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Eine gute Zusammenfassung, die den deutschen Staat als das größte anzunehmende volkswirtschaftliche Risiko definiert. Er schafft ein weiteres Bürokratiemonster für das die Beamten, die sich das ausdachten, wahrscheinlich eine Erschwerniszulage genannte weitere Sondergratifikation bekommen. Die Logik ist denkbar einfach: Wenn die Wärmepumpe günstiger wäre, entschiede sich jeder Vermieter für diese Lösung. Dafür braucht niemand ein Gesetz. Weil sie das nicht ist, schafft man ein bürokratisches Monstrum, das mit lauter unklaren Rechtsbegriffen hantiert. Schon heute investiert nur ein Idiot in den privat finanzierten Mietwohnungsbau. Die Investition in eine Bestandsimmobilie wird mit diesem Gesetz selbst außerhalb der teuren Ballungsräume zur Black Box, die unkalkulierbare Risiken beinhaltet. Dann kann man sein Geld gleich zum Fenster rausschmeißen. Aber eine Hoffnung gibt es: In unserer desaströsen Lage ist das fast auch schon egal.

There are reports of increased NATO reconnaissance near the east coast of the Black Sea, which suggests that another "Ukrainian" attack will soon be launched. World War 3 is getting close

In 1956, a University of Utah student named Paul Rokich told his botany professors he wanted to restore the Oquirrh Mountains. They told him it was impossible. The range had experienced 50 years of logging, overgrazing, and sulfurous fumes from the Kennecott copper smelter had stripped it bare. As a kid, Rokich could see only two trees on the mountain, and both were dead. So he started sneaking onto Kennecott's land at night, planting seedlings. He worked construction to feed his family, borrowed money from relatives, and begged seed donations from garden stores. Three out of every four seedlings died. He kept planting. He did this for 17 years before Kennecott hired him in 1973 to lead the official restoration. The work he'd been doing alone for two decades became his job, with crews and helicopters. By the end of his life, Paul Rokich had personally planted 60,000 trees and shrubs across 14,000 acres. The mountains turned green again, the elk came back, and that first Russian olive he planted in 1956 grew 25 feet tall. He died in 2019 at age 85.

The strangest trick of the last century was convincing people that the food their great-grandmother cooked in her own kitchen from ingredients she could name was more dangerous than the food built in a factory by a man she will never meet from inputs she cannot pronounce. The trick worked. The results are in the waiting rooms.

An American housewife in 1955 prepared dinner, on average, six nights a week, using ingredients bought that morning from a local butcher, greengrocer, and dairy. She cooked with lard, butter, and bacon grease kept in a coffee tin by the stove, into which she poured the drippings from every batch of bacon and used the result to fry eggs the next morning. Her children consumed approximately 2,500 calories a day, spent four hours a day in unstructured outdoor play, and had a rate of childhood obesity of approximately 4%. Her great-granddaughter in 2026 orders her groceries through an app. She buys ultra-processed ready meals on the basis that she is too busy to cook. She uses canola oil because a website told her it was heart-healthy. Her children consume approximately 2,100 calories a day, spend approximately one hour a day in unstructured outdoor play, and have a rate of childhood obesity of approximately 20%. The children in 2026 are eating fewer calories than the children in 1955. The children in 2026 are five times more likely to be obese. This should be impossible. It is not impossible. It is the result. Calories-in, calories-out was the model. The model was incomplete. The children are wearing the evidence.

