In the current political environment, Iâm struggling with an extreme case of what psychologists call âcognitive dissonance.â Put simply, half of me is praying for a Democratic takeover of the House and Senate; and the other half is suffering fitful sleeplessness that the Democratic Socialist Alliance (DSA) and its fellow travelers may become the dominant voice in my once beloved Party.
Archiv: Psychopathen / Soziopathen / psychopaths / sociopaths
Ramaswamy Takes Full Credit for Most âDisgusting, Pathetic Ad Ever Created in the History of Political Adsâ
Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican Partyâs gubernatorial nominee in Ohio, confirmed on Wednesday that his campaign was behind a widely condemned attack ad featuring Democratic opponent Amy Actonâs estranged biological mother, sparking fresh outrage less than two weeks before Election Day in the critical battleground state.
Israelâs top court backs barring Palestinian politician from election over article
Abu Shehadeh, a key figure in the Palestinian-majority Joint List, was disqualified from standing last month by the Central Elections Committee, a body controlled by the governing coalition.
His disqualification centred on an article he wrote in the immediate aftermath of the Hamas-led attack in southern Israel on 7 October.
The article, titled âThe Al-Aqsa Flood: Preliminary Observationsâ, was published in Arabic by the Arab48 news outlet on 8 October 2023. It presented a preliminary analysis of the attack and its ramifications.
(…)
He also wrote that the attack showed that âIsrael and its intelligence services are made up of human beings like usâ and could âbe prevented from penetrating our countries, parties, and political movements â if there is the will to do so and if we organise ourselves properlyâ.
EU-Rat treibt die Chatkontrolle wieder an
Der ehemalige deutsche Europaabgeordnete der Piratenpartei, Patrick Breyer, sieht darin klar âMassenĂŒberwachung unter anderem Namenâ. Ziel von Rat, Kommission und einigen Mitgliedstaaten sei es, âMassenĂŒberwachung in ganz Europa dauerhaft zu normalisierenâ.
Der Vorschlag, âTeile eines Dienstesâ zu scannen, wĂŒrde in der Praxis bedeuten, dass âjeder Nutzer in der EUâ betroffen wĂ€re, so Breyer.
Zudem handle es sich nicht um ein neues System, das das alte ersetze, sondern um eines, das parallel dazu existieren wĂŒrde. Das alte System sei eine âerwiesene Katastropheâ: In Deutschland richteten sich ĂŒber die HĂ€lfte der Ermittlungen gegen MinderjĂ€hrige wegen âeinvernehmlichen Sextingsâ, wĂ€hrend 75 Prozent der gemeldeten Chats ânicht verwertbarâ seien.
AI development concerns common well-being of all humanity; threat narratives would disrupt global AI governance, says FM on calls to slow AI development
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Monday that the development of artificial intelligence concerns the common well-being of all humanity. He called on all parties to jointly promote the open, inclusive and universally beneficial development of AI for good, warning that spreading threat narratives, provoking confrontation and engaging in malicious competition would only disrupt global AI governance and serve no party‘s interests.
A fateful turning point for humanity and AI could redefine American politics
If a terrorist threat led subject experts to warn of a near-term existential menace to humanity, the weight of the US government would mobilize in an immediate and limitless effort to save the day.
Yet a remarkable sequence of warnings by leaders of artificial intelligence firms that their creation may soon outpace humansâ capacity to control it has so far been met with a shrug by Republicans who run Washington.
Why Tech Oligarchs Are Willing to Risk Apocalypse
(September 12, 2026)
Their fantasies of transcendence take different forms. Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, once said, âI assume my brain will be uploaded to the cloud.â Elon Musk plans to escape to Mars. âWe want to be on a path toward making true the things that we read in science fiction books and see in the movies,â he says in footage featured in Alex Gibneyâs searing new documentary, âMusk.â âA future where weâre forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event is less inspiring.â Jeff Bezos, who stepped down in 2021 as chief executive of Amazon to spend more time on his space company, wrote, âWe donât want to face a civilization of stasis, and that is the real issue if we just stay on this planet.â
Some imagine themselves as digitally enabled Ăbermenschen. In 2023, the billionaire tech investor Marc Andreessen published âThe Techno-Optimist Manifesto,â with a section titled, âBecoming Technological Supermen.â In it, he borrowed language from the Italian futurist â and fascist â Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, writing, âTechnology must be a violent assault on the forces of the unknown, to force them to bow before man.â He quoted Friedrich Nietzsche to argue that absent such an assault, life becomes meaningless and small. In a section titled âThe Enemy,â Andreessen listed ideas that would restrain technologyâs momentum, including âtech ethicsâ and the concept of âexistential risk.â
Trump brushes off AI fears: „Whoever wins AI wins“
President Trump brushed off the risks of artificial intelligence and warnings that the technology has gone rogue. The calls for caution were amplified by tech CEOs who say AI is advancing too fast. Ramy Inocencio has more.
AI and the end of humanity? OK, âdoomerâ says one Trump official
David Sacks, a tech investor who is also co-chair of President Trumpâs Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, has pushed in the other direction, toward an open market-based approach to AI.
