Verurteilung setz voraus, dass die Immunität aufgehoben wird und das Innenministerium der Staatsanwaltschaft nicht die Weisung erteilt, den Fall nicht weiter zu verfolgen.

Ausnahmen von dem weitgehenden Autoverbot soll es demnach für Menschen mit Behinderung, Polizei, Rettungsdienst, Feuerwehr, Müllabfuhr, Taxen sowie Wirtschafts- und Lieferverkehr geben. Das gilt auch für Busse.

Wenn die “Wirtschaft” weniger im Stau steht, weil sie garnicht betroffen ist und mit viel weniger Verkehr besser durchkommt, dann ist das ein herber Schlag…

Aber wenn der Herr Geschäftsführer mit dem Taxi statt mit dem eigenen Porsche zum Firmenseitz fahren muss, ist das natürlich ein herber Schlag für das fragile Ego.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ILoGcSxCAY

Sarrazin (wobei die SPD sich damals noch beschwert hatte und er m.W. nicht mehr Mitglied ist), Faeser, Giffey, Steinmeier, Schröder, Scholz, Klingbeil… nur um ein paar Beispiele zu nennen.

I think “cash and run” is rather simple minded.

Imagine doing a larger “raid” at a farm or cobstruction site and take tractors, machines and equipment in the hundreds of thousands or even millions…

As these are also in more remote places it would take longer for any responder to arrive.

I am surprised that Russia is relying on Chinese Titanium now. I thought they have their own mines and production expertise. See for instance Alfa-Class submarines with a titanium hull

I wonder how the missile warfare is going to develop with the experiences from Ukraine and Iran. It seems that ballistic missiles are more costly to intercept than to shoot and obviously the range is a huge advantage. On the other hand precision seems to be limited. When it comes to targeting military infrastructure a direct hit can be devastating, but a nearby explosion will not do much against reinforced structures.

I hope this pushes EU countries to develop their own systems against ballistic missiles. Relying on US and Israeli imports is strategically unsound as both are unreliable and leveraging that dependency for dragging EU countries into their own crimes.

“We were able to determine that to the best of our estimation he was an ICE agent. … We will not look into it any deeper than that,” he said.

So having a shoddy fake card that looks like it could be real on a shoddy video camera is good enough for the police to not investigate further? Human traffickers must be having a blast in the US right now.

Fun thing. Cheap aluminium capacitors do blow up, when you plug them in the wrong way.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/53kl5kNJ728

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_casualties#Deaths_caused_by_the_American_military

For official U.S. military operations reports, there was no established distinction between enemy KIA and civilian KIA. Since body counts were a direct measure of operational success, U.S. “operations reports” often listed civilian deaths as enemy KIA or exaggerated the number. There was strong pressure to produce body counts as a measure of operational success and enemy body counts were directly tied to promotions and commendation.[36][37][38][39] The My Lai massacre was initially written off as an operational success and covered up.[40][37] Sometimes civilian casualties from airstrikes or artillery barrages against villages were reported as “enemies killed”.[36][37][41] All individuals killed in declared free-fire zones, combatants or not, were considered enemy killed in action by U.S. forces.[42] This might partially explain the discrepancies between recovered weapons and body-count figures, along with exaggeration, although the NVA and VC also went to great lengths to recover weapons from the battlefield.[14]

Nick Turse, in his 2013 book, Kill Anything that Moves, argues that a relentless drive toward higher body counts, a widespread use of free-fire zones, rules of engagement where civilians who ran from soldiers or helicopters could be viewed as VC, and a widespread disdain for Vietnamese civilians led to massive civilian casualties and endemic atrocities inflicted by U.S. troops.[45] One example cited by Turse is Operation Speedy Express, an operation by the 9th Infantry Division, which was described by John Paul Vann as, in effect, “many My Lais”.[45]