In the grounds of Chillingham Castle in Northumberland, behind a wall built in 1270, there is a herd of wild cattle. They have been there, in that specific park, for approximately 700 years. They are white. Small. Horned. They look vaguely like the cattle on a medieval tapestry, which is roughly what they are. The Chillingham herd is the last surviving population of genuinely wild cattle in Britain, and genetically the closest living relative of the aurochs, the wild ancestor of every domestic cow on earth. When the estate was enclosed in the 13th century, a group of cattle was trapped inside the wall. Nobody moved them. Nobody bred them with outside stock. Nobody managed them. The wall went up, the cattle kept being cattle, and the door, essentially, was never opened again. Seven centuries later, they are still there. No selective breeding. No herd improvement programme. No artificial insemination. No supplementary feed beyond what the park produces. They eat the grass. They calve unassisted. The bull fights for dominance. The old are taken by winter. The young grow up in a social structure nobody taught them. They have the lowest genetic diversity of any mammal on earth that isn't officially endangered. By every textbook in conservation genetics, they should have collapsed a dozen times over from inbreeding depression. They have not. They are, by veterinary standards, extraordinarily healthy. Disease resistance better than modern breeds. Fertility steady. Calving success high. They carry on regardless. What can be learned from Chillingham. The first is that a cattle population, left alone on land suited to them, finds its own equilibrium. No committee is required. No spreadsheet. No grass-measuring device. The cattle work it out. They have worked it out for 700 years. The second is that the park itself is a functioning ecosystem, maintained by those cattle. The wildflowers, the ancient oaks, the soil structure, the bird populations, are all shaped by continuous low-intensity grazing by a small wild herd. It is one of the most biodiverse small landscapes in England. The third, and most inconvenient to the modern argument, is that cattle and wild land are not in conflict. The Chillingham herd is wild cattle, on wild land, in steady state, for longer than most European countries have existed in their current form. They are a living contradiction to almost every modern claim made about bovines and ecosystems. They are not on anybody's emissions chart. They have never been invited to a conference. They are behind their wall, in Northumberland, quietly doing what cattle have been doing since before the Norman Conquest. They will probably still be doing it when the current debate has been forgotten.

"I switched to plant-based oils years ago. Animal fat is so unhealthy. I can't believe people still cook with it." Lovely. Let's walk through how your cooking oil was made. Then we'll walk through how tallow was made. You can decide which one sounds like food. Rapeseed oil. Step by step. Step one: harvest rapeseed. Press it. The crude oil at this stage is dark, smells strongly, and is not fit for consumption. We are going to fix this. Step two: solvent extraction. Bathe the remaining seed in hexane, a petroleum-derived solvent, to pull out the rest of the oil. Hexane is a neurotoxin. It is then evaporated off. Most of it. Residual hexane stays in the oil at levels regulators consider acceptable. Acceptable is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Step three: degumming. Add water or acid to strip out the phospholipids. The phospholipids were the most nutritionally complex part. They go in the bin. Step four: refining. Add sodium hydroxide. Caustic soda. The thing under your sink for unblocking drains. This neutralises the free fatty acids. The resulting soap is removed and discarded. Step five: bleaching. Run it through bleaching clay. The oil is still the wrong colour. We continue. Step six: deodorisation. Heat it to 270 degrees Celsius under vacuum for up to two hours. This removes the smell. It also produces trans fatty acids as a byproduct. The amount varies. It is not zero. Step seven: bottle it in clear plastic. The oil is highly polyunsaturated and will oxidise on exposure to light. The clear bottle ensures this begins immediately on the shelf. Add a picture of a sunflower. Tallow. Step by step. Step one: take the fat from the beef. Heat it gently. It melts. Impurities settle. Pour off the clean fat. Let it cool. Done. No hexane. No caustic soda. No bleaching clay. No deodorisation chamber. No trans fat byproducts. Shelf-stable at room temperature. High smoke point. Fat-soluble vitamins intact. Used as a cooking fat in Britain since people have been cooking in Britain. It does go solid in the jar. This is, apparently, the most unsettling thing a fat can do. The liquid one went through six industrial processes. The solid one went through one. Unhealthy, though. Very unhealthy.

Netherlands 🇳🇱 🚜 Dutch communities are supporting local farmers by starting food cooperatives and farmers markets to buy direct from local farms. We need more of this type of initiative in the UK.

