Postcard from Ghaza:
The ceasefire will be signed tomorrow to enable its coming into effect on Sunday, January 19, 2025. Painful concessions were needed for the Netanyahu government to appease the Trump administration, willing to raise "hell and fire" if the hostage deal isn't completed on the day of Trump's inauguration.
[German national broadcaster DW on January 17, 2025]
This morning, Iran's Prime Minister and Russia's president Putin met in Moscow to sign a mutual agreement comprising economic and military features. The treaty is intended to fix the strategic plannings of both sides for the 20 years to come. It has already been announced on Early Bird in December 2024.
Ghaza ceasefire and strategic agreement between Russia and Iran come shortly before Donald Trump's inauguration as the new president of the United States on Monday, January 20, 2025.
Some days ago, a big German newspaper 'Die Welt' published an article written by business & media tycoon Elon Musk in which he gave a recommendation to vote for AFD in the upcoming Federal Elections on February 23, 2025.
AFD is a party on the rise during the actual period of economic uncertainty in Germany and, as well, known to be opposed to basic rules of democracy. Therefore many elements of society, still forming a majority in Germany, and who would like to avoid AFD as a major player in the building of a new government after the elections, are now outraged. Here is an excerpt of the comment published by German National Radio 'Deutsche Welle' on that subject:
Musk sorgt sich nicht um die deutsche Politik, von der er erkennbar wenig Ahnung hat, sondern um seine Investments als Unternehmer. Als solcher ist er daran interessiert, möglichst viel Geld zu verdienen, seine Tesla-Autos in Deutschland zu verkaufen und sein Tesla-Werk in Brandenburg zu betreiben. Deshalb fordert er weniger Bürokratie und Regulierung sowie scheinbar billigen Atomstrom.
Auf seinem eigenen sozialen Netzwerk X verbreitet er rechtsextremes Gedankengut und Verschwörungsmythen und erlangte auch damit einen Job unter dem künftigen US-Präsidenten Donald Trump, wo er politische Rahmenbedingungen für seine wirtschaftlichen Interessen selbst mitgestalten kann.
Musk isn't worried about German politics, of which he understandably has little knowledge, but about his investments as an entrepreneur. As such, he's interested in making as much money as possible, selling his Tesla cars in Germany and running his Tesla factory in Brandenburg. That's why he wants less bureaucracy and regulation, as well as seemingly cheap nuclear power.
On his own social network, X, he spreads far-right ideas and conspiracy myths and even landed a job under future US President Donald Trump, where he can help shape the political framework for his own economic interest.
[Deutsche Welle on December 31, 2024]
..........................................
The facility of Rummelsburg was the central prison of Eastern Germany's People's Police, the Vopos. As there were numerous inmates kept for political reasons, it was as well a prison under control of the Ministry of State Security, the Stasi. However, Vopos that formally belonged to the Ministry of the Interior were in charge of guarding the convicts and for regularly beating them up under the slightest pretext.
In 1989 the East German state GDR eventually crushed under the pressure of its subjects that took to the streets, in a climate of suppression and haunted by the consequences of an approaching national bankruptcy after 40 years of economic mismanagement.
Some specially chosen sadistic Vopos, known for their cruel treatment, took to their heels and immediately fled to the German Federal Republic GFR where they could be sure to miss their uninformed new neighbours' attention. Favourite destinations for former GDR officials became Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. Some of them arrived in mixed groups, others showed up first, for a certain time, in some southern part of the former “Eastern Zone“ and from where they left, weeks later, to their final destination.
However, any crime whatsoever they might have committed in one or another case could qualify for “a crime against humanity“ and which might have juridical consequences even decades later.
No, it's not only about Donald Trump's second inauguration as a president of the United States in his second term. - It's as well about a probable landmark in the development of the Middle East .....
America's mob of blockheads on the march to
Washington DC, led by a narcissistic trader of
neocon "virtues" and his efficiency consultant.
Now what is a 'Yankee Doodle' ?