Air force captain, Brian Wilson, who carried out bomb-damage assessments in free-fire zones throughout the delta, saw the results firsthand. “It was the epitome of immorality…One of the times I counted bodies after an air strike—which always ended with two napalm bombs which would just fry everything that was left—I counted sixty-two bodies. In my report I described them as so many women between fifteen and twenty-five and so many children—usually in their mothers’ arms or very close to them—and so many old people.” When he later read the official tally of dead, he found that it listed them as 130 VC killed.[46]

Indochina Newsletter, Issue 18, November – December, 1982, pp. 1-5 [October, 1982] - The Legacy of the Vietnam War

CHOMSKY: As far as the opinion makers are concerned, they have been doing exactly what it was obvious they would do. Every book that comes out, every article that comes out, talks about how — while it may have been a “mistake” or an “unwise effort” — the United States was defending South Vietnam from North Vietnamese aggression. And they portray those who opposed the war as apologists for North Vietnam. That’s standard to say.

The purpose is obvious: to obscure the fact that the United States did attack South Vietnam and the major war was fought against South Vietnam. The real invasion of South Vietnam which was directed largely against the rural society began directly in 1962 after many years of working through mercenaries and client groups. And that fact simply does not exist in official American history. There is no such event in American history as the attack on South Vietnam. That’s gone. Of course, It is a part of real history. But it’s not a part of official history.

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QUESTION: This question of who the United States was fighting in Vietnam is pretty basic in terms of coming to any understanding of the war. But why would the U.S. attack South Vietnam, if the problem was not an attack from North Vietnam?

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Then the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam was formed. And its founding program called for the neutralization of South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. And it’s very striking that the National Liberation Front was the only group that ever called for the independence of South Vietnam. The so-called South Vietnamese government (GVN) did not, but rather, claimed to be the government of all Vietnam. The National Liberation Front was the only South Vietnamese group that ever talked about South Vietnamese independence. They called for the neutralization of South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia as a kind of neutral block, working toward some type of integration of the South with North Vietnam ultimately.

Now that proposal in 1962 caused panic in American ruling circles. From 1962 to 1965 the US was dedicated to try to prevent the independence of South Vietnam, the reason was of course that Kennedy and Johnson knew that if any political solution was permitted in the south, the National Liberation Front would effectively come to power, so strong was its political support in comparison with the political support of the so-called South Vietnamese government.

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Well, why did they do it? Why was the United States so afraid of an independent South Vietnam? Well, I think the reason again is pretty clear from the internal government documents. Precisely what they were afraid of was that the “takeover” of South Vietnam by nationalist forces would not be brutal. They feared it would be conciliatory and that there would be successful social and economic development — and that the whole region might work.

This was clearly a nationalist movement — and in fact a radical nationalist movement which would separate Vietnam from the American orbit. It would not allow Vietnam to become another Philippines. It would trade with the United States but it would not be an American semi-colony.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/wars-effect-vietnamese-land-and-people

Despite the fact that South Vietnam was America’s ally in the Vietnam War, it suffered severe damage to its land, people, and culture. The war also affected North Vietnam, but not as severely or as permanently as the South.

Ich kann aus meinem persönlichen Umfeld auch bestätigen, dass niemand, der regelmäßig Drogen (inkl. Alkohol) konsumiert, psychisch und sozial alles im Griff hat.

Die Verbotspolitik scheitert, weil sie einerseits mächtige kriminelle Organisationen aufbaut und andererseits den Zugang zu Hilfsangeboten erschwert.

Ich denke, bevor man “alles” legalisiert, sollte man erstmal Stufenweise vorgehen und mit der Legalisierung weniger schlimmer Substanzen auch die Hilfsangebote ausbauen und dann gucken, wo man sich einpendelt. Das letzte was wir brauchen ist eine Pharmaindustrie, die Crack und Meth als Absatzmärkte hat.

Koalitionsverträge werden nie vollständig umgesetzt und immer irgendwo “gebrochen”. Die Frage ist, welche Brüche hingenommen werden und welche nicht. Die SPD scheint generell fast alles hinzunehmen, was die CDU/CSU oder FDP tut.