Nicht unser Krieg?! Sie sehen hier nicht nur, dass Europa, wenn es denn nur wollte, den US-Angriffskrieg gegen den Iran aufhalten (oder zumindest erheblich erschweren) könnte, sondern auch einen sicher nicht neuen Trend, der allerdings selten mit dieser Dreistigkeit - und der totalen Komplizenschaft der Medien - durchgeführt wurde: Sie erleben die absichtsvolle Entkoppelung des (politischen) Wortes von der (politischen) Tat, das systematische Auseinanderfallen von Deklamation und Handlung. Mit anderen Worten: Sie werden nach Strich und Faden belogen. Regierungschefs SAGEN dieser Tage, was auch immer dazu nötig ist, das heimische Publikum zu beschwichtigen. Was sie derweil aber TUN oder geschehen lassen oder durch Nichttun erst ERMÖGLICHEN, hat mit den zeitgleich abgesonderten Buchstabenfanfaren nicht das Geringste mehr zu tun. Sie werden mit Gelaber abgelenkt. Und wenn Sie bemerken, was während des Gelabers tatsächlich geschehen ist und wie „in Ihrem Namen“ gehandelt wurde, ist es zu spät, (es noch aufzuhalten). Dieser Tage gilt mehr denn je: Achten Sie nicht darauf, was ein Akteur SAGT, sondern darauf, was er TUT. Das gilt für das Trump, Netanjahu & MBS - und erst recht für Starmer, Macron, vonderLeyen & Merz, diese ungeschlagenen Publikumslieblinge der prinzipienfesten Prinzipienfestung EU.

Der Parteien-Filz ist dermaßen dicht, dass nicht mal mehr ein Riesenkärcher zur Reinigung reicht. Für die SPD müsste es mindestens die Weltallputze aus Spaceballs sein.

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'The body burns sugar first, so sugar is the preferred fuel.' The body also burns alcohol first. Before carbohydrates. Before fat. Before anything else. So either the body prefers alcohol, or it burns things first because they are toxic and cannot be safely stored. Alcohol is a toxin. The body oxidises it immediately to limit damage. Carbohydrates follow, because excess blood glucose is also damaging. Fat burns last because it can be stored safely and retrieved without harm. 'Burns first' does not mean preferred. It means dealt with first. Nobody is recommending alcohol as a fuel source. The logic applied to sugar has not been extended that far.

Let's put 2.5 million years of human history on a 24-hour clock and work out when we actually started eating what. Midnight. The clock starts. Homo habilis is on the African savannah with a hand-axe and a carcass. Fatty red meat. Marrow cracked from the long bones. This is the diet. This is the whole programme. We are underway. For the next 23 hours and 54 minutes, nothing changes. Meat. Fat. Whatever the hunt provided. Across every continent. Through every climate shift. Ice ages and migrations and the full breadth of human prehistory. The diet holds. 11:54pm. Agriculture arrives. Wheat, barley, lentils. For the first time in human existence, the bulk of the diet comes from the ground rather than from an animal. The skeletal record notices immediately: average height drops around four inches within a few generations. Dental caries, almost absent before, become ubiquitous. Bones thin. Skulls show signs of nutritional stress. We have six minutes left on the clock. The grains are here. 11:59:56pm. Procter and Gamble introduce Crisco, the first mass-market hydrogenated seed oil, marketed as a healthier alternative to lard. It is made from cottonseed oil. The seed oil era begins. The body has approximately four seconds of evolutionary exposure to it. 11:59:58pm. The McGovern Report. The US government officially declares fat the enemy, carbohydrates the foundation, and issues the dietary guidelines that governments worldwide will follow. The food pyramid is born. The seed oil industry is thriving. Butter consumption collapses. 11:59:59pm. Ultra-processed food becomes the majority of the Western diet. A thirty-year-old today has eaten more seed oil than their grandparents consumed in a lifetime. Midnight. A man on the internet tells you red meat causes heart disease. The food that built us: 23 hours and 54 minutes. The food that replaced it: 6 minutes. The food that was invented last night: 4 seconds. We are running the wrong experiment. And blaming the control group.

Nobody chose to be a British farmer because it was the rational economic decision. You don't run the numbers on a 4am start, a margin that hasn't kept pace with costs in a decade, an inheritance bill that might end what your grandfather built, and conclude: yes, this is the correct investment of a human life. You do it because the land is there and the cattle need someone and because at some level that precedes the economic argument, the field has to have a person in it who knows it. The British countryside looks the way it looks because somebody decided, every morning for generations, that it was worth getting up for. That decision is not guaranteed. It is not automatic. It does not survive indefinitely if the economics make it impossible. The field doesn't disappear when the farmer does. It just changes what it is. And what it becomes is not something anyone who's been watching the sun come up over it every morning for thirty years would recognise as better.

