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Kurze Wochenzusammenfassung, was ich in dieser Woche von der CDU wahrgenommen habe: - Raus aus dem Landtag in MV - Kinderkrankentage kürzen - Spahns Urlaub trotz Krankschreibung auf Sardinien - Strandkorb bei Amthor auf der Dachterrasse - Reiche nennt die Deutschen Jammerlappen - Stolpersteinverbot zusammen mit der AfD in Heidenau - Vorschlag aus Sachsen das Grundrecht auf Asyl zu streichen Ich kann mich ja irren, aber so richtig rund läuft es aktuell nicht für die Union, oder? Könnte ganz vielleicht am handelnden Personal und der mangelnden Führung liegen. Aber was weiß ich schon. 🙄🙄🙄
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Wochenlang erzählen uns Politiker, Wirtschaftsverbände und Talkshows, Vergesellschaftung sei unbezahlbar, wirtschaftsfeindlich & praktisch der Untergang Berlins. Jetzt kommt eine Studie von Ökonomen des IMK (@pat_kaczmarczyk, @tom_krebs_ ,@SDullien sowie @AchimTruger) und rechnet vor: Doch, es ist finanzierbar. Rund 210.000 Wohnungen. Etwa 13,5 Milliarden Euro Entschädigung. Finanzierung ohne Kürzungen im Berliner Haushalt möglich. Laufende Erträge können den Kapitaldienst tragen. Natürlich löst das allein nicht den Wohnungsmangel. Neubau bleibt nötig. Aber dieses ständige Gerede von der angeblich ökonomisch völlig irren „Enteignungsfantasie“ wird damit ziemlich dünn. Es funktioniert. Man muss es nur politisch wollen.
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Um es ein für alle Mal klarzustellen: Islam ist eine Religion. Judentum ist eine Religion. Islamismus ist eine politische Ideologie mit extremistischen Strömungen. Zionismus ist eine politische Ideologie mit extremistischen Strömungen. Antimuslimischer Rassismus ist ein strukturelles Problem. Antisemitismus ist ein strukturelles Problem. Kritik an Islamismus ist kein Rassismus. Kritik an israelischer Regierungspolitik ist kein Antisemitismus. Ende der Ansage.
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Dem ist eigentlich nichts hinzuzufügen!
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RT @Climate_Inform: Habeck wurde gezielt von der US-Firma KKR diffamiert, weil er KKR Milliardengeschäfte verhagelt hat. KKR verkauft Öl,…
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Der Shitstorm auf die Linke ist meines Erachtens Ausdruck einer hysterischen Angst von Vermögenden, dass ihnen ihr Geld, ihre Macht und ihr Wohlstand weggenommen wird. Unter dem Strich ist das nicht begründet. Sie haben Ihre Vermögen durch Demokratie und soziale Marktwirtschaft erlangt, nicht durch Anarchokapitalismus. Und wenn jemand mit 200 Millionen 20 für den Staat gibt, also die Gemeinheit, oder ein Milliardär 100 Millionen, so ändert das am Wohlstand und den Lebensbedingungen dieser Person gar nichts. Es ist eine Kopffrage, die diese soziale Tat als ganz schlimmen Verlust empfinden lässt. Es ist also eine Sucht nach mehr Geld bzw. Vermögen. Es muss immer mehr sein. Es ist eine Suchtkrankheit und die Hetze auf Links ist ein Ausdruck von Angst, die Droge Geld zukünftig nicht mehr zu erhalten. Meine Gedanken dazu...
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Sowas sorgt für die Frustration an der deutschen Politik.
