“Europe’s commercial property sector has been hammered in recent years by a punishing rise in debt costs and tumbling prices, exacerbated by some offices and high streets emptying after the pandemic (…) The MSCI data showed the number of property deals worth more than 5 million euros ($5.4 million) terminated and for-sale properties withdrawn from the market in the quarter spiked to 110, the highest since 2010 when the sector was still gripped by the fallout from the global financial crisis. The total value of European commercial property sales also slumped by 26% in the first quarter compared to the prior year, to 34.5 billion euros, the lowest since 2011 and the seventh straight quarter of annual declines.” Reuters, investing.com, Pulled real estate deals highest in Europe since global financial crisis, says MSCI, 25.4.2024
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Ein Satiriker über Gaza, Covid und die deutsche Hate Speech-Polizei
“Thank God for the German Hate Police! Or heil … or whatever the appropriate salutation is for these unsung heroes. They just saved us all from ‘hate’ again! Yes, that’s right, once again, democracy-loving people here in New Normal Berlin and all across the New Normal world were right on the brink of being exposed to ‘hate’, and would have been exposed to ‘hate’,had the Hate Police not sprang (!) into action.” CJ Hopkins, The Palestine Congress, 14.4.2024
Alasdair & die Zinsen – Zitat
“Interest rates, bond yields in particular, will rise and this is something which nobody at the moment is really expecting. Well there are a few who begin to see it, but, you know, the majority of investment managers assume that the Fed is going to push interest rates lower. Their assumption is, the Fed is actually in control of interest rates … um … I hate to dispute the fact, but they’re not.” Governments Sleepwalking into Debt Trap with Alasdair Macleod, WTFinance (YT), 5.4.2024
D: “Hochskalierter” Gesundheits-Notstand – Zitat des Tages
“Das Fazit aus all dem: Die Behauptung, das RKI habe die Hochstufung – und damit die Grundlage für Lockdown und Ausnahmezustand – auf Basis wissenschaftlicher Beratungen getroffen, ist nicht länger haltbar. Die Hochstufung erfolgte abrupt, ohne dokumentierten Diskussions- und Beratungsprozess, auf Anweisung eines ungenannten Akteurs.” Paul Schreyer, „Es soll hochskaliert werden“, multipolar, 18.3.2024 [Read more...]
Tverberg zu CO2-Märchen und Energiemangel – Zitat d. Tages
“The real story is that fossil fuels are moving away from us. Somehow, we must adapt, very quickly, to this disastrous situation (…) It should be noted that this ‘we-can-move-from-fuels narrative’ has been spearheaded by the International Energy Association (IEA), which is an arm of the OECD. (I mentioned earlier that I have equated OECD with Advanced Economies). Countries included in ‘Other than Advanced Economies’, at best, claim lip service to limiting carbon emissions. Their primary interest is in raising the living standards of their populations. To a significant extent, the fossil fuels that Advanced Economies decide not to use can be used by Other than Advanced Economies.” Gail Tverberg, Advanced Economies Will Be Especially Hurt by Energy Limits, Our Finite World, 17.3.2024
Eine solarphysikalische Kritik des CO2-Warmismus – Zitat des Tages
“Only the sun is having a little motion around this body centre (…) We calculated all solar irradiance for every (characteristic) year for this period (600 AD to 2600 AD) and we (have) shown, that this solar irradiance (…) was reduced in the previous millenium, but in this millennium (up to 2600) it is (will be) increased by about 20 – 25 watts per square meter (in both hemispheres). This is why we have this heating right now and this heating will continue until 2600 – whatever you do here (on earth) (…) We published a paper in october 2023 (where we have shown), that this increase of solar irradiance gives exactly (the) increase of the temperature (that) Mr. Mann has shown – it is a hockeystick. This is caused by this increase of radiation because the sun move(s) closer to the earth during the spring equinox (…)” Professor Valentina Zharkova – The Modern Grand Solar Minimum – What’s In Store, 29.2.2024 (via YT)
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Grünes Licht für die Gemeinschaft der Scheinheiligen? Zitat des Tages
“The arguments used in the indictments against Assange could establish a legal pathway for the prosecution of journalists and severely weaken the First Amendment (in the USA), which guarantees freedom of the press. Journalists’ right to report on matters of public interest without fear of censorship or retribution could be harmed.” Committee to protect Journalists, Why extradition of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange to US would be cataclysmic for press freedom, 29.2.2024 [Read more...]
