I find it so telling that for all the people who rushed to the Soviet archives in the early nineties, the only people who ultimately published their findings were people like Grover Furr in order to say “here’s some more confirmation of what I’ve been telling you.”

As Zhukov is reported to have said, “we have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it.”

It tastes different, some people like it more or maybe a person just wants to change things up. Personally I drink espresso, moka pot, and French press all regularly and like them for the different ways they taste and feel. I like cold brew as well but the effort isn’t worth it to me.

You’d likely drink it cold, heating it would change the flavour in what I think most people would describe as a negative way.

It was amazing watching the FDP not even have to think about approving the last €100B Schuldenbremse-excluded military gift basket.

Ah yes, because the last time Germany changed its constitution to pursue military aims it went so well for everyone.

I’ve had a decent experience with Rakuten Viki.

This goes into both of the assertions I made.

https://encryp.ch/blog/disturbing-facts-about-protonmail/

Points 1 and 2 have been refuted elsewhere, but there’s still plenty of red star spangled flags there.

Not sure about founding, but the CIA did the early funding. Defense more recently.

One whistleblower who carried out benefits reassessments for a triple amputee recalled the claimant saying he felt he had to keep proving his limbs had not “grown back” to ensure his money was not cut.

This is already policy in Germany. Anyone with a disabled status has to regularly prove that they’re still disabled, even when it’s something as stupidly obvious as an amputated limb.

The ruling class defines the art and culture.

I still think it’s a honeypot.

At the very least they play fast and loose with the term “private.”

This is huge, as most countries only allow citizens to vote.

I found the “rescue democracy” rhetoric around the recent German election laughable, in part because a whole 15% of the working and income tax paying population is simply excluded from voting. Of course this has its material reasons, and is quite important to protect the class interests of the capitalists.

Exactly. US food aid is also designed specifically to create dependence, and not allow for development of local sustenance agriculture.

I had a whiplash moment in therapy (an intense inpatient program) where I was feeling the best I could remember feeling, but at the same time felt really sad about it because feeling good and being healthy means I have to go back to doing wage labour.

Michael Hudson wrote a post a few weeks before, coming to a very different conclusion Rather than the shakedown Varoufakis imagines, most countries will just have to stop servicing USD debt, since the tariffs ultimately mean their source of dollars will dry up. The downstream effect of this, especially since it will happen at a near-global scale is the reimagination of the global financial system.

https://michael-hudson.com/2025/01/the-road-to-chaos-a-global-balance-of-payments-war/

I would even argue that the last time the US played this game (call in massive debts but prevent the debtor from accessing the money necessary to repay), they created the material conditions for the political movements which precipitated WWII.

To sum it up, the voters in France and Netherlands rejected the “Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe”. So what did the member states and unelected eurocrats in Brussels do? Repackage everything into the Treaty of Lisbon, which was approved by the voters of Ireland on the second try. No other member states offered a referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon.

That’s assuming the Liberals win the next election, which I don’t see happening.

Not that a Conservative government and a PM PP would be any better.

To put it simply, the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow precisely when you need electricity, at least not all the time. You need to store solar generated energy from midday so that people can turn their lights on in the evening, and you need to store power from windy days to use on still days. Otherwise the electricity is wasted in the moment and non-existent when you need it.

That’s what happens when you put a neoliberal banker in charge.

After engaging with these topics and having spent quite a lot of time in therapy I have also realized that capitalism is the cause of most mental health issues (or at least aggravates them to an extreme level), and mental health care exists to get you back to work. Because it has to work within the system which is causing the sickness it cannot address the core issues and is left with individualist band-aids.