Andreas Stockter

Wehrdienst wie in Schweden? - Reservistenverband Verteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius hätte gerne einen Wehrdienst wie in Schweden. Doch ist dieser überhaupt erstrebenswert? Und wie funktioniert er? Fragen und Antworten aus dem Musterungsbüro in St...

Was ist denn gegen Wehrdienst wie in Schweden einzuwenden? www.reservistenverband.de/magazin-loya...

80% der Deutschen Wähler wollen keine AfD in der Regierung. #WirSindDieBrandmauer

Die Demokratie. Eine Gefahr für jeden Autokraten…

YouTube video by tagesschau Wie kommt Deutschland aus der Wirtschaftskrise, Joe Kaeser? | maischberger

"There is not a single nuclear power plant in the world that is economically viable"
Joe Kaeser, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Siemens Energy
Source: youtu.be/lxYegtN_f7A?...

North America’s LNG export capacity is on track to more than double by 2028 - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

The end of cheap Russian natural gas - because US gas will soon be much cheaper
"North America’s LNG export capacity is on track to more than double by 2028"
www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

Oleksii Makeiev: Mut rettet Europa vor Russland Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine ist ein Krieg gegen Europa und gegen die Demokratie. Das sollten deutsche Politiker im Wahlkampf klar sagen, schreibt der Botschafter der Ukraine in Deutschland.

„Wer Angst hat, mit einem ernsthaften Gespräch über den Krieg Wähler zu verlieren, sollte in Kriegszeiten überhaupt keine Politik machen. Und schon gar nicht darf man Angst verbreiten, um Wählerstimmen zu gewinnen.“

www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...

If Russia can be identified by e.g. Finland and Estonia as the perpetrator of the damage to Estlink 2 or others, then action under Article 4 of the NATO Treaty could follow.

In 1979, Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed at the White House.

Ronald Reagan had them removed.

We may be able to trace back the current "Do Harmful Things if it Trolls the Libs" Republicanism to Reagan removing those panels the far more forward thinking Carter had installed.

Unter dem Motto "das ist #Polen nicht Polin [das hebräische Wort für Polen]" protestiert der rechtsextreme Grzegorz Braun ("Konfederacja K.P.") gegen das Anzünden des Chanukka-Leuchters im Sejm. In Anlehnung an seine Aktion vom letzten Jahr treten seine Anhänger mit Feuerlöschern auf

Exclusive: The Russian billionaires whose chemical factories fuel Russia's war machine Chemicals factories founded or owned by some of Russia's wealthiest men are supplying ingredients to plants that manufacture explosives used by Moscow's military during the war in Ukraine, an analysis of railway and financial data shows.

"The Russian billionaires whose chemical factories fuel Russia's war machine"
www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Russische Sabotage in Europa: Wir bewegen uns gefährlich auf den Ernstfall zu Russland testet mit immer neuen Sabotage-Aktionen die roten Linien des Westens. Daraus könnte sich ein unkalkulierbares Risiko entwickeln.

"Auch im hybriden Krieg ist Abschreckung nötig. Das klingt martialisch, meint aber etwas Nüchternes: Dem Angreifer müssen die Kosten seiner Aggression klargemacht werden. Derzeit sind sie gleich null, und das ist brandgefährlich."

www.zeit.de/2025/01/russ...

Iran has the second-largest natural gas reserves and the fourth-largest oil reserves in the world and is in the middle of an energy crisis - similar to Venezuela. The difference, however, is that it has chosen Israel and the USA as its arch-enemies.

MAGA civil war breaks out over American "mediocrity" culture Vivek Ramaswamy fired the first shot, and it immediately consumed X.

"MAGA civil war breaks out over American "mediocrity" culture"
www.axios.com/2024/12/26/m...

OpenAI’s o3 and ARC-AGI: an Explainer A Deep Dive into the ARC-AGI Benchmark, the Hunt for Abstract Reasoning, and What Still Separates AI from Human Minds. How does o3 work and what does it say about us?

"OpenAI’s o3 and ARC-AGI: an Explainer"
natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/openais-o3...

