It certainly seems to be a disproportionate issue in Berlin.

Berlin has the largest Arab population and a relatively stronger “radical” left compared to other cities. Berlin also has the largest Zionist population in Germany and Zionist lobby organizations are most present in Berlin, both for historic reasons and as Berlin is the capital city.

The current mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner is a Machiavellian opportunist and a Ethno-nationalist. He won the last state level elections after he called for police to release the first names of juvenile suspects, so that people could judge if those juvenile suspects were “real Germans” or “just German citizens”. The current government also is reactionary in many other aspects such as stopping the expansion of public transport and bicycle infrastructure, slashing funding for social programs and cultural institutions and the like. The claim that it would bring order to the notoriously dysfunctional public administration of Berlin at the same time keeps being disappointed, while the cost of living also keeps exploding.

So you have a racist and repressive government, which has allied with and tokenized the Zionist lobby early on, in particular the Axel Springer media, and is failing in most regards of governance. It has a vested interest in presenting itself as successful and Berlin under threat from “Islamist migrants” and “extreme leftists”, against which is protects the city. This meets a large population of people who suffer directly as their friends and relatives are being slaughtered and a left scene that won’t relent easily to government repression, most notably at two of the three large universities. The left scene in Berlin is also more international, so the “antideutsch” pro-Israel “left” is relatively weaker, albeit not less confrontational.

I hope this gives an idea, of the factors coming into play. In regards to general police violence against progressive causes, Berlin police is bad, but we see similar from police in other states of Germany. So i think the terrible state of the Berlin police does not explain, why things are worse in Berlin, because other police in Germany is equally terrible.

One final notion: While we saw student encampments and later occupations at the Freie Universität and Humboldt Universität escalate, we did not see similar at the Technische Universität. The President of the Technische Universität has been more open to dialogue with students and not thought escalatory measures, when the FU and HU had the police evict peaceful protest camps. (which turned out to be unlawful iirc.)

I think the article is heavily misinformed.

The article ignores one obvious difference that requires a different approach. Nazi Germany was not nuclearly armed. Russia is. Unlike the Soviet tanks rolling unto Berlin from the East and American tanks rolling through large parts of Western Germany, such a scenario for Moscow will not happen.

Furthermore the claim that others wars would be irrelevant for the “global order” and therefore should not be considered or compared is extremely stupid. What the author believes to be a “free world order” and its wars are as much shaped by Western imperialism, like Russias invasion of Ukraine is by Russian imperialism.

We see a reemergence of two blocs, with Russia getting unlikely allies with Iran, North Korea and China, who are less concerned about a common ideology and more about what they perceive as a common enemy. Ukraine, West Asia and South East Asia are all linked. It is in the best interest of Ukraine to delink them, which wont happen as the US made it clear that Ukraine has to play to their tune if it doesnt want to be abandoned alltogether.

To get back to the claim that Russia would be more dangerous than Nazi Germany, Nazi Germany steamrolled Poland, the Benelux countries and half of France. The population was much younger and much more militarised. Germany allied with Finland, Italy and Spain, giving it much better geographic conditions.

Meanwhile Russia seems to slowly win in Ukraine, but it seems rather unlikely that it will shurn out 20 million soldiers, tens of thousands of modern tanks, fighter jets and other equipment it currently lacks in Ukraine to invade western Europe all of a sudden.

Finally the claim of the author that the military threat by Russia would be underestimated is just wrong as the EU countries pledged to spent a trillion on upgrading their military capeabilities in the next years.

The EU and US need to expand sanctions and properly enforce them. Ukraine needs further military aid, but the only scenario in which Russia becomes more dangerous than the Nazisz is if it decides to use its nuclear arsenal. And to prevent that, it is crucial that Russia can end this war without its cities in ruins and territory occupied.

