Dober komentar v Washington Postu: Velesila, ki se odpove financiranju znanosti, ki ji je omogočila tehnološki, gospodarski in vojaški vzpon, se je odločila za samomor. Kitajska je seveda povsem nasproten primer od trumpovske Amerike. Toda lekcija je aktualna tudi za Slovenijo. Brez povečanega financiranja znanosti, raziskav in spodbujanja tehnološkega sektorja se nikoli ne bomo prebili med razvojno propulzivne države. Vedno bomo le drugo- ali tretje-razredni dobavitelji komponent za druge. Pa še to le v primeru, če kitajska podjetja ne bodo povsem izrinila nemških, za katera delajo naši dobavitelji. In ta stava je zelo tvegana.

But the planned spectacle is laughably hollow. Even as the president wants to showcase U.S. military power, he is doing grave and possibly irreparable damage to the real sources of U.S. strength, including its long-term investment in scientific research. Trump is declaring war on science, and the casualty will be the U.S. economy.

Since the 1940s, when the University of Chicago, Columbia University and the University of California played a central role in the Manhattan Project, the engine driving U.S. economic and military competitiveness has been federal support of research universities. That partnership has produced most of the key inventions of the information age, including the internet, GPS, smartphones and artificial intelligence.

Federal support of university research has also made possible the success of the United States’ world-leading biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. Advances enabled by federal support include magnetic resonance imaging, the Human Genome Project, LASIK surgery, weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic, and drugs that have saved countless AIDS and covid-19 patients.

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Kopičenje poraza za porazom sistema “liberalne demokracije” je privedlo do psihološkega zloma, notranje dislokacije Zahoda. To zdaj vodi v neracionalna dejanja in iskanje zatočišča v pobožnih željah.

Spodaj je odlično razmišljanje Moon of Alabama o zlomu Zahoda, ki temelji na predavanju Emmanuela Todda. Dobra teza tega predavanja je, da je nekdanja Sovjetska zveza oziroma njena naslednica Rusija po koncu hladne vojne tako zelo kolapsnila ne samo zaradi kolapsa gospodarskega sistema, pač pa zaradi kolapsa ideologije (Todd to imenuje “religija”). Ideologija je vezivo vsakega sistema, brez ideologije se sistemi razkrojijo. In to Todd zdaj napoveduje Zahodu – po gospodarskem porazu proti Kitajski in po neštetih porazih liberalne demokracije (liberalne hegemonije) v mednarodnih odnosih se zahodni sistem sesuva, ker se sesuva tudi njegova ideologija. Trans liberalne vrednote hedonističnih individualistov niso ideologija, ki bi držala skupaj družbo. Vrednote družine, tradicije, nacije in država pač.

In 1976 the French anthropologist Emmanuel Todd predicted the down fall of the Soviet Union. In After The Empire, first published in French in 2001, he predicted the (relative) decline of the United States. 

In his latest (and last) book, La Défaite de l’Occident (The Defeat of the West), he laments the West’s inability to distinguish facts from wishes, as seen in its behavior during the war in Ukraine. Nihilism, a lack of values and of acceptance of reality, has infested western thinking:

Trans ideology is therefore, in my opinion, one of the flags of this nihilism that now defines the West, this drive to destroy not just things and people but reality.

Todd recently opened a substack where he is posting speeches and talks he has given.

Two of those, a recent talk given in Russia (in French) and one given in Hungary (in English) make (mostly) similar points.

The downfall of the Soviet Union led to deep psychological and societal dislocations in Russia. The defeat of the West, or ‘liberal democracy’,  is leading to similar consequences in Western societies.

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Res težka dilema Izraela: če bi pustili odpravi Grete Thunberg in Liama Cunninghaama, da pripelje po morju hrano do Gaze, bi se lahko zgodil precedens, da bi Palestinci, ki jih je Izrael obsodil na smrt z bombardiranjem, streljanjem in stradanjem, dobili hrano. Ko je nekdo na takšnem bibličnem poslanstvu, kot je Izrael danes, si takšen precedens težko privošči. Ali pa to njegovemu vodstvu vsaj ne da spati – kakšno minuto…

Morda bi izraelsko vodstvo moralo za nasvet vprašati Boruta Pahorja. Načelnega in modrega politika

Life as a genocidal settler-colony can be hard.

