All of the “Middle East” is in Asia and people are neither fond of the former colonizing nor of the onslaughts and meddling since.
Algeria and France are escalating diplomatic tensions with recent withdrawals and expulsions of diplomats.
Multiple Subsaharan countries kicked out the French over the past two years.
Germany keeps antagonizing Namibia instead of properly owning up to the genocide it committed there
India is asserting itself more and more on the world stage. While it has good trade relationships and the current government loves Racism against Muslims, India also helps Russia circumvent EU sanctions.
For South America and South Asia i dont know enough details. The EU countries mostly siding with Israel in its war crimes and crimes against humanity is definvtely not helping ties with South American countries except for maybe Argentina

While i like the idea, i don’t think this will play out like this easily.

First of all the EU is resource dependent whereas the US and China do have access to a lot of resources domestically.
Then many EU countries have a huge baggage of colonial and post colonial crimes and structures that drove countries in Africa, Asia and South America away or keep them at arms length.
Finally many EU countries also have a huge Racism/Fascism problem and delusions of supremacy are on the rise rather than falling. So governments advocating for and making deals that are consistent with the real power dynamics and making up for some of the crimes they committed is likely not going to happen easily. Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands… All these countries are on a very bad track of Racist delusions that will get in the way of diplomacy and economic beneficial dealings. They already are shooting themselves in the internal and the external foot.

Meanwhile China has the BRICS going on and stronger than ever. The US still has military bases all over the world. The EU will need to change their way of dealing with other countries tremendously if it wants to form a third bloc.

It is nice seeing a headline using words like “obliterated” and it being an accurate description of what the article reports in the body.

https://www.islamicfinder.org/hadith/tirmidhi/tafsir/3107/?language=en

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas: that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: When Allah drowned Fir’awn [Pharaoh of Egypt as he was pursuing Moses and the people of Benny Israel] he said: ‘I believe that there is no god except the One that the children of Isra’il believe in.’ So Jibrail [The Angel Gabriel] said: ‘O Muhammad! If you could only have seen me, while I was taking (the mud) from the sea, and filling his mouth out of fear that the mercy would reach him.’

According to Islam no-one is beyond achieving forgiveness if they sincerely repent as the mercy and forgiveness of God is limitless. However except for explicitly mentioned people such as the Prophets, we do not know who achieves Paradise and who is punished in Hell until the day of judgement. Not even the Angels closest to God know.

The current mayor of Berlin Kai Wegner (CDU) won the repeated election for the state (the mayor is the head of the city-state government). He won it after demanding police should release the first names of juvenile suspects so that people could form an opinion on whether they are “real Germans” or “merely German citizens”.
Franziska Giffey (SPD) who lead the former government coalition from the Social Democrats, Greens and Left party, decided to throw away a majority to continue the progressive coalition in favor of becoming junior partner under Kai Wegner and the CDU.

The state of Berlin is governed by a coalition of racist nationalists and people who prefer helping racists nationalists rather than continue a progressive coalition.

The increase in far right hate crime in Berlin was predictable and is in line with the political affiliation of the state government. It is consistent with the state government reversing progressive policies such as making more parts of the city walkable, more public transport and a green transition. It is consistent with the state government cracking down on academic freedom, cultural freedom, freedom of assembly, social institutions helping marginalized and disadvantaged groups…

The multicultural Berlin is to be reshaped into a cosmopolitan facade for an otherwise authoritarian, racist and antisocial society. Whether people are “worthy” of living in Berlin will be determined more and more by the money in their bank account and the color of their skin.

I don’t think that “looking as Aryan as it gets” will keep cutting it with the US. They are treating their own Citizens like this after all.

Yeah. I had “So and so says X in a one on one phone call and then says Y in a meeting and then sends Z per mail” one too many times. If it is something relevant i’ll have it in writing. At the very least that i make notes as we speak.

So it is not given to a centralized authority, that is guided by for profit motives and also does the moderation of its plattform.

Where this can lead was shown with twiiter. The moment the central organization is captured, the central authority will abuse the authentification for its own goals. Then instead of just having to check for the authentification to be reliable you need to question everything that is on that plattform as a whole, which is infinetly more consuming, but also simply impossible.

If the same authority is doing verification that is also doing moderation and both ultimately in a for profit setting, that has conflict of interest.

