After reading more than 300 pages of congressional transcripts from 1968-1970, I finally found the first instance in which someone said the Bank Secrecy Act would harm financial privacy. Clifford Sommer (American Bankers Association) urged Congress to reconsider what it was

This is utterly insane:

Insightful, RF and US are self-sufficient states, Europe and China are strategically vulnerable to energy imports disruptions. But EU GDP/cap would need to fall and fertility to increase to be comparable to 60s PRC.

On the loan to Ukraine. A particularly interesting set of comments ☹️ Russia will win, so why should the EU waste money. Money will only mean more deaths. Ukraine is controlled by corrupt Nazis Ukraine is not part of Europe Helping Ukraine is an elite thing. Real people do not

It's all Russian trolls following him.

A Nation is a will to live together, an imagined more than a real history.

The DJT oil payment of $2.2b is just 2.7% of Venezuela GDP, but it could run all Minnesotan fraudulent daycares for 18 month, or pay for bombing children in Gaza for 2.8 month.

EU is leadership by consensus. Politicians, unelected civil servants, ngos with agenda guided by lobbyists. McKelvey-Schofield chaos theorem or Turchin elite overproduction?

It seems some US persons might not know Denmark immigration is different in that it opted out of EU refugee quotas in 93 as a condition of joining Maastricht, or that Denmark was the NSA conduit for spying on Merkel. My guess is they just look at a mercator map.

SANCTIONS IMPOSED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION ON PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS In their reply to my letter raising the issue of sanctions imposed on individuals such as Mr Baud, President Costa and High Representative Kallas justify these measures on the grounds of his alleged destabilising

Germany’s sanctions office (operates under the Finance Ministry) froze my wife's accounts. When journalist @fwarweg asked the Finance Ministry about it, they claimed to know nothing. They can find us when they want to punish us. But when we want answers, we don’t exist.