PPCC: Pisitófilos Creditófagos. Veranito 2025

[Benzino Napaloni]

Mejor que nunca.

https://www.elespanol.com/ciencia/salud/20241212/espana-enganchada-orfidal-consumo-ansioliticos-triplicado-ultimasdosdecadas/907909423_0.html

Y el currela que se joda, que se vaya al pueblo si es que puede.

Vaya KK.

Veremos qué risa a medida que aumente el envejecimiento de la población. Porque ese cóctel de dronjas se acumula, y sus efectos también.

Y si no es por exceso de gominolas, será por el lumbago. Que a los 50 uno no puede hacer lo mismo que a los 20.

[sudden and sharp]

Mejor que nunca.

https://www.elespanol.com/ciencia/salud/20241212/espana-enganchada-orfidal-consumo-ansioliticos-triplicado-ultimasdosdecadas/907909423_0.html

Y el currela que se joda, que se vaya al pueblo si es que puede.

Vaya KK.

Lo importante es que se ha parado a la ultraderecha... esto al tabaquismo.

[senslev]

Qué cosas...

https://elpais.com/ciencia/2025-08-30/mas-de-un-millon-de-personas-en-espana-toman-cada-dia-un-tratamiento-contra-el-infarto-que-no-sirve-para-nada.html


Meto esto aquí también. Cuando veas las barbas del anglo pelar, pon las tuyas a remojar.

https://www.elconfidencial.com/mundo/2025-08-30/indigencia-drogas-eeuu-canada-ciudades-1hms_4196354/


Igual es que soy "siempre pesimista, nunca optimista", que puede ser. Esos sesgos...

[ajopollo]

Yo nunca entendo el beneficio de los betabloqieantes enpacientes con infartos leves con fraccion de eyeccion conservada sin lesion estructural. Tienen su sentido en pacientes tras IAM con potenciales taquiarritimias algunas de llas mortales sobre todo en IAM masivos. O los primeras semanas hasta la estsbilizacion. O en pacoentes con antedentes de FA rápida. Por eso cuando algun paciente ingresaba con betabloqieantes en muchos de ellos no se los he pautado pese a las guias clinicas. Y los evito si no son necesarios. Y creo que facilmente pueden ser la mitad de los pacientes infartados. Ojo q dosis pequeñas de b bloq cardioselectivos tampoco son tan malos, los efectos secundarios son sutiles.

[Derby]

https://www.ft.com/content/2bcca8ea-69b1-4c2a-8be2-a679ec6ac9e9

EU to tap entire €150bn loans-for-arms programme

France, Italy, Spain and Poland among countries requesting support from project designed to spur defence spending


European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen examines a drone during her visit to Latvia on Friday © Gints Ivuskans/AFP/Getty Images

The EU’s €150bn loans-for-arms programme is set to be spent in full after 19 member states, including France and Poland, requested funding, as Brussels seeks to spur a surge in defence spending.

The project loans cash borrowed against the EU budget to member state governments to jointly spend on critical military purchases such as air and missile defence systems.

It was proposed earlier this year as part of a Europe-wide effort to dramatically increase defence spending in response to Russia’s war against Ukraine and US President Donald Trump’s demand for the continent to spend more on arms.

‘‘We have reached full subscription,” European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday. “We are delivering the capabilities that Europe needs most.”

The funds must be spent on joint purchases by EU governments of defence products in areas identified as gaps by the commission, such as air and missile defence products, cyber systems and drones.

The commission will now assess the individual bids for the so-called SAFE project from capitals, and take decisions on how best to divide the €150bn. Initial disbursements could begin this year, officials said.

Italy and Spain are also among the countries that have applied for funding under the instrument.

“There is a lot of work ahead of us, but we are on the right track,” von der Leyen said during a visit to Riga in a press conference with Evika Siliņa, Latvia’s prime minister. “We have European common defence necessities.”

“Many member states have indicated that they will also use it [to purchase arms] to support Ukraine . . . That is a true European success,” she added.

The initiative comes alongside a pledge by European members of Nato to increase their defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP over the next decade — a promise demanded by Trump as the price of continued US engagement in the continent’s security.

It is designed to promote the purchase of EU-manufactured products, with clauses that limit the amount of third-country components, amid concerns among some European capitals about the continent’s heavy reliance on US-made weapons.

