Prof. Dr. Kai-Alexander Schlevogt
RTWed, 19 Mar 2025 16:48 UTC
© Axel Schmidt/Getty ImagesGermany chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz.
After the US president signaled a tilt from the old continent, Eurobuilders spotted a new chance at aggrandizement - at Germany's expense.
When politicians vow to do "whatever it takes" (WIT), a citizen's alarm bells should ring by default. After all, this ominous set phrase - and a potent mix of catchy metaphors - have been used by many an aspiring Leviathan as a blank cheque for exorbitant, debt-financed bailouts and recovery packages, which are heavily burdening current and future generations.
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More important than making sure it enters a particular dictionary is the attempt to understand what is meant by the term. To this effort the author is making a sincere contribution, and after all, people all over the world before the time of books and dictionaries, communicated elegantly using complex grammar structures and abstract concepts.
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The EU has in recent years turned into more of an undisguised military alliance and now needs the war in Ukraine and the tension with Russia as a platform from where to justify political measures. Increased mainstreaming of the public discussion and an obstruction of power challenging oppositions on a national level, as witnessed in France, Germany and Romania has been a consequence.
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"Whatever it takes" is a cover that lends decency to totalitarian politics. But what if one day the table turns, and it is not the Euro-elites alone that proclaim but those they have oppressed and taxed in the name of "Whatever it takes"? The examples from recent European history show such a public response could still a ways off, if it will ever happen. Alternatively, something else will intervene, a new buzz, little more than an updated version of "Whatever it takes" with much of the public latching on to the newest hype as if the pattern had never played out before. The good news is, "Whatever it takes" can in terms of money grabbing and freedom restrictions not go on for ever, but where is the limit? In Ukraine some might say that once life is taken, property confiscated and the family is under pressure to go to the front, then there is little more to take. To this, a religious person might add that as long as the soul is not smashed, there is faith, hope and charity, with charity often understood as love. Another interpretation would be that rather than focusing on what is taken or not, what is the discussion about what is taken or not taken distracting us from seeing about what is going on in general among people, in society and the cosmos that surrounds us.
Allowing children to 'socially transition' at school pushes many of them toward seeking medical interventions like genital mutilation.At least 32 public school districts in Rhode Island have parental exclusion policies and refuse to notify parents if their child begins identifying as a gender different from their own.
According to a
report from Parents Defending Education (PDE), 113,452 Rhode Island students (83%) attend schools that actively hide this information from parents. PDE noted the number is likely higher, as the 32 have their policies publicly available, but the state actually enacted guidance to get all school districts to keep the critical medial information secret.
Authorities said damage at a Tesla service center in Las Vegas on Tuesday, including cars set ablaze, had "some of the hallmarks" of terrorism.
Las Vegas police said the person who used Molotov cocktails and shot rounds into the vehicles at the Tesla Collision Center, 6260 Badura Ave., was still on the loose Tuesday afternoon.
Video that captured the attack showed someone dressed in black damaging at least five Teslas — two of which were engulfed in flames — at 2:45 a.m., police said. The word "resist" was also painted on the front doors of the business, police said, and at least three gunshots were fired into the cars."This was a targeted attack against a Tesla facility," Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren said at a news briefing on Tuesday. "We do believe that it is isolated at this time."However, he said the Metropolitan Police Department had increased its presence at Tesla-related locations in the valley as a precaution.
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Wen, in a recent video, addresses the fact that many people had questions, particularly about the Covid vaccine, but were afraid to ask those questions because they might be told that their concerns were simply conspiracy theories.
In that video, Wen admits that concerns that were raised about the vaccine's impact on women's menstrual cycles are supported by studies that "have shown that there may be some changes to the menstrual period in the short term."
© Facebook/Hillary ClintonKeren Yarhi-Milo poses with Hillary Clinton during Clinton's 2023 guest teaching stint at Columbia
Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of the university's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), was abducted by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) Saturday for his role in organizing protests last year against Israel's attack on Gaza. Khalil's dean, Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo, head of the School of International and Public Affairs, is a former Israeli military
intelligence officer and official at Israel's Mission to the United Nations.
Yarhi-Milo played a significant role in drumming up public concern about a supposed wave of intolerable anti-Semitism sweeping over the campus, thereby laying the groundwork for the extensive crackdown on civil liberties that has followed the protests.Spooks in Our MidstBefore entering academia, Dr. Yarhi-Milo
served as an officer and an intelligence analyst with the Israeli Defense Forces. Given that she was recruited into the intelligence services because of her ability to speak Arabic fluently, her job likely entailed surveilling the Arab population.
© AP Photo/Andrew HarnikPresident Donald Trump awards Miriam Adelson, the wife of Las Vegas Sands Corporation Chief Executive Sheldon Adelson and Republican mega donor the Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018.
The Trump administration's effort to deport a Columbia University graduate student, Mahmoud Khalil, in retaliation for Khalil's role in campus protests opposing Israel's war in Gaza, showed the lengths the White House is prepared to go to police speech about Israel.
The administration's unprecedented decision to seek the deportation of a U.S. permanent resident without bringing any criminal charges has an overlooked ally, however: the largest financier of Trump's three presidential campaigns, Israeli-American billionaire Miriam Adelson.
