April 24th • 3h 21m
Shownotes
Every new episode of No Agenda is accompanied by a comprehensive list of shownotes curated by Adam while preparing for the show. Clips played by the hosts during the show can also be found here.
Big Tech AI and the Socials
Botnet Part 2: The Web is Broken - Jan Wildeboer’s Blog
Certain companies recruit app developers to create botnets by injecting “network sharing” SDKs into their apps. These botnets then use the network bandwidth of unsuspecting users of said apps to crawl the web, brute-force mail servers and other nasty things.
Pope
Elites
EU UK Ukraine and NATO
Europe’s Next War Won’t Be in Ukraine—It’ll Be in the Streets
By Alexander van Koningsbruggen
The European Union is pouring weapons, money, and political capital into Ukraine at an astonishing rate. If you listen to Brussels, it’s all about protecting democracy and stopping aggression at the borders of Europe. But what they won’t tell you—what they can’t afford to admit—is that many are quietly dreading the day the war ends.
Because when the war ends, the real trouble begins.
The Guns Are Already Here
Let’s start with the obvious: Not all the weapons being sent to Ukraine are staying on the battlefield. Despite all the promises of accountability, there are credible reports of smuggled arms already making their way into black markets across Europe. Think assault rifles, grenade launchers, anti-tank weapons—serious hardware.
We’ve seen this movie before. After the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s, Europe was awash with surplus weapons. Those weapons were later used in everything from gang shootouts to terrorist attacks. We didn’t learn then—and we’re not learning now.
Fighters with Extremist Ties
Ukraine has become a training ground not just for patriots, but for ideologues. Neo-Nazis from across Europe and beyond have made their way to the frontlines, many of them joining paramilitary groups like the Azov Battalion. They’re learning tactics, getting battlefield experience, and bonding with like-minded extremists.
What happens when these people come home?
You don’t have to imagine it. Just look at post-ISIS Europe. Veterans of jihadist fronts came back radicalized, traumatized, and ready for violence. Now imagine a new wave of ideologically radical, combat-tested fighters re-entering European society—but this time from the other end of the political spectrum.
A Powder Keg Already Lit
And here’s the twist: That’s just one side of the problem.
The EU has spent the last decade allowing—often encouraging—mass immigration with minimal vetting. This humanitarian impulse has had consequences. In countries like France, Sweden, and Germany, authorities are now struggling to deal with rising crime, gang violence, and extremist networks. Some neighborhoods have effectively become no-go zones. Sexual violence has spiked. Integration has failed in key places.
Now ask yourself: What happens when radicalized individuals already inside the EU—some of them with ties to extremist Islamist groups—get access to the same black-market weapons flowing out of Ukraine?
It’s a nightmare scenario that nobody in Brussels wants to talk about.
Why the Silence?
It’s simple: as long as the war continues, the problem stays over there. Dangerous fighters stay deployed. The weapons stay flowing eastward. The political status quo remains intact. But the second peace breaks out, that illusion collapses.
And here’s the worst part: many in Brussels know this. They’re not stupid. They’re just betting they can delay the inevitable—and hoping the public doesn’t notice until it’s too late.
The Time Bomb Is Ticking
What we’re facing isn’t just a security issue. It’s a political crisis in the making. Neo-Nazis with battlefield training. Radical Islamists already in place. Military-grade weapons being sold on the streets. And a leadership class in denial.
This is Europe’s next war—and it won’t be fought in trenches. It’ll be fought in apartment blocks, concert venues, subway stations, and shopping malls.
If you think that sounds alarmist, consider how many people called similar warnings “racist” or “xenophobic” just a few years before the Bataclan, Cologne, or Nice.
Brussels needs to wake up—and so do we.
Tariffs
What the proposed Mar-a-Lago Accord could mean for investors By Investing.com
The proposed “Mar-a-Lago Accord,” a set of evolving policy ideas circulating within the U.S. administration, could reshape global capital flows and unsettle bond markets, according to UBS.
While not officially endorsed, the framework outlines measures designed to preserve the U.S. dollar’s (USD) global dominance while intentionally weakening its value.
UBS strategists note that these measures aim to lower Treasury yields and reduce the cost of U.S. debt servicing, in part by targeting foreign official holders of Treasuries.
Among the key elements are the potential withholding of interest payments and the issuance of ultra-long-dated or even perpetual bonds to selected foreign reserve holders.
“Withholding one percent of interest from all of them would reduce spending by $34bn,” strategists said. These steps fall under what economists call financial repression, where governments use regulatory powers to lower the cost of borrowing.
Big Pharma
Transmaoism
Transmission of Mental Disorders in Adolescent Peer Networks | Mobile Health and Telemedicine | JAMA Psychiatry | JAMA Network
Question Is having peers with a mental disorder in the same social network during adolescence associated with later risk of mental disorder?
Findings In this cohort study including more than 700 000 individuals in Finland, analysis of nationwide, interlinked registry data found that having classmates diagnosed with a mental disorder in the ninth grade of comprehensive school was associated with increased risk of receiving a mental disorder diagnosis later in life. Increased risk remained after adjusting for an array of parental, school-level, and area-level confounders.
Design, Setting, and Participants In a population-based registry study, data on all Finnish citizens born between January 1, 1985, and December 31, 1997, whose demographic, health, and school information were linked from nationwide registers were included. Cohort members were followed up from August 1 in the year they completed ninth grade (approximately aged 16 years) until a diagnosis of mental disorder, emigration, death, or December 31, 2019, whichever occurred first. Data analysis was performed from May 15, 2023, to February 8, 2024.
Conclusions and Relevance The findings of this study suggest that mental disorders might be transmitted within adolescent peer networks. More research is required to elucidate the mechanisms underlying the possible transmission of mental disorders.