You just want to quietly go about your day, exterminating the natives to fulfil your Biblical prophecy of Disney Land Gaza, but you keep running into problems like “international law” and “public opinion”.

Apparently, a majority of the international public now hates the world’s only murderous ethno-state – and no one is clear why such antisemitism is out of control. Must be Tiktok, I guess.

Israel was close to clearing the skeletal population out of Gaza when they heard something truly terrifying is on its way. No, not the asteroid at the edge of the solar system that may or may not be an earthbound alien mothership! I’m talking about something much scarier: international wanted terrorist Greta Thunberg and her second-in-command Liam Cunningham, a fearsome warrior who was forged in the fires of Westeros. The pair are travelling aboard a flotilla of… humanitarian aid ships.

As you can imagine, the 4″10 autistic girl and her loyal assistant strike fear into the heart of every IDF soldier. The situation could only be scarier if Ms Rachel was aboard one of those vessels, but that doesn’t bear thinking about.

In a sane world, Israel would have every right to protect itself from humanitarian aid ships that were bound for another country. Israeli intelligence shows the so-called “Freedom Flotilla” is planning to arm Palestinians with food, and apparently, Israel is expected to sit back and do nothing. Thankfully, our rulers are staying quiet and preparing to blame Greta if things get out of hand. Whether the public and the ICC judges accept their shit is another matter..

Israeli drone operatives are in a difficult position: if they do what they want to the Freedom Flotilla, they could find themselves charged with “war crimes”, and if they allow the boats to get through, it will set the precedent that Palestinians eat. As you can imagine, Israeli strategists are in panic mode, trying to figure out the best way forward.

In the past, Israel’s actions have ranged from bombing aid vessels, to boarding them and gunning everyone down, to showing restraint and strip searching the entire crew. You can’t miss an opportunity to needlessly strip search people, can you? What do you think they are? The world’s most moral army?

Clearly, the only reasonable course of action is for the Freedom Flotilla to turn around and let Israel continue with the aid distribution effort alone.

Bine Kordež

Pred dnevi smo lahko v Delu prebrali zanimiv članek o dediščinah (tekst je bil povzet po časopisu The Economist). Vrednost dediščin se v zadnjih letih v vseh državah povečuje in letni obseg dediščin že presega 10 % BDP posameznih držav. Pri tem je zanimivo, da kljub veliki vrednosti teh prenosov premoženja, državni statistični uradi ne objavljajo skoraj nobenih podatkov o dediščinah in omenjene ocene temeljijo samo na raznih analizah raziskovalcev tega področja.

Značilno je tudi, da so bili v začetku 20. stoletja prihodki iz davkov na dediščino pomemben del celotnega davčnega priliva na primer v ZDA in Veliki Britaniji. Kasneje pa se je politika obrnila proti tem davkom in njihov pomen za javne finance je vse nižji. Večina držav davka na dediščino sploh nima, v podrobnejših poročilih evropskega statističnega urada pa zasledimo, da s tem davki še največ zbere Francija (0,6 % BDP v 2019) in Nemčija (0,2 %), Avstrija, Švedska in Češka pa na primer praktično nič.

Tudi za Slovenijo v poročilih državnega statističnega urada (SURS) o obsegu dediščin ne boste o tem našli nobenega podatka, prav tako tudi ne na spletu. Ker gre za zelo velike zneske, je tudi za našo državo zanimivo oceniti letne vrednosti podedovanega premoženja in njihov pomen za dohodke državljanov. Ker kot rečeno, kakih uradnih podatkov nimamo, vrednost lahko samo ocenjujemo na osnovi različnega nabora podatkov. V nadaljevanju so predstavljene sicer zelo grobe ocene, a za namene prikaza te tematike, zbrani podatki zadoščajo.

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Nisem prepričan, da bo do resnejših sankcij proti Izraelu kdaj res prišlo, kajti moč finančnega sektorja, ki ga obvladuje kapitalska elita, ki se identificira kot židovsjega porekla, je gromozansko velika. Je močnejša od moči ZDA in katerekoli države z izjemo Kitajske. Je pa dobro, da so se tudi v največjih medijih začeli glede tega opredeljevati. Financial Times je bil prvi glede obsodbe izraelskega genocida nad Palestinci, temu valu se je kasneje pridružilo več velikih medijev. In Financial Times je spet prvi, ki javno diskutira o nujnosti sankcij proti Izraelu in kje bi Izrael najbolj bolelo. Izrael bi najbolj bolele sankcije glede prepovedi trgovanja, saj je polovično odvisen od uvoza iz držav EU.