There is a reason no human being has ever, in the entire history of the species, sat down on the sofa with a one kilo plate of slow-cooked brisket and inhaled the lot in front of a film, then gone back to the kitchen for more. There is also a reason this exact thing happens, every single Friday, in millions of households, with crisps, biscuits, ice cream, and a sharing bag of something that nobody is sharing. The crisps have been engineered, refined, flavour-tuned, salt-balanced, fat-loaded, and texture-optimised by entire R&D departments staffed by people with PhDs in the specific neuroscience of bypassing your satiety system. The brisket has been slow-cooked. Hyperpalatability is the entire industry. Satiety is the enemy of the entire industry. Carnivore foods are the natural opposite of hyperpalatability, which is why people on carnivore eat until they are full and then stop, and why people eating crisps eat until the bag is empty and then look around for the next bag.

Let me introduce Marged. Marged is a Tamworth gilt on a small farm in Monmouthshire. She is eighteen months old. She weighs approximately 80 kilograms. She is ginger. She is opinionated. She has opinions about the mud near the gate, the placement of her water, the quality of the root vegetables she is given on Thursdays, and the farmer's scheduling decisions, which she communicates through a vocabulary of grunts so precisely differentiated that the farmer's wife has started keeping a glossary. Marged is not a ruminant. She has one stomach. What Marged can do is this. She can root. She can plough, with her snout alone, terrain that would take a mechanical cultivator half a day. She can turn compacted, rank, waterlogged ground into loose, aerated, worked earth at a pace that has startled two agricultural consultants who came expecting a problem and found a solution in a field in Monmouthshire. The north paddock had not been productive in six years. Rushes. Standing water. Compaction from a previous tenancy. The farmer had quotes for drainage, subsoiling, reseeding. The quotes were not small. Marged went in on a Monday. By Friday the farmer stood at the paddock gate and looked at the turned earth and then looked at Marged and then looked at the earth again. Marged was looking for something. She found it. She ate it. She moved on. The paddock will be reseeded in spring. The drainage quote has been filed in the drawer where things go when they are no longer necessary. Marged does not know about the drawer. Marged is working the south section. She has found something else.

The Ogallala Aquifer sits beneath approximately 174,000 square miles of the American Great Plains. Eight states. Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, South Dakota, Wyoming. It took roughly six million years to fill. A relic of the Rockies: water that fell as snow and rain during the Pleistocene and filtered slowly down through the rock until it pooled beneath the prairie in quantities so vast that early geologists had difficulty believing the measurements. It supplies roughly 30% of all groundwater used for irrigation in the United States. It feeds 27% of American irrigated land. The corn, the wheat, the sorghum, the cotton. The crops that made the High Plains the breadbasket of the world. It is being emptied at a rate approximately 100 to 1,000 times faster than it refills. The recharge rate is, in most areas, measured in fractions of an inch per year. In the southern High Plains, sections of Texas and Kansas, the recharge rate is functionally zero. The water fell as ice age snow. There is no meaningful modern input. What is there is what is there, and it is going. In parts of Kansas and Texas, the water table has already dropped more than 150 feet. Wells that ran for decades are running dry. Some farmers have already switched to dryland farming. Some have stopped farming altogether. The USDA's own modelling suggests that without significant reduction in extraction, the southern Ogallala could be 70% depleted by 2060. The corn that replaced the bison, that replaced the prairie, that replaced the deep-rooted grasses that held the water in the ground for six million years, is drinking the aquifer dry. When it is gone, it is gone. It takes six million years to make an aquifer. The corn took forty.