The project was proposed by von der Leyen earlier this year alongside another policy that exempts defence spending from the EU’s rules governing the level of deficit spending by its members.

Riga is the first stop on a four-day trip by von der Leyen to seven of the EU’s easternmost states close to Russia.

[Derby]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/08/30/trump-talks-deploy-private-army-ukraine/

Trump in talks to deploy private army to Ukraine

Telegraph reveals peace plan taking shape behind closed doors

1. Idea stage: Demilitarised buffer zone 20km either side of frozen front line

2. Highly likely: Ukrainian soldiers first line of defence against future Russian invasion

3. Highly likely: US to provide intelligence to Ukraine and to peacekeeping mission

4. In negotiation: Nato or US to be given command of peacekeeping mission

American private military firms could be deployed to Ukraine as part of a long-term peace plan.

Donald Trump is in talks with European allies about allowing armed contractors to help build fortifications to protect American interests in the country.

The plan is being devised as a workaround after the US president promised that American troops would not be stationed in Ukraine.

US contractors could be deployed to help rebuild Ukraine’s front-line defences, new bases and protect US businesses.

The presence of private soldiers would act as a deterrent to discourage Vladimir Putin from breaking an eventual ceasefire.

The plan is being discussed alongside a range of other so-called security guarantees – drawn up by the coalition of the willing led by the UK and France – that will form the basis of a long-term peace plan.

Final details – which include air policing, training and Black Sea naval missions – could be announced as soon as this weekend after weeks of diplomatic activity sparked by Mr Trump’s talks with Putin in Alaska.

Through briefings with more than a dozen Western officials, The Telegraph is able to publish the most comprehensive version yet of how a European-led mission could enforce any peace deal.

European military planners accelerated their work after Mr Trump told continental leaders that Putin was open to Western allies offering security guarantees to Ukraine.

The American commander-in-chief also signalled his willingness to support what could become one of the most significant overseas missions since the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Border reinforcement

European officials said the primary strategy for preventing war in the future was continuing to rebuild Ukraine’s battle-stricken armed forces into the main form of deterrence.

Under the plan, Ukrainian formations would defend a reinforced border at the front lines as agreed in any peace deal.


Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s Alaska summit failed to bring about a conclusion to the Russia-Ukraine war Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty

Kyiv’s forces would be re-armed and trained by European Nato allies, using existing and new mechanisms.

For example, Ukraine could continue to buy US systems, such as Patriot air-defence batteries or Himars rocket launchers, using funds provided by European allies.

US contractors

Front-line fortifications and bases nearby could be built by American private military contractors as was done in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The presence of American contractors on the ground in Ukraine would be seen as a major boost for European powers, which want American buy-in to an eventual peace deal.

Their deployment would mean the White House has skin in the game and would increase the deterrent effect against a Russian attack for fear of US retaliation, sources said.

Discussions over the use of American contractors can be traced back to the signing of a joint deal to extract Ukraine’s vast minerals and rare earth wealth between Washington and Kyiv.



The White House remains opposed to deploying its own troops to Ukraine, but has agreed to broad support to European forces being used to underpin any peace deal.

A Whitehall source said private American contractors “puts American ‘boots’, i.e. American passport holders, on the ground, which is then effectively the deterrent to Putin”.

Using private contractors would also allow Mr Trump to allay fears among his Maga supporters who are against foreign intervention, while also providing him with another business deal to champion, officials said.

Buffer zone

Some European nations have floated the idea of a demilitarised buffer zone to separate Ukrainian and Russian forces once the fighting has ended.

It could be patrolled by peacekeepers or observers as agreed by both Kyiv and Moscow in any peace settlement.

Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, would likely demand that European troops be stationed in the zone. The Kremlin has suggested China could be used as a security guarantor in talks over a peace deal.

Mr Trump also suggested deploying Chinese troops as peacekeepers in postwar Ukraine during his meeting with European leaders last week, according to the Financial Times.

Differences between the warring nations mean this option is unlikely to be agreed upon by all sides.

The idea, which was first put forward by Putin, was opposed by Europe and has previously been rejected by Mr Zelensky because of Beijing’s support of Russia’s war effort.

And European nations are insisting they would not position their servicemen and women on the front lines between the Ukrainian and Russian armies.