We dont know how reliable bluesky moderation will stay. We dont know how they will respond to political pressure. We dont know how they will monetize past the growth phase and then could also argue a “service fee” for verification.

In a perfect world none of these would happen, but then everybody could still be on twitter and be fine there.

Idk. Celebrities and Politicians usually have other vetted channels such as their own website or a website of their ogranization representing them. It should be basic journalistic work to see if their social media links link to the account in question or not.

Yeah. I wouldn’t serve any caffeinated drinks to a horde of children. I suppose the limit on caffeine must mostly be in regards to colas.

Emergency laws and authoritarian power grabs. Name a more iconic duo.

I think in the beginning popular support would have held. People, me included, were really scared and opposed to accepting the invasion. Now after the years support for Ukraine is much lower, Ukraine is set to lose the war unless some major shift in policy occurs and the half baked measures not only made everything much more expensive, but a lot of it even benefitted Russia by raising the gas price w.o. cutting them out of the market.

However solving the situation probably would have required a one time wealth taxation, putting energy related businesses under tighter control and scrutinizing sanction evaders. Of course that is not wanted in neoliberal countries.

If you go into fetal position or “make yourself heavy” as police is arresting you, this is “resisting” policemen in Germany. So if a policemen beats you into your stomach and you fall to the ground, making yourself round as a result of the pain in your stomach, you will be charged as a violent offender.

https://taz.de/G20-Urteil-im-Berufungsverfahren/!5567626/

As it explains further in your article in the next paragraph:

Erforderlich ist für die §§ 125, 125a StGB, dass “Gewalttätigkeiten gegen Menschen oder Sachen” oder entsprechende Drohungen “aus einer Menschenmenge heraus mit vereinten Kräften” begangen werden, und zwar in einer die öffentliche Sicherheit gefährdenden Weise. Im Fall der Besetzung der Humboldt-Universität im Mai 2024 sei dieses Delikt nicht einmal angeklagt worden, sagt O’Briens Rechtsanwalt Benjamin Düsberg. Auch im Fall der Belagerung eines Fähranlegers zum Nachteil von Wirtschaftsminister Robert Habeck im Januar 2024 verneinte die Staatsanwaltschaft ein organisiertes Vorgehen.

For the crimes of §§ 125, 125a StGB is is required that “acts of violence against people or property” or respective threats are made “from a crowd of people, working with unified/united force”, in such a way that it endangers public security. In regards to an occupation of the Humboldt-University in May 2024 this delict was not even accused, said O’Briens lawyer. In another case of people “besieging” a fairy carrier to the disadvantage of the federal minister of the economy Rober Habeck in January 2024 the state attorneys denied an organized action.

For clarity for non Germans, the event mentioned regarding the minister occurred in a different state in Germany and was in relation to farmer protests against reducing subsidies on diesel fuel.

So the question of “Landfriedensbruch” is in regards to the entirety of the events, by which then an individual participation could be claimed on the basis of being present. It does not require the individuals charged to actually have been violent or threatening violence. If they were part of an organized crowd from which violence was enacted or threatened that is considered enough.

These kind of charges are often politically motivated, such as with charges and convictions surrounding the G20 summit and protests in Hamburg in 2017:

https://www.dw.com/en/hamburg-g20-riots-polish-man-becomes-first-charged/a-40028143
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/08/30/prot-a30.html
https://taz.de/Urteil-im-G20-Rondenbarg-Prozess/!6032364/

All of these are known to be active political activists and at times violent.

That is false. They are not “known to be violent” see my other comment. They are not accused of violence in regards to entering the FU building. They are merely accused for trying to prevent arrests by the police. Something that is already the case if you build a chain and let the cops beat you, but not push through to grab someone they want to grab.

The rest is politically motivated conjecture by the interior ministry.

The courts are working this out now and the authorities are respecting court orders. So, I don’t see where this is disregards the Grundgesetz.

Because repeated attempts to violate the principles of the constitution by the executive are still causing a lot of damage, even if the courts later catch it. For the people threatened with deportation their life was turned upside down for at least two month now. Losing everything you have in one country, your flat, your personal belongings, your work, your education, your social environment… Those are huge impacts on the individuals protected constitutional rights. These go far beyond what a conviction to a fine or even a short prison sentence would cause in damages to the individual. This is also fundamentally different from your example of people not being granted entry into a country. Being deported from where you life is different from not being able to enter another country for a limited time.

