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.

It does contradict the Israel narrative of how they would have things under control.

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.

That is an important question indeed. IIRC. in January there was numbers of -40% and more. If that was month to month, fine, but if it was year to year in that month it would indicate sales to recover.

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.

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”.

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.

I think it would be trivial for the US to bury some bunkers in the desert, choke them full of cameras and sensors and test their bombs on them.

There is no reason why this kind of weapon would be needed to be “life tested” to understand its effects.

Systems that directly compete with defensive systems, weapons on soldiers, tactics and so on need to be tested in actual combat sure.

The only thjng the US learned here is that Iran is not capable of shooting down B2s, which isnt all that surprising.

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.

For the same reason they are rich. It is a network that is looking out after each other and protecting their class interests. You go there you shake some hands, exchange some numbers and strike a deal or two.

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.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN in a statement: “This alleged assessment is flat-out wrong and was classified as ‘top secret’ but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community. The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program. Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.”

Everything else aside. I can’t get over the fact that the White House is now communicating like a teenager getting high with his friends.

Yes i know. But after Iran Israel will move to the next country, most likely an Arab country again, to attack.

War happens, and countries will get flattened within weeks by a coalition

Why didn’t the US and UK and France flatten OPEC at its inception? Why did the US fail in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan?

The military might of the US can flatten a lot, no doubt about it, but it cannot build something to its benefit after, unless it is some smaller countries.

And what happens if the Oil and Gas are cut off to the US and its allies? Even if the US is producing enough by now to cover itself domestically, it would need to jump in for all its allies, unless it wants to loose them. And well, they cannot product this much.

The US couldn’t win in Iraq. They couldn’t win in Afghanistan.

There is no way they would “win” when the flow of Oil and Gas gets cut off for them, the Gulfs are closed for them and the closest place to stage their airforce would be in Cyprus. The US could use its navy to deny oil and gas to everyone else too, but that would bring the rest of the world against them too. To properly reestablish control, they would need boots on the ground. This would require millions, maybe tens of millions of soldiers. Just between Iran, Iraq, Syria, Saudi, Yemen and Egypt and the Gulf states that is about 350 million people. Add Turkiye, Sudan, Libya, Algeria and Morocco and you get some more 250 million more on top.

In such a scenario the US would most likely sacrifice Israel.

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.