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@Salinger 3 non c'est le contraire, l'UE ne tient que par le ressassement permanent de la seconde guerre mondiale, parce que les nations c'est méchant et que le patriotisme c'est mal (enfin c'est très bien quand ce sont des Croates, des Algériens ou des Ukrainiens bizarrement).
@{salinger3@diaspora-fr.org je n'ai rien contre les Allemands (comme je n'ai rien contre aucun groupe sans aucune cohérence, les blancs, les noirs, les juifs, les petits, les grands, etc). Par contre je me méfie de l'Allemagne et de ses invariants anthropologiques. Quand le chancelier allemand annonce que l'Allemagne va se réarmer et avoir "la plus puissante armée d'Europe", mes cheveux se dressent sur ma tête. J'aime tellement l'Allemagne que je préfère qu'il y en ait deux comme disait Mauriac.
Réfléchir les relations internationales comme un jeu de nations est un classique qui mériterait d'être actualisé par les formes de l'action citoyenne et des échanges produits par les individus non inféodés à la politique. Dans le cas contraire, nous reproduirons la sempiternelle verticalité, l'habituelle servitude devenue volontaire et sans doute, comme cela se profile semble-t-il, la perpétuation de la guerre au profit d'une poignée qu'il est légitime d'appeler oligarchie. S'instruire maniaquement sur les mouvements géopolitique est une entreprise que j'ai longtemps pratiquée et qui ne m'a guère plus servi qu'à étaler un savoir sans avenir. Il devient urgent, et pour moi manifestement sans doute, de construire une pensée différente, prendre part à l'élaboration de l'avenir d'abord et surtout parce que la dictature en tant que concept reprend bel et bien du poil de la bête
Les deux existent, bien que l'individu n'existe pas sans la société, de la même façon qu'en économie on distingue le micro du macro, lesquels sont interpénétrés
Horatius Cocles: And how can man die better, than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods? wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Survivors describe “hell raining down” on them following Israeli airstrikes on the European Hospital in Gaza. “There is nothing left of the horrors of the Day of Judgment that we have not witnessed in Gaza,” an eyewitness tells Mondoweiss.
I've been following #EdPratt for a while. Followed his whole #unicycle journey around the world and have been following his #kayaking down the #Thames #river from "source to sea" which has been amazing. Good on him because honestly this is what living is. Talk about an amazing adventure.
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Good. There is far too much power concentrated in Washington DC. Agency headquarters should be spread all over the country. x.com/LeadingReport/status/192…
For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth.
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA) – Over a dozen people were injured when a car drove into a crowd of Espanyol supporters before the club's LaLiga match against Barcelona on Thursday, local media reported.
Tomorrow is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia - #IDAHOTB
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AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Ubuntu 30% better performance than Windows 11
"Running Ubuntu 25.04 out-of-the-box on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a powered by the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 led to 30% better performance than Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
Out of nearly 150 benchmarks in total, Ubuntu 25.04 was faster 80% of the time"
Now having shown the very strong AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux performance for this 'Strix Halo' SoC with Radeon 8060S iGPU for its integrated graphics, you may be wondering on the same hardware how this compares to Microsoft Windows 11.
The Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the China-CELAC [Community of Latin American and Caribbean States] Forum was held in Beijing on May 13, 2025. Of the 33 member states of CELAC, 28 attended, along with six regional organisations.
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Jon Elmer, contributing editor, covers the latest resistance news from Gaza and analyzes the Qassam Brigades' "Gates of Hell" series of ambushes in the south...
I'm french and i don't trust any word of this guy which is just a liar Nobody speak of such news in france which is a great producer of weapons and suplied weapons to israël.......
It all depends on the leadership's qualities as human beings as to whether we powerless are invited or enslaved to pay the consequences of their decisions in misery and blood.
I think that Leno, the person, has f-all to do with anything on this post. I think that the image, captured from one of Leno's performances, paid for by a corporation with CEOs, is being used as a prop to make the point.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, British and Polish Prime Ministers Keir Starmer and Donald Tusk had a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump.
Déclaration du négociateur en chef de la #Russie, Vladimir #Medinsky. 1. Dans les prochains jours aura lieu un échange de prisonniers (certains affirment que 1 000 prisonniers russes seront échangés contre 1 000 prisonniers ukrainiens). 2. La partie russe a pris note de la demande ukrainienne pour une rencontre #Zelensky - #Poutine. 3. Les deux parties ont convenu que chacune des équipes de négociateurs va présenter sa vision d'un possible prochain cessez-le-feu. 4. Après cela, les négociations pourront continuer.
