I feel I do need to leave this here:
Dragomus
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Frankly, in this case I believe both sides... there clearly was instigation from Israeli hooligans and a strangely organized extreme response from muslim side.
But all in all it was a bit ..suspicious.. how fast both the media and Israeli government (even uncle Bibi) threw the word pogrom about.
What is lacking is anyone daring to make a fist and slam it on the table with the proclamation: "Enough of these transgressions! We stop them, prosecute and punish all of it now!"
But this had to have happened immediately in 2021, not the feet dragging and allowing court dates to shift 'till a few months before the election.
I refuse to believe that in case of clear criminal acts against the country of america the judiciary process can not be expedited and court calendars not be cleared for full convictions within a year.
I guess it's also part of why Trump was elected, he promised the common folk to be the one that slams his fist on the table in their name, alas he was hiding that it was purely for his own benefit.
In a way I am now settled with the thought that the US now gets what it deserves... Alas the downside is that the US ego will fling all that stinky business far out into the world and everyone is stuck with the effects that they did not choose.
All in all, it is a good bet Trump's presidency will expedite the downfall of the hegemony of US power and influence in the world, china and russia are rising up to lay their claim now.
Unox is not the Unox of old anymore, they recently dropped a few popular products, and changed recipes of other favorites. And then there is the pricing of some of their products, their rookworst is getting quite expensive but tastes worse.
Conimex I always found expensive and of lesser use than better "asian" brands.
So, in short, it does not surprise me that Unilever now wants to get rid of them, they did not nurture the brands in recent years.
A stranger looking up your, not publicly displayed, home adress and then showing up at your door, for whatever reason they think they have, is beyond suspicious.
Whatever happened after that is a different matter ofcourse.
... but why? Does it contain secret intelligence data? Nudes of the people attending the con in the movie? Why would I want these files?
And what are the "criminal attacks"?
This is all very vague and not in a way that gets my sympathy or further interest.
Frankly if the US starts playing the petulant child I can see the EU make their own version of NATO and keep the us-tantrum version as a side hustle for them to ignore at will. The new version might be smaller in scope, but places/bases far beyond the EU borders would not matter much anymore.
Also, the whole NATO treaty is linked to cable and transmission espionage ... If NATO breaks apart, no more spy data going to the US ...
When push comes to shove and Trump flings tariffs at the EU it'll be because he already tanked the US economy with tariffs on "chaina" and needs a new scapegoat. And he hopes new tariffs on a different target will keep the finances afloat, refusing to see his tariffs hurt his own companies not other countries.
Perhaps part of the US wakes up when things they buy now suddenly will cost double or triple the amount in 3 years time.
On the other hand, the excuse will be a perpetual state of war aggainst ever differing enemies and that will make it easier to swallow the doubled consumer prices.
Perhaps he'll join his master Putin in attacking the ever evil EU.
The music, in whatever that alien language was (not the original German) is a small stroke of genius...
For the rest of the show I have absolutely no idea what to think of it. It is all over the place, it looks great, feels like The Goonies In Space, but it's also a new take on a kids show like the Ewok Adventure movies and I have serious doubts that currently a Star Wars for very young kids will make it great again....
Perhaps in 20 years a group of folks will see this as their new Goonies, but that does nothing for the current generation of fans.... We do exist, no matter how stubbornly Lucasfilm is trying to get rid of us.
I do applaud them for trying new things, but the new things should come when you have properly and successfully rounded off the old things ... now it feels like Lucasfilm is just shooting randomly with new bits hoping it'll catch a hit somewhere no matter the costs, as long as they don't need to make "legacy" Star Wars.
I only want one thing, and that is basically to have Spotify to get on par or get past the competition: Lossless Audio for a small, non excessive fee.
None of this music video nonsense, none of the weird limited audiobooks, none of the excessively paid podcasters. Put your funds in (lossless)development, go back to your basics Spotify, and deliver what the competition has been doing for a while now...
"Pay us to refuse cookies" No thanks, not reading the article will not shatter my world.
This is expensive cgi, it screams it. Not quite sure why they made it but someone needs to be convinced of something for sure.
(Just compare it to any footage of SpaceX landings, this video is far to clean, the sky alone is "perfect")
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It is interesting how people think he has "political" capital, or morals at all ... he was carried in 2016, and is carried now, by a solid forceful group behind him who have the money to use him for their own goals. (Think about it: Trump was one guy, totally outside of the political system, and by himself alone made it to president and destroyed the GOP and the justice system)
He can't run out of political steam now, no matter what he does, and it is naive to think he will be thwarted by democratic systems.
The USA will be torn down and remade into what a very small group of people want it to be, not what it needs to be, nor what the world needs it to be, so kiss that influence goodbye.
Untill they are done with Trump, he will be king and elections will be either "postponed" or clearly fraudulous.
Sidenote: No one took him serious when he laid out his project 2025 plans without calling it that, but it's clearly going that way ... and no one took him serious when he proclaimed "you don't need to vote, we have all the votes, have all votes we need" months before the election... Look and behold: just about the whole country miraculously turned red in the elections ..... And everyone is afraid to properly investigate it.
If he dies during his reign, he'll get to appoint either one of his children or has Vance take over, how useful either will be to the shadow government remains to be seen.
Perhaps it is a despot's lesson the USA needs to learn, and after 10+ years, when the current children turn 18 to 20, they might realize a correction is needed and manage to get rid of the Trump hegemony.