Appearing on Fox News Thursday, Sacks questioned Coxonâs motivations and seeded the idea that his warning was part of a conspiracy by âdoomers,â maybe financed by China, to thwart AI innovation in the US.
On Saturday, President Donald Trump echoed that sentiment,
Report: Netanyahu Says 9/11 Terror Attacks Good for Israel
(April 16, 2008)
„We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq,“ Ma‘ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events „swung American public opinion in our favor.“
Netanyahu reportedly made the comments during a conference at Bar-Ilan University on the division of Jerusalem as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians.
A DAY OF TERROR: THE ISRAELIS; Spilled Blood Is Seen as Bond That Draws 2 Nations Closer
(12. September 2001)
Asked tonight what the attack meant for relations between the United States and Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister, replied, “It‘s very good.“ Then he edited himself: “Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy.“ He predicted that the attack would “strengthen the bond between our two peoples, because we‘ve experienced terror over so many decades, but the United States has now experienced a massive hemorrhaging of terror.“
September 11, 2001: Former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu: 9/11 Very Good for Israeli-US Relations
Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when asked what the 9/11 attacks means for relations between the US and Israel, replies, âItâs very good.â Then he edits himself: âWell, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy.â [New York Times, 9/12/2001]
A week later, the Village Voice states, âFrom national networks to small-town newspapers, the view that Americaâs terrible taste of terrorism will finally do away with even modest calls for the restraint of Israelâs military attacks on Palestinian towns has become an instant, unshakable axiom.⊠Now, support for Israel in America is officially absolute, and Palestinians are cast once again as players in a global terrorist conspiracy.â
Why is the World at War?
(June 10, 2026)
A new report shows conflicts across the globe surged in 2025, reaching levels not seen since the Second World War. And violence against civilians reached new heights.
Can Netanyahu say just what he likes?
(October 25, 2015)
A political consultant once related how he lunched with Benjamin Netanyahu, who ordered a hamburger with fries. He was not supposed to be eating such foods â doctorâs orders. As they were finishing up, Bibiâs wife, Sarah, came in, saw the evidence and began to see red. Netanyahu, all righteous indignation, looked her straight in the eye and said he had eaten no such hamburger. The storyteller said he was convinced at that moment that Netanyahu himself believed it.
If apocryphal, it is definitely in character. Netanyahu regularly embraces bad ideas or even lies so totally that he convinces himself of their rightness. Others start to believe them too. His outlandish idea, uttered in a speech, was that Hitler would have been happy with just expelling Jews if a Palestinian, the then grand mufti of Jerusalem, had not suggested annihilation instead.
100 soldiers stage mass walk-out at southern IDF base after row with their commander
(July 30, 2026)
Footage posted online showed the soldiers marching out of the base while chanting an obscenity against officers. Other footage from the base showed a disorganized mount of guns left behind by the soldiers, and the wreckage of the removed signs, including one with a hellish motif that read âKingdom of Devils.â
The soldiers claimed the signs were âpart of our companyâs tradition.â According to the army, the signs contained materials meant to disparage rookie soldiers.
Infantry soldiers in the IDF have a history of hazing new recruits and of deserting en masse over alleged mistreatment by commanders.
Soldier seriously wounded during hazing ritual, 4 comrades indicted
(May 3, 2026)
In February, a female sergeant in the IDF Artillery Corps was indicted for abusing two corporals in her unit as part of a so-called hazing ritual. She was accused of abusing the two soldiers as a form of âpunishmentâ for minor infractions, summoning them at night, whipping them with her dog tag, striking them with her rifle, and forcing them to sing, despite their pleas for the actions to stop.
Similarly, last summer, seven soldiers serving in the Israeli Air Forceâs Arrow air defense system array were detained for the alleged abuse of junior soldiers. According to a Ynet report, the veteran soldiers were suspected of abuse, violence, threats and sex crimes.
EU deploys new sanctions on Iran over Hormuz restrictions
âMinisters were clear today that Iran‘s actions are unacceptable,â said Kaja Kallas, high representative for foreign affairs and security policy and vice-president of the European Commission. âIn response, EU Member States in Brussels today approved sanctions against the Iranian individuals and entities involved in disrupting transit through the Strait of Hormuz. This is the first time the EU has applied its new freedom of navigation sanctions regime, and where necessary [it] will apply it again.â
CCTV footage has captured the moment a group of Israeli settlers spat towards the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Jerusalem.
The incident occurred on the day of âFlag March,â a national holiday marking the occupation of East Jerusalem by Israeli forces following the 1967 war
Video footage circulating online shows Israeli settlers spitting towards the Shrine of the Virgin Mary, located opposite the Church of the Shepherds of the Saviour in the Bab al-Jadid area of occupied East Jerusalem.
(…)
Behind the riots: Israel-Pahlavi nexus and the delusion of âregime changeâ in Iran
The alliance between Iranâs former monarchists and the Israeli regime â actors united by shared interests â gained further momentum after Pahlavi and his spouse visited the Israeli-occupied territories in April 2024 at the invitation of Netanyahu himself.
