Thomas
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Thomas
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Actief in Sales & Marketing. Fan van Standard Luik en brouwt af en toe een 🍺 op blommecaes.be
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*US SEIZES OIL TANKER OFF THE COAST OF VENEZUELA
December 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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One of my fave niche history facts is how many loaded pistols your average highwayman had during a hold up.

We're talking four minimum on his saddle, then at least two in his belt. Ideally three or four.

Because fuck trying to reload a 17th century pistol on horseback that's why.
December 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Americans will demand that Europe does more to rearm and then complain when Europeans ignore an America they no longer need.
It ain't just Trump, folks. NYT says it's time to pony up, U.S. allies: "A more secure world will almost certainly require more military commitment from allies like Canada, Japan, and Europe, which have long relied on American taxpayers to bankroll their protection." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Overmatched: Why the U.S. Military Must Reinvent Itself
Investing in the old ways of war leaves America at risk.
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Hoe zwakker Trump staat in eigen land, hoe harder hij een akkoord nodig heeft tussen de Russen en Oekraïne. De enige met een zwakke positie in dit hele verhaal is hijzelf
December 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Emmanuel Macron: "Today, we are caught between the US and China and it is a matter of life or death for the European industry. We have become the adjustment market and this is the worst-case scenario."

He is absolutely right.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
France's Macron threatens China with tariffs over trade surplus - Les Echos
French President Emmanuel Macron said he had threatened Beijing with tariffs during his state visit to China if there was no action taken to reduce the country's ever-widening trade deficit with the E...
www.reuters.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 AM
De komende president verkiezingen in Frankrijk worden heel belangrijk. De facto wil nu elke grootmacht buiten de EU dat het FN het haalt. Maar met welk verhaal gaat Macron de Fransen overtuigen?
Oh to be a fly– or another kind of bug – on the wall of the emergency Starmer, Zelensky, Merz and Macron meeting in London tomorrow. European leaders have been obsequious about Trump’s zigzags in public; but much more honest in private if last week’s leak to Der Spiegel can be believed. 1/
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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For all the short term focus on frozen Russian funds and medium term rush to rearm Europe there is not enough focus on how European strategic self-reliance can only be sustained in the long term through the routine issuing of collective Eurobonds by the EU to finance it.
December 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Als de Democraten terug aan zet komen, gaan ze allemaal de bak in.
I mean, this is an execution
December 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Holy moly, do people still think the U.S. is an ally of Europe? It is now an officially stated foreign policy goal to undermine the EU and centrist European governments that don't ideologically align with MAGA.
Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇
December 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Dit ziet er niet bijster goed uit voor ChatGPT. Gemini wint sterk, en vermoedelijk onderschatting owv vele integraties (dit is enkel VS)
December 4, 2025 at 6:29 AM
K3 staat blijkbaar niet in mijn Spotify Top 4. Fake News dus heel dat wrapped-verhaal
December 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
December 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Ik had dat interview met GLB beter niet gelezen. Wat een onuitstaanbaar ventje is dat toch.
November 29, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Oef, nog eens 3 puntjes erbij op verplaatsing. Al was het voetbal zelf niet echt wervelend.
November 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
November 27, 2025 at 7:07 AM
No Doubt 🤣
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November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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REPORTER: What kind of concessions is Hitler and the Germans going to have to make?

CHAMBERLAIN: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land.
REPORTER: What kind of concessions are the Russians going to have to make?

TRUMP: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Al bij al een vrij evenwichtig akkoord. Het gaat pijn doen en het is een belastingverhoging, maar dat had iedereen wel verwacht toch? De inkomsten zitten gewestelijk, federaal kan je bijna alleen met belastingen goochelen.
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Centenindex is echt een heel slechte naam. Kunnen we dat niet een index-plafond noemen?
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Is er al ergens een tabelletje van het begrotingsakkoord? Zonder echte btw hervorming, zie ik niet direct hoe je aan 9mia sanering komt.
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Absoluut niet radio vriendelijk, maar wat een band blijft dit toch! youtu.be/wy4IsC5eb7o?...
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A# ∞ (Full Album) [1080p]
YouTube video by Risenz
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Er staat blijkbaar zoveel vuiligheid in het Epstein dossier dat Trump er doodsbang voor is. Reken er maar op dat ook de Russen dat materiaal (of/en erger) ook in handen hebben.
Reuters has confirmed that President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his special envoy Steve Witkoff held a private meeting in Miami with a sanctioned Kremlin proxy to help shape the new "peace plan" for Ukraine. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Dit gaat de dood worden van hun platform. Iets wat Google beter lijkt begrepen te hebben. Er is zeker bij grote adverteerders een shift gaande richting kanalen die wel betrouwbaar en kwalitatief zijn
"Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10 per cent of its overall annual revenue — or $16bn — from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show" - Reuters www.ft.com/content/4560...
We have to be able to hold tech platforms accountable for fraud
Algorithms ensure that people who click on scams are likely to see more of them
www.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Ik zie dat Francken weer een kans gemist heeft om te zwijgen 🙈
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM