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Der Typ ist völlig durchgeknallt und brandgefährlich. Dauert nicht mehr lange bis er den Spannungsfall ausrufen wird um sich an die Macht zu klammern.
🇩🇪 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated on German television that **“Russia is at war with Germany.”** **A stark statement from Berlin — rhetoric between Germany and Moscow is reaching an increasingly dangerous level.**
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Keine 24 Stunden nach der Konstituierung geht es los. Wir beantragen eine Friedensinitiative und eine Sondersitzung des Landtages. Schluss mit dem Krieg, Schluss mit den Zahlungen an die Ukraine!
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Ich war eingeladen, am 3. Oktober in Stuttgart als Rednerin bei der Abschlusskundgebung der großen Friedensdemonstration zu sprechen. Als die Moderation mich auf die Bühne bat, begann eine größere Gruppe aus einem Block neben der Bühne, meine Rede zu stören. Einige vermummten sich und versuchten, gewaltsam die Bühne zu stürmen. Einem Störer gelang es trotz der Demo-Ordner, auf die Bühne zu gelangen. Der Vorfall war sehr bedrohlich. Dass es dabei blieb und Schlimmeres verhindert wurde, ist der Polizei zu verdanken, nicht der Einsicht der Störer. Wer auf einer Friedenskundgebung mit Gewalt entscheidet, wer reden darf und wer nicht, hat die rote Linie überschritten. Man kostümiert sich als links und meint, das Wort durch die Faust ersetzen zu dürfen. Auffällig ist nur, wie zielgenau der Angriff jene trifft, die den Militärpakt NATO und den Kriegskurs infrage stellen. Man muss sich ernsthaft fragen: Wem nützt das? Es wäre in der Geschichte nicht das erste Mal, dass man für eine Strategie der Spannung auch solche Gruppen nutzt. Dass aus der Spitze der Linkspartei (Mersedeh Ghazaei, Mitglied im Parteivorstand) eine Aktion gerechtfertigt wird, deren Ziel es war, eine Rede von Kriegsgegnern gewaltsam zu verhindern, ist ein Tabubruch. Man muss der Kollegin Ghazaei nicht unterstellen, sie habe die Vermummten geschickt. Es genügt, was sie öffentlich billigt. Die Linkspartei sollte klären, ob die Verhinderung abweichender Positionen innerhalb der Friedensbewegung künftig zum Instrumentenkasten einer Partei gehört, die sich emanzipatorisch nennt. Ich danke dem Vorbereitungskreis zur Friedensdemo für die klare Stellungnahme, in der es unter anderem heißt: „Wir verurteilen den organisierten und offenbar vorbereiteten gewalttätigen Angriff vermummter Gruppen auf die eingeladene Rednerin Sevim Dağdelen aufs Schärfste. Wir werten ihn als Angriff auf die gesamte Friedenskundgebung. Er richtete sich gegen eine Rednerin, die seit vielen Jahren in der Friedensbewegung aktiv ist, bundesweit bekannt als kompetente Kriegsgegnerin und linke, internationalistische außenpolitische Expertin. Aktivisten, die Reden von Gruppen mit Positionen, die von den eigenen abweichen, mit Gewalt unterbinden wollen, stellen sich außerhalb der Friedensbewegung. Sie helfen letztlich den Kriegstreibern in Politik und Medien, die Opposition gegen Hochrüstung und Krieg klein zu halten.“ #S0310 berliner-zeitung.de/article/…
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Einen Scheiß müssen wir!
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Paukenschlag in Sachsen-Anhalt: Die AfD-Fraktion bringt die wirklich wichtigen Themen ohne Verzug auf die Tagesordnung. Landtagspräsident Tobias Rausch bestätigt das Sonderplenum zu Russland und Gaslieferungen. Wir handeln ab dem ersten Tag für die Bürger! Quelle: welt.de/politik/deutschland/…
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Zum ersten Mal wird sich ein deutsches Parlament klar gegen die Ukraine-Politik der Bundesregierung und für Friedensverhandlungen und Kompromissbereitschaft zur Beilegung dieses schrecklichen Krieges aussprechen. Wir senden mit diesem Antrag ein friedenspolitisches Signal aus Magdeburg in den Berliner Regierungsbezirk: Deutschland braucht eine Bundesregierung, die sich endlich wieder um Dialog mit Moskau bemüht, statt eine Eskalation voranzutreiben, die irgendwann im Krieg enden wird. Am vergangenen Wochenende reiste der Bundeskanzler wieder einmal mit dem Geldkoffer nach Kiew. Friedrich Merz überreicht morgens in der Ukraine Milliardenschecks und kürzt abends im eigenen Land bei Rente, Pflege und Gesundheit. Diese Politik gegen die eigenen Bürger muss endlich beendet werden!
