Not really news but still pretty funny and I just heard about it for the first time.
A different kind of blowback:
Dust from the Sahara is being blown over to France, bringing with it radiation left over from French nuclear weapons tests from the 1960s.
The Taliban, who rule Afghanistan, have negotiated with the USA about a prisoner exchange, as Taliban spokesman Sabihullah Mujahid told journalists in Kabul on Wednesday. Two US citizens are in custody in the country. They are to be exchanged for Afghans who are interned in the US prison camp at Guantanamo in Cuba. The talks took place on the sidelines of a recent summit with UN representatives and Afghanistan envoys from various countries in Qatar. Nothing is known about the results so far.
The balloons full of garbage that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been sending to South Korea for weeks are having an impact on air traffic. More than 110 flights have been disrupted by the balloon launches that have been going on since the end of March, said South Korean MP Jeong Jun Ho on Wednesday, citing the Ministry of Transport. More than 10,000 passengers were affected. The DPRK is using the balloons to respond to previous actions from South Korea in which propaganda material was also sent north in balloons.
If anyone else wants to have a look here is a download link.
Here too, Botho Strauß was right: Russia is a force of tradition that is turning against the dynamics of the Western way of life.
Germany was too greedy for cheap gas from Russia, has to break away from it with difficulty, and is now paying for having been driven more by economics than politics. Inflation, prices are soaring. A weak economy is plaguing the country, which has, among other things, relied on the combustion engine for too long. German engineers are somehow having a hard time with the electric car. No German government has taken climate change seriously, to the dismay of many young people.
The good news from recent times: Germany unexpectedly becomes world champion in basketball.
The bad news: violence against Green and Social Democratic election campaigners, an echo of Weimar conditions on German streets. Anti-Semitic excesses break out during protests against Israel’s actions in the war against Hamas, especially at universities. Some Jews no longer feel comfortable in Germany, they are afraid. In the country of the perpetrators, which has pledged to “never again”. Nevertheless, this is not a “failed state”; all in all, this is a successful country that has set the framework for a pleasant life for its citizens: freedom, security, stability, progress. For its allies and neighbors, it is a fair, peaceful partner. Congratulations, Federal Republic of Germany.
Is the robot at the end something they captured from the IOF?
Seems to be this thing. So I would assume definitely captured from the IOF.
Johnathan Shite 
While looking for some numbers on this I came up on a news article about people arrested at Palestine protests and it had this line from the pigs union which I thought sums up pretty well the cops attitude to all of this:
The police union (GdP) condemned the attacks on the police. “We are experiencing the effects of a religious war on the streets of the capital, in which our emergency services are becoming the targets of religious fanaticism.”
Couldn’t find much on how many Jews where arrested at Palestine protests. Some tidbits on the situation in general I picked up though:
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Props to the sqirrel antifa division keeping the porkies on edge 
Hope nobody got hurt though
I think they just see at as a holiday and promo tour.
They probably get some wellness sessions, have some very expensive dinners and pretend to have a meeting in between.
At the end they go back home and tell everyone how hard they fought and how much closer to victory Ukraine now is because of their valiant efforts.
Everyone is happy. The End.
No worries, I just love harping on about how shit the SPD is. Sorry lol
I’m in the same boat, fortunately not Covid though, but still laboring on a cough that seems to want to stay rather than go.
Anyways speedy recovery to you 
Interesting train of thought, although I have to disagree. I mean of course it could be worse, but it could’ve also been so much better.
The reason for my thinking is I sometimes have to think about what could’ve been if only the reformist ideas of people like Bernstein and Kautsky don’t become dominant in the SPD preceding WW1 and they follow the line Luxemburg and Liebknecht followed, history could’ve turned out completely different.
The possibilities, revolution in Germany(Europe generally), no WW1 and WW2 possibly, USSR and Germany allies not enemies, no purges like they happened, no forced resettlements, no 1930s famine maybe, endless positive potentials not realized because of goddamn sucdems, truly maddening…
So because of all that I have to disagree.
That is still true, you either go to a Hauptschule, Realschule or Gymnasium(lowest to highest “degree” you can get) which basically determines what you are able to do after secondary school.
I have no clue, but I would imagine the statistics to be a kind of sliding scale with the most dropouts in the Hauptschule and less the further up the ladder you go.