Les négociations entre la Russie et l'Ukraine ont duré moins de deux heures. La Russie a avancé une série d'exigences que les ukrainiens qualifient d'"irréalistes" et qui vont bien au-delà des conditions précédemment discutées, selon Reuters, notamment le retrait des ukrainiens de territoires actuellement sous leur contrôle, condition préalable à tout accord de cessez-le-feu. 👉 La Russie demande le retrait des troupes ukrainiennes des deux Républiques, Donetsk et Lougansk, et des deux régions, Kherson et Zaporijjia, qu'elle a intégrées par référendum à la Fédération de Russie.
Message antécédent: Avec plus de 24 heures de retard, la rencontre entre l'Ukraine et la Fédération de Russie a commencé, à Istamboul. En tant que pays hôte, la Turquie fait office de médiateur. La délégation russe aurait refusé que les Etats-Unis participent aux négociations. La Maison Blanche a annoncé qu'une rencontre personnelle entre Trump et Poutine aurait lieu très prochainement. Zelensky est venu hier et Trump n'est pas venu parce que Poutine n'est pas venu. En marge de la rencontre, des émissaires de la France, la Grande-Bretagne et l'Allemagne sont présents pour "conseiller" l'Ukraine. Dix des douze membres de la délégation ukrainienne sont soit des militaires, soit des représentants des services spéciaux. Parmi eux, le vice-président du Service de sécurité de l'Ukraine (SBU), Alexander Poklad, que les média russes accusent d'occuper le rôle d'exécuteur de meurtres politiques au sein dudit service, y compris sur le territoire de la Fédération de Russie. Il serait celui qui a organisé Boutcha, pour perturber les précédents accords d'Istamboul et c'est lui qui aurait tué Denis Kireyev, membre du groupe de négociation ukrainien.
The petition closes tomorrow, so the other EU countries seem unlikely to make it at this point, but those 3 aren't completely out of reach. Please consider sharing the link if you have followers in the EU.
Surprised to see the difference between #Spain (over three times the target) and #Portugal (about half the target). Interesting how far apart neighbours can be sometimes.
The capital plans to attract business guests by focusing on BRICS-level events, developing congress infrastructure and providing digital services for the convenience of work trips
A word of advice. If you were considering getting the new Doom Dark Ages and playing it on the Steam Deck, please reconsider. The performance is atrocious even at the lowest of the low settings. Not worth it. #linuxgaming #linux #steamdeck #doomdarkages #doom #performance
Ihr seid ganz schön leise dafür, dass Deutschland der zweitgrößte Waffenlieferant und politischer, diplomatischer und juristischer Unterstützer einer Regierung ist, die unter euren Augen die systematische Aushungerung und Tötung von Kindern, Müttern, Vätern erzwingt.
Die Not in Gaza ist riesig. Doch eine angemessene Reaktion fehlt. Es gibt Gründe, warum Deutschland Druck auf Israel ausüben sollte. Und die sind nicht nur moralisch.
Ich interpretiere das eher als an die Zeit gerichtet. Dass man eine "Debatte" und wohl auch ihren "Ausgang" als maßgeblich betrachtet und sie endlos breit tritt, statt die Einhaltung des Völkerrechts einzufordern ist feige und fehlgeleitet.
Wer sich beim Massaker in Gaza ernsthaft hin- und hergerissen fühlt und bloß so etwas hier als Beweggrund fürs Eingreifen formulieren kann:
»Dass im Gazastreifen Zehntausende Menschen zu verhungern drohen, ist gleichermaßen eine humanitäre Katastrophe wie ein politischer Skandal.«
… hat ein schwer gestörtes Verhältnis zu gleich mehreren internationalen Abkommen zum humanitären Völkerrecht.
In und an Gaza werden Kriegsverbrechen verübt, es ist keine Naturkatastrophe. Verhungernde Kinder sind auch kein politischer "Skandal".
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
On the completely impossible situation of blocking the Tor .onion TLD to avoid leaks, but at the same time not block it to make users able to do what they want.
Interestingly, Trump did not take a position on whether Comey should be locked up behind bars. He told Baier that the decision would be up to Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department.
“I don’t want to take a position on it because that’s going to be up to Pam and all of the great people,” Trump said. “But I will say this, I think it’s a terrible thing, and when you add his history to that, if he had a clean history.” thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/w…
wie sich beltower news mit den "roten händen" eine neue "antisemitische symbolik" ausdachte und praktisch der gesamte deutsche medienbetrieb darauf reingefallen ist.
es ist schwer vorzustellen, wie es mit "from the river to the sea" anders gelaufen sein soll.
Palästinasolidarische Gruppen nutzen angeblich ein bekanntes Symbol, um an einen Lynchmord an israelischen Soldaten zu erinnern. Experten widersprechen diesem Narrativ vehement. Mit welchem Zweck wird es gestreut?
