Gasoline accounts for a shrinking share of household budgets, but its political power can still make or break a presidency.
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Vol. 2: Was ist „Clubsterben“ und wie geht noch bodenständig feiern in Berlin?
(Oktober 2, 2025)
Der Bundestag hat schon im Mai 2021 offiziell gesagt: Clubs sind Kultur! Die sollen endlich so behandelt werden wie Theater oder Museen, und nicht mehr wie Spielhallen oder Puffe.
Was ist nun das Problem? Die Bürokratie. Die BauNVO (Bau-Verordnung) muss noch überredet werden, damit Clubs da offiziell als „Kulturstätten“ drin stehen. Und das ist ultra-langsam. Bis 2025 ist das nicht durch.
Clubsterben: Tanz ums Überleben – Eine Dresdner Club-Betreiberin erzählt
Zwar würden seit der Corona-Pandemie wieder mehr Menschen feiern gehen, aber Energie, Mieten, Gagen und Löhne seien spürbar teurer geworden, sagt OKA-Geschäftsführer und Vorstand der Live Initiative Sachsen (LISA), Felix Buchta. „Die Situation der sächsischen Clubs und Livemusikspielstätten ist weiterhin extrem prekär und für viele existenzbedrohend“, sagt er.
„Viele Clubs arbeiten am Rande der Rentabilität und überleben seit der Corona-Pandemie nur mit massiven Anstrengungen, dank der Solidarität in der Szene und durch persönliche Ausbeutung“, erklärt Buchta.
Clubsterben MV: In der „Rosa“ hat es sich bald ausgetanzt
(Dezember 8, 2025)
Die Gründe könne man an einer Hand abzählen, sagt Demirkaya. Es seien die Nachwirkungen der Corona-Pandemie und die Kostenexplosionen, insbesondere im Energiebereich. „Unser Stammpublikum besteht aus Studierenden. Die verdienen wenig. Und die spüren die Inflation natürlich mit am stärksten“, sagt Demirkaya.
In Solidarity with Gaza
(September 3, 2025)
Whilst Lush is losing a day of takings, this also means that the UK Government is losing a day of tax contributions from Lush and our customers. We hope they too hear the message our closure sends, with more Government action needed to bring an immediate stop to the death and destruction, including an end to arms sales from the UK.
In Peace and Solidarity,
LUSH
NB: Lush trades in over 50 countries, but was originally founded in the UK. With this in mind it feels important that we lift our voice first from here in the UK, however we know that sentiment across the international Lush business is strong and we expect similar actions may follow as other Lush countries seek ways to express their solidarity.
Cosmetics chain Lush closes ALL of its stores and shuts down its website in protest over Palestine
(September 3, 2025)
High street cosmetics firm Lush has shut down its website and closed all its UK stores in what the company says is a pro-Palestine statement of solidarity.
The firm shared an image declaring ‚Stop starving Gaza‘ as it also closed its factories in a one-day gesture.
Lush said in a statement today: ‚Across the Lush business we share the anguish that millions of people feel seeing the images of starving people in Gaza, Palestine.
Hadash Slams Cabinet Approval of Gaza City Takeover, Protests Nationwide
On Thursday evening, outside the cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, thousands of protesters rallied against the move to expand the occupation The protesters called for a deal to end the war and the release of all the hostages. In Tel-Aviv, police arrested 10 protesters as thousands gathered in front of the Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv and blocked Ayalon Highway to demand a hostage deal and the end of the war. Protest groups said two of the protesters were minors. Demonstrations against war take place across Israel in Herzliya, Haifa, Karkur junction, Hod Hasharon, Rosh HaAyin, Kfar Sava, Beer Sheva, Raanana, Naveh Ilan, Ha’ogen junction, Gome junction, Yesod Hama’ala, Rosh Pina, Beit Hashita, Horfish, Tzemach, Yannai junction and other localities
Around 300 architects and planners have signed on Friday petition titled “Stop the Destruction – Yes to Rebuilding Gaza”. “We express deep shock at the acts of destruction, killing, starvation and mass deportation from cities and civilian areas in the Gaza Strip,” they wrote. “We cannot forget Hamas’ horrific crimes on October 7 – acts of massacre, destruction and the abduction of civilians from border communities. But those atrocities do not justify indiscriminate harming of civilians, women and children or the near-total destruction of the Gaza Strip.”
