ISIS/ISIL has claimed responsibility for attacks in Brussels, Belgium that have taken at least 30 lives and wounded hundreds. One of the attacks, a subway bombing took place near the portion of Brussels that serves as the seat of the European Union's governing institutions. It is likely any last pretense that the dream of Open Europe is on the way out. Back in November ISIS/ISIL militants coordinating with burner cell phones conducted a decentralized attack on the French Capital which left more than a hundred dead. In France the government of their Nth Republic has used the attacks as a pretext for rescinding whatever freedoms had previously been left to citizens by it and its N minus 1 predecessors.
Category Archives: Europe
EU Marching Towards "Helicopter Money" As Other Manipulations Are Exhausted
The European Central Bank, aside from the usual negative interest rates business, is not to be underestimated in the competition to further enshitten fiat bezzle currencies. For several months already, central banks of eurozone countries have been tasked to acquire 60bn euro worth of assets monthly of the variety that includes bonds of state-owned enterprises and provincial authorities. Come April 1, this figure will go up to 80bn, and will include any bonds with investment ratings in an effort to stimulate Europe's economy.
ECB chairman Mario Draghi promised there are plenty of instruments left, even the increasingly likely "helicopter money" which she considers "a very interesting concept". As other options are exhausted it is becoming increasingly likely the European Central Bank will resort to helicopter money for stimulus, a move which will reveal just how little the central bankers actually value their fiat bezzle bucks.
British Pound Falling
Airstrip One's currency the pound, long detached from the sterling that is frequently mentioned in association with it, has fallen ~2% against the embattled United States dollar in today's trading. This would otherwise not be particularly notable as the pound has been falling against the United States dollar in the seven decades following the Bretton Woods accords, but this latest drop comes amid news that London mayor Boris Johnson have moved support the United Kingdom independence movement which advocates Airstrip One divorcing the failing European Union. Like other fiat powers Airstrip One and its entrenched order have been struggling in the face of Bitcoin's proposition of sound money. Airstrip One has also experienced increasing internal tension with northern portions of the archipelago seeking independence from London.
Auschwitz Releases Political Language Software
The Stack reports that Auschwitz, the death camp turned memorial and museum, has released a software application for politically reshaping the use of language (archived). The purported aim of the software is to remove associations between the Polish people and the genocide committed by German National Socialists in death camps erected on Polish lands. It supposedly works to this end by substituting politically approved terms for otherwise descriptive labels like "Polish extermination camp" in documents on machines running the software.
Open Europe Closing
As numerous policies disconnected from reality collide into a clusterfuck of failure, the European Union is exploring an end to passport free travel in the Schengen area (archived).
Austrian Minister Seeks Constitutional Protection For Cash Payments
With many governments and businesses in Europe moving to abandon physical cash in favor of trackable electronic payments, Austrian Deputy Economy Minister Harald Mahrer has called for consitutional protection of the right to transact in cash for privacy reasons (archived). The European Union is currently debating restrictions on banknotes and coins in the name fighting of "terrorism" though central banks noise about negative interest rates suggests that European finance ministers advocating against physical cash may have ulterior motives.
Mercedes Joins German Carmaker Emissions Train
Never content to allow trends to pass it by without a full-throttle attempt at keeping up – be it luxury SUVs, hybrid cars, or überfragmentation of market niches – German firm Daimler AG, which oversees automaker Mercedes-Benz, has just been implicated in its own nitrous oxide (NOx) emissions scandal, following the lead of compatriot Volkswagen and overseas upstart Tesla Motors. Continue reading
Article On Swedish Murder Censored In Sweden
An article in the Daily Mail on the stabbing death of student social worker Alexandra Mezher (archived) has reportedly been censored in Sweden. Users in Sweden are being redirected to a url on the Daily Mail website named /unavailable/index.html which apologizes for being "unable to find" the article. Beyond the circumstances of the murder, the Daily Mail article describes an increase in violence affecting many Swedish population centers which makes Gothenburg increasingly resemble the United States hell hole known as James Lafond Presents Baltimore.
Europol Claims DD4BC Action
Europol is claiming one arrest and several other detentions in relation to the long running DD4BC group (archived). DD4BC began their career by utilizing denial of service extortion attacks against various Bitcoin properties before moving on to extort various fiat interests in the last year.
"World Terror Day" Does Not Happen as "Anonymous" Predicts, Mass Shooting Occurs Anyways
Mainstream news reporting suggests that "World Terror Day" events as predicted by "Anonymous" to happen on November 22nd did not come to pass. Brussels, Belgium however remains locked down due to government claims of an imminent threat. There was further a mass shooting at the playground "Bunny Friend Park" in New Orleans, Louisiana with at least 17 victims wounded (archived). No suspect in the Bunny Friend Park mass shooting has yet been named, and no motive for the shooting has been supposed by the local authorities at this time.