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The next time some clown in the EU talks to you about "Carbon credits" or "Carbon tax" or "Global warming" Ask them why they are paying for the Ukrainian Dictators crime syndicate in Kiev to do this to the black sea, one of the most sensitive ecosystems on earth.
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These types of statements are inflammatory, and can only harm German interests. They do not cause fear in Moscow, they do not make Putin submit to the chancellor’s demands. His rhetoric makes it more likely that Russia will ramp *up* its operations, viewing the entire West, especially Germany, as incapable of making rational diplomatic decisions. This needs to change, very rapidly, for Germany, because if Germany goes down, the rest of the West goes with it.
🇩🇪 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated on German television that **“Russia is at war with Germany.”** **A stark statement from Berlin — rhetoric between Germany and Moscow is reaching an increasingly dangerous level.**
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Bizarro world
Die SPD-Fraktion singt auf dem Berliner Bebelplatz die Nationalhymne – auf dem Platz der Bücherverbrennung, an dem Tag, an dem in Sachsen-Anhalt AfDler mit demokratischen Stimmen ins Landtagspräsidium gewählt wurden.
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🇷🇺 Pressesprecher des Präsidenten Russlands Dmitri Peskow   Wir halten die Erklärungen Berlins, Moskau führe angeblich einen „Schattenkrieg“ gegen Deutschland, für völlig unbegründet und durch keinerlei reale Argumente untermauert. Wir haben das bereits mehrfach gehört.   Dies ist eine Propagandastrategie, bei der Russland künstlich als vermeintlicher Feind dargestellt wird, um die Ausgaben für die Militarisierung zu rechtfertigen.   @RusBotschaft
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Merz is pushing the narrative that Russia is at war with Germany. Extremely reckless but it serves his objective of military Keynsianism and it distracts from his disasterous policies.
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In den meisten Ländern Europas werden hohe Beamte, Minister und auch Staatschefs durchaus regelmäßig wegen Straftaten angeklagt und verurteilt. In Deutschland passiert dies üblicherweise nur, wenn man die Regierunglinie kritisiert hat, wie durch BND-Chef-Hanning, der wohl in Haft sterben soll, da er sicher (zu) viel zu erzählen hätte.
Man sollte sich unbedingt mal den Ex-BND-Chef August Hanning anhören, der mEn ziemlich glaubhaft erklärt, warum er der Meinung ist, dass es Verabredung zwischen den höchsten Spitzen in der Ukraine und Polen bezüglich der Sprengung der #Nordstream Pipeline gab
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Hanjo Girke retweeted
Gestern fragte ich meine israelische Freundin @efenigson nach FlyDubai. Sie ist Journalistin, wurde 2022 vom „Wall Street Journal” als Top Tech Leader ausgezeichnet und lehnte es rundweg ab, eine derart armselige PsyOp zu kommentieren. Trotzdem, danke Efrat! Hintergrund: Efrat findet es lustig, dass einige an solch einen Stuss glauben. Ich finde es traurig, dass dies in Deutschland sogar die überwältigende Mehrheit tut. Sie glauben nicht nur an den heldenhaften Klempner, der 12 Stunden später noch immer ein blutverschmiertes Hemd vor der Kamera trägt, sondern auch an den Leipziger Drohnentöter aus dem Bus. An die Epstein-Gates-Seuche sowieso. Einige, die mich 2020 als „Mörder” attackierten, schreiben mir nun, ok, ich hätte damals Recht gehabt, aber jetzt ... In Israel hingegen laufen knallharte KI-Videos, in denen der Captain und der Terrorist auf dem Flugzeug tänzelnd kämpfen, nach Art von „Fluch der Karibik”. Ich habe lange überlegt, aber so etwas kann ich meiner deutschen Kundschaft nicht zumuten.