In American English, the word's archaic meaning is related to a native or inhabitant of the United States, originally indicating a slightly ridiculous meaning. As Yankee Doodles are often depicted while blowing the pipe or beating the drums, one could imagine a relation between 'doodle' and some kind of music. In fact, the 'Yankee Doodle' is, as well, a famous patriotic song popular with the Americans in their Revolutionary War. Its chorus goes like that:
" Yankee doodle, keep it up
Yankee doodle dandy
Mind the music and the step
And with the girls be handy. "
The similar sounding German word 'Dödel' [ˈdøːdl̩] or 'Dodel' is being used to describe some 'fool' or 'idiot' and can be replaced by different German synonyms like 'Dummkopf' or 'Dämlack'. In addition, the German language knows the sound-mimicking word of 'dudeln' or 'Dudelei' which can be related to the making of a low-quality music or to getting on another people's nerves with the same unchangeable stances. In folk music of the European Alp mountain region, 'holleri, du dödel du' is known as part of a 'yodler' of the native people there.
Get your yodler diploma at an
original German yodler school !
And remember: Your new president is of German origin too !
While Syrian rebels are closing in on Damascus, giving way to rumours about Assad's destiny,
here is EARLY BIRD entering the scene with latest news .....
The battle of Aleppo began on the morning of November 27, 2024, in the western countryside of Aleppo with a widespread surprise attack on the positions of Assad's forces, breaking the long-standing silence. 3 Islamist factions participated: Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham – Jaish al-Izza – Ahrar al-Sham Islamic Movement (هيئة تحرير الشام – جيش العزة – حركة أحرار الشام الإسلامية). Bashar al-Assad's forces were overwhelmed and fled, leaving back even their tanks. The battle is the first of its kind in Syria since 2020, after Russia, Turkey and Iran agreed on de-escalation zones, such cementing their influence in 2019.
The timing of the operations may be related to the current involvement of Iran and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah in a military conflict with Israel, while Russia is currently waging war with Ukraine which enjoys material support from its Western allies in Europe and the USA.
On the other hand, Turkey is increasingly suspected to support Syria's Assad regime in regaining control of northern Syria. This would most probably neutralize militant Kurdish tribes in Syria and would thereby help Turkey to get along with its own Kurdish population.
فُرص نجاح هذا المُخطّط الثّلاثي الأمريكي الإسرائيلي التركي الجديد لتفتيت سورية مجددًا، وتغيير النظام فيها في إطار سيناريو نتنياهو لإعادة رسم خرائط المِنطقة تحت العلم الإسرائيلي، تبدو محدودةً جدًّا، إن لم تكن معدومة، ولا نعتقد أنّ إيران وروسيا ستقفان مكتوفتيّ الأيدي تُجاهه لسببٍ بسيط، لأنّ هزيمة سورية ستكون مُقدّمة لهزيمة النّظامين الإيراني والروسي، وربّما العِراقي أيضًا.. والأيّام بيننا
The chances of success of this new US-Israeli-Turkish tripartite plan, to fragment Syria again and change the regime in it within the framework of Netanyahu's scenario to redraw the maps of the region under Israel's flag, seem very limited, if not non-existent, and we do not believe that Iran and Russia will stand idly by towards it for a simple reason: Because the defeat of Syria will be a prelude to the defeat of the Iranian and Russian regimes, and perhaps the Iraqi as well. And the days [for that have still to come ...]
Even the Universe is grumbling over what is happening on Earth .....
حتى الكون يتذمر مما يحدث على الأرض
就连宇宙也在抱怨地球上发生的事情
The Noise of a Black Hole
recorded by NASA's X-ray Observatory
What the Black Hole
is trying to tell us ...
“I believe the common denominator of the universe
is not harmony; but chaos, hostility and murder.”
“Facts do not convey truth. That is a mistake.
Facts create norms, truth creates illumination.”
“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking
in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
- Werner Herzog - The views of a German filmmaker.
This evaluation of the human condition is a perfect description of what many human beings are suffering from.
In a world of chaos, hostility and murder, daily life can become a sequence of unbearable daily hardships that
are turning human beings into mere animals fighting for their survival. One day your cynical view on the world
will fall back on yourself, even if you cannot imagine for now the time and the circumstances. And there has
never been an empire mighty enough to guarantee its subjects a peaceful and prosperous lifetime. - Ulysses -