On Thursday, Israeli cultural organizations issued a statement condemning “attacks on the very idea of free culture” after some 1,000 Israeli artists and authors were criticized for signing a petition called “Stop the Horror in Gaza.” The petition called for an end to the war and the safe return of hostages. It also accused Israel of causing starvation and urged soldiers not to follow illegal orders or commit war crimes. Signed by organizations including the Association of Museums and ICOM Israel, the Israeli Directors’ Guild, and the Israeli Actors’ Association, the statement said, “In recent weeks, we have witnessed a troubling wave of threats and attacks against creators, cultural organizations, and Israeli artworks.”
Turkish, Israeli teams‘ football faceoff to be held in ‚neutral country‘
A football match later this month between a Turkish team and an Israeli side – whose countries are bitterly at odds over an ongoing genocide – will be held in a „neutral country“ rather than Türkiye, the hosts and UEFA confirmed on Monday.
Erasing ‚Any Sign of Life,‘ Israeli Demolition Teams Razing Entire Villages in Lebanon
Satellite photos examined by The Washington Post, Reuters, and the Financial Times showed vast destruction caused by Israeli bombing and controlled demolitions of towns and villages, many of whose residents are among the more than 1.2 million people forcibly displaced by the war. (…)
„We‘re a family of artists, my father is well-known, and our home was a known cultural home,“ Lebanon Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Lubnan Baalbaki told Reuters after viewing satellite images confirming the destruction of his family home.
„If you have such high-level intelligence that you can target specific military figures, then you know what‘s in that house,“ Baalbaki added. „It was an art house. We are all artists. The aim is to erase any sign of life.“
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Author: رشاد أبو سخيلة
Category: Literature [Edit]
Language: Arabic
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My cousin‘s poems were the heartbeat of Palestine. Israel killed him but his words live on
Rashad was killed for his talent and inspiration – for daring to be a voice of hope in a world that so desperately needs it. Israel is not just targeting individuals; it is trying to break us as a people, to erase Palestinian culture, identity and existence.
These efforts at erasure have been ongoing for 76 years, since the Nakba. They have targeted our leaders, intellectuals and artists. Indeed, Rashad’s story is not unique: Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians like him, people who dared to dream of a better world, and to use their talents to inspire others.
I don’t know what to say or do in the face of such grief. Rashad shone so brightly. I will not let his memory fade.
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War on Gaza: Israel‘s killing of Palestinian intellectual leaders is an incalculable
Indeed, the Israeli army’s killing of Palestinian scientists, intellectuals and artists appears to be part of a systematic attempt to destroy Palestinian cultural life. Such voices are essential for educating the next generation of Palestinians. Their loss is incalculable.
Several experts confirm Hamas’ view to @Channel4News that the audio tape of “Hamas” operatives talking about the missile malfunction is a fake . They say the tone, syntax, accent and idiom are absurd.
Emek Shaveh: About Us
Emek Shaveh is an Israeli NGO working to defend cultural heritage rights and to protect ancient sites as public assets that belong to members of all communities, faiths and peoples. We object to the fact that the ruins of the past have become a political tool in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and work to challenge those who use archaeological sites to dispossess disenfranchised communities. We view heritage site as resources for building bridges and strengthening bonds between peoples and cultures and believe that archaeological sites cannot constitute proof of precedence or ownership by any one nation, ethnic group or religion over a given place.
About Ir Amim
Ir Amim (“City of Nations” or “City of Peoples”) focuses on Jerusalem within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The mission of Ir Amim is to render Jerusalem a more equitable and sustainable city for the Israelis and Palestinians who share it and to help secure a negotiated resolution on the city through sustained monitoring, reporting, public and legal advocacy, public education and outreach to re-orient the public discourse on Jerusalem.
Ir Amim envisions a city that ensures the dignity and welfare of all its residents and safeguards their holy places, historical and cultural heritages – today, as well as in the future. Ir Amim aspires to a sustainable political future for Jerusalem as the shared capital of two sovereign states – achievable only through a negotiated Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Ir Amim was founded in 2000, and became active as a non-profit organization in 2004.
Die Zombie-Linke
(21.Januar 2020)
Der von uns seit langem in Zeiten des mittlerweile über achtzehnjährigen weltweiten Terrorkrieges beschriebene moralisch-politische Zusammenbruch von Liberalen, Demokraten, Pazifisten, Sozialdemokraten und politischer Linken in Deutschland befindet sich im Endstadium.
Dabei frisst der Linkskörper nicht nur sich selbst. Er frisst auch alle Ideen und Errungenschaften, die er angeblich vertritt. In Wirklichkeit dienen den betreffenden etablierten Apparaten – ob Parteien, Gewerkschaften, “Nichtregierungsorganisationen”, assoziierte Presse und die Myraden von Schnattergruppen – diese Ideen und Errungenschaften nicht als Rechtfertigung, sondern als Nahrung.