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German media are already reporting that the "foreign power" in question is "not Russia", and Hanning sits on the advisory board of "United Against Nuclear Iran" (chaired by Jeb Bush) as well as Israeli cybersecurity firm WHEN Group, so I'd expect this story to die quickly.
Germany’s former foreign intelligence chief August Hanning has been arrested on suspicion of treason and accused of selling state secrets to a foreign power ft.trib.al/urgwtQt
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Es geht nicht „nur“ um einen Parlamentspräsidenten: Die Abstimmung heute in Magdeburg ist die Vorbereitung für die Wahl von Siegmund zum Ministerpräsidenten Sachsen-Anhalts - also die Machtübernahme einer rechtsextremen Partei. Und ein weiterer Schritt zur bundesweiten Normalisierung der AfD.
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It's worse than that. The real history of the Budapest Memorandum is not known (or is conveniently ignored). If it was, Sir Jacob's argument would be instantly exposed as a canard. Even @RnaudBertrand doesn't quite grasp it in his (excellent and worth reading) post below. The Budapest Memorandum *also* covered Belarus and Kazakhstan (who also gave up 'their' nuclear weapons, and who signed essentially identical, parallel documents at the same time as Ukraine signed its). All the documents contained a clause in which the USA, the UK and Russia promised "...to refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by [Ukraine/Belarus/Kazakhstan] of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind." When the United States imposed sanctions on Belarus in early 2013, Minsk complained bitterly to the US State Department that the sanctions directly contravened the Budapest Memorandum (rightly so, given any reasonable reading of the text possible). Washington's official response was that these sanctions didn't count. What the US State Department argued was that its policy to economically coerce Belarus to do what the US wanted was not in fact against the spirit of an agreement in which the US agreed "to refrain from economic coercion to...secure advantages of any kind" because, in this case, the US had unilaterally decided that this was to the benefit of Belarussians. (The Memorandum of course included no such caveats.) In case this argument was not sufficiently decisive, however, the US State Department also said that, as far as it was concerned, "the Memorandum is not legally binding." I am not arguing that the US was the only guilty party here. But ask yourself this: If way back in 2013 the US believed it could break the Memorandum whenever it thought it was justified in doing so, and that the Memorandum was anyway not legally binding and so offered no legal constraints on US action, why do many British politicians (Sir Jacob is in the majority) contend that the Memorandum is a hard, legally binding, inviolable commitment to defend Ukraine? The answer, of course, is that it offers a patina of legality and moral force (one must fulfill one's promises!) to justify something that our elites wanted to do anyway -- hoping, of course, that nobody would bother reading the text or learning the history of the Budapest Memorandum. And, of course, nobody who actually counts does read the Memorandum or learn its history in action! None many of the politicians in whose hands we place decisions of war and peace. They just think it sounds about right and that it suits their prejudices, so they repeat it rote. Not our Press, whose job it is in a free, democratic society to explore and parse such matters so they may present them in clear terms to the engaged citizen while holding the powerful to account. The Press, on the contrary -- increasingly credulous as they are, increasingly seeing themselves as activists rather than journalists as they do -- also swallow it whole and repeat the narrative rote. Sadly, despite @TuckerCarlson's scepticism, he was not sufficiently prepared, so he was unable to make the above argument. Had he done so, he would have exposed Sir Jacob as ignorant or dishonest (one hopes the former, at which stage a man as honorable as I believe Sir Jacob is would have done the intellectually honest thing and reassessed his position on the matter). So, I guess it's up to people here to look into these matters and try to present the truth to our tiny followings. Not ideal: I don't have a sub-editor. But what's left?
