Tim
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Und noch ein Argument: Hitler wurde durch Steuergelder finanziert, die AfD erhielt Anschubhilfe durch Steuergelder. Steuergelder akkumulieren sich, schaffen Machtungleichgewichte und gefährden die Demokratie.
📵The European Age Verification App is ready and soon available for citizens to use. It is our duty to protect our children in the online world, just as we do in the offline world. Because children's rights in the EU come before commercial interest. 🔗link.europa.eu/HmnrJc
The European Commission has confirmed a cyberattack on its AWS cloud infrastructure. Hackers claimed to have stolen hundreds of gigabytes of data, including databases, and shared screenshots as evidence. This is the second major cyber incident for the EC in 2026.
Just a month later and... 🇪🇺 ChatControl is back! Now they're trying to pass an even more far reaching ChatControl law through the back door, in a form even more intrusive than the originally rejected plan, without needing any of the EU countries votes The new proposal: - total mandatory surveillance of ALL text chats, emails and social media in the EU - obligatory registration of your ID/passport to your chat, email or social media account - minimum age requirement for chat, email and social media apps of 16 (!) The only way to stop this law is if EU countries veto it Read more here by @echo_pbreyer: patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-contro…
Mehrwertsteuer Erhöhung von 19 % auf 21 % ist lustig. Deutschland gibt im Jahr 460 Milliarden Euro an Personalkosten aus. Die lächerlichen 65 Milliarden sind am Ende die Summe, die für Deutschland verwendet wird. Es gibt kein Einnahmeproblem, sondern ein Ausgabeproblem.
The Hanseatic League solved commercial disputes for 400 years without a single government court, police force, or regulatory agency—and they did it better than any modern state system. From 1159 to 1669, German merchants spanning from London to Novgorod created the most sophisticated private arbitration network in history. When a Hamburg trader accused a Lübeck merchant of breach of contract, they didn't petition some distant king or wait months for bureaucratic tribunals. They brought their dispute before merchant courts staffed by actual businessmen who understood trade, contracts, and reputation. These arbitrators rendered decisions within days, not years. The enforcement mechanism? Pure market discipline. The League maintained detailed records of every merchant's behavior and shared this information across all member cities. Cross a Hanseatic trader in Bergen, and you'd find yourself blacklisted from Riga to Bruges within weeks. No bailiffs, no jackbooted enforcers, no violence—just the inexorable power of reputation and voluntary association. And it worked spectacularly. The League dominated Northern European commerce for half a millennium precisely because merchants trusted their dispute resolution more than royal courts. But here's what modern lawyers and judges will never tell you: the Hanseatic system resolved disputes faster, cheaper, and more accurately than contemporary government courts. Why? Because the arbitrators actually understood commerce and faced real consequences for bad decisions. Screw up a ruling as a Hanseatic arbitrator, and merchants would stop using your services. Screw up as a federal judge today, and you get lifetime tenure. The League died when centralized nation-states crushed private governance with military force, not because their system failed. Every blockchain arbitration platform and private dispute resolution service today merely rediscovers what German merchants perfected 800 years ago.