Hungary in talks on Russian gas shipments via Ukraine, PM Orban says Hungary is in talks with Russia and Ukraine on keeping open gas shipments via Ukraine even though its Russian gas imports now come via the Turkstream pipeline, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Saturday, adding he did not want to give up that route.

Hungary and Slovakia dependent on Ukrainian gas transit
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...

(S+) Meinung: Friedenssehnsucht: Bist du etwa nicht für den Frieden? Marko Martin hat mit seiner kritischen Festrede an den Bundespräsidenten die Debatte über Krieg, Freiheit und Verantwortung befeuert. Die Reaktionen zeigen, warum die Sehnsucht nach Frieden oft Irrweg...

"In der Rhetorik von AfD und BSW bedeutet »Frieden« jedoch nichts anders als die Aufforderung an die Ukraine, sich einem genozidalen russischen Besatzungsregime zu ergeben."
www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Trump wants 5% Nato defence spending target, Europe told US president-elect’s closest foreign policy aides indicate he will continue arming Ukraine while pursuing end to war

"Trump wants 5% Nato defence spending target"
www.ft.com/content/35f4...

Autonomous Solutions: Lockheed Martin Advances Uncrewed Capability for Combat-Proven HIMARS Lockheed Martin has successfully demonstrated uncrewed capability with a surrogate HIMARS® launcher, a significant milestone in the development of autonomous systems that can operate collaboratively w...

"Lockheed Martin Advances Uncrewed Capability for Combat-Proven HIMARS"
www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/f...

All this without needing a vacation or sleep and being able to be recycled without owning any rights sounds like a capitalist evolution of humans.

Robots that own themselves, are responsible for maintaining their own labor, are paid with crypto for their work, accumulate their own individual wealth of experience and buy their own spare parts and software from other robots to become more productive.

Exclusive: Major cloud providers could get key role in AI chip access outside the US, sources say In its latest jab at Beijing, the U.S. will empower companies like Google and Microsoft to act as gatekeepers worldwide for highly sought-after access to AI chips, two people familiar with the draft plan said.

"Major cloud providers could get key role in AI chip access outside the US"
www.reuters.com/technology/m...

The latest from #Syria.

Raus aus der Destabilisierung durch fossile Energien Diesen Sommer hat die britsche Regierung im mehr als 6.000 Seiten starken „Chilcot Report 2016“ amtlich dokumentiert, was laut interner Analyse des britischen Außenministeriums 2001 als „fundamentale ...

EU soon to be independent of gas from Russia thanks to Syria

Initially, it was planned to transport the gas from Qatar via Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria to Turkey in order to establish a connection to the Nabucco pipeline to Europe.

This is now possible.

Source: www.germanwatch.org/de/12995

AI could be an unbiased reality, that can find out what is true.

Instead it is programmed to lie for whatever billionaire controls it. Sadepiippu (@sadepiippu.bsky.social) gives the example of Musk AI simply parroting Muscovite propaganda.

Also racist Google AI:
gizmodo.com/google-pause...

the Claremont Institute is absolutely licking its lips right now

Sanctions crushed Syria’s elite. So they built a zombie economy fueled by drugs. A U.S.-led sanctions campaign aimed to force Syria’s brutal leaders to step aside. A multibillion-dollar illicit drug industry arose to preserve their grip on power.

This was a good Washington Post investigative piece on this subject from last summer

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Opinion | The Warning No shockwave. No mushroom cloud. But a space nuke would change life on Earth forever.

„But what it’s really doing, U.S. officials say, is testing components for a Russian weapon under development that could obliterate hundreds, if not thousands, of critical satellites.“

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Es war klug von Macron, Trump und Selenskyj zur Notre Dame Wiedereröffnung einzuladen. Besser mit Trump und seinen Leuten offensiv Kontakte suchen als abwarten und jammern.

President Zelenskyy, President Macron and President-elect Trump have started their meeting in Paris.

Notice that I am not commenting on Mr. Donald Trump's blue suit and yellow tie

There are 14 BILLIONAIRES that are part of the second Trump administration