Nach allen vermeintlichen Ansprüchen haben sich sämtliche etablierten und populären Organisationen, in Deutschland und in großen Teilen der E.U.-Hegemonie, als bestenfalls wertlos und real als gefährlich entpuppt. Alles Ablenken auf Wanderungsbewegungen, Geschlechterfragen, Abstammung, religiöse Anschauungen und politische Planeten die sich nicht von irgendeiner Sonne diktieren (erschaffen) lassen, taugt nur für Wahnsinnige und Idioten und -innen. Diese werden von der Zombie-Linken als nächste Nahrung bzw Ernährer benutzt, genauso wie alles Lebendige und Ideenreiche was sie in gutem Glauben mitbringen, gerade das Engagment für ihre Umwelt.
Sozialdemokratie, Sozialismus, Pazifismus, Humanismus, klassischer Liberalismus, alles was noch gut und schön ist an diesen und anderen in Hunderten von Jahren von Anderen erkämpften fortschrittlichen Errungenschaften und Gedankengut, bis hin zu Aufklärung, Wissenschaft und Kultur, stehen in Deutschland vor dem Aussterben. Geistig und moralisch droht der Rücksturz ins Mittelalter hinter Galileo Galilei und die Bauernkriege. Das von der Kanzel herabgereichte Dogma wird nachgebetet. Wer widerspricht, ist Ketzer / Ketzerin. Nur stehen statt dem Pfaffen jetzt andere Autoritäten oben auf der Kanzel, die zu einem ewig und unablässlich plappernden Bildschirm geronnen ist, von dem Milliarden von Menschen Stein und Bein schwören würden, dass er gar nicht mit ihnen redet.
Civil Liberties: Restore our Rights
Our administration will make it a top priority to protect and restore the fundamental civil liberties, enshrined in the Bill of Rights, that hold the essence of what America can be. These liberties have endured constant assault for over twenty years, starting with the Bush/Cheney War on Terror, and accelerating in the era of Covid lockdowns.
Freedom of speech is the capstone of all other rights and freedoms. Once a government has the power to silence its opponents, no other right is safe. We will therefore dismantle the censorship-industrial complex, in which Big Tech censors, deplatforms, shadowbans, and algorithmically suppresses any person or opinion the government asks them to. We will respect the right to privacy and freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, by ending mass surveillance of American citizens and the abuse of civil asset forfeiture. We will make sure that the Covid-era suspension of the right to assembly, trial by jury, and freedom of worship will never happen again. The same for the right to property. During Covid, 3.4 million business were forced to close. Many of them, including 60% of Black-owned businesses, will never reopen.
A Kennedy administration will respect American citizens and stop treating them like suspects and schoolchildren. We will stop manipulating the public with propaganda and targeted leaks. We will never weaponize the law against political opponents, nor hold our own officials above the law. We will return the intelligence agencies to their proper role as protectors not violators of liberty.
Between Oct. 2021 and Sep. 2022, the U.S. spent $877 billion on the military, more than the next 10 countries combined. These huge military expenditures, along with the rising costs of a for-profit healthcare system, have driven the U.S. national debt to over $31 trillion, nearly $5 trillion more than US GDP. #Kennedy24
Imagine how we could rebuild our nation if we brought even half that amount home. Let‘s take care of those left behind. Let‘s fix our infrastructure. Let‘s clean up our environment. Let‘s make our nation strong and prosperous again! #Kennedy24
Warning of ‚Theocratic Dictatorship,‘ 1,000 Israeli Cultural Figures Call on U.K., Germany to Cancel Netanyahu Visit
The letter wrote that the racist, homophobic and undemocratic intentions by the government is targeting all Israeli citizens at home and abroad, referring to the ongoing judicial overhaul plans and a host of other proposed laws that will adversely affect the “freedom of authors and artists in Israel.”
The authors wrote that Netanyahu supports current legislation running through the Knesset that would turn the Israeli police into a “political police, a tool that every dictatorship needs in order to enforce state power on citizens.”
Half-masting of flags following the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
It is with great regret that we learn of the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.
Exclusive: Inside the Military‘s Secret Undercover Army
(17. May 2021)
No one knows the program‘s total size, and the explosion of signature reduction has never been examined for its impact on military policies and culture. Congress has never held a hearing on the subject. And yet the military developing this gigantic clandestine force challenges U.S. laws, the Geneva Conventions, the code of military conduct and basic accountability.
