Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Elon Musk is under fire after publicly backing a far-right political party in Germany, suggesting the current government should not be re-elected over its position on the current migrant crisis in Europe.
There is simply not that much demand for BEVs. It is mostly a fad driven by subsidies and virtue signaling. It's a matter of when, not if something will give. VW and other car companies will have to cut production and move away from BEVs. Likely towards #hydrogen cars.
A German foundation has said it will no longer be awarding a prize for political thinking to a leading Russian-American journalist after criticizing as “unacceptable” a recent essay by the writer in which they made a comparison between Gaza and a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe.
These three articles are interesting: It looks like there is more movement in #Crossborderrail in #Benelux, #Germany, and #France than I was previously aware. The question for me is what this will mean for broader European rail services:
#Germany is the "world champion in remembrance," celebrated for its post-#Holocaust policies of ensuring that every German never forgot what had been done in their names, and in holding themselves and future generations accountable for the Nazis' crimes.
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I am currently writing an entire series of books with English-language translations of German folk tales - with each new book focusing on a different topic. The previous book was focusing on ghosts, the one I am close to finishing will be about Devil-tales, the one after that on magic, and so forth.
So I am curious - what kind of topic from German folklore interests you the most?
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Economy Minister Robert Habeck has for months pushed for an energy subsidy scheme, arguing that German industry faces five tough years before the transition to renewable energies bears fruit. The top Green politician has warned that, without state support, "we will no longer have industry," as companies would shift operations to countries like France or the U.S., where energy prices are much lower.
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A pro-Palestine Jewish activist group has had its bank account frozen in Germany for the second time in seven years, after the bank requested a full list of its members’ details in what experts believe is a breach of German law. The group suspects the move was triggered by its involvement in a forthcoming pro-Palestine...
Israel just bombed a tent city full of #refugees who fled North #Gaza for #Rafah on the #IDF's orders.
Horrifying photos show families frantically rummaging through the carnage for the limbs of their family members. I won't reproduce them here, but they can be found on the bird site from @gazanotifications
They are murdering poor people trapped in a concentration camp, in the places they were told to flee for safety. They are killing impoverished, innocent, starving Palestinians, mostly under 30, with nowhere else to go.
This brutality is unparalleled in my lifetime. All studies show that Israel is in a class of its own, outdoing the Dresden bombings by a landslide. Saying this is not antisemitic: it is your duty, whoever you are.
I am #Jewish: spiritually, scholarly, and Litvak Ashkenazi. It's not antisemitic for me, OR ANY NON-JEW to say. In fact, its every human's duty to call for this bloodshed to cease IMMEDIATELY, and to even call for this genocidal Zionist occupation to be dismantled before there is any more blood shed. Nothing keeps my heart beating like my Arab and Muslim comrades speaking out against this barabarism every day. All while facing the harshest consequences of anyone! This ugliness would quite literally drive me to kill myself if I didn't know so many people who are so brave.
I have been doing activism in Palestine since 2012, both boots-on-the-ground defense of protestors, and teaching programming. These are not antisemites; my Palestinian friends are as close to me as any others. And I have had 6 students murdered in Gaza in 120 days. All the others are starving, fleeing from tent city to tent city, trying to survive the most hellish circumstances of drone democide any people have ever witnessed in the history of humanity. Thats a simple fact now.
If you are a goy and claim to support this in our name, WE WILL REMEMBER. The vast majority of #Jews outside of Israel who are under 40 years old are anti-Zionists today. All the fastest growing Jewish organizations of the past decade are anti-Zionist. And we will not forget those who cheered on a 21st century #Holocaust while evoking the memory of our family members killed by Nazi #Germany. Especially not the #Germans, who have been by far the worst inciters and supporters of genocide outside of #Israel.
#germany German police raid homes of 17 people accused of posting antisemitic hate speech on social media
The suspects were said to have celebrated the attacks by Palestinian militant group #Hamas on Israel on Oct. 7, and were accused of spreading hate speech against Jewish people on social media, using symbols of banned terrorist organizations, dpa reported.
Germany's AfD party wins first city mayoral election in symbolic victory for far-right.
Alternative for Germany candidate Tim Lochner was elected mayor of Pirna on Sunday, a symbolic victory for the far-right party. The question of a possible ban on the movement is entering public debate.
BERLIN, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Germany is likely to generate more than 50% of its power from renewable energy this year but needs to ramp up the speed of its transition towards the end of the decade, Economy Minister Robert Habeck said on Monday.
As a Jew, watching the horrific racism Germans feel confident in spreading about Palestinians when paying lipservice to "Israel" reminds me that you all were never punished for your crimes against us. Instead, you settled on upholding a new lebensraum project lead by the same Zionists who collaborated with Goebbels on the Haavara Agreement 15 years prior in order to pay for 60,000 Zionists to move to Palestine in 1933; this was universally decried by Jewish antifascists, as the strategy was clearly advanced by Goebbels as an effort to destroy Jewish antifascist resistance in #Germany (which has since been proven by Nazi correspondence, as well as articles advertising Nazi support for a Jewish National project in Palestine in Goebbel's newspaper)
And what for? In order to assure that Palestinians, who played no part in the Holocaust, would be the ones to pay for your crimes against us. It absolutely repulses me to watch so-called left leaning Germans uphold a modern white supremacist state. And yes, that is exactly what #Israel is. The fact that you didn't learn your lessons beyond a performative posture can be gleaned from the fact that you still don't consider we Ashkenazim to be white.
#Hamas have nothing in common with fascism whatsoever. Thats YOU. The Holocaust was colonialism at home, blaming the colonized for the violence of decolonization is a despicable new low.
Your utter lack of empathy when it comes to non-white people makes me incredibly concerned about how many of you will in a decade's time be lining up to join the #AfD
#Germany / Denijal Jegić: Why is Germany so viciously anti-Palestinian?
Jegić sees Germany's anti-Palestinian stance steming from and enabling racist and nationalist agendas, while hypocritically using Holocaust history as moral cover.
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Ich habe einige Informationen erhalten, die darauf hindeuten, dass sich alle Freiberufler bei ihnen registrieren müssen, aber soweit ich weiß, war das nicht korrekt und jetzt bin ich ein bisschen verwirrt.
Elon Musk angers German government with post backing far-right party - UPI.com (www.upi.com)
Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Elon Musk is under fire after publicly backing a far-right political party in Germany, suggesting the current government should not be re-elected over its position on the current migrant crisis in Europe.
Award ceremony suspended after writer compares Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos (www.theguardian.com)
A German foundation has said it will no longer be awarding a prize for political thinking to a leading Russian-American journalist after criticizing as “unacceptable” a recent essay by the writer in which they made a comparison between Gaza and a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Germany Is Seizing Jews’ Money Again: It’s fine, they’re pro-Palestine (novaramedia.com)
A pro-Palestine Jewish activist group has had its bank account frozen in Germany for the second time in seven years, after the bank requested a full list of its members’ details in what experts believe is a breach of German law. The group suspects the move was triggered by its involvement in a forthcoming pro-Palestine...
Germany likely to pass 50% mark for renewable power this year - minister (www.reuters.com)
BERLIN, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Germany is likely to generate more than 50% of its power from renewable energy this year but needs to ramp up the speed of its transition towards the end of the decade, Economy Minister Robert Habeck said on Monday.