Ich vermute die SPD wird ein bisschen jammern und an anderer Stelle einen symbolischen “Sieg” einfahren, vlt. etwas mehr Rentenerhöhung als die Union vorschlägt, und sich dann als die große Sozialpartei inszenieren.

People can also fall for and parrot a dog whistle without understanding it.

At any rate it is ridiculous how the New York City mayor race was centered around whether the candidates “support Israel” or are “antisemites”.

Gleichstrom ist in der Leitung effizienter, weil das Magnetfeld nur einmal aufgebaut wird und dann bleibt, anstatt 50 mal in der Sekunde umgedreht zu werden. Dadurch hast du auch viel weniger Blindleistung, die in der Leitung nur hin- und herbewegt wird und die Kapazität mindert und natürlich ineffizienter ist.

Enstprechend will man für die weiten Übertragungen Gleichstrom in hoher Spannung.

Gleichrichter sind auch keine ökologische Katastrophe. Sowohl Gleich- wie auch Wechselrichter haben Wirkungsgrade >95%, insb. wenn es um höhere Spannungen geht.

Es geht vor allem nicht um Mittelspannung, sondern Hochspannung. Mit mehr erneuerbaren Energien ist es auch sinnvoll, dass die Hochspannungsnetze umgebaut werden. Wechselstrom ist lokal komfortabler, weil man über die Frequenz puffern kann, wenn Verbraucher zu- oder abgeschaltet werden.

It is probably a dog whistle for Zionist. Mamdani has been outspoken against Zionism.

It is unfair to reduce them to that. They are also staunch supporters of genocide and imperialism.

And why does it have zero chance? Could it be because they oppose it, instead of supporting it? Imagine all Democrats stood together on this and they could get a few Reps over. Even if it would fail, they would send a signal of unity and standing up for what is right, which could get them back some voters the disgruntled with the whole genocide and appeasing fascism thing.

But no, they double down on it.

Es geht auch nicht darum, Gewalttäter zu fassen, sondern darum Kontrollen einfacher begründen zu können.

Mein erster Tipp: 80% Migrantisierte Menschen, 15% Obdachlose und 4,9% “Alternativ” Aussehende. Dann wird einmal alle tausend Kontrollen eine Oma gefragt, ob sie kurz ihre Handtasche öffnen mag, damit der liebe Herr Polizist kurz reinleuchten kann. Schließlich wird hier ja zuföllig kontrolliert, aber es ist nur für ihre Sicherheit.

Patrick sein wie:

Warum nehmen wir nicht die erneuerbaren Energien und packen sie auf unser Dach?

Not so fun thing:

There is a whole debate about the “optimal” economic path during climate change, from a GDP perspective. One of the core issues is the question of interest rate. By assuming “market typical” interest rates around 1,4%, the future quickly gets discounted so much, that no matter the economic damage, because of the underlying growth assumptions, you end up with the Stern review marking 3°C as optimal economic outcome…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern_Review#Discounting

Discounting into the future, the whole interest rate and debt system, assuming growth… all of these are core positions of mainstream economics.

With the illusion of being a natural science rather than a social science, economics get way too much credit and of course there is a very problematic revolving door between financial institutions and economic research/education.

How is it similar if Ukraine see preventing Iran from having nukes as a legitimate target?

The IAEA said there was no evidence of that. The CIA said since their first assessment in 2007 Iran has not been seeking to develop nuclear weapons. An assessment that was reconfirmed in the 2025 intelligence report.

It was a lie and everyone knows it is a lie, except for the people gullible enough to follow the propaganda.

This was three days before the full scale invasion by Russia into Ukraine:

https://www.bbc.com/news/60711705

It is exactly the same play. “There is weapons of mass destructions. We need to prevent that!” Iran was neither threatening the US nor Israel with attacks and only responded to Israel attacks in 2024. Zelensky knows that. The knows that he is forsaking international law and truth in the hopes he would get some scraps.