silent. Britain built 46 bases to keep them that way. Every shipping lane on Earth. Protected. Today, 80% of everything you own arrives by sea. Britain didn't just rule the waves. She freed them. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧 Be part of us: proudofus.co.uk 🙏

Noah Smith asks, "Does anyone know why we're still doing tariffs?" It is a great question, and he offers great evidence in an honest effort to answer it. "The explanation I find most convincing," he finds, "is power. If all Trump wanted was to kick out against global trade, the Section 122 tariffs and all the other alternatives would surely suffice. Instead, he was very specifically attached to the IEEPA tariffs that SCOTUS struck down. Those tariffs allowed Trump to levy tariffs on specific countries, at rates of his own choosing, as well as to grant specific exemptions. That gave Trump an enormous amount of negotiating leverage with countries that value America’s big market. This is the kind of personal power that no President had before Trump. It allowed him to conduct foreign policy entirely on his own. It allowed him to enrich himself and his family. It allowed him to gain influence domestically, by holding out the promise of tariff exemptions for businesses that toe his political line. And it allowed him to act as a sort of haphazard economic central planner, using tariffs like a scalpel to discourage the kinds of trade and production that he didn’t personally like. In other words, I think that although the tariffs had their origin in 1990s-era worries about trade deficits, they ended up as a way to make the Presidency more like a dictatorship. That is almost certainly why the Supreme Court struck the IEEPA tariffs down, citing concerns over presidential overreach instead of more technical considerations." As Smith shows, there is no room left for doubt that all the economic promises of a golden age for U.S. manufacturing from Trump tariffs proved false. So, that only leaves politics as a reason to still be doing tariffs -- perhaps to favor certain unions or uncompetitive protected firms. But supporting continued tariffs would be mathematical electoral suicide for congressional Trump loyalists in the midterms. According to Gallup, Independents are 45% of registered voters while Democrats and Republicans each account for only 27%. And the Statistica graph below reports only half of Republicans still identified as MAGA faithful in December. The green graph borrowed from Noah Smith shows that Democrats, Independent and non-MAGA Republicans all disapprove of (or hate) Trump tariffs. That leaves only about 14% of the voters likely to support any diehard congressional Trump loyalists who feel compelled to make excuses for his "beautiful" tariffs in the midterm elections. noahpinion.blog/p/does-anyone-…

Poles are informed and not blind to the obvious. Of course the US under Trump isn’t a reliable ally—unless your name is Vladimir Putin.