@EdwardGLuce @anneapplebaum @katie_martin_fx 1).
„On Monday, the market reaction to @realDonaldTrump's latest assault on the global order has been extremely telling. The rules of the road up to now have been pretty simple:
@EdwardGLuce @anneapplebaum @katie_martin_fx @realDonaldTrump 2).
geopolitical shocks push up the dollar and US government bonds because they are the safest, most reliable, most easily tradeable bits of the global financial system. They are very useful shock absorbers when bad stuff happens, even when it is born in the US.
@EdwardGLuce @anneapplebaum @katie_martin_fx @realDonaldTrump 3).
That role has been creaking for a little while. But now, the wobble is plain for all to see. Bad stuff is very clearly happening with regards to Greenland. The dollar and Treasuries, however, are weakening.
@EdwardGLuce @anneapplebaum @katie_martin_fx @realDonaldTrump 4).
Not dramatically — although it is notable that benchmark 10-year US government bond prices are now at their weakest since September — but clearly. German Bunds and UK gilts, meanwhile, are doing just fine.”
@rzep8 @coolfonpl @PolskaPolicja 1).
„»Les qualités de tribun de Léon Degrelle (1906–1994) et son dynamisme juvénile, combinés à la dénonciation dʼune classe dirigeante impopulaire, parviennent à fédérer un grand nombre de mécontents dans cette atmosphère troublée de la Belgique des années 1930«.
[...]
@rzep8 @coolfonpl @PolskaPolicja 2).
Le 25 juill. 1943, [Degrelle] provoque un grave incident, lors de la messe dominicale en lʼéglise Saint-Charles de Bouillon, lorsque la communion lui est refusée alors quʼil porte lʼuniforme allemand.
@rzep8 @coolfonpl @PolskaPolicja 3).
Degrelle et quelques rexistes séquestrent le doyen, lʼabbé Michel Poncelet [1] [2], pendant plusieurs heures dans la cave à vin de la maison familiale et lʼecclésiastique est finalement libéré par les Allemands.
2).
was reported missing from her home in Catalina Foothills, Ariz., U.S. Evidence recovered at the residence indicated that she had been taken against her will, and the Pima County sheriff stated that he believed she had been abducted [2].”
1).
Krzysztof Galos (c. 1968 – c. 2023), a man tortured to death by Russians in a prison in Taganrog [1] [2] [3], Rostov Oblast, simply for being Polish [4] [5] [6].
2).
N.B., one of the people imprisoned and tortured in SIZO-2 in Taganrog [1] [2] [3] was, i.a., Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Volodymyrivna Roshchyna (1996–2024) [6] [7] [8].
1).
„Edward Jacob »Jake« Lang, a far-right influencer and candidate in the 2026 U.S. Senate special election in Fla., was arrested [on Feb. 5, 2026] after recording himself vandalizing an anti-U.S.1 Immigration and Customs Enforcement sculpture at the Minn.
@donie @RonFilipkowski 2).
State Capitol. Lang was arrested on the same day and jailed on suspicion of criminal damage to property, a felony [1]. The ice sculpture had been commissioned and installed by the veterans organization Common Defense, whose communications director, Jacob Thomas, stated:
@donie @RonFilipkowski 3).
– »I gave eight years of my life in service to this country in the military. For an insurrectionist to destroy our display is an attack on the First Amendment veterans like me fought to defend« [2] [3].
@Cogito1918 @Niunieczka1 @ipngovpl 2).
◆︎ „Enttäuschte Erwartungen. Die strafrechtliche Aufarbeitung kommunistischer Diktatur in Polen” (2017) [1] von Prof. Joachim von Puttkamer [2] aus @UniJena
@Cogito1918 @Niunieczka1 @ipngovpl @UniJena 3).
◆︎ Offener Brief von Michał Bartoszcze vom 9. Mai 1984 bezüglich des Todes seines Sohnes an den kommunistischer Diktator der VR Polen, Wojciech Jaruzelski, veröffentlicht in „Tygodnik Mazowsze“, Nr. 89 vom 24. Mai 1984
@michaeldweiss 1).
„In 2020, Washington sent two officials, Roger Carstens and Kash Patel, to Lebanon to locate Austin Tice [1] [2], an American journalist who had disappeared in Syria in 2012 and was thought to be in the hands of the Assad regime.”
Feb. 6, 2026
@michaeldweiss 2).
Endnotes:
[1] „In June 2025, Syrian intelligence files uncovered by the BBC and confirmation from former Syrian officials confirmed that Austin Tice had been held by the Assad regime (a).
@michaeldweiss 3).
The BBC found that the @FBI and @CIA had interviewed Major General Bassam al-Hassan, a former Assad regime official who is accused of being responsible for holding Tice captive, multiple times earlier in the year.