The Justice Department is set to announce charges against Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver as early as today after she assaulted ICE agents at the Delaney Hall ICE facility last Friday.
Rep. McIver is expected to turn herself in this afternoon, the New Jersey Globe reported.
During the recent pandemic, leading science and medical journals appeared to preach the Covidian catechism of naturally emerging SARS-CoV-2, vaccines with no meaningful downside, mask effectiveness and President Trump's nonexistent bleach recommendation, while ignoring, slow-walking and actively suppressing contrary evidence and putting a scarlet letter on infidels. justthenews.com/accountability…
Ed Martin implies journal that published "Proximal Origin," covertly shaped by Fauci and Collins, may have committed fraud by hiding authors and paying to play. Science magazine hides full Bhattacharya interview, implies he lied.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has formally asked the Pentagon for 20,000 National Guard troops to help it with its mass deportation operations, a department official said Thursday. justthenews.com/government/sec…
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin confirmed the request, stating the guards would "help carry out the President’s mandate from the American people to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens."
D.A. Davidson analyst Gil Luria says Alphabet would be more valuable if it was smaller. He writes: "The only way forward for Alphabet is a complete breakup that would allow investors to own the business they actually want.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday evening confirmed that the Secret Service and her department are investigating a recent social media post by former FBI Director James Comey, which appeared to call for a "hit" on President Donald Trump's life. justthenews.com/government/whi…
The social media post, which Comey shared on Instagram but has since removed, showed the numbers "8647" etched in the sand at a beach. The numbers are perceived as a call to "86" the 47th president, which is used as a call sign for murder.
America’s air traffic control system is blinking red with warning after a midair collision, several harrowing outages, and a staffing shortage. Now Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is adding to the worries by revealing the Federal Aviation Administration is resorting to using eBay and 3D printers to replace parts for antiquated computer systems. justthenews.com/government/fed…
The nation's airline traffic control system is blinking red with warning after a midair collision, several outages, a worker shortage and an antiquated computer system.
In the final days of President Donald Trump's excursion across the Middle East, Iran was clearly experiencing a serious case of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out.) justthenews.com/government/whi…
If Trump’s peace proposals and partnerships with Syria, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf nations congeal, it would mean unprecedented peace in the region and fewer American resources, lives and treasure expended there.
President Donald Trump is back in the White House following a historic victory in November, and Republicans hold majorities in both chambers of Congress. GOP voters are, predictably, feeling good about their political future, but Democrats are struggling. According to an Associated Press/NORC poll published this week, 55% of Republican voters are “optimistic” about the party’s future, up from 47% in July 2024. washingtonstand.com/news/poll-…
A major new report is exposing Chinese spies infiltrating one of America’s top universities. The Stanford Review published an exposé last week, revealing that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has embedded spies at Stanford University as part of a far-reaching intelligence-gathering operation aimed at collecting low-level data on research — particularly in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence — and piecing together a far more significant whole. washingtonstand.com/news/big-t…
A major new report is exposing Chinese spies infiltrating one of America's top universities. The Stanford Review published an exposé last week, revealing that t
Gegen "Digitalisierung ohne Nachzudenken" haben wir schon oft protestiert, aber wir sind auch gegen "Digitalisierung um anderen zu schaden". Letzteres ist das Ziel bei den Versuchen Geflüchtete zu zwingen bargeldlos mit einer "Bezahlkarte" ihren Lebensunterhalt zu bestreiten und ihnen die Nutzung von Bargeld zu verweigern.
Dies führt zu einer weiteren Stigmatisierung und Ausgrenzung - Menschenrechte müssen für alle gelten! Gegen die Bezahlkarte für Flüchtlinge sprechen ernstzunehmende grundsätzliche Bedenken sowie schwerwiegende Probleme bei der praktischen Umsetzung. Neben den Nachteilen für die Geflüchteten kommt auf die Kommunen ein beträchtlicher Verwaltungsaufwand und die Kosten für die Karten und technischen Geräte zu. Auch sind die Sozialämter bei Verlust oder Defekt der Bezahlkarte im jeweiligen Einzelfall gehalten, die Karte zu sperren und eine neue Karte auszugeben. Daraus kann sich eine Endlosschleife entwickeln.