Responding to reports of the prospect of a buffer zone, Mr Zelensky has said the Russians could retreat if they wanted to create more space between themselves and Ukrainian forces.

Reassurance force

A European-led force could be stationed deeper in Ukraine to offer a third line of defence should Russia choose to invade.

It would primarily serve as another deterrence deployment made up of thousands of European troops.

“The principal aim is to demonstrate to the Ukrainians that we would be in the fight with you if Russia re-invades,” one official said.

Dozens of countries have told their counterparts they would be willing to join the deployment.

These include the likes of Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, as well as the Baltic, Nordic and Scandinavian nations.

It had previously been discussed as a deployment of around 30,000 European troops.

This figure has been seemingly scaled back because of a lack of resources and a fear it could be seen as “too muscular” in the eyes of Putin, a source added.


Mr Trump has signalled he is willing to support a European-backed peace plan without deploying US troops Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty

Offers of support for the mission have not often been backed up with concrete pledges of how they can join, officials said of discussions.

It would, however, be contingent on a number of American pledges of support, including a so-called “backstop” and other assistance with logistics and intelligence.

The Telegraph has previously reported that this reassurance force would only be deployed to Ukraine for between five to 10 years, or until involved nations are confident that Ukraine’s military is capable of defending itself.

Air policing mission

European nations have been in discussions over introducing a no-fly zone to allow Ukraine to confidently reopen commercial aviation routes.

The scheme could be phased, The Telegraph can reveal, starting in the West and slowly covering more airspace until the entire country is safe enough for commercial air travel, for example.

Allowing air travel to start is seen as a key element in providing an investment boost to the war-torn country and would also help refugees to return home.

At first, the mission – using Western fighter jet patrols and ground-based air defence systems – would aim to open Lviv and other Ukrainian airports in the West of the country.

As confidence builds in any ceasefire arrangements holding, the mission would be extended eastwards towards Kyiv and other cities.

Black Sea task force

Under the plans, Turkey would lead a naval mission in the Black Sea aimed at securing commercial shipping routes in and out of Ukraine.

Kyiv has been able to keep open its own wartime shipping corridors, and the operation would see more routes re-established through Western naval patrols.

The mission, supported by Black Sea nations Bulgaria and Romania, would also lead efforts to de-mine the waters.

Romania has been buying naval vessels from Turkish shipyards as it gears up to play a more pivotal role in the region.


Military contractors take part in a firefight in Iraq in 2004. Private armies could now be used to help rebuild Kyiv’s defences Credit: Gervasio Sanchez/AP

Turkey has blocked access to the Black Sea for both Russian and newer vessels promised to Ukraine by Western allies as it seeks to limit the conflict in the area.

Western training missions

The most likely European deployment would come in the shape of military trainers moved to new bases in Western Ukraine.

The idea was first proposed by Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, last year amid concerns that too many Ukrainian troops were going AWOL from training camps in his country.

It was rejected as escalatory by Joe Biden at the time, a former US official said.

But this year, it re-emerged under Mr Trump’s pressure to build a peace plan as a way of providing another deterrence effect against a renewed Russian invasion.

Training forces would also speed up the process of rearming and rebuilding Ukraine’s armed forces to create the “steel porcupine” effect on the front lines.

As well as France’s mission, Britain’s highly successful training programme, Operation Interflex, would likely be moved to Western Ukraine, according to the current plans.

US support seen as vital

US logistical support for any European deployment is seen as a prerequisite for the security guarantees.

European officials believe Washington has been amenable to requests for assistance in the form of American heavy-lift aircraft to move equipment and troops eastwards towards Ukraine.

This would also help keep Western weapons flowing into Ukraine. European nations have already pledged to buy at least $10bn in American-made military equipment for Kyiv in recent weeks.

Ukraine has also tabled a proposal that would see the country promise to buy a further $90bn worth of hardware once the war comes to an end.

In preparation, the US state department has already approved a potential sale of air-launched cruise missiles and related equipment to Ukraine for an estimated $825m.

The potential sale of 3,350 extended range attack munition (Eram) missiles, which could be delivered to Kyiv within weeks, includes GPS guidance kits and electronic warfare defences for the weapons, which have a range of “several hundred” miles.

The package also includes support equipment, mission planning software, spares, and technical support, the Pentagon announced on Thursday.



