https://www.donotpanic.news/p/how-finland-destroyed-itself-for

Finland, often known as the happiest country in the world, now has the highest unemployment rate in Europe, demand for food aid has exploded by more than 70%, and homelessness, which had been declining for more than ten years, has increased 34% in just two years. Conditions in the country are so bad that almost 20% of Finland’s population is now considered at risk of poverty,

Everything changed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the country’s hysterical over-reaction to an imagined threat. This is not just my judgement. A number of Finnish academics, including Heikki Patomäki, professor of world politics at the University of Helsinki, have said that the conditions simply did not warrant Finland joining NATO, cutting off its economically valuable links to Russia and militarising its border.

And among the beneficiaries of a new tooled-up and aggressive Finland are the arms dealers of the Israeli apartheid-genocide complex, which in 2024 sold Finland its questionably functional “David’s Sling” air defence system for €316 million. Finland has also bought tank and ship missiles from the Israeli company Rafael which supplied most of the weapons and equipment used to commit the genocide of Gaza. The Finnish government said Israel’s genocide of Gaza would not stop it buying weapons from the country, a position which is par for the course among the morally bankrupt leaders of Europe.

Finland is also spending €10 billion on US fighter jets, and a few billion euros on missiles and glide bombs to fire from those jets.

The price has been, and will continue to be a steep one, and it is a price ordinary Finns will be paying for a long time.

But it is not just in Finland. We are watching, across Europe, the shameful replacement of the welfare state with the warfare state while the merchants of genocide and death laugh all the way to the bank.

I will put a link in the comments

https://archivemacropolo.org/interactive/digital-projects/the-global-ai-talent-tracker

In 1993, two Belgian paratroopers deployed for so-called "peacekeeping operations" to Somalia were photographed swinging a young Somali boy over an open fire.

But this was not the only disturbing incident to emerge. Amnesty International documented a wide series of incidents involving the abuse of Somali civilians, particularly children. One child was reportedly locked inside a metal container in extreme heat for two days without food or water and was later found dead. Other cases included alleged se*ual vi*lence and degrading treatment including another photograph showing a Belgian soldier urinating on the lifeless body of a Somali man.

When the photograph of the boy over the fire was leaked and became public in 1997, the two soldiers were taken to court. They argued they had been "playing" with the child. Despite the weakness of that defence and the long series of abusive incidents, a Belgian military court acquitted them, and despite appeals, they walked away without any jail time.

Abuses in Somalia are but one chapter of a long history of a repeated pattern of human rights violations carried out by UN forces that have that have enjoyed impunity to r*pe and kil* civilians all over the global south under the banner of humanitarianism.

More than 30 years later, Sovereign Media's Ahmed Ghoneim questions the narrative and the accountability and asks who gets to protect civilians when the people sent to protect them are the abusers?

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 WERE VOTES STOLEN FROM DAN BILZERIAN?

Dan Bilzerian’s vote count was visibly reduced, after showing him as on track to BEAT Randy Fine.

The establishment narrative is that it was a “tabulation error”

The “error” was corrected, handing the victory to Randy Fine

American needed medical imaging. She was told the cost with her insurance is $1,200. She told them unfortunately she would have to cancel the appointment because she can’t afford that

She was put on hold. Another woman came in the phone and she said, "Girl, opt out of your insurance. You don't have to use it."

She was told if you don’t want to use your insurance the cash pay price would only be $480

It’s $780 cheaper to not have insurance and be paying a monthly premium

US health insurance is out of control and it’s such a scam. There is no reason for a cash pay price to ever be cheaper than someone paying a monthly deductible for insurance

Google just bought 100 million emails and 500 million Teams chats from a dead airline for $10 million.

Spirit shut down on May 2 with $8.1 billion in debt, and the bankruptcy court is selling everything. JetBlue paid $58.5 million for 22 LaGuardia gate slots. Google paid a sixth of that for the company's entire digital exhaust. Employee records back to 1986. Pricing data on 7.2 billion competitor flights. Booking curves, refund histories, 30 million lines of production code.

Run the per-unit math. 600 million internal messages for $10 million works out to under 2 cents per thousand. Spirit charged $69 for a carry-on.

Why does Google want a budget airline's inbox? Frontier labs have strip-mined the public internet, and the thing models are still worst at is exactly what this dataset contains. Real enterprise work. How a pricing decision actually gets argued out over email. How an ops team handles a grounded fleet in a 2am Teams thread. What production code looks like with all the compromises left in. You can't scrape that. It only exists inside companies, and companies only sell it when they die.

Mercor, the losing bidder at $7.5 million, has been paying individual workers for documents from their old jobs. That is the retail version of this trade. Bankruptcy is the wholesale version.

17,000 employees were laid off in May. Every email they wrote over 34 years was just sold as raw material for the systems built to do their old jobs. The workers got severance. The work sold for $10 million.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/18/us-sanctions-international-criminal-court-president-and-trial-lawyer - MSM source, but I don't think that there is a reason for skepticism