In der Boulevardpresse wird das Modell mit rassistischen Motiven bejubelt, in der Praxis müssen die ausgebenden Kommunen jedoch eine Vielzahl an zusätzlichen Arbeiten bewältigen, wie Absprachen mit den Händlern der Umgebung über die Annahme der Karte, über die "Grenzen der Gültigkeit in einer Region", Erstattungen bei Rückgabe eines Artikels, u.s.w. Diskriminierend und verfassungswidrig
Entscheidend ist für uns jedoch die eindeutige Verfassungswidrigkeit der Maßnahmen - auch aus unserem Eigeninteresse - denn wir wollen nicht irgendwann ebenfalls dazu gezwungen werden nur noch mit einer Karte bezahlen zu müssen. Geflüchtete Menschen sollen nun mit dieser Karte in ihrer Freiheit eingeschränkt werden, Verträge abzuschließen – egal ob Versicherungen, Telefonverträge, Online-Einkäufe oder das Deutschlandticket. Kein Bargeld oder eine Begrenzung des Barbetrags erschwert es den Betroffenen, in Geschäften oder auf Märkten einzukaufen, die keine (Debit-)Kartenzahlung bieten. Ihre Kinder werden diskriminiert, weil ihnen das Taschengeld für den Schulausflug oder die Schulkantine fehlt und von der Nutzung von Münzen für die Benutzung öffentlicher Toiletten sind sie alle ausgeschlossen. Über unsere auch nicht unwichtigen Datenschutzbedenken als Aktion Freiheit statt Angst e.V. wollen wir angesichts der genannten viel gravierenden Verletzungen ihrer Menschenwürde hier nicht auch noch reden.
Offener Brief an die Landesregierungen und Kommunen
Deshalb wollen wir alle Menschen ermutigen, sich ebenfalls gegenüber Ihrem Stadt-/Gemeinderat gegen die Einführung einer Bezahlkarte auszusprechen! Der Druck auf die kommunale Seite ist wichtig, weil diese sich mit dieser Unterstützung durch die Menschen vor Ort gegen ihren oben skizzierten Zusatzaufwand gegenüber der Landesregierung wehren kann.
Aktion Freiheit statt Angst e.V. ist jedenfalls Unterstützer des Offenen Briefs an den Berliner Senat und im unten angegebenen Link finden sich die Argumente und der Link zum Brief der Initiative gegen die Bezahlkarte, beispielhaft in NRW. Die Initiative gegen die Bezahlkarte ist auch in den anderen Bundesländern aktiv.
What’s more challenging than a party with deep divisions? A party with deep divisions running on no sleep. Thanks to a handful of committee overnighters, where members slogged through hundreds of amendments to the “one, big, beautiful bill,” Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) chamber is more than a little irritable. washingtonstand.com/commentary…
What's more challenging than a party with deep divisions? A party with deep divisions running on no sleep. Thanks to a handful of committee overnighters, where
The scaffolding stayed up long after the workers stopped coming. Paint chips collected like old promises in the cracks no one claimed responsibility for.
(they say it’s unsafe but only for some)
Hallways dimmed by policy light bulbs never replaced — one floor at a time became too inconvenient to inspect.
Vacant units appear in clusters like bruises spreading across the map.
“Uninhabitable,” they write, in bold type and disappearing ink.
(the rent was too high until it wasn’t until no one you knew could reach it)
Mailboxes sealed. Elevators whisper a different name on their way down.
There is no memo about removal, just an absence — of noise, of shoes outside the door, of stories in the stairwell.
(the lights stay on but not for you)
A new listing appears with curated ivy and imported stone. The rent floats in rare air untroubled by living wages.
They'll say it’s revitalization, a revival. A clean slate — but only certain hands are allowed to write the next chapter.
(you were always temporary they just hadn’t told you yet)
A sad reality that we know only too well... This text puts into words what we experience or see around us, without noise, without announcement, just absences.
Mein Gott! Tony, das sind keine guten Nachrichten. Das tut mir sehr sehr leid. Diese Masche, wie Baufirmen und die Besitzer mit Menschen umgehen, die auf ihre Wohnung angewiesen sind, das ist echter Missbrauch. Da sind doch mehrere Personen betroffen, außer dir doch! Könnt ihr euch bei jemandem beschweren? Bei Ordnungamt Beschwerden einreichen oder sonst sich zu wehren versuchen. Das geht doch so gar nicht!!!
Ich danke dir von ganzem Herzen für deine Fürsorge und deine Gedanken, lieber Freund.@aga. 🫶🙏 In ganz Dänemark ist alles teurer geworden, sowohl die Wohnung als auch die Lebensmittel usw.. Es gab bereits eine Reihe von schriftlichen Beschwerden und auch viele Treffen mit der Wohnungsbaugesellschaft (in der ich wohne), bei denen sich die Leute beschwert haben. Bis jetzt hat es leider nicht geholfen 🤬😓.
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l'UE est juste dévoyé par ceux qui y sont élus et l'idéologie majoritaire au niveau europeen
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in reply to Emmanuel Florac • • •Tu n'aimes pas les allemands par exemple.
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