Let's talk about what a cow is actually doing in a field. Not the methane. Not the land use. What he is actually doing, physically, today, in that field. He is eating grass that grew from soil that her predecessors fertilised. He is aerating that soil with her hooves in a way that increases infiltration, reduces runoff, and builds the root mass that holds the bank together in February when the river comes up. He is dropping dung that feeds dung beetles, which feed starlings, which are, as it happens, on the Red List and doing quite badly. He is grazing the sward to a height that suits ground-nesting birds that cannot use tussocky, unmanaged grass. He is keeping the scrub from advancing across the meadow. He is, through the act of grazing, stimulating root growth that sequesters more carbon per hectare than the ungrazed alternative. He is doing all of this without being asked. He is doing all of this for free. And then at the end of it, he feeds a family. The oat field does some of this. The soy field does almost none of it. The rewilded-with-a-press-release field manages about half, without the food. The cow is doing the full job. He has always been doing the full job. Nobody has been paying attention.

People act like grass is nothing. Grass covers 40% of the earth's land surface. It is the dominant vegetation type on six continents. It has been evolving for 66 million years. The soil under a mature permanent grassland holds approximately 30% of the earth's terrestrial carbon stock in its root systems, organic matter, and microbial biomass. Below the visible surface: root systems extending several metres in well-established permanent grassland. Mycorrhizal networks connecting root to root across the entire pasture, transferring carbon, water, and nutrients laterally. The rhizosphere: a zone of microbial activity so biologically dense that soil scientists have spent fifty years characterising it and are still revising the count upward. And then you place on it the one animal that spent forty million years co-evolving with that grass. Specifically to eat it. Specifically to convert it. Specifically to return to it what it needs to grow back stronger. The grassland needs to be grazed to function correctly. Ungrazed grassland senescences. The dead matter accumulates. The diversity declines. The structure closes. It needs the disturbance, the deposition, the hoof pressure and the manure and the saliva and the grazing height and the dung beetles that follow. The cow is not on the grass. The cow is part of the grass. Separating them is not an upgrade. Separating them is where the problems start. They always start in the same place. The place where somebody looked at a field and thought they understood it from the road.

