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Last Sunday, while everyone was talking about the German election, Berlin was voting in a referendum on a contentious issue. In that referendum the city attempted to solve their housing crisis by nationalising property; seizing home from large landlords. So in this video we’ll explain how Berlin got to this point and if the plan will ever become a reality.
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In this video, we’ll discuss the EU’s new plan to quietly tax US Big Tech – and whether it could work.
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The EU’s plan to capture US Big Tech revenue
https://www.ft.com/content/ad06ed89-f600-4694-8c95-7d53b6d3315b?syn-25a6b1a6=1
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/brussels-looks-capture-big-tech-through-tax-large-corporations-ft-reports-2026-10-07/
EU rejects France’s calls for an EU-wide digital services tax
https://www.ft.com/content/e5a76494-71df-4ee0-a85f-b28f2c94ded6?syn-25a6b1a6=1
https://www.vatcalc.com/global/eu-holds-back-on-digital-services-tax-as-us-raises-retaliation-threat/
EU’s proposed CORE mechanism
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2025/08/28/the-commissions-foray-into-corporate-taxation-a-core-problem-for-the-eu-budget/
https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/eu-budget/long-term-eu-budget/eu-budget-2028-2034_en#driving-prosperity-via-competitiveness-research-and-innovation
US exempted from Pillar 2 of OECD’s global minimum corporate tax agreement
https://youtu.be/85voZ2FJhZk?si=6jVOHTB5CBTKvigd
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/06/us-exemption-oecd-global-tax-deal-multinational-companies
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/08/oecd-deal-imposes-global-minimum-corporate-tax-of-15
G7 statement on global minimum tax
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/06/g7-statement-on-global-minimum-taxes.html
https://www.ey.com/en_gl/technical/tax-alerts/canada-g7-releases-statement-on-global-minimum-tax-pillar-two-and-canada-rescinds-digital-services-tax
European Digital Services Taxes (DSTs)
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/eu/digital-services-taxes-europe/
https://taxfoundation.org/testimony/pillar-one-digital-services-taxes/
https://www.reuters.com/en/germany-seeks-levy-10-tax-online-platforms-like-google-2025-05-29/
Accusations of tax avoidance by Silicon Valley tech companies
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/15/silicon-six-accused-of-avoiding-almost-278bn-in-us-corporation-taxes-over-10-years
https://itep.org/trump-meta-tesla-alphabet-amazon-obbba-taxes/
https://itep.org/amazon-alphabet-meta-tesla-pro-trump-tech-companies-avoided-taxes/
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In this video, we’re going to explain why the Trump-Putin diesel deal is probably illegal; whether it’ll get struck down; and why – either way – it’s a pretty rubbish deal anyway, even from Trump’s perspective.
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Diesel prices/components
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/us-diesel-sales-price-$-per-gallon-w-na-fed-data.html
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/brent-crude-oil
https://www.ft.com/content/f117f347-e1e0-457c-83fc-ba4745581bb2?syn-25a6b1a6=1
Fuel vs Dem congressional ballot
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/09/17/high-petrol-prices-could-hand-democrats-a-mighty-midterm-victory
Trump Truth Social posts
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117412435306815143
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117422699218841250
Zelenskyy comments
https://www.axios.com/2026/10/09/exclusive-zelensky-putin-trump-diesel-deal
https://thehill.com/policy/international/6141601-russia-strikes-ukraine-power-plant/
Laws
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6140830-fitzpatrick-bill-block-russian-oil/
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6968
https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-information/countering-americas-adversaries-through-sanctions-act-related-sanctions
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5025
Reports that Russia lacks refining capacity
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/10/why-is-us-turning-to-russia-for-diesel-despite-sanctions
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Last month, Ursula von der Leyen announced the formation of a European Security Council that would help to coordinate a response and strategy against hybrid attacks. In this video, we’re taking a look at how this could look like and the hurdles standing in the way.
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https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/ov/SPEECH_26_1868
https://sieps.se/en/publications/2026/forging-european-strategic-unity-the-case-for-a-european-security-council/
https://www.martenscentre.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/european-security-council-blueprint.pdf
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-greenland-crisis-revives-calls-for-european-security-council/
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2020/07/future-e3/origins-and-development-e3
https://www.nato.int/en/what-we-do/introduction-to-nato/the-consultation-process-and-article-4
https://www.iss.europa.eu/publications/commentary/european-security-council-between-strategic-need-and-institutional
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2024/757822/EPRS_BRI(2024)757822_EN.pdf
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@braaitongs
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
Well Zimbabwe also had expropriation and see where that got them.
You need treat the source of the issue. One reason was the ultra low interest rates for a long time. People bought houses they could not afford at common sense interest rates… which pushed up the prices further. What else is wrong?
@thestonedabbot9551
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
By now we need to do a lot more than seize houses
@hendrx
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
You will own nothing and you will be happy
@jamesthomas7928
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
Berlin';s ladnlords are on a hammering to nothing as there are so few of them and so many who want what they've got. If this goes ahead, compensation must also allow for future lost rents so the way forward is to build more residential properties and not sell them to investors…good luck with that. It would help if Mama Merkel hadn't opened the doors to the rest of the world and millions arrived wanting free stuff
@davidashley4386
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
It’s illegal
@thefirehawk1495
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
Peoples stupidity never cease to amaze ne. Instead of forcing the government to solve the problem they created they limit their own rights. Idiots.
