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  1. GDP Measures Agency. Less Agency, Less Liberty.


    The Gross Domestic Product, GDP, of a country in a year is the sum of all financial transactions in that country during that year… Measured in the local currency converted in US Dollars (which is roughly equivalent to the EUro). GDP is simple, all too simple, and thus has come under heavy criticism since it exists (including from yours truly). However, GDP measures WORLD AGENCY, it’s therefore an excellent first approximation (especially as agency, also known as war in its strongest form, makes a noticeable return in the collective psyche). Ignoring GDP means ignoring liberty, not just prosperity. Let me explain.

    In a country such as France the national association budget is 35 billion Euros, more than the budget for high education and research combined. Such an expense is mostly outside of GDP: the association typically helps, but does not sell, so they are not GDP producers. This may be one of the reasons why French GDP per capita used to be the same as in Switzerland fifty years ago, and is now half (there are also association budgets financed by regions and cities, on top of the 35 billions). The idea was to create a socialist society where everybody would help everybody. 

    In practice though this anti-GDP, anti-for profit economy, has just weakened France, preventing France from imposing her social, environmental or sovereign views on the rest of Europe. Now, increasingly, this starts to be understood in France (as it has been in Italy). As China has shown since Deng Xiaoping, the best way to do socialism is with a flourishing capitalist sector.

    GDP is a measure of activity, in other words, agency, on a worldwide basis.Roughly, if a country has ten times the GDP, it can buy ten times more, sell ten times more and influence ten times more. 

    Until the full-blown invasion of Ukraine, Europe decided to outlaw or discourage many practices which were viewed as non virtuous  from drilling for hydrocarbons (because that damages the environment) to state support for industrial champions (because that’s against free trade). Very high taxes against the middle class were supposed to redistribute income. The result was Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014. When the Russian dictator saw that Europe was still keen to be increasingly impotent, he launched the march on Kyiv… In 2022. That finally woke up sleeping beauty Europe.

    The result has been much less GDP growth in Europe than the USA or China and thus an ever greater dependency on both. Poverty has increased and now even the healthcare systems are becoming too expensive. Meanwhile Europe is desperate for capital and makes it so that plutocrats pay little tax. 

     

    In the last couple of years, Europe has started to understand the importance of GDP better than in the preceding two decades. Reasons? Trump, Biden, Putin. Putin showed raw power worked until it didn’t because Biden pursued Trump’s policy of giving weapons to Ukraine (which Obama did NOT do, to his eternal contrition…) Biden also showed that Trump’s MAGA policy made sense economically and through tariffs…. Obama had started it to some extent, financing Tesla and SpaceX because Musk was photogenic like him?… And launching the “Pivot to Asia”… But with Obama it was mostly words… When Biden extended Trump’s tariff policies against China, the EU partly followed… Hence the overtaking…The UK is not in the graph above, although it should be, and would add roughly 5 trillion dollars to it to the EU yellow line…

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    Patrice Ayme

    #Agency #China #Economy #EU #Finance #GDP #MAGA #MEGA #NATO #politics #Russia #Trump #Ukraine #USA
  2. Judge Dredd Brings the Law to Sneak Energy This May
    WEPAAA! Mega-City One just got a major power-up! Rebellion, the UK’s largest independent creative games studio and the powerhouse behind 2000 AD, is teaming up with Sneak Energy for a bold, brain-boosting, pop-culture-charged partnership worthy of the Law...
    comiccrusaders.com/comic-books
    #2000ad #rebellion sneak energy #judge dredd #energy drink #mega berry

  3. Judge Dredd Brings the Law to Sneak Energy This May
    WEPAAA! Mega-City One just got a major power-up! Rebellion, the UK’s largest independent creative games studio and the powerhouse behind 2000 AD, is teaming up with Sneak Energy for a bold, brain-boosting, pop-culture-charged partnership worthy of the Law...
    comiccrusaders.com/comic-books
    #2000ad #rebellion sneak energy #judge dredd #energy drink #mega berry

  4. Judge Dredd Brings the Law to Sneak Energy This May
    WEPAAA! Mega-City One just got a major power-up! Rebellion, the UK’s largest independent creative games studio and the powerhouse behind 2000 AD, is teaming up with Sneak Energy for a bold, brain-boosting, pop-culture-charged partnership worthy of the Law...
    comiccrusaders.com/comic-books
    #2000ad #rebellion sneak energy #judge dredd #energy drink #mega berry