האמת היא אופציה. כבר יומיים שהשופרות של נתניהו משתוללים. ״לפיד״, הם אומרים, ״מחליש את רוח העם, במקום להקריא את דף המסרים, הוא אומר שלא עמדנו במטרות המלחמה״ נכון שכל ילד יודע שלא עמדנו במטרות המלחמה, אבל מה עם המורל הלאומי? מה עם ההסברה? איילה חסון קטעה בזעף אחרי שתי דקות את מסיבת העיתונאים שעשיתי ביום רביעי כדי להתרעם על כך שאיני מכיר בגדולתו של המנהיג. להלן תשובתי: אני לא עובד אצלכם. אלא שיש פה משהו עמוק יותר. בעולם השופרות של נתניהו הציבור הוא לא אזרחים ישראלים תבוניים, אלא גוש גדול ומטומטם שאין שום סיבה לספר לו את האמת. הם במילא לא יבינו, ואם בטעות הם כן יבינו הם עלולים חלילה לפתח דעות עצמאיות. כדי למנוע את התהליך המסוכן הזה, שקרים הם כלי עבודה לגיטימי. אם זה משרת את רוח העם, מותר לשקר לציבור. מי מחליט מה צריכה להיות רוח העם? נו מי? החלק המגוחך הוא שבעיניהם שקרים הם כלי שימושי, אבל רק אם נתניהו מחליט להשתמש בו. כשמישהו אחר אינו אומר את האמת ברדוגו ועידית סילמן חווים זעזוע מוסרי עמוק. כשהקמתי את ממשלת השינוי, השופרות היו בטנטרום היסטרי לגמרי סביב העובדה שבנט חזר בו מהבטחותיו לבוחרים. ״איך הוא מעז!" הם צרחו תחת כל מיקרופון רענן, ״הוא שיקר!! בטלוויזיה!!!" משום מה אף אחד לא קלט אז את האבסורד בטענה: הם לא אמרו שאסור לשקר, הם אמרו שרק לנתניהו מותר לשקר. אני מקבל עליי את חלוקת העבודה הזו - הוא ישקר בטלוויזיה, ואני אגיד את האמת. לא מעניין אותי אם היא נעימה או לא נעימה, אני לא עובד בפסטיגל, אלא בשירותה של מדינת ישראל. אני מאמין שגם אם האמת היא קשה, אזרחים הם אנשים שצריכים לגבש את דעתם מתוך הבנה של העולם וידיעה של העובדות. עולם שאין בו אמת הוא עולם מעורער שבו אין לבני אדם שום שליטה בגורלם. כשמישהו אומר להם בטלוויזיה בטון סמכותי ״ניצחנו", ואז נשמעת האזעקה השלישית באותו יום, הם מרגישים בצדק שהאחיזה שלהם במציאות נשמטת. בני אדם הם חזקים, וישראלים הם בני אדם חזקים עוד יותר. האמת לא תחליש אותם, זה שמתייחסים אליהם כמו אל ילדים קטנים ולא מאוד חכמים דווקא כן. האמת תמיד מורכבת יותר מהשקרים, וכמובן הרבה פחות כייפית, אבל היא לפחות מכבדת את שומעיה. אם אתה תובע ממישהו לרוץ שלוש פעמים ביום למקלט עם שני ילדים על הידיים, לפחות תן לו את הכבוד המינימלי ותסביר לו מה קרה באמת. מה שקרה באמת הוא שיצאנו למלחמה עם מטרות ברורות, ולא השגנו אותן. נתניהו יכול לקבל קרדיט על ההישגים הצבאיים, אבל הוא אחראי גם לעובדה שהעבודה המדינית נכשלה בגלל שהוא היה יהיר ורשלן, הטיפול בעורף היה מחפיר ממש, ותוך כדי המלחמה הוא גנב מאזרחי ישראל 6 מיליארד שקל והעביר אותם למשתמטים ולמושחתים. בנוסף לכך היחסים שלנו עם ארה"ב ומדינות המפרץ ניזוקו, ואנחנו נראים ומתנהגים כמו מדינת חסות שאיבדה את יכולתה העצמאית לגבש מדיניות. חוץ מהשופרות אף אחד לא חושב שזו תוצאה טובה. אלא שאותם האמת כמובן לא מעניינת. אחרי מאות טילים בליסטיים, עשרות הרוגים ואלפי פצועים, בערוץ 14 פתחו יום שידורים מיוחד על כך שהזכרתי את העובדה שנתניהו מתקרב לשנתו השמונים וכבר מתקשה לבצע את תפקידו. גם במקרה הזה, אי אפשר להתווכח עם זה שאמרתי את האמת. זה בדיוק מה שמעצבן אותם. המלחמה באיראן אינה הראשונה שבה השקרים מסתובבים על הממשלה הזו. גם בעזה 30 אלף חמושי החמאס לא בדיוק חובשים את כובעי ״הניצחון המוחלט" של ינון מגל, וחיזבאללה ירה הלילה על ישראל כדי להזכיר לנו את השקר הקודם, לפיו הכחדנו אותו. לשקרים יש תכונה כזו, שהם חוזרים אליך בלילה ובועטים לך בישבן. הפיתרון של נתניהו הוא לשקר שקרים חדשים. הפיתרון שלי הוא להאמין שהציבור הישראלי יכול להבין ולקבל את האמת, ומעריך את העובדה שמתייחסים אליו כאל אזרחים ולא כאל נתינים. נתניהו והשופרות מאוד לא אוהבים את הקונספט, אבל כאמור, אני לא עובד אצלם.

Slaves in Rome ate bread, olives, and porridge. The Roman nobility ate meat. Egyptian labourers built the pyramids on bread, onions, and beer. The pharaoh ate meat. Aztec peasants ate maize and beans. The Aztec nobility ate meat. Chinese peasants ate rice and greens. The Chinese nobility ate meat. Indian lower castes ate rice, lentils, and flatbread. The Mughal court ate meat. Feudal Japanese peasants ate rice and pickles. The samurai ate fish and meat. Native American farmers ate corn and squash. The warrior cultures ate bison. Medieval European serfs ate pottage and black bread. The lords ate venison and swan. Tudor commoners ate bread cut with chalk. The court of Henry VIII consumed thousands of cattle a year. Victorian working class ate bread, tea, and whatever was left. The Victorian aristocracy ate beef, game, and butter. Every civilisation. Every century. Every continent. The poor ate the plants. The rich ate the animals. Then in 1977, a committee of American senators told the world that the peasant diet was the healthy one all along. No civilisation in human history had figured this out. Until then. Apparently.

