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VIDEO EXCERPTS: In my country, the fuel is becoming more expensive, whether it's diesel or premium gasoline. The prices are rising by an average 12 cents per liter. Then also, Russia has a huge problem. Apparently, the market is flooded with very cheap fuel.

Now, this cheap fuel is not good for the longevity of engines. Pretty soon this will be a huge problem. Anybody in Russia currently hoping for a full tank will have to be patient in large parts of the country. Ukraine has been very effective at damaging and targeting Putin's energy infrastructure for weeks. So that now public access to gasoline has been severely restricted.

Also, in parts of Austria, we have waves of bankruptcies. Smaller and middle-sized companies are going bankrupt.

[...] China is threatened with a relapse into deflation. So apparently Chinese manufacturers cannot escape the downward spiral when it comes to the price. This is likely to impact national growth figures.

[...] the EU has passed Chat Control 1.0. So we are one step closer to surveilling the population again. Also, Google is building data centers in Europe. They've chosen Austria to do this. Then there's one in Zurich. And there are also data centers in Dublin and London.

But here in Austria, they are planning a billion euro project just beside a river. So, a lot of water from this river is going to go into the data center. They need a lot of electricity, and also they need a lot of water to cool it down. Some people are saying that these data centers will be used for surveillance. ... It's going to take a lot of resources to surveil every person and every phone on this planet because we are so many people.

Volkswagen is reacting to difficult market conditions and is discontinuing half of its models. Shops and factories are affected. Sometimes I wonder how politicians can be so stupid and let big car companies suffer this much. They are putting CO2 taxes on cars, but also they are putting mandates to produce electric cars on the manufacturers. So now the manufacturers are losing factories; they're losing workers. In effect, they are going to pay much less in taxes. So the government is going to get hurt. This makes no sense to me.

Okay. Next, we are getting more fines and higher fines in Austria...

The end of the middle class ... https://youtu.be/YIVVeUmZV7s