The people in question are not convicted of any crime. Also the state attorneys are not prosecuting the people in question for violent crimes at the event in question. Rather they are prosecuted for “freeing prisoners” because they were outside the building when police brought out people it arrested inside. one of the people is investigated for calling a policemen fascist.

See https://www.lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/abschiebung-ausweisung-palaestina-aktivisten-rechtswidrig-eugh-freizuegigkeit-berlin for a more neutral description by a legal magazine, which bothers to make proper distinctions:

Die Darstellungen des LKA in den Ausweisungsbescheiden lesen sich weniger brutal, aber immer noch bedrohlich. Hier ist die Rede von 20 Personen, die sich Zugang zum Gebäude verschafft, dort Wände beschmiert und die Technik zerstört hätten. Sie sollen Brecheisen bzw. “Kuhfüße” bei sich geführt haben. Hiermit sollen sie versucht haben, eine Tür zu einem Raum aufzubrechen, in dem sich ein stark verängstigter FU-Mitarbeiter verschanzt hatte. Äxte, Sägen und Knüppel werden nicht erwähnt. Im Anschluss an die Besetzung kam es zu Festnahmen. Zehn Verdächtige – unter ihnen auch die vier Aktivist:innen – sollen versucht haben, dies zu verhindern.

Roughly translates to:

"The description of the events by the LKA (state criminal investigators) used in the deportation notices is reading less brutal but still threatening. It describes 20 people which empowered themselves entry to the building, vandalised walls and destroyed technical equipment. They are alleged to have carried crowbars, with which they (the 20 people who entered the building) tried to open a room, in which a strongly scared FU employee had barricaded himself. Axes, Saws and clubs are not mentioned. Subsequent to the occupation, multiple arrests occured. Ten suspects -among them the four activists- are alleged to tried to prevent the arrests.

So the police investigators are not claiming the people to have participated in the occupation, but rather to try to prevent arrests that were made because of the occupation.

The next Paragraph:

Im Ausweisungsbescheid gegen US-Bürger:in Longbottom ist dies der einzige aufgelistete Sachverhalt. Bei den anderen dreien kommen im Zusammenhang mit anderen Protestaktionen weitere Ermittlungen wegen demonstrationstypischer Delikte hinzu. Das sind etwa Widerstand gegen (§ 113 Strafgesetzbuch, StGB) oder tätlicher Angriff auf Vollstreckungsbeamte (§ 114 StGB) sowie Äußerungsdelikte wie Beleidigung (§ 185 StGB), Volksverhetzung (§ 130 StGB) oder Verwenden von Kennzeichen verfassungswidriger Organisationen (§ 86a StGB). Den Befreiungsversuch nach der FU-Besetzung wertet die Polizei als Gefangenenbefreiung (§ 120 StGB).

Translates to:

"The deportation notice against US-Citizen Longbotton only lists this occurence. For the other activists other occurences in relation to different protest actions are mentioned as being under investigation. These are “typical for demonstrations” such as resisting or attacking police officers (§ 113-114) and “Speak-Crime” (sorry for the bad translation) such as insults (§185), hate speech (§130) or using symbols of an unconstitutional organisation (§86a). The attempted prevention of arrests after the FU-occupation is considered by the police as freeing of prisoners (§120).

So none of the people are investigated for violent crime in relation to the FU-occupation.

The article further notes that the “typical for demonstrations” investigations do not warrant a deportation unless convicted and repeated. For the FU-occupation it is noted that this is more serious and could suffice for such a move, however the police reports only provide general descriptions rather than tying specific actions to the activists threatened with deportation.

Long story short: At the time of the deportation notices none of the people were accused for violent crime in regard to the FU occupation. All of this was conjecture made by the interior ministry of the state of Berlin and a willfully or ignorantly complicit press

Archive Link because of paywall, although Haaretz definitely deserves to be financially supported.

https://archive.ph/7isdm

“We know the amount of drugs being seized, but how much is actually getting through?” Ruotolo asked, explaining that while scanners at the port of Rotterdam can detect cocaine hidden inside fruit, they are unable to spot it when it is concealed in fabrics.

Not sure if poor opsec or a honeypot.

Google translate is using the same approach like an LLM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_machine_translation

So is DeepL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepL_Translator

And before they were using neural network approaches they used statistical approaches, which are subject to the same errors as a result of bad training data.