"Diese Regierung ist einfach unverantwortlich und sie ist auf wirklich gefährliche Weise eine Bedrohung für die Zukunft des Staates Israel." https://x.com/YairGolan1/status/2041949173306814788 Warum Netanjahu weiterhin mit Israel verwechselt wird, ist ein Rätsel - und zerstörerisch für die Zukunft des Landes. Was einige Leute bei Netanjahu, Katz, Smotrich und Ben-Gvir offenbar anspricht, ist deren Gewaltbereitschaft, Rücksichtslosigkeit und völlige Amoralität. Anders ist das nicht zu erklären.

Die Wirkung war exakt null, außer auf Trump. Er hat die Bedingungen des Iran akzeptieren müssen, die aber jetzt von Netanjahu offen gebrochen werden. Man sollte aufhören, sich an einen Versager zu orientieren.

In response to those who keep attacking #JFK for not dealing with the Israeli relationship to President Kennedy, I’ve posted these responses I made a year ago in May of 2025. I repeat them here. 1) Milchan had no creative input at all. Warner Brothers put him into the project, because they were worried about the financial risk at $40 million. I hardly knew the man at that time, and I don’t remember him ever visiting the set. He was considered to be in the artistic doghouse because of his behavior with Leone and Scorsese projects. The first I heard of this nuclear bomb story was after the film was sent into the world. The Dimona story surfaced for me later in time. It’s become a theory for the assassination, but I have little belief in it. My researcher, Jim DiEugenio, has spent time with this and can throw more light on why he doubts it. JFK had plenty of vicious enemies on the home front. And the truth is, Israel became a much bigger problem for the U.S. since Netanyahu took power during the War on Terror. 2) In short, Milchan only put up money and was passive, and Warners never told me what to do on anything! Over the next two films I made with Milchan, I got to know him better, but we never once discussed his background, as most of the time, I was struggling with him to fulfill his contract with me. On the money front, he was a nightmare, and I think if you talk to enough filmmakers who worked with him at that stage of his career, they will agree. We broke apart in ugly recriminations over my film, “Nixon.” [Milchan never formally took part in producing “Nixon,” and that’s a story for a longer biography.] Nothing has changed. I have no motive to protect #Israel, which I consider an aggressor country. I wholly condemn #Netanyahu and President #Trump for their uncivilized attacks on a great country and culture, as well as their butchery of language in demeaning long-held opposition to their ideas. Remember that it was the U.S. that undermined the concept of democracy for the Iranians in 1953 when they financed the coup against duly elected Prime Minister Mosaddegh. Nor have they let up since, supporting the corrupt Shah and destroying any moderate opposition. Trump is making a huge mistake. Centuries ago, Marcus Crassus, one of the richest Romans of his time and one of the Triumvirate that ruled the Republic alongside Julius Caesar and Gnaeus Pompey, led seven Roman legions into Parthia (#Iran, Iraq, parts of Turkey) and, at the battle of Carrhae in 53 B.C., lost almost 40,000 men – as well as his head. Trump, who considers himself a great businessman and now warrior, may soon learn the same lesson from history.

After failing on a covert regime change operation, US started a conventional war intended to be short, got its head handed to it at great financial expense and tremendous damage to relationships with allies around the world. The result is to significantly increase the status of China, Iran and Russia in superpower geopolitics. This is one of the most spectacular failures of US leadership in the history of the country. DOD, after decades of disappearing $21 trillion +, was busy during Trump I poisoning the American people and its soldiers and during Biden in integrating DEI while its enemies were focused on building the electronic tech and weaponry to defeat the US. The fallout of this failure has just begun.

Ganz im Gegenteil. Trump kannte bisher seine Grenzen mit kalkulierter Risikobereitschaft. Im 12-Tage-Krieg 2025 bekam er gerade noch den Ausstieg hin. Mit diesem Krieg hat er sie weit überschritten - und sitzt jetzt in der selbstgestellten Falle: Eskalation oder Anerkennung der Niederlage. Ein historisches Versagen.