Adelson's support for the administration's campaign to stifle criticism of Israel on college campuses isn't a new focus but her alignment with the levers of state powers to implement her vision are unprecedented. In fact, tax documents reveal that she is directly overseeing a social
media campaign targeting Khalil and Columbia University.
Comment: Khalil had been subject to a harrassment campaign by self appointed zionist policeman Shai Davidai
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Prof. Meirsheimer nails it:
RTTue, 18 Mar 2025 21:04 UTC
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Foreign nationals fighting alongside Ukrainian troops are continuing to suffer heavy casualties as Russian forces push out enemy invaders from Kursk Region. Over the past several weeks, Moscow has consistently reported the elimination of hundreds of Kiev's troops and foreign mercenaries in the region.
Over 15,000 foreign citizens are believed to have taken part in the fighting, according to the latest estimates provided by the acting head of the Russian delegation at talks in Vienna on military security and arms control issues, Yulia Zhdanova.
Danielle Wallace and Bonny Chu
Fox NewsMon, 17 Mar 2025 21:36 UTC
© 11Alive/YoutubeEmbattled Georgia DA Fani Willis at her hearing March 2, 2024
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been ordered to pay more than $54,000 for violating the state's open records laws in relation to the prosecution of President Donald Trump.
The county's Superior Court Judge Rachel Krause formalized her ruling Friday and ordered Willis to pay $54,264 in attorneys' fees and litigation costs after "intentionally" failing to provide records requested by Ashleigh Merchant, the attorney who filed the motion to disqualify Willis from prosecuting Trump on charges of allegedly interfering with the 2020 presidential election.
Krause stated that Willis' office failed to provide documents related to the employment of Nathan Wade, the former special assistant district attorney forced to resign from the
Trump case due to his romantic relationship with Willis.
© Lara LoomerThe former first son went on his South Africa trip with Secret Service protection after claiming he was too broke to continue suing former Trump staffer Garrett Ziegler.
Hunter Biden fled last week to South Africa for a luxury vacation— with round-the-clock Secret Service protection — avoiding a grueling deposition scheduled for this week in a California lawsuit.
California District Court Judge Herman Vera granted Hunter's motion to
dismiss the case Thursday after the former first son claimed he was too broke to continue suing former Trump staffer Garrett Ziegler and his nonprofit Marco Polo.
Photographs show Hunter Biden was already in Cape Town the day the case was dismissed.
The former first son went on his South Africa trip with Secret Service protection after claiming he was too broke to continue suing former Trump staffer Garrett Ziegler.
But photographs show Hunter was already in Cape Town the day the case was dismissed, staying in a $500-a-night beachfront villa described on its website as an "ultra-luxurious designer home with spectacular 180 degrees unobstructed views of the sea."
Comment: Laura Loomer expands on her investigation of Hunter's financial 'woes:
Tyler Durden
ZeroHedgeMon, 17 Mar 2025 14:22 UTC
© Vadim Ghirda / APDiana Sosoaca donned boxing gloves as she rallied with supporters when filing her candidacy last week
Not long after sparking outrage inside and outside the country by barring right-wing frontrunner Calin Georgescu from running in May's presidential election,
Romania has barred another populist from the contest, attributing the decision to the candidate's supposedly unacceptable policy stances and "making declarations "contrary to democratic values."
Romania's electoral commission on Saturday announced that Diana Sosoaca would be banned from competing for the country's presidency. That news is troubling enough on its face, but the Central Election Bureau's rationale makes the development all the more chilling: Sosoaca is unfit for office
because she has publicly voiced opposition to Romania's memberships in the European Union and NATO.The court said Sosoaca's stances are disqualifying because EU and NATO memberships are explicitly acknowledged in Romania's constitution. However, constitutions can be changed via legal processes, and any rational champion of democratic principles should think political candidates should be free to advocate for changes.
Comment:
1)
More important than making sure it enters a particular dictionary is the attempt to understand what is meant by the term. To this effort the author is making a sincere contribution, and after all, people all over the world before the time of books and dictionaries, communicated elegantly using complex grammar structures and abstract concepts.
2)
The EU has in recent years turned into more of an undisguised military alliance and now needs the war in Ukraine and the tension with Russia as a platform from where to justify political measures. Increased mainstreaming of the public discussion and an obstruction of power challenging oppositions on a national level, as witnessed in France, Germany and Romania has been a consequence.
3)
"Whatever it takes" is a cover that lends decency to totalitarian politics. But what if one day the table turns, and it is not the Euro-elites alone that proclaim but those they have oppressed and taxed in the name of "Whatever it takes"? The examples from recent European history show such a public response could still a ways off, if it will ever happen. Alternatively, something else will intervene, a new buzz, little more than an updated version of "Whatever it takes" with much of the public latching on to the newest hype as if the pattern had never played out before. The good news is, "Whatever it takes" can in terms of money grabbing and freedom restrictions not go on for ever, but where is the limit? In Ukraine some might say that once life is taken, property confiscated and the family is under pressure to go to the front, then there is little more to take. To this, a religious person might add that as long as the soul is not smashed, there is faith, hope and charity, with charity often understood as love. Another interpretation would be that rather than focusing on what is taken or not, what is the discussion about what is taken or not taken distracting us from seeing about what is going on in general among people, in society and the cosmos that surrounds us.