The visit marked the formalization of what had long been an informal and deeply troubling relationship.
This relationship was further solidified after the Tel Aviv regime launched an unprovoked and unjustified war of aggression against Iran in June this year, resulting in the martyrdom of more than 1,000 people, including women and children.
While the Iranian nation mourned its dead, Pahlavi monarchists openly celebrated. Reza Pahlavi offered no words of sympathy for the victims of the 12-day war, laying bare where his loyalties truly lie.
„Outrageous“: JetBlue A320 Narrowly Avoids Mid-Air Collision With US Military Tanker Over Curaçao
To maintain a safe level of separation, the JetBlue aircraft halted its climb and leveled its altitude before eventually climbing again to cruising altitude. During communications between the aircraft and ATC, Curaçao‘s control center confirmed that the military tanker was not visible on their screens either.
With its transponder not switched on, the aircraft would also not have been visible to JetBlue‘s Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS), which relies on transponder signals from nearby aircraft to warn of potential collisions. While this near-miss occurred during daylight hours, the situation could have been a lot worse if it happened at night during minimal visibility.
JetBlue plane near Venezuela avoids âmidair collisionâ with US Air Force aircraft
A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a US Air Force refueling tanker on Friday, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing his path.
âWe almost had a midair collision up here,â the JetBlue pilot said, according to a recording of his conversation with air traffic control. âThey passed directly in our flight path. ⊠They donât have their transponder turned on, itâs outrageous.â
The incident involved JetBlue Flight 1112 from Curaçao, which is just off the coast of Venezuela, en route to New York Cityâs John F. Kennedy International Airport.
UK military equipment used by militia accused of genocide found in Sudan, UN told
(October 28, 2025)
British military equipment has been found on battlefields in Sudan, used by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group accused of genocide, according to documents seen by the UN security council.
(…)
Months after the UN security council first received material alleging that the UAE may have supplied British-made items to the RSF, new data indicates that the British government went on to approve further exports to the Gulf state for military equipment of the same type.
British engines made specifically for a type of UAE-manufactured armoured personnel carrier also appear to have been exported to the Emirates, despite evidence that the vehicles had been used in Libya and Yemen in defiance of UN arms embargos.
»All Eyes on Gaza« kann nur der Anfang sein
Eine AuĂenministerin verteidigt das Bombardieren von KrankenhĂ€usern und Schulen; ein Bundeskanzler beschreibt einen illegalen, unprovozierten Luftkrieg als notwendige »Drecksarbeit«; Politiker und Journalisten stellen immer wieder infrage, ob die grausamen Bilder von Massenmord in Gaza nicht vielleicht doch gestellt sind. Demonstrierende werden auf Berliner StraĂen von der Polizei brutal zusammengeschlagen, und die liberalen Stimmen, die sonst ihre Bereitschaft, fĂŒr die freie MeinungsĂ€uĂerung zu sterben, laut kundtun, bleiben auf einmal still. Eine unfassbare Entmenschlichung macht sich breit, und diejenigen, die diese kritisieren â darunter nicht wenige Menschen jĂŒdischer Abstammung â werden als Antisemiten diffamiert. Es fĂŒhlt sich nicht selten so an, als wĂŒrde Deutschland eine ParallelrealitĂ€t bewohnen.
Security Council Fails to Adopt Resolution on Gaza Ceasefire
Then, by a vote of 14 in favour to 1 against (United States), with no abstentions, the draft resolution was not adopted owing to the negative vote of a permanent Council member. Had it been, the text would have seen the Council demand an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza; the immediate, dignified and unconditional release of all hostages held by Hamas and other groups; and Israelâs immediate, unconditional lifting of all restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid into the Strip.
âForgive us,â said Algeriaâs delegate after the vote. âForgive us,â he continued, addressing the people of Palestine, âbecause this Council could not save your children â more than 18,000 of them have been killed by Israelâ. âForgive us,â he repeated, noting that more than 12,000 women, more than 4,000 elderly, more than 1,400 doctors and nurses, more than 250 journalists and more than 500 aid workers âhave been killed by Israelâ.
Security Council: US votes against resolution on Gaza ceasefire
The United States once again vetoed a UN resolution demanding an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, following a vote in the Security Council on Thursday.
US vetoes UN Security Council Gaza ceasefire demand for sixth time
âForgive us, Palestinian brothers, sisters,â says Algerian ambassador to UN Amar Bendjama after devastating outcome.
The European Union Is Complicit in Genocide
(August 11, 2025)
The EU presents itself as a global champion of moral and legal leadership, grounded in the principles of human rights, international law, democracy, and humanitarianism. Yet its failure to uphold these values in the case of Palestine severely undermines its credibility. As Israelâs largest trading partner and second-largest arms supplier, the EU possesses considerable leverage; its refusal to use this influence to hold Israel accountable or protect Palestinian lives signals not powerlessness but a conscious choice of complicity. Moreover, given its member statesâ historical entanglement in the colonial partitioning of the Middle East, the EU bears a deeper responsibility to act with justice. Its failure to do so today echoes the very dynamics of domination and double standards it claims to have left behind.