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International eben ...

Survival of the Richest - das isses :(

"It’s as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust" ...

"... planning to save themselves from the apocalypse", ein wie ich meine ein originellerer Text aus dem Guardian, dort mit "Preppers" noch im Titel, mit einer interessanten Benennung - hm - "The Mindset", auch beschrieben als "Silicon Valley escapism" von Douglas Rushkoff.
via https://mastodon.social/@euroweld/108940608845635527

Bundesamt liefert unsere Daten frei Haus an US-Behörden

Wie der zuverlässige "Datenwächter" Mike Kuketz vorzeigen konnte, werden die deutschen Zensusdaten via den US-Anbieter Cloudflare abgewickelt - ich teile seine Kritik an diesem Skandal - die hiesigen Behörden haben m.E. beim Stichwort Digitalisierung nur blinde Flecken u. mehr ...: Dort mehr zur Beobachtung von Mike Kuketz ... mit Update

USA raus aus Afghanistan? ... was glaubst Du ..

Tja ..
https://worldbeyondwar.org/contrary-to-what-biden-said-u-s-warfare-in-a…
Die Bodentruppen sollen raus, vielleicht, aber:

But, buried in the thirty-second paragraph of a story headed “Biden to Withdraw All Combat Troops From Afghanistan by Sept. 11,” the Times reported: “Instead of declared troops in Afghanistan, the United States will most likely rely on a shadowy combination of clandestine Special Operations forces, Pentagon contractors and covert intelligence operatives to find and attack the most dangerous Qaeda or Islamic State threats, current and former American officials said.”
 
Matthew Hoh, a Marine combat veteran who in 2009 became the highest-ranking U.S. official to resign from the State Department in protest of the Afghanistan war, told my colleagues at the Institute for Public Accuracy on Wednesday: “Regardless of whether the 3,500 acknowledged U.S. troops leave Afghanistan, the U.S. military will still be present in the form of thousands of special operations and CIA personnel in and around Afghanistan, through dozens of squadrons of manned attack aircraft and drones stationed on land bases and on aircraft carriers in the region, and by hundreds of cruise missiles on ships and submarines.”

Sorry, doch wieder nix ...
(leider hier ohne Übersetzung)

mal sehn wie es der dt. Truppe dabei geht, Mißtrauen ist wohl angebracht.

Space ... vandalism!?

hier leider englisch, gibts wohl irgendwo auch deutsch:
Space tourism: environmental vandalism for the super-rich

... The huge threat of global climate disruption is leading to ever more urgent calls for society to rapidly reduce its carbon emissions. It is also clear that technological change alone will not be enough to tackle the problem. ... Against this backdrop, we have billionaires travelling in the inaugural flights of their space tourism corporations. On 11 July, Richard Branson flew in Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo craft, while on 20 July, Jeff Bezos travelled in Blue Origin’s New Shepard. These activities take the climate impacts of flying to considerably more damaging level. ...

dort mehr zum Nachlesen ...

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