At the sit-in I attended in February 2024 against the bloody propaganda peddled by Axel Springer, which participates in illegal investments in settlements in the West Bank, I was made to watch a policeman choke my wife until the blood drained from her face and she struggled to breathe. She was then accused of assault and resistance in a country whose police force has been under years-long scrutiny by Amnesty International, other human rights organizations and various bodies of the United Nations for widespread excessive brutality, corruption, abduction of minors and removal of freedom of expression and assembly.

In these moments, my line of vision was replaced by a portal of time, melted between today and the 1940s, flooded by fury and the chill of fascism, as I sat on the same ground where my family’s blood is less than a century dry. As my wife was dragged away by her feet by the German cops, I ran after her, screaming in panic, the last thing I saw being her red face with the white-knuckled hands of a German police officer wrapped around her neck. As I tried to reach her, another cop tried to cut me off. I grabbed the cop’s wrist, snapped her arm to her side, and smacked her square in the face.

Thereafter, I was tackled by 4 or 5 officers, pulled out of the demonstration and quickly went into a state of catatonic shock, thinking that the German state could have just killed my wife. We were locked in a police van and thankfully reunited in the next hour or so, then thrown into jail for 6-7 hours and repeatedly denied the opportunity to call a lawyer. (This is, sickeningly, a resoundingly tame breach of German law as far as Berlin is concerned. The Berlin police are a force that enjoys weekly, sometimes daily, savage attacks on demonstrators – as well as the medics who attempt to reach them to provide care – until they are bloodied on the sidewalks or beaten unconscious behind closed van doors for sport.)

I make no apology for the blind rage that consumed me in response to this psychological, generational and institutionalized torment. My and my community’s participation in an act of entirely justified, legitimate civil disobedience should not have been necessary, save for the genocidal complicity of the German state in the extermination campaign in Palestine. I am not sorry for responding with rage to watching and experiencing violent domination by unreconstructed Zionist police officers in the face of the annihilation and slaughter of our siblings in Palestine. Rage is the righteous defense of those left with nothing else to reach for but their own humanity.

Unfortunately this is consistent with what i have witnessed at many demonstrations in Germany. Police deliberately seeks to escalate tensions by random acts of heinous violence. In particular women and minors are targeted as the police relies on the basic human decency of people not to stand by idly when a group of men is violating a women or minor. Once people try to step in, all hell breaks loose as the police now gets to storm into demonstrations beating anyone and everyone, shoving people over and on their way back collecting the people that fell for arrest. This often includes chocking them, police sitting on their backs to prevent them from breathing, beating them further as they are already surrounded and restrained by 4-6 police officers.

I have seen Antizionist-Jewish activists, who publicly identify as Jews and wear a kippah being beaten and dragged into arrest using pain grips

Despite dozens of videos showing the police violence after every demonstration, despite emergency services sometimes having to set up tents as a “field hospital” to treat the large number of casualties amongst the demonstrating people, German mainstream media subsequently reports the demonstrators as violent and rarely talks about any police violence. Particularly problematic is the Axel Springer Verlag, who has their “reporters” closely cooperating with the police in Berlin to make sure they get the right scenes in to claim violence against the police. This includes their “reporters” to insult and provoke demonstrators to escalate tensions themselves. At one demonstration i saw a “reporter” groping a minor. Despite numerous witnesses telling the police what happened and where the perpetrator was sitting after, the police refused to arrest him, or even question him.

EDIT: The Axel Springer reporter i mean is “Iman Sefati”. Instead of his behaviour being questioned by his colleagues he is paraded around as a hero and victim of violent extremists in German mainstream media. He is of Iranian descent and as his father was executed by the Iranian regime, he is a key figure to the narratives of what are “good” and “evil” immigrants in Germany.

There also has been cases where people increasingly used cryptocurrencies as their national currency was subject to instability and severe inflation. Usually the governments cracked down on it hard, like in Turkiye.

https://apnews.com/article/technology-financial-markets-turkey-bitcoin-1c7a8fed08bd9cbb1211bfdee66fcd88

It should also be bullshit in most if not all countries.

Yeah, this has a criminal component of endangering train traffic and putting hundreds of lives at risk.

This is not merely fraud or property damage. This should be seen in the context of attempted homicide.