Intelligence is key

Another prerequisite for any European deployment would be an offer of American intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance (ISR) support, officials said.

European nations lack the satellite capabilities needed to sufficiently monitor any ceasefire.

As well as supporting boots on the ground, intelligence assistance would also be key for the air policing mission to succeed, it is believed.

Mr Trump temporarily withdrew IRS support from Kyiv after his Oval Office spat with Mr Zelensky, which has been blamed on the Ukrainian armed forces losing their foothold in the Russian Kursk region at an accelerated rate.

The Pentagon has reportedly not fully turned on the intelligence needed by Ukraine to mount cross-border missile strikes, creating a de facto American veto over any such plans.

A source told The Telegraph that US officials had also asked Britain’s Ministry of Defence not to share intelligence to this effect while Mr Trump’s peace talks take place with Putin.

Command and control

Europe also lacks experience in co-ordinating major military missions, which has mainly been left to American four-star generals.

European and American officials have discussed the prospect of a US military commander being used to oversee all deployments under the peace plan.

US general Alexus Grynkewich, Nato’s top commander, has been mooted as a possibility for a role, should the idea get the go-ahead from Mr Trump.

The White House has already signed off on his involvement in the recent flurry of military planning, in what is seen by European allies as one of the greatest signs of support for security guarantees by the president.



By handing a greater role to Gen Grynkewich, the coalition will benefit from pre-made plans to defend the continent against a Russian invasion and extra American buy-in for any security guarantees.

US backstop

Most European nations remain privately concerned that any troop deployment can only go ahead with serious support from the US.

“We’ll be involved from the standpoint of backup. We’re going to help them,” Mr Trump told reporters last week.

But Europeans have said that they were yet to hear how the White House was willing to support the mission.

The main request from European governments is for Mr Trump to station fighter jets and missiles in neighbouring Poland or Romania, ready to respond at the first signs of Russian aggression.

European officials believe this level of guarantee from Washington would make Russia think twice about mounting an attack on their troops stationed in Ukraine.

“The prospect of an American military response is an entirely different prospect to a European response,” a source said.

Even if Mr Trump is to verbally agree to the concept, there is unease from European capitals about the pledge’s sustainability.

The American president is known to frequently change his mind, and even if he was to uphold the promise, it could fall when he eventually leaves the White House.

“The issue is that Trump himself believes that his word and the power of Trump is enough to deter the Russians,” one Whitehall source said.

“As you can imagine, that’s not necessarily washing with the Ukrainians.”

Putin remains untrusted

There is also a feeling among European officials that plans for security guarantees will never see the light of day because they’re not confident Putin is prepared to agree to a ceasefire in the first place.

Many believe he is misleading Mr Trump and dragging out the war to gain more territory.


Ukrainian soldiers practice suing a US armoured personnel carrier. Scepticism lingers over whether Russia is interested in ending the war Credit: Sergey Kozlov/Shutterstock

Russia said on Friday that Western proposals for security guarantees were “one-sided” and “designed to contain Russia”, only adding to the levels of scepticism in Europe.

Putin’s reluctance to agree to a ceasefire has led Mr Trump to withdraw economic incentives offered to Russia to end the war.

Earlier this month, The Telegraph revealed that the US president arrived at the summit in Anchorage, Alaska, armed with a number of money-making opportunities for Putin

They included opening up Alaska’s natural resources to Moscow and lifting some of the American sanctions on Russia’s aviation industry.

The biggest of the lot was a potentially lucrative deal that would give Putin access to rare earth minerals in the Ukrainian territories currently occupied by Russia.

Andriy Yermak, the head of the office of the president of Ukraine, said no pressure was being put on Ukraine by the US to make territory concessions.

“I am satisfied with the meeting with Witkoff ... no one from the American side is putting pressure on Ukraine regarding any territories,” he said following his meeting with Steve Witkoff, Mr Trump’s special envoy, in New York.

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https://www.eleconomista.es/opinion/noticias/13523026/08/25/desaceleracion-en-marcha-en-el-turismo.html

https://www.eleconomista.es/transportes-turismo/noticias/13522537/08/25/las-empresas-turisticas-crecen-la-mitad-que-en-2024-y-la-hosteleria-se-estanca-hay-incertidumbre-y-se-reduce-el-gasto.html

Saludos.