Torej, kdaj bomo v Evropskem svetu imeli diskusijo o tem?

Europe’s patience with Benjamin Netanyahu’s war in Gaza and Israeli settlers’ aggression in the occupied West Bank may finally be running out.

In the past few weeks, EU foreign ministers have triggered a review of Israel’s association agreement with the bloc, Britain has halted trade talks, Norway’s sovereign wealth fund blacklisted an Israeli company for facilitating energy deliveries to West Bank settlements, and the leaders of France, the UK and Canada threatened to put sanctions on the country. Even Germany, Israel’s most stalwart backer in Europe, is criticising the country’s conduct.

Too little too late, some will say. And they will point to how fast the west imposed sanctions on Russia, in meaningful and unprecedented ways, after Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and put the difference down to hypocrisy.

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I suddenly realized that the completition between China and the United States has entered a decisive stage, and the fundamental reason is that China has played the rare earth card.

After this card was played, Americans increasingly feels being “choked”. They will definitely invest in the rare earth industry and study refining technology. Although their manufacturing has declined a lot recently, we obviously cannot expect them to never make a breakthrough, it will takes 5 or 10 years or more.

Within the 5-10 year window, rare earth card can be used to either exchange some geopolitical benefit such as Taiwan or greatly weaken the American military production for years. Both great for China! China can live with either result.

But if China now relax rare earth exports now, it will only give American more time to build its own rare earth industry, and China will lose this card by then. This determines that once China decides to play this card, it will definitely be strategic and long-term, rather than short-term.

This is actually somewhat like the steel and oil embargo the United States imposed on Japan before the Pearl Harbor incident. Americans are now in a state of anxiety and madness, just like the Japanese in 1941. The options faced by the Japanese at the time were to either withdraw their troops from China as the United States requested or their naval vessels were unable to go to sea due to lack of oil in 1-2 years. Japanese finally chose the Pearl Harbor.

For China, The first thing is to realize that the big moment has arrived. PLA must be well-prepared for the war. The possibility of the United States attacking China’s “Pearl Harbor” cannot be ruled out. On the other hand, China also should tell Americans that as long as they support China’s unification with Taiwan, the supply of rare earths can be restored. There indeed is a way out other than WW3.

Vir: DaiWW

Ta teden je postregel z novim Trumpovim javnim izpadom. No, z najbolj glasnim izmed številnih. V izopadu je KItajsko obtožil, da ne spoštuje dogovora iz Geneve (pred tem je seveda “naložil”, da je s tem dogovorom Kitajsko rešil pred kolapsom, resnica je sicer obratna, da je rešil ameriške prodajalce pred kolapsom in zraven še kazino na borzah). Problem je seveda zamolčal, da je prav Trump prvi prekršil dogovor, ko je de facto prepovedal, da bi kdorkoli v svetu uporabljal Huaweijeve čipe Ascend, ker da s tem kršijo ameriške sankcije, in ko je prepovedal izvoz Boeingovih motorjev za kitajska letala. Kitajska se je ostro odzvala na te prepovedi, tako verbalno kot s prepovedjo izvoza magnetov, ki temeljijo na mineralih redke zemlje in so ključni za proizvodnjo električnih motorjev in čipov.

Spodaj je zgodba.

Trump Accuses China Of Violating Agreement He Did Not Adhere To

The U.S. President is performing one of his usual stunts:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump – May 30, 2025, 12:09 UTC…
I made a FAST DEAL with China in order to save them from what I thought was going to be a very bad situation, and I didn’t want to see that happen. Because of this deal, everything quickly stabilized and China got back to business as usual. Everybody was happy! That is the good news!!! The bad news is that China, perhaps not surprisingly to some, HAS TOTALLY VIOLATED ITS AGREEMENT WITH US. So much for being Mr. NICE GUY!

Trump’s take is, of course, nonsense. But to see that one has to take a step back.

Trump had raised absurdly high tariffs against China which then had responded in kind. Additional hostile measures imposed by the U.S. were targeting China’s import and production of semiconductors.