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Ursula von der Leyen announced this week that everyone in the EU must use the official EU age verification app to verify their age before they can log into or post on social media and other digital services. As an expert in online child safety, I'm here to expose the disinformation in each von der Leyen's statements. See below. 🇪🇺 The EU Kids Act is a pretext designed to enforce mandatory digital identity verification on everyone in Europe. The proposed legislation applies to any digital service featuring feeds, user generated content, or messaging: Social media networks, video platforms, online gaming services, AI tools, and media streaming apps like Spotify. (@TimSweeneyEpic) Under the proposal, digital services must enforce age restrictions across strict tiers. Tech companies must mandate age verification across all accounts to enforce these tiers legally. When Australia introduced its social media ban, the government conceded it failed because platform level age checks weren’t reliable. They now reject age estimation as inadequate and shifted to demanding "robust" age checking. 💡 If you eliminate every unproven estimation method, you’re left with exactly 1 functional mechanism: identity verification. There's not other way to ensure age checking is "robust". No government wants to admit citizens must prove their real identity just to access apps and basic streaming services like Spotify, so they hide behind the ambiguous phrase "robust age checking". This language is now used across Australia, the US, and Ireland to mandate identity checks while avoiding the public backlash of calling it what it is. I will research to see where else it’s being used. Below is what Ursula von der Leyen told the European Parliament in Strasbourg along with my analsyis: 🇪🇺 "Today, much of this power has been taken out of the hands of parents... What our children need is time... But when a child has a smartphone, all of this is taken away." 💡 This framing falsely presents smartphones as uncontrollable. Apple and Google built free OS controls into iOS and Android settings, covering virtually every smartphone on the market. These controls achieve every legitimate safety objective without collecting personal data or processing state credentials. 💡 Millions of parents use these parental controls to enforce screen time curfews, block app installations, and restrict communication. 💡 These settings operate at the device level. Teens can't bypass them when protected with a passcode. To bypass this technical reality, the European Commission uses public grief to shut down logical analysis: 🇪🇺 "Day and night, parents see the costs, loss of sleep, anxiety, even self-harm, and in a growing number of cases, even fatal tragedies… a 14-year-old girl living in Belgium who took her life exactly one month ago, victim of bullying online... Honourable members, enough is enough." 💡 Citing personal tragedies replaces software engineering facts with emotional rhetoric. State laws and age gates don’t alter human behaviour or prevent online harassment. Regulators exploit grief to pass surveillance legislation without explaining how the underlying software mechanisms operate. The Commission outlines specific age tiers to restrict access: 🇪🇺 "In sum, no social media under the age of 13. No personal account under the age of 15. That means from 13 to under 15, only mini accounts set up and supervised by parents or guardians with limited features and time restriction to one hour a day. And between 15 and 18, safe design will be an obligation for the platforms." 💡 Enforcing age tiers forces tech companies and service providers to rebuild their architecture around total access control. The must disable self-service account creation, purge unverified accounts, build supervised parental workflows, strip algorithmic feeds, and enforce strict session cutoffs. 💡 Social networks operate on open interaction algorithms that inherently expose people to unvetted content. Because software can’t dynamically filter these risks for minors, tech companies must block access for everyone until a person proves their real identity. 💡 It’s not just about social networks. They want the same bans for almost everything, including games and stream services. Even Spotify because it’s possible for customers to message people. The Commission claims its proposed zero knowledge proof app protects personal privacy: 🇪🇺 "Age will be verified using EU certified tools like our age verification app. This app is built on zero knowledge proof. That means that the platform only learns one single thing, and that's whether you're old enough to allow access or not." 💡 This framing describes what an app or service receives while hiding what everyone must give up. A zero knowledge proof provides a mathematical confirmation, but that confirmation requires an authoritative issuer. Before the app generates a proof, a state approved entity must verify the person's real identity. The Commission frames this shift as a victory against tech corporations: 🇪🇺 "I am aware that many perceive the power of Big Tech as overwhelming and impossible to roll back. I disagree... So we do not accept this. We are reversing the burden of proof. Now platforms will have to prove to us that they are safe. Because this is not about our minors accessing social media. It is about when and how we allow social media to access our minors." 💡 Social networks don’t access children; parents hand smartphones to children. Reversing the burden of proof forces everyone to verify their identity. The European Commission confirmed the broader scope of this mandate: 🇪🇺 "We also know that not only minors are at risk. Addictive design, for example, are harming everyone. This is why we need a wider framework too, the Digital Fairness Act that we will propose in autumn." 🚨 Child safety is merely the initial wedge. The Digital Fairness Act expands state mandated identity verification to adults across all online services. Binding real identities to online activity permanently eliminates pseudonymous access, private communication, and democratic accountability. 🚨 Senior state officials and regulators know their demands have nothing to do with child safety. They work closely with tech companies and understand that iOS and Android already provide complete authority to restrict devices locally without collecting personal data. State officials deliberately ignore well established parental controls because they keep internet access under family control. Child safety is a public pretext. 🚨 Governments and regulators use child safety to establish mandatory identity verification across every app and digital service, eliminating online anonymity. When tech companies and state agencies link every social media post, private message, search term, geographic location, and financial transaction to a verified identity, they create a permanent digital dossier on every citizen with a global social graph that makes Cambridge Analytica look like a 2nd grade school science project. 💡 Binding people’s identity to daily activity enables predictive behavioural modelling too. By feeding identity data into automated predictive AI, governments, intelligence agencies, law enforcement, and tech companies move beyond surveillance past behaviour. They can map political affiliations, predict individual actions, flag dissent before it occurs, and control public opinion at scale. Eliminating online anonymity ends free speech, private communication, and democratic accountability. As Larry Ellison stated at Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting in 2024: "Citizens will be on their best behaviour, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on". 🙏🏻 Share this to expose how governments use child safety as a false pretext to force mandatory digital identity verification on everyone. paulfwalsh.substack.com/p/th…
Every day our children are engaging with some of the most sophisticated technology ever created. Technology that was not created with their wellbeing in mind. We need to set clear boundaries in the digital world. This is what our KIDS Act will do ↓ nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1RJZzBnnb…
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Tja!
