Bill Bonner: Ike was right!
"There were two big temptations to the American Republic of the 1950s; subsequent generations gave in to both of them."
Internet luminaries urge EU to kill off automated copyright filter proposal
"A large group of Internet pioneers have sent an open letter to the European Union urging it to scrap a proposal to introduce automated upload filters, arguing that it could damage the internet as we know it."
French President Macron’s vision of post-Brexit Europe: armies, police and taxes
"French President Emmanuel Macron called for a common European defence force and budget, as well as common asylum offices, border police, financial transaction tax and carbon tax, in a wide-ranging speech setting out his vision for Europe."
The EU’s Copyright Proposal is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, Especially Wikipedia
"Sites will have to pay to license the technology to match submissions to the database, and to identify near matches as well as exact ones. Sites will be required to have a process to allow rightsholders to update this list with more copyrighted works. Even under the best of circumstances, this presents huge problems."
European Plastic Straw Ban Won’t Save the Oceans
"Instead of shaming disabled consumers who rely on straws, let's hold producers of plastic financially responsible for their waste."
Turkish Fighter Jets Repeatedly Violate Greek Airspace As Lira Free-Falls
"While Turkish President Erdogan was busy talking up his currency and begging his people not to sell Lira for dollars, his air force was once again running interference with Greece."
Italy Coalition Plans To Deport 500,000 Migrants As Bond Carnage Returns
"On the 18th of May, the Five Star-Movement and the League struck a deal to form a populist government. One of their government’s pledges is to deport half-a-million migrants."
State Dept cites D-Day as example of ‘strong relationship’ with Germany
"Seeking to soothe feathers ruffled by comments from the US ambassador to Berlin, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert only made it worse by citing the Allied landings in Normandy as an example of US ties with Germany."
German prosecutors rummage through nursing homes in search of ex-Nazis
"The latest investigation centers on 95-year-old Wilhelm Karl Friedrich Hoffmeister, a former SS Rottenfuehrer — roughly equivalent to corporal — suspected of serving with one of the death squads in Ukraine."