Rees-Mogg actually lied through his teeth in that part of the interview: he claims that, in a treaty, America "guaranteed" Ukraine's territorial integrity, making it "inviolable", as a "quid pro quo" for giving up its nuclear weapons. This is completely false. The treaty he refers to is the so-called "1994 Budapest Memorandum", whose full text you can read here: nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/defa… What the U.S. (alongside Russia and the UK, the other signatories) did commit to is "to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine," to refrain from the threat or use of force against it, and to refrain from economic coercion. These are promises about each signatory's own behavior: the US promised not to violate Ukraine's borders ITSELF, it did NOT guarantee their inviolability against anyone else - contrary to what Rees-Mogg is saying. Steven Pifer, one of the US negotiators, wrote about this in an article he titled "Budapest Memorandum Myths" for Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation (cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/news/…). He writes that the claim that "the United States and Britain violated their Budapest commitments by not going to war against Russia on Ukraine’s behalf" - what Rees-Mogg is essentially saying - is "a myth." In another article he wrote for CNN in 2014 (edition.cnn.com/2014/03/04/o…) the same Pifer explains that "U.S. negotiators — myself among them — discussed this point [i.e. the absence of security guarantees] in detail with Ukrainian counterparts so that there would be no misunderstanding." The only thing the U.S. (and the other signatories) committed to do if Ukraine was attacked was "to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine" - and even that only in case of an aggression "in which nuclear weapons are used." And the U.S. did go to the Security Council, but given that Russia is a permanent member of the same UN Security Council, it's of course completely useless. Rees-Mogg is also lying on the other half of the supposed "quid pro quo": the fact that Ukraine supposedly agreed to get rid of "its nuclear weapons," emphasis on the "its." The nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil were never theirs to keep, and they never had operational control of the weapons: the launch authority was always in Moscow and, even if Ukraine had wanted to launch the weapons, they couldn't have because they didn't have the launch codes. As Ramesh Thakur, former Assistant Secretary-General of the UN, explained in a 2014 article titled "the myth of Ukraine’s nuclear deterrent" (opencanada.org/the-myth-of-u…), the bombs on Ukraine's soil "were always Russian bombs that happened to be based in Ukraine" and "were not in fact Ukrainian, any more than NATO nuclear weapons stored on West European soil or U.S. bombs that used to be kept in South Korea belonged to the countries on whose territory they were located." So there you have it, Rees-Mogg is your classic Eton-educated British politician: extremely posh and very well-spoken, supremely confident in everything he asserts, and... a shameless liar, peddling thoroughly debunked myths.
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By far the most annoying part about war propaganda is the shameless hypocrisy
Shocked that Russia hits back — Zelensky Zelensky says he is "simply in shock" that Russia is "freely, openly" striking hubs, data centers, and mobile communications. He cannot imagine why Putin would do this. Maybe because Putin had enough? When Zelensky started bombing civilian targets, that ended Putin’s patience. Naturally, Putin goes all the way and destroys everything NATO typically destroys (bridges, factories, trains, TV studios, embassies, etc.). Putin does nothing NATO has not done before, with them as a role model, so to speak (🤡). Is Zelensky shocked by what NATO did in Serbia, Iraq, and Libya?
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au weia 😍
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Simon was just found dead.
I am the British whistleblower who reported evidence concerning Howard Lutnick, his links to Jeffrey Epstein, and Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC to the FBI in 2020–21. Listen to the BBC File on 4 documentary about my whistleblower story: bbc.com/audio/play/m002yx47 BBC News: bbc.com/news/articles/c9q28d… I later shared evidence with the House Oversight Committee, which subsequently questioned Lutnick behind closed doors. My disclosures also contributed to regulatory action in the US and UK, including a £96m HMRC tax assessment relating to BGC’s partnership scheme. I believe the true tax exposure is substantially higher. I also reported to the FBI and financial regulators matters involving Cantor Fitzgerald’s Relief Fund and BGC/Cantor’s annual 9/11 Charity Day. The personal consequences of whistleblowing, and the retaliation I say followed, have been devastating for my family and me. Mother Jones previously reported that documents I uncovered revealed a years-long business tie between Howard Lutnick, Cantor Fitzgerald and Jeffrey Epstein through AdFin, including a 2018 exchange in which Lutnick and Epstein discussed the company directly: motherjones.com/politics/202… motherjones.com/politics/202… Follow me here on X and on LinkedIn. I intend to share more of the evidence and the story behind what happened.
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🇩🇪🇷🇺 Merz’s words decoded: “You have to give up your leverage over us Mr Putin, and give us time to rearm Ukraine … then we can start talking with you after we have rebuild our negotiating leverage and made Ukraine strong again, because then we are in a stronger position for talks”
🇩🇪🇷🇺🇺🇦 Germany’s Chancellor Merz begs Putin for a ceasefire and promises talks on (unclear) topics once Russia stops the war, without signaling even a slight concession. Talk about what? The same demands Foreign Minister Wadephul read to Lavrov at the UN, receiving the mockery? They have demanded a ceasefire before talks for over a year, hence they wasted enough time for multiple deals. Shameless posturing, nothing more … no real intention in talking.
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