[Cadavre Exquis]

https://www.eleconomista.es/actualidad/noticias/13518424/08/25/ikea-meta-o-cocacola-espanoles-al-mando-de-las-grandes-multinacionales.html

Saludos.

[Cadavre Exquis]

https://www.eleconomista.es/banca-finanzas/noticias/13523205/08/25/manuel-lavin-gft-el-euro-digital-se-podria-adoptar-a-partir-de-casos-de-uso-concretos-para-que-no-sea-un-big-bang.html

Saludos.

[Cadavre Exquis]

https://www.eleconomista.es/economia/noticias/13523184/08/25/casi-20-productos-agricolas-de-eeuu-quedan-exentos-de-aranceles-en-la-ue.html

https://www.eleconomista.es/economia/noticias/13522707/08/25/volkswagen-y-stellantis-los-beneficiados-del-motor-de-la-rebaja-de-los-aranceles-estadounidenses.html

Saludos.

[Cadavre Exquis]

https://www.pressreader.com/spain/el-economista/20250830/page/30/textview

Von der Leyen adjudica 150.000 millones en préstamos para elevar el gasto en Defensa

Saludos.

[Cadavre Exquis]

https://www.eleconomista.es/economia/noticias/13522001/08/25/el-ipc-avanza-en-agosto-un-27-como-en-julio-pero-la-inflacion-subyacente-sube-otra-decima.html

https://www.europapress.es/economia/finanzas-00340/noticia-euribor-sube-agosto-2114-rompe-racha-seis-meses-consecutivos-baja-20250829140116.html

Saludos.

[Fomento Cemento]

https://www.ft.com/content/2bcca8ea-69b1-4c2a-8be2-a679ec6ac9e9

EU to tap entire €150bn loans-for-arms programme

France, Italy, Spain and Poland among countries requesting support from project designed to spur defence spending


European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen examines a drone during her visit to Latvia on Friday © Gints Ivuskans/AFP/Getty Images

The EU’s €150bn loans-for-arms programme is set to be spent in full after 19 member states, including France and Poland, requested funding, as Brussels seeks to spur a surge in defence spending.

The project loans cash borrowed against the EU budget to member state governments to jointly spend on critical military purchases such as air and missile defence systems.

It was proposed earlier this year as part of a Europe-wide effort to dramatically increase defence spending in response to Russia’s war against Ukraine and US President Donald Trump’s demand for the continent to spend more on arms.

‘‘We have reached full subscription,” European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday. “We are delivering the capabilities that Europe needs most.”

The funds must be spent on joint purchases by EU governments of defence products in areas identified as gaps by the commission, such as air and missile defence products, cyber systems and drones.

The commission will now assess the individual bids for the so-called SAFE project from capitals, and take decisions on how best to divide the €150bn. Initial disbursements could begin this year, officials said.

Italy and Spain are also among the countries that have applied for funding under the instrument.

“There is a lot of work ahead of us, but we are on the right track,” von der Leyen said during a visit to Riga in a press conference with Evika Siliņa, Latvia’s prime minister. “We have European common defence necessities.”

“Many member states have indicated that they will also use it [to purchase arms] to support Ukraine . . . That is a true European success,” she added.

The initiative comes alongside a pledge by European members of Nato to increase their defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP over the next decade — a promise demanded by Trump as the price of continued US engagement in the continent’s security.

It is designed to promote the purchase of EU-manufactured products, with clauses that limit the amount of third-country components, amid concerns among some European capitals about the continent’s heavy reliance on US-made weapons.

The project was proposed by von der Leyen earlier this year alongside another policy that exempts defence spending from the EU’s rules governing the level of deficit spending by its members.

Riga is the first stop on a four-day trip by von der Leyen to seven of the EU’s easternmost states close to Russia.

Maravilloso, a seguir imprimiendo mortadelos...

[Cadavre Exquis]

Saludos.

[Cadavre Exquis]

https://www.pressreader.com/spain/Cinco-Dias/20250830/2/textview

El oro, un metal precioso que no deja de subir, y que puede arrastrar a otros en su fiebre

https://cincodias.elpais.com/mercados-financieros/2025-08-30/el-oro-promete-mas-alzas-por-la-erosion-institucional-en-ee-uu-y-la-debilidad-del-dolar.html

Saludos.