Trump kündigt an, die Existenzgrundlagen des Landes zu vernichten, indem er es in die Steinzeit bombardiert. Da gibt es nichts misszuverstehen. Trump pflegt nicht nur die Rhetorik eines Mafiabosses, sondern ist zudem noch ein Versager.

Hopefully he is wrong. But the only hope is that the military leaders will not allow Trump/Netanyahu to nuke Iran.

Jetzt ist der 45tägige Wsffenstillstand nur noch eine von vielen Ideen. Oliver North könnte auch mit Robert McFarlane nach Teheran fliegen. Ein Kuchen sollte sich finden lassen. Wäre auch eine Idee.

Das!!! Wenn unsere Gesellschaft es nicht wieder lernt gegen Unrecht aufzustehen, unabhängig davon ob der Betroffene dem eigenen politischen Lager zugehörig ist oder nicht, dann erwartet uns eine finstere Zukunft. Es sind genau solche Fälle wie der des Journalisten Hüseyin Doğru, an denen sich letztlich entscheidet welchen Weg diese Gesellschaft einschlägt.

In höchstem Maße beunruhigend!

What message does attacking hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and the Pasteur Institute as a medical research center in Iran convey? As a specialist physician, I urge WHO, the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders and physicians worldwide to respond to this crime against humanity

Allmählich müssen wir uns ernsthaft mit der Frage beschäftigen: Was ist Kriegswirtschaft? Nichts anderes als eine Notstandswirtschaft als Mangelwirtschaft. In @TichysEinblick habe ich das einmal grundsätzlich betrachtet. https://www.tichyseinblick.de/wirtschaft/preise-nylonstruempfe/

Das Zitat stammt meines Wissens von Curtis LeMay, dem damaligen SAC-Oberbefehlshaber. Ob er den Vorschlag während der Kubakrise oder erst im Vietnamkrieg machte, ist nicht ganz klar. Auf jeden Fall hat es in Vietnam nicht funktioniert. Trump und der tätowierte Hegseth haben das wahrscheinlich im Fernsehen aufgeschnappt, haben ein politisches und strategisches Denken aus der frühen Steinzeit. Ungebildete Stümper, die mit der Keule durch die Weltpolitik laufen.

Energie Lockdown?

Das ist der europäische Trumpismus. Trump hat mit seiner Politik der brutalen Rücksichtslosigkeit die Institutionen des Westens zerstört, die auf Kooperation und vereinbarten Verfahren beruhen. In Ungarn wird gewählt und das Ergebnis haben wir zu akzeptieren. Aber in Brüssel macht man daraus einen geopolitischen Konflikt, der aus Ungarn ein Schlachtfeld im Krieg gegen Russland gemacht hat. Das liegt allein daran, dass man nicht bereit ist, die vertraglich vereinbarten Regeln und Grenzen einer gemeinsamen Außenpolitik zu akzeptieren, weil ihnen Ungarn und die Slowakei nicht zustimmen. Schon in Rumänien nutzte man die Lüge, um reguläre Wahlen zu annullieren. Ob die Ungarn Orban wiederwählen oder nicht, ist allein Sache der Ungarn. Es ist nicht die Aufgabe eines Brüsseler neoautoritären Trumpismus, das zu verhindern. Der macht noch nicht einmal vor einem Journalisten wie @hussedogru halt dessen Familie die Lebensgrundlagen entzogen werden - und darauf ist man in Brüssel sogar noch Stolz. Wir sind nicht besser als Trump, sondern in dem Fall sogar schlechter. In den USA hat es Trump noch nicht gewagt, offen Verfassungsbruch zu begehen. Bei uns sind wir schon einen Schritt weiter.

GIORGIA MELONI: "On behalf of the government (of Italy), I express my firm condemnation of the massacre of girls at the school in Minab, southern Iran"

Time to start a garden!

Niccolò Machiaveli : "To ally with great powers to defeat your neighbor is a strategic trap; if you win, you become the slave of the greater power; if the allied power is defeated, you remain alone and defenseless against the angry neighbor, and you are destroyed." [The Prince]

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