In response China limited the export of products for which it holds a monopoly. These are mainly rare-earth elements and magnets produced with them. While these are rather small items trade-wise they are needed to make modern electrical motors and are thus a significant part of the supply chain for higher level production items.

The high tariffs on products from China threatened to lead to empty shelves in U.S. markets. The financial markets were concerned. The U.S. dollar, stocks markets and treasuries decreased in price. A financial crisis was developing.  Trump had to pull back.

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Spodnji nastop Glenna Greenwalda (urednika Uncensored) pri Tuckerju Carlssonu (vem, da liberalci ne marajo gledati Calssona, vendar se splača pogledati, sploh del glede Epsteina kot izraelskega modela za izsiljevanje politikov in vplivnežev)….

… je očitno toliko sprovociral izraelske službe, da so proti njemu sprožile propagandno kampanjo, češ da je gej. No, problema sta, da je Greenwald že zdavnaj razkril, da je gej (bil je poročen z moškim, ki pa je umrl) in drugič, da je kampanja udarila nazaj, saj je Greenwald začel dobivati javno podporo od povsod. Izraelske službe so spregledale, da so “liberalne vrednote” na Zahodu razširjene približno enako kot izraelski vpliv. Spodaj je zgodba.

As you know, all Jews are expected to unequivocally support Israel’s genocide, otherwise they are antisemites. Jews are not allowed to think for themselves and any Jews that say or do the right thing must be punished.

It is for this reason that Mossad decided to bring down Jewish traitor Glenn Greenwald. The journalist who co-founded the Intercept dared to reject the hive mind and tell the truth about Israel.

Greenwald went on The Tucker Carlson show to break down exactly how Israel wields its influence over the US government and the CIA. Obviously, telling the truth about Israel is an “antisemitic conspiracy theory”.

Israel was given no choice but to prove that it never uses tactics such as blackmail to control people. It therefore decided to end Greenwald’s journalistic career by revealing that he is, in fact, gay.

Yes, the country that puts rainbow flags on bombs, and screams that “Hamas would throw you off a rooftop”, admitted it sees homosexuality as a scandal. Only problem was, no one told Israel that Glenn came out years ago and was openly married… to a man (who sadly passed away). Plus, it’s 2025 and no one gives a shit about sexuality.

Disturbingly, Israel’s move has triggered a massive wave of support for Glenn from everyone who doesn’t hate gays. Countless people who had never heard of him were suddenly checking out his journalism. Millions of untainted minds were exposed to the truth about Israel.

While this move has massively backfired, I would like to assure you Israel still has massive influence over our politicians. This is because they were regulars at Epstein island and the public is not exactly keen on paedos.

Needless to say, all of the paedos in western governments will remain firmly behind Israel, no matter how many war crimes it commits, leaving you with no way of figuring out who they are. I bet you feel reassured now, don’t you?

Vir: Normal Island News

Ko je Robert Golob prevzel vodenje vlade s prepričljivo večino, so med podjetniki in splošno javnostjo prevladovala visoka pričakovanja, da bo nova oblast učinkovita, razvojno usmerjena in prijazna do gospodarstva. Toda tri leta kasneje se utrjuje vtis, da je vlada vse prej kot učinkovita, vse prej kot razvojno usmerjena in vse prej kot prijazna do gospodarstva in ljudi.

Da Golobova vlada nima nobene razvojne vizije, pravzaprav niti nobenega ne kratkoročnega in ne srednjeročnega načrta, kam usmeriti slovensko gospodarstvo, je bilo jasno od prvega dneva vladanja. Po treh letih dela te vlade pa se zdi, da je bila vlada ne samo brez pozitivne usmeritve, pač pa, da je sistematično sprejemala ukrepe, ki gospodarstvu škodijo. Vrhunec tega odnosa se je pokazal, ko se je predsednik vlade ob opozorilih, da slovenska podjetja zaradi boljših pogojev poslovanja selijo svojo dejavnost v Hrvaško, obregnil z izjavo, da to pomeni »morda kakšen izziv manj za našo šolsko, zdravstveno in socialno mrežo.« Finančni minister pa je pred tem na televiziji na isti očitek cinično odvrnil: »Samo povem, da so v Bosni še ugodnejši.«

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