  5. Judge Dredd Brings the Law to Sneak Energy This May
    WEPAAA! Mega-City One just got a major power-up! Rebellion, the UK’s largest independent creative games studio and the powerhouse behind 2000 AD, is teaming up with Sneak Energy for a bold, brain-boosting, pop-culture-charged partnership worthy of the Law...
    comiccrusaders.com/comic-books
    #2000ad #rebellion sneak energy #judge dredd #energy drink #mega berry

  6. Judge Dredd Brings the Law to Sneak Energy This May
    WEPAAA! Mega-City One just got a major power-up! Rebellion, the UK’s largest independent creative games studio and the powerhouse behind 2000 AD, is teaming up with Sneak Energy for a bold, brain-boosting, pop-culture-charged partnership worthy of the Law...
    comiccrusaders.com/comic-books
    #2000ad #rebellion sneak energy #judge dredd #energy drink #mega berry

  7. 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗲𝗳𝘁 '𝗺𝗲𝗴𝗮 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻' 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗲-𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗻

    Hannah Mae heeft "mega genoten" van haar optreden in het Arnhemse GelreDome. Dat schrijft de 27-jarige zangeres op Instagram. Mae verzorgde het voorprogramma van de uitverkochte concertreeks van Suzan & Freek.

    rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/56021

    #HannahMae #mega #GelreDome

  8. 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗲𝗳𝘁 '𝗺𝗲𝗴𝗮 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻' 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗲-𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗻

    Hannah Mae heeft "mega genoten" van haar optreden in het Arnhemse GelreDome. Dat schrijft de 27-jarige zangeres op Instagram. Mae verzorgde het voorprogramma van de uitverkochte concertreeks van Suzan & Freek.

    rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/56021

    #HannahMae #mega #GelreDome

  9. 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗲𝗳𝘁 '𝗺𝗲𝗴𝗮 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻' 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗲-𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗻

    Hannah Mae heeft "mega genoten" van haar optreden in het Arnhemse GelreDome. Dat schrijft de 27-jarige zangeres op Instagram. Mae verzorgde het voorprogramma van de uitverkochte concertreeks van Suzan & Freek.

    rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/56021

    #HannahMae #mega #GelreDome

  10. 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗲𝗳𝘁 '𝗺𝗲𝗴𝗮 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻' 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗲-𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗻

    Hannah Mae heeft "mega genoten" van haar optreden in het Arnhemse GelreDome. Dat schrijft de 27-jarige zangeres op Instagram. Mae verzorgde het voorprogramma van de uitverkochte concertreeks van Suzan & Freek.

    rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/56021

    #HannahMae #mega #GelreDome

  11. 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗲𝗳𝘁 '𝗺𝗲𝗴𝗮 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻' 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗲-𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗻

    Hannah Mae heeft "mega genoten" van haar optreden in het Arnhemse GelreDome. Dat schrijft de 27-jarige zangeres op Instagram. Mae verzorgde het voorprogramma van de uitverkochte concertreeks van Suzan & Freek.

    rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/56021

    #HannahMae #mega #GelreDome

  12. New connection profiles for additional regions of S4 storage are now available docs.cyberduck.io/protocols/s3

  13. Spricht für den Kleinuser etwas gegen #Mega als Drive-Alternative?

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  14. Spricht für den Kleinuser etwas gegen #Mega als Drive-Alternative?

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  15. Spricht für den Kleinuser etwas gegen #Mega als Drive-Alternative?

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  16. Spricht für den Kleinuser etwas gegen #Mega als Drive-Alternative?

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  17. Spricht für den Kleinuser etwas gegen #Mega als Drive-Alternative?

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  18. #MEGA #MAN ZX semantic-search.aepiot.ro/advanced-sea... Semantic CLUSTERS: The Bridge between Humans and Artificial Intelligence. AÉPIOT: INDEPENDENT SEMANTIC WEB 4.0 INFRASTRUCTURE (EST. 2009): aepiot.com

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  19. #MEGA #MAN ZX semantic-search.aepiot.ro/advanced-sea... Semantic CLUSTERS: The Bridge between Humans and Artificial Intelligence. AÉPIOT: INDEPENDENT SEMANTIC WEB 4.0 INFRASTRUCTURE (EST. 2009): aepiot.com

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  20. #Sojiro #Abra #Loom #potential #doom #mega Don't worry. I don't think he's stepped on any cities yet? At least... none that he can recognize that were cities...

  21. What if paradise is just... a good bridge and a slow afternoon?
    Rockstar Games called it 'Key Lento': literally 'slow is the key'.
    Slow days by the water, pub friending, shared moments with neighbors.
    In Europe we call this Tuesday.
    You spend ... rendering what Europeans walk past every morning without... noticing.

    🇪🇺 europe in Gta 6? leonida keys
    #gaming #gta6 #europe #rockstargames #eu #mega #shorts