Die Hauptstadt des ganz normalen Wahnsinns
Schlagzeilen der derben Sorte aus dem Berliner Alltag lauten gerade „Läden schließen und verwandeln sich in teure Ferienwohnungen“, „Kaufhauskette stellt Insolvenzantrag“, „Tipps für die Zeit ohne Strom in Berlin haben Hochkonjunktur“, „Die Flüchtlingsströme sind für Berlin nicht zu stemmen“, „Bäcker, Fleischer, andere Handwerksbetriebe geben auf“, „Staus wegen junger Menschen, die sich auf die Straße kleben“, „Bundespräsident hält Rede an die Nation“, „Gesundheitsminister erklärt, dass Kitas in der Pandemie nicht hätten geschlossen werden müssen“, „Mieterhöhungen von 15 Prozent bedrohen Mieter in Moabit“, „5 Euro für einen Glühwein“, „Briefe werden von der Post unzuverlässig zugestellt“, „Berliner Feuerwehr in Not“, „Sozialämter überlastet“, „Zahl der Obdachlosen steigt“, „Paragrafenänderung durch Regierung schränkt Freiheit der Rede, der Meinung, der Wissenschaft ein“, „Aufarbeitung des RBB-Skandals ist einzige Veralberung“, „Müllgebühren steigen“, „Kochen ohne Strom – Empfehlung dagegen: Rotkohlsalat“, „Drama um Berufsausbildung – die Lage ist schlecht“, „Sanierungsstau bei der U-Bahn“. Und so weiter.
Hadash Elects First Candidates for Its List for the Knesset Elections
Hadash’s electoral platform calls for: an end to Israel’s occupation of all Palestinian territories conquered in the June 1967 war as well as the Golan Heights taken from Syria, and for achieving a just, comprehensive, and stable peace between Israel and an independent Palestinian state to be created in those same occupied Palestinian territories; the protection of workers’ rights; the development of advanced and egalitarian social services (health, education, housing, welfare, culture, and sports), and for full equality for the Arab-Palestinian national minority in Israel.
Among Hadash’s additional goals are: the eradication of ethnic discrimination in all fields; the defense of the interests of residents of disadvantaged neighborhoods and development towns; the protection of democratic freedoms in Israeli society; full equality between the sexes in all fields; the protection of the environment and environmental justice; and the eradication of all nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons in Israel and throughout the Middle East.
Leserbriefe zu „Cancel Culture lebt von der Unterwürfigkeit“
Noch vor einigen Jahren galt es als eine inhaltliche Unterstützung einer Bewegung oder Gruppe, wenn jemand einige ihrer Symbole selbst übernahm. Wer die Rastafaris bei ihrer friedlich kulturellen Identität unterstützen wollte, kaufte sich z.B. eine Platte von Bob Marley und übernahm teilweise Kleidung, Kultur und Frisur als Ausdruck gemeinsamer Haltung gegen Kolonialismus und gegen politische und wirtschaftliche Clans, das alles mit starker religiöser Grundlage.
Das Verbot von Übernahme solcher Äußerlichkeiten zerstört auch die inhaltliche Auseinandersetzung. Eine Übernahme von überlieferten kulturellen Eigenheiten – oder völlig neu entwickelten – hat allerdings die Kulturen in aller Welt aufblühen lassen. Ein Verbot von kulturellen Einflüssen wirkt nicht nur einschränkend, sondern rückschrittlich. Eine Gesellschaft zu bilden wäre nicht möglich, alles beruht auf Übernahmen.
Als weiteres Beispiel im musikalisch-kulturellen Bereich möchte ich die anfängliche Übernahme vom Blues nennen, der seine Ursprünge hat in den afrikanische Sklaven haltenden Südstaaten der USA. Die weltweit berühmtesten Rockbands begannen ihre Karriere mit dem Nachspielen von Traditionals. Ein Großteil der modernen großindustriellen ‘Hits’ ist aus dieser Tradition der Übernahme entstanden.
Exclusive: Inside the Military‘s Secret Undercover Army
(17. May 2021)
No one knows the program‘s total size, and the explosion of signature reduction has never been examined for its impact on military policies and culture. Congress has never held a hearing on the subject. And yet the military developing this gigantic clandestine force challenges U.S. laws, the Geneva Conventions, the code of military conduct and basic accountability.
The Cancellation of Russian Culture
If Germany succumbed to the Nazis, don’t listen to Beethoven; because of Mussolini, cancel Dante and Raphael; if you reject American actions in Vietnam, the Middle East, or anywhere else, no more Thoreau or Emily Dickinson. Could there be a better way to encourage national hatred than to treat a whole culture and its history as a unified whole, carrying, as if genetically, a hideous quality?