Blowback’s here
The leader of the “National Militia” of the “Azov” movement swore his comrades to the final “clash of civilizations” on August 1, 2020 at the edge of a forest near Kiev. “The age of absolute darkness lies before us,” predicted Igor “Tcherkas” Mikhailenko and demanded that the hundreds of mostly masked fighters of his “vigilante group” present would make sacrifices for the idea of a “Greater Ukraine.” He gave a new battle cry: “Aut Caesar, aut nihil!” (all or nothing). By torchlight and with Nazi pomp, which was based on the war aesthetics of ancient Rome, the “Centuria” organization was born – and the “National Militia” was history. Since 2017, they had been practicing brutal vigilante justice in Ukrainian cities and, for example, tyrannizing the LGBTQ scene. “Centuria” has enjoyed the admiration of the small neo-Nazi party “Der III. Weg(The third way)” in this country for years.
The organization (not to be confused with the military order of the same name and also associated with “Azov”, which already existed before 2020) now has an offshoot in Germany: On August 24, 2023, immigrant Ukrainian fascists founded an initiative group in Magdeburg: "Although the Ukrainian youth are not in their homeland, they are starting to unite,” they announced on social media. The “enemies” of their country, whom they want to cause a “hellish storm” against, must understand that “Ukrainian emigrants” are not prepared to “forget their national identity for a few hundred euros.”
Photos and videos show a nationalist rally on the Old Market in Magdeburg on the 32nd anniversary of Ukraine’s independence - as usual unmolested by Antifa and critical media reporting. According to its own information, the march was organized by “Centuria”. The participants posed with a flag of the Bandera wing of the fascist Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). The “German-Ukrainian Society of Saxony-Anhalt” is also said to have been involved. Most recently, the group organized a solidarity rally for the “Defenders of Azovstal” in front of the Red City Hall in Berlin on January 27th, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Since its founding, “Centuria Magdeburg” has also been inviting people to go on hikes together in the Harz Mountains. For example, with the nationalist scout association “Plast”, which has been based in Germany since 1951 and had already set up its first tent camp in Mittenwald in 1947. According to its own information, “Centuria Magdeburg” has members in a total of six cities and is networked with Ukrainian organizations throughout Germany. The group is currently raising funds for its parent organization’s combat unit, which has been integrated into the third “Azov” assault brigade of the Ukrainian army under the command of Nazi leader Andriy Biletsky since 2022, and is participating in “information warfare.” Not only against Russia, but also against minorities hated by the fascists: the “German Caliphate”, Palestinians and other migrants from predominantly Muslim regions, as well as “black rapists” who are allegedly protected by the police, and “pedophiles”, as the group calls homosexuals.
“We are creating a new generation of heroes!” they promise. True to its leader Mikhailenko - who wants to “destroy everything anti-Ukrainian” and was head of the Nazi organization “Patriot of Ukraine” in the Kharkiv region and commander of the “Azov” regiment of the National Guard from 2014 to 2016 - the group relies on violence: "Free People have weapons,” it says on her Telegram channel. The German traffic light government supplies these in abundance to the Ukrainian armed forces and thus also to the fascist and other ultra-right units belonging to them. It can therefore be assumed that “Centuria” will be able to expand its structures in Germany unhindered by the local security authorities.
France has made a proposal to Lebanon to bring an end to the confrontations between Hezbollah and Israel. The dpa learned this from Lebanese government circles on Tuesday. The proposal therefore calls for Hezbollah to withdraw its fighters from the border - to a distance of around ten kilometers. The border region is to be monitored by the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers. The proposal was developed together with government representatives from the USA, Qatar and Egypt. There was initially no official confirmation from Lebanon or France. Hezbollah circles said that they had not officially received any paper with suggestions.
Le evil French scheming again 
Economically they might be the biggest power within Germany, also just because Bavaria is the biggest state, but is far from being the only economical center you have the other two big car producers(Mercedes and VW) in Stuttgart and Wolfsburg, you got the banks in Frankfurt and so on.
But it sure is like one of the places the bourgeois like to mingle.
Bavaria is also one of the most conservative places in general in Germany, with them being basically a one party state ruled by the CSU(Christian Social Union) since the end of WW2.
Had to check the URL if this is the onion, but nope just plain old reality.