Selenskyj dankt mit Schwarzer Liste italienischer Putin-Freunde – Zitat
“Premierministerin Giorgia Meloni unterstützt die Ukraine zweifellos, ich habe sie gerade in ihrer Eigenschaft als G7-Präsidentin getroffen und wir haben auch das bilaterale Kooperationsabkommen unterzeichnet. Wir sind ihr unendlich dankbar. Wir wissen jedoch, dass es in Italien und auch in Europa viele Pro-Putinisten gibt. Wir bereiten eine Liste von ihnen vor, nicht nur in Bezug auf Italien, die wir der Europäischen Kommission vorlegen werden. Wird es Ihnen gelingen, sie zum Schweigen zu bringen?” Wolodymyr Selenskyj in Corriere della Sera, 25.2.2024 (Übersetzung u.a. mit Deepl) [Read more...]
Nicht nur Europa & China: Auch US-Immos im Teufelskreis – Zitat
“Record-high office vacancy rates are threatening to send major cities into an ‘urban doom loop’, where falling property values shrink a city’s tax base, cutting off funding for essential public services that only drag property valued down further. Columbia Business School professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, who’s been dubbed the ‘prophet of urban doom’ for his research on the topic, told Fortune that we’re close to the ‘event horizon’ of that vicious public-finance circle.” Fortune, Dylan Sloan, CRE vet who advised on $8 billion of deals says 30% of office buildings are ‘basically worth nothing’ and ‘just have to be torn down’, 25.2.2024
Über die Ränke der Bargeld-Abschaffer – Zitat des Tages
“Jeder noch so kleine Schritt auf dem Weg zu den geplanten Bezahlkarten für Asylbewerber wird mit einer großen Medienkampagne begleitet, die vor allem der staatsnahe öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk mit Eifer betreibt (…) Die Bezahlkarten sollen angeblich die Zuwanderung von Asylbewerbern weniger attraktiv machen, indem diesen weniger frei verwendbares Bargeld ausgehändigt wird. Selbst die von ARD und ZDF befragten Experten sind sich einig, dass das eine vernachlässigbare Wirkung zeitigen wird. Um so schöner fügt sich diese Maßnahme in die vielfältigen Bestrebungen ein, eine ‘Welt ohne Bargeld’ zu schaffen, in der fast jede Handlung der Bürger eine aufgezeichnete, kontrollierbare Spur hinterlässt und der Staat zielkonformes Verhalten der Bürger automatisiert belohnen und nicht-zielkonformes bestrafen kann.” Norbert Häring, Bezahlkarten für Asylbewerber: Migrationspolitische Symbolpolitik als Einstieg in die totale Kontrolle, 2.2.2024
Corona: ‘Schwerer Vertrauensbruch der dt. Ampel-Regierung’ – Zitat
“Ein Viertel der Bevölkerung hat im Winter 2021/ 2022 einen schweren Vertrauensbruch in Ihre Politik erleiden müssen. Ein Viertel der Bevölkerung hat mitansehen müssen, wie Grundrechte via Willkürfaktoren wie „R-Wert“ und später „Inzidenzwert“ eingeschränkt wurden (…) Die aktuellen Umfrageergebnisse der AfD sollten Sie daher nicht verwundern. Die Gründe dafür sind sicher vielfältig, aber der Ursprung der Vertrauenskrise im Hinblick auf Ihre aktuelle Politik liegt im Winter 2021/ 2022, und dem deutschen COVID-Maßnahmenregime.” Aya Velázquez, Offener Brief an die Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestags, die sich für eine allgemeine Impfpflicht ausgesprochen und/ oder im April 2022 dafür abgestimmt haben, X, 1.2.2024 [Read more...]
Offiziös, grün & übergeschnappt: E-Autos starten Sturzflug, Zitat
“Wednesday’s sales slowdown warning also came amid wider signs of weakness in the EV market, after several years of robust growth. In the UK, sales of electric vehicles rose last year, but failed to make inroads against traditional cars as a portion of overall sales. In China, the biggest market for such cars, manufacturers have slashed prices as the economy slows, while in Europe, sales of battery electric cars shrank sharply last month, falling nearly 17% compared with December 2022, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association. In the US, major car companies, including Ford and General Motors, have said they are scaling back production of electric vehicles.” bbc.com, Tesla warns of ‘notably lower’ sales growth in 2024, 25.1.2024 [Read more...]
Herzl ü. ‘diskreten Bevölkerungs-Transfer’ in Palästina, Zitat d. Tages
“When we occupy the land, we shall bring immediate benefits to the state that receives us. We must expropriate gently the private property on the estates assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country. The property-owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly. Let the owners of immovable property believe that they are cheating us, selling us things for more than they are worth. But we are not going to sell them anything back.” Theodor Herzl, Diaries, 12.6.1895
“Impfung”: Schutzmacht ohne ‘Free Speech-Dogmen’ gesucht – Zitat
“Pfizer thus not only claims to work in tandem with the State, but it asserts a sovereign power unshackled from the restraints of constitutional law. The First Amendment allows its executives to usurp citizens’ freedom of speech but prevents prosecution of the company’s lies, according to this theory.” Brownstone Institute, The First Amendment, Brought to You By Pfizer, 9.11.2024