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Replying to @MaximalesD
Ü.B.E.R.G.E.W.I.N.N.S.T.E.U.E.R Alles andere wäre wieder eine Umverteilung von Volk zum Konzern.
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Liebe Verbrenner-Aktivisten, fahrt euren Verbrenner bis zum bitteren Ende, kauft euch auch gerne noch einen Neuen. Ist ja alles dank 🇩🇪 Intervention auch nach 2035 noch möglich. Aber fangt bitte endlich an, Verantwortung für eurer Handeln zu übernehmen. Ertragt die Folgen von Trump, Iran und Huthi-Rebellen und fordert nicht sofort in sozialistischer Manier nach der schützenden Hand des Staates, sobald der Spritpreis mal wieder “völlig unerwartet“ an der 2,50 Euro Marke kratzt. Vielen Dank🙏
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You can’t recycle wind turbines. If you’ve ever said this, or believed someone that’s said it, look away now. Do not continue reading if you know it’s going to trigger you. It is one of the favourite arguments against renewable energy, and it has just taken a hit. Scotland’s first commercial wind farm has been decommissioned after operating since 1995. So what happened to all that supposedly “unrecyclable” green technology? 79.5% of it was recycled. 20.4% was reused and repurposed for future spare parts. Less than 0.1% went to landfill. That’s 99.9% recycled or reused. “But the blades! What about the blades?!” Those were processed into a new polymer material that can be used as an alternative to timber, concrete and virgin plastics in construction. It gets worse for the weird anti-renewables crowd… The original wind farm needed 26 turbines. The replacement? Just 14 modern turbines, producing around FIVE TIMES the generating capacity of the original site. Enough electricity equivalent to the annual needs of around 57,000 homes. Of course, this doesn’t mean wind turbines have zero environmental impact. Nothing does. But the next time somebody tells you we’ll have millions of wind turbine blades dumped in landfill while insisting we should continue extracting, transporting and burning fossil fuels forever… Send them this post.
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Replying to @Perowinger94
Am kommenden Sonntag können sich die Berliner einen menschenfreundlichen Senat wählen nach 4 Jahren Autofetisch der #CDU!
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🎯🎯🎯🤬🤬
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Wow. Researchers at Leiden university and TU Delft university in the Netherlands accuse TU Munich of "gross mispresentation" of their findings in the TUM press release of last week, which attacked EU regulations on vehicle emissions linkedin.com/pulse/misinterp…
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We’re Americans and we have none of these things. But our president is getting a ballroom, an arch, has enriched himself off his office because we have people in this country who believed all the lies and a Congress and Supreme Court that enable him. We’ll never have nice things
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Krass: Nach Paris gibt es jetzt auch aus London Auswertungen darüber wie die Verkehrspolitik der letzten zehn Jahre die Luftqualität in der 🇬🇧 Hauptstadt verändert hat. Das Ergebnis ist nicht weniger beeindruckend: Lange war London für seine schlechte Luft berüchtigt. Große Teile der Stadt überschritten regelmäßig die Grenzwerte. Doch dann wurde 2016 der Labour Politiker Sadiq Khan neuer Bürgermeister. Der Beginn der Londoner Verkehrswende: - 2020: Einführung einer der strengsten Umweltzonen der Welt in der Innenstadt - 2023: Ausweitung der Umweltzone auf ganz London - Ausweitung der City-Maut auf 7 Tage die Woche - Erhöhung der City-Maut von 13€ auf 21€ - Anschaffung von 1300 E-Bussen - Vervierfachung der Radwege von 90km auf 400km - 600.000 neue Bäume gepflanzt und 900 Hektar neue Grünflächen geschaffen. Das Ergebnis: In 10 Jahren hat sich die Luftqualität um 49% verbessert. Das Überschreiten der Grenzwerte ging um 97% zurück und die Todesfälle durch Luftverschmutzung reduzierten sich allein seit 2019 um 40%. Londons Luft ist jetzt so sauber wie noch nie seit Beginn der Messungen. So schön zu sehen, was alles geht, wenn der politische Wille da ist💪❤️
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RT @JLampeitl: Die aktuelle Empörung über die Berufung von Annalena Baerbock an die Columbia University dokumentiert vor allem die fundamen…
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