Anton Bunia

Zurück zu einer alten Übung: Der Füllstand der Gasspeicher in Europa am 31.1.26 (aber andere Situation als früher, weil es LNG-Terminals gibt) 🇪🇺: 41,62 (-0,61), 🇩🇪 32,94 (-0,65), 🇫🇷 39,21 (-0,69),🇮🇹57,58 (-0,55),🇦🇹46,01 (-0,63)

YouTube video by neilyoungchannel Neil Young - Harvest Moon [Official Music Video]

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Aus Döblins »Berlin Alexanderplatz« erfährt man auch dieser Tage, dass diese Stadt einfach sehr große historische Kontanten hat.

German and Danish foreign ministers meet in a meeting room in Brussels

German and Danish foreign ministers meet in a meeting room in Brussels and sit around a table

German and Danish foreign ministers meet in a meeting room in Brussels and sit around a table

Good to exchange thoughts with my old friend @lars-loekke.bsky.social in Brussels at the Foreign Affairs Council. Our agenda is fuller than ever, so it’s all the better to have strong allies with a clear focus by your side – supporting Ukraine & strengthening Europe. Tyskland er med dig.

Wir müssen in der Lage sein, nicht nur zu reagieren, sondern zu agieren. Europa muss handlungsfähig werden. Das haben wir gezeigt in unseren Verhandlungen über Freihandelsabkommen — sowohl mit Mercosur als auch mit Indien. Und weitere laufen an. — @aussenminister.diplo.de in Brüssel #FAC 2/2

Der deutsche Außenminister spricht in Brüssel in Pressemikrofone

Das Jahr hat für Europa herausfordernd begonnen, aber Europa hat die Herausforderung bestanden. Wir haben Einigkeit gezeigt & uns solidarisch hinter Dänemark & Grönland gestellt. — @aussenminister.diplo.de in Brüssel #FAC 1/2

Der deutsche Außenminister spricht in Brüssel mit internationalen Medien

Die Ukraine braucht jetzt unsere Unterstützung. Wir alle in der EU müssen jetzt noch einmal schauen, was wir noch zusätzlich leisten können. Wir müssen alle Hebel in Bewegung setzen, um die Luftverteidigung zu verbessern. — @aussenminister.diplo.de in Brüssel #FAC

STOCKHOLM — Sweden has had very early discussions with France and the United Kingdom about possible nuclear weapons cooperation, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has revealed. 
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„Erinnerung ist keine Selbstverständlichkeit. Wir müssen jeden Tag aufs Neue daran arbeiten, sie wach zu halten.“ – @aussenminister.diplo.de am heutigen Holocaust-Gedenktag im Interview mit Israel Hayom. Das gesamte Interview können Sie hier nachlesen. 👉 diplo.de/2753504

I disagree. You would weaken the link with EUCOM, you would weaken the link with US nuclear forces, you would reduce the importance of a strong US four-star with a major stake in European security. Barring a bigger crisis, the time for a European SACEUR is when the re-balancing is further along.

Latvia 🇱🇻 knows what it means to fight for #freedom. #Latvia has cautioned against Russia’s aggression - even before 🇷🇺 attacked #Ukraine 🇺🇦. @latvianmfa.bsky.social @aussenminister.diplo.de 1/2

500 Songs Bonus: "Father and Son" by Cat Stevens | Andrew Hickey Get more from Andrew Hickey on Patreon

A new 500 Songs paid-backer-only Patreon bonus is now up! Pythagoreanism! Benny Hill! Dolly Parton! Wahabbism! Peter Gabriel! Anthony Newley! Jimi Hendrix! Nigel Hawthorne! Osama bin Laden! It can only be Yusuf/Cat Stevens, and "Father and Son"!

25. Januar 1938 Freie Hand für Gestapo Im Deutschen Reich werden neue „Schutzhaftbestimmungen“ eingeführt: "Alle volks- und staatsfeindlichen Personen" können sofort inhaftiert und in Konzentrationslager (KZ) verbracht werden. Dies ermöglicht die willkürliche Verhaftung von Personen durch die Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo). English: January 25, 1938 Gestapo gets free hand New "protective custody" regulations are introduced in the German Reich: "All persons hostile to the people and the state" can be immediately arrested and taken to concentration camps. This allows for the arbitrary arrest of individuals by the Secret State Police (Gestapo).

25. Januar 1938

#Nationalsozialismus #NS #Faschismus #Schutzhaft #Gestapo #Willkür #KZ #Konzentrationlsager #Verhaftungen #Deportation #politischeHaft

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Minneapolis Live Updates: State Seeks Access to Evidence as Federal Officials Blame Shooting Victim

Utterly inhumane behaviour. "In sworn court filings, a doctor who offered to render aid to Mr. Pretti described how agents initially hesitated and asked him for proof of a medical license."
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

The very same people ordering untrained federal agents to shoot at protesters have very strong thoughts about how Europe should be run.

Maybe they should think less about Europe and more about Minnesota.

If I’d pitched Trump’s Greenland plot for Borgen I’d have been laughed at. Now we’re living his sinister drama The only positive of this stranger-than-fiction scenario is that Greenland and Denmark stand more united than ever, says Adam Price, the creator of the TV series Borgen

“Had I ever suggested a storyline involving an American president who becomes obsessed by the thought of owning Greenland, to the extent that he is willing to sacrifice Nato and use mob methods to bully allies into compliance, I would have been laughed out…”

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"In China gibt es keine Windräder"?
Look at the numbers

Ohh I know that playbook.

“I’m not going to hit you! Why would you think I‘d hit you? Do as I say and I won’t hit you. If I hit you it’s your own stupid fault. Now look what you made me do! Stop crying or I’ll really give you something to cry about!”

YouTube video by Universal Pictures The Blues Brothers | Aretha Franklin Sings "Think" in 4K HDR

Today's vinyl is my very scratched forty-year-old copy of the Blues Brothers soundtrack. Better film than it is an album (and people have valid criticisms of both) but it introduced me to the music of Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and James Brown as a small child, so I'm grateful to it.

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Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

It's Davos this week, so please find attached a list of phrases that you may hear and what they actually mean.

Full phrasebook here 😉 www.ft.com/content/ab4f...

Could Europe really leverage its $12.6tn pile of US assets? NIIPing an outlandish idea in the bud

This is excellent

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and it's obviously time to award the UEFA Peace Prize to Mette Frederiksen

And the argument is very easy: We do not send teams to a party to a country that threatens the territorial integrity of one of us.

It might sound silly, but I mean it: The easiest and most potent way for Europe to hurt Trump this year is to once again use its cultural soft power and to threaten a boycott of the World Cup. It would become a completely meaningless event and would hurt him where he is most vulnerable - his vanity.

Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

On my way to Minneapolis finally this morning. My plan is to report on the community resistance. So if you're involved in any organising and want to talk to me about it, please do drop me a line - I am dlknowles.12 on Signal!

YouTube video by MarcGlenRock Promised Land - for Renee Good, Bruce Springsteen, Light of Day, 1/17/26, Count Basie Theater

Springsteen at an unbilled performance at a Parkinson’s benefit Sat. in NJ—

“…send a message to this President. And as the Mayor of that city has said, ‘ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis.’ So this one is for you, and the memory of the mother of three and American citizen Renee Good.”

This is both genuinely nice to read, and also worrying because I feel like I half-arse this shit all the time because I'm only one person perpetually behind a (self-imposed) deadline. It'd be nice to imagine people with massive media organisations doing better, not worse, than one bloke.