The problem is that the Democrats are as crucial to them being the “only choice” as are the Republicans. And we see how they still fight tooth and nails to prevent progressives being put on the ballot from inside the party.

At some point you got accept that repairing your old heap of crap car is more expensive than getting a new on, where the old rusty parts aren’t constantly making the replacement parts rust away too.

Don’t the people in those countries use a proxy to access tor first? probably that means cycling through the proxies regularly as they become known. I have no doubt that it is impossible to prevent truly tech savvy people from access. Also Russia, Iran and China all run state sanctioned hackers, so the governments have a vested interest in allowing these groups to obscure where they are coming from.

But i am not sure how much that transpires to a broader public.

The anti-terror unit needs to fill its new vacancies first. Do you know ho many enforcers it takes to arrest a single man in a wheelchair?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8p6Log2E9Q

In my English textbook, ca. 2007 there was a comic of a child in a cage hanging outside the house. The father told the neighbor something like “This way they get out of the house, but stay off the streets.”

I think that hit quite well, what many consider parenting in the UK.

I am pretty sure they would consider tor as using a VPN.

Probably they would demand ISPs to run lists of known VPN addresses and if you connect to them, they will forward the information to the anti-terrorism unit and you will get SWATed.

We are still nowhere near the peak. I remember 1 EUR = 1.50 USD times.

A strong Euro makes imports cheaper, but exports more expensive. I don’t know if this is good for us economically right now or not. Overall the best thing would be for the USD to loose its status as the global reserve and resource trade currency.

He kept saying this since half a year. Then he pulled the rug in June saying he would only do that, after negotiations, full well knowing that Israel doesn’t want to negotiate for a Palestinian state. It is the same “two state solution” trope that the other genocide supporters like US, UK and Germany pull, knowing that there never will be a negotiated “two state solution” unless Israel is reigned in significantly.

Macron is a notorious liar and the only way for him to be taken serious, is when he actually does something and there is evidence it has happened. There is no reason why France would need another two months to formalize this. As they have claimed to work towards it for half a year already, there is no reason to believe that they haven’t looked at the organizational aspects of it already. If Macron actually wanted to recognize Palestine as a state he could do it by the end of next week.

Can anyone point to a new nuclear power project in EU (or former EU) countries since the 2000s that was somewhat on time and in budget?

The US has been an oligarchy for a long time. It was only briefly interrupted by short periods of democracy.

Heck, many EU states are still monarchies, with a representative system slapped on top. As long as there is something like a “royal family” whose privileged status is inherited, the country shouldn’t be considered a democracy. Equality in the face of the law is a core principal of democracy and any formal royal family is a clear violation of that.

I mean, using fur or hide of normally hunted animals as a mean to make use of as much of the animal as possible is fine.

Breeding animals or hunting them solely for the fur is completely messed up and should not be allowed.

You dont need an ICC warrant to arrest people suspected of war crimes. States have an obligation to investigate such crimes even without the ICC involved, when they have reason to believe someone inside their jurisdiction has committed such crimes. This is not limited to their own citizens but anyone inside their jurisdiction.

Ironically the concept of universal jurisdiction also is a result of Israel abducting Adolf Eichmann in Argentinia and bringing him to Jerusalem for prosecuting his crimes as one of the key SS figures behind the Holocaust.

I would think that credible evidence of foreign agent activity can be prosecuted without infringing on the independence of the institution.

Of course it is possible that an institution is beyond reproach, but i would find that unlikely for institutions just a decade old and probably started with anti-russian loyalists as the corruption to clear out back then was pro Russia focused corruption.

So i think of this to be concerning as they probably uncovered some actual corruption of Zelensky or people close to Zelensky.

Ohh. I hope Armenia manages to make better friends than Russia. On the other hand Azerbaijans regime needs to go, and i am not sure if this means Russia and Azerbaijan getting closer.

Or do you think its naive to think a pact based on defense won’t be used for attacking?

This is the key point. Military people will never think that about any pact they arent part of.