@Judge_Magister
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
Legalized plunder.
@sobeit1927
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
Whoever takes the houses , don’t they become the landlords ?
@eastbow6053
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
you know what annoys me with this shit… i understand taking homes that the owners have abandoned or their 5th house
but motherf…ers you are not doing this on the politicians or celebrities only to the little people
@GO2CUT
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
That referendum creates ZERO new property and apartments. So it's just a money laundry thing …
@andreinicu6429
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
It should be made into a binding law or should absolutely lead to binding measures!
It is not right to not be able to afford to live in a place because of high prices for homes!
@Bob-cd5pp
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
Germany has always had it's problems.
@eldonhoward7925
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
It sets a very dangerous precedent to simply seize property! No free nation should even consider doing that! There has to be a better solution!
@geroutathat
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
Land ownership was a pyramid scheme for Royal families. They granted the land to their lords, their lords collected rent. What happened before then? there was no land ownership. When we take away the royal family land ownership no longer makes sense, we are just paying the people who happened to be last in power huge amounts of money just for being lucky. We also never really own the land as we simply get land rights like the right to live in a 3 bedroom house on the land. Try mine for gold and build a shopping mall and see how much yu really own it. So I think germany is right to start doing this, as at this moment, the hedge funds are replacing the lords, the kings, the queens, and they are relentless. It doesnt matter how bad a royal family was in the past they never pushed rent up this high.
@patriciahollinrake9717
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
Expropriation would be theft. Also Government price caps nearly always result in a reduction in supply of whatever commodity.
@tomchristian9932
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
Leave Germany…
@tomchristian9932
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
This is communism….. fight to the death… you will not steal my property!
@maskmanfive3774
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
They can take a page from Russia and China and Turkey …. We just line anyone against the law against a wall.
@josephstanzak2513
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
Hell no , you need more affordable housing with government help
@The1KovacsAttila1
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
Wow, this creates a dangerous precedent! Exactly the same happened in the communist countries like the Soviet Union or Romania!
I am no capitalist, but this step, no matter how noble the intentions are, will be very damaging on the long run! National Socialist treats!
@leonelduarte1822
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
Ohhh, nothing like a socialist utopia…. what can go wrong?! oh wait…..
@nevillekinsley5610
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
I don't understand the logic. Who pays for the compensation? Does the current tennant have to move out? Does the current tennant who obviously can afford the existing rent suddenly get free or cheaper rent? No additional accomodation is created (which is usually the real reason for expensive rents (supply,demand)) and surely instantly making the surrounding non nationalised property more desirable and expensive, driving rents up further?
@PB111627
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
John Locke, has always been concerned with the survival of
private property. Locke's Second Treatise of Government published in 1690 is a landmark text for this line of thinking.
According to Locke, the only way for humans to thrive and prosper was via private property ownership.
Private property, he said, was what separated civilised men from their primitive ancestors still living in a state of nature. Governments emerged as a way to protect property and to prevent a return to that violent state of nature. The role of governments was of necessity limited and shallow; the government should protect property (and property owners' interests) and little else.
@arnoutbolman5070
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
The WORST and MOST un realiable counterparty is, was and will always be; gouvernments…
They will use the rent discount to force renters in all kind of green scams. Heat pumps, solar panels, wind mills in evry appartment. Forced allocation of homes to fortune seekers, awarding them for not developing themselves…
@snapon666
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
Yeah because state/city run apts have worked out so well in hundreds of other cities ….NOT …instant ghetto
@anthonyreddy6246
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
The Nationalist German Workers Party imposed a 50% tax on rental properties in the 1930s to assist German workers. There's a case for & against. Just one of the Chancellors social initiatives along with such others as environmental protection & pensions, animal rights laws+++. It'd be interesting to see demographic data of landlords in Germany today. I suspect wouldn't be too dissimilar to the 1930s.
@davidowen2859
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
Click Bait
@rubiccube8953
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
High immigration not needed. Not enough property.
@das5813
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
The correct thing to do is to set up a nationalised house or dwelling property agency and build their own then rent these out as proper social housing and this will prevent profiteering and greed running the dwelling scam.
@chrismia2402
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
How to break an economy. I mean why not nationalise retail outlets, factories, everything. Why don’t factory workers get given ownership of the factories too? I mean communism was such a wonderful success wasn’t it.
@dirkofficial1303
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
Get a weapon best investment right now
@robweaver9953
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
Sounds like the World Economic Forum has been stirring.
@Ali-pl9tr
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
We will get the nazism back but in different shape.
@aaronroark4256
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
Sounds like the ndsp is still the party in charge of germany.
@fireworm91
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
If Berlin is too expensive move away…
This should not happen 😑
@ShivanshPlays1
February 29, 2024 at 2:42 pm
OMG germany iz seezing propurtee from gredy landlords and actually giving it too the people germany iz comunist