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2025

The Web — Part 14: Germany — The Web Comes Home

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← Part 13: The Files That Are Missing The Web does not end in New York. It runs all the way to Berlin. WEF Young Global Leaders: Merkel, Scholz, Baerbock, Habeck, Spahn, Laschet, Söder, Steinmeier, Maischberger, Kleber, Cardinal Marx — Germany’s entire ruling class of the past 20 years selected by the same private network of Klaus Schwab. No electoral mandate.

2024

All Style, No Substance: Why 99% of AI Applications Don't Deliver Real Intelligence

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Since the hype around ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and others, artificial intelligence has become a household term. Marketing materials promise assistants that understand, learn, argue, write, and analyze. Startups label every other website as “AI-powered.” Billions of dollars change hands. Entire industries are built around the illusion.

Pfizergate: Von der Leyen's SMS Affair and the EU Transparency Crisis

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Von der Leyen’s SMS Affair: Facts and Consequences # Introduction # The controversy surrounding SMS communication between EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has raised fundamental questions about transparency in European institutions. In spring 2021, when the EU Commission concluded a contract for 1.8 billion vaccine doses with Pfizer, the New York Times reported on personal text messages between the two. What followed was an institutional failure in documentation and transparency.