Germany’s rail crisis is no longer just a national problem. Delays, underinvestment and ageing infrastructure are disrupting travel far beyond its borders, with consequences for passengers, neighbouring countries and Europe’s wider transport network.
A text by Toyah Höher and Stanislaw Zytynski.
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Lindsey Graham: "If we get in a fight, I want to win it quick. I'm in Miami. You see this hat? 'Free Cuba.' Stay tuned. The liberation of Cuba is upon us. We're marching through the world. We're clearing out the bad guys. Cuba is next."
CNN's Dana Bash reports on a conversation she just had with Trump: "He quickly turned to Cuba. He said without being asked, 'Cuba is going to fall pretty soon.'"
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Trump: "We just concluded a very good meeting with the largest U.S. Defense Manufacturing Companies where we discussed Production and Production Schedules. They have agreed to quadruple Production of the 'Exquisite Class' Weaponry in that we want to reach, as rapidly as possible, the highest levels of quantity. Expansion began three months prior to the meeting, and Plants and Production of many of these Weapons are already under way. We have a virtually unlimited supply of Medium and Upper Medium Grade Munitions, which we are using, as an example, in Iran, and recently used in Venezuela. Regardless, however, we have also increased Orders at these levels. The Companies represented were the CEOs of BAE Systems, Boeing, Honeywell Aerospace, L3Harris Missile Solutions, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon. The meeting concluded with another meeting scheduled in two months. States all over the Country are bidding for these new Plants. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
Trump: "We just concluded a very good meeting with the largest Defense Manufacturing Companies ... We have a virtually unlimited supply of Medium and Upper Medium Grade Munitions, which we are using, as an example, in Iran, and recently used in VZ. Regardless, however, we also increased Orders."
Interesting that among the few advance plans we made are those that benefit Russia. See my longer essay on Oligarchic Corridors.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-oligar...
So let me get this straight ...
1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil
When 5-year-olds plan ahead...
When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.
And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.
Berlins Feuerwehrleute fürchten, dass Bodycams bei Rettungseinsätzen das Vertrauensverhältnis zu den Patient*innen zerstören. Dennoch müssen sie welche tragen. Jetzt kam heraus: Die Aufnahmen sind nutzlos.
netzpolitik.org/2026/berlin-...
Germany’s @taz.de on Merz’s trip to Washington: “Clueless tourist stranded in crisis zone”
Merz‘ answer: motioning „oof“ and laughing while Trump grins and hits his leg. Cowardice is off the charts.
#KollapsUm9: die Rechten wollen uns die #HIV -Medis wegnehmen 🤬 Wie in den 80ern freut es die #Arschlochgesellschaft, dass Schwule und andere "Perverse", andere "Andere" elendiglich daran krepieren. Aber es wird nicht mit den HIV-Medis aufhören: remember "lebensunwertes Leben"?
It wasn't looking good for European bison when the last wild individual was shot in 1927. The wisent, as it is also called, was declared extinct in the wild. Its last survivors were kept in zoos.
I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life
Enshittification as a service
www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree
m.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
Books by Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Simon Sebag-Montefiore, Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway, etc.
Oslo Bookstore: Epstein island guest list.
Es lässt sich weiter verkomplizieren, wenn zu einer lokalen Katastrophe noch Pandemiebedingungen hinzugedacht werden...
Israel also attacked Iraq & Lebanon
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.shafaq.com/ar/%D8%A3%D9...
Mirror image of three towers on a hill & a boat on a river on each side with opposing captions: our blessed homeland - their barbarous wastes; our glorious leader - their wicked despot; our great religion - their primitive superstition; our noble populace - their backward savages; our heroic adventurers - their brutish invaders
Second write-up of the same unconscionable story.
www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
And it hallucinates probably that Stalin's purges were such a big success, bc he won vs. Japan, vs. Finland, vs. Iran & vs. Germany plus allies.
The parody movie about the AI bubble is going to have nowhere to go.
Demnach wurde in diesem Abnutzungskrieg die Feder also schneller erschöpft als das Schwert? 🤔
Aber nie vergessen: jedes Jahr kommen neue junge Leute dazu, welche das schon gesagte noch nicht kennen.
“Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. She says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone”
Wrong, Ukraine still survives without nukes & if the 195 countries of the world had nukes, the chances of survival would shrink dramatically. And if Ukraine wouldn't have gotten rid of the nukes in 1994, Yanukovych would have taken care of them...
