Europe

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Unfortunately, the parliamentary administration did not give me time to speak on the “State of the Union”. My speech was already (almost) finished:

Dear Ms vonderLeyen, Under your leadership, Europe has visibly become more pathetic.

The EU has never been more alienated from its principles, ideals and its citizens than it is today. She has never been further from peace, prosperity and freedom; of transparency, democracy or accountability – not to mention the goals of a normative world power & geostrategic autonomy.

The permanence of breaking the rules is your legacy, that of opacity and self-empowerment, of corruption and restriction of freedom up to censorship, economic decline and social ruin.

And you're also a zero at budgeting: The seven-year EU budget amounts to 1,200 billion euros. You've used up the money halfway through. How did you manage that?

Under your leadership, the Union is approaching a state in which the accession of a bombed-out Ukraine no longer makes any difference.

Repression and depression - THIS is your work - as far as one can even say from someone who has probably never developed an autonomous thought. You always just copied everything: as a student your doctoral thesis, as a minister from McKinsey and as Commission President directly from the White House.

As we hear, Joe Biden wants you of all people to be the new NATO Secretary General. Sure, Joe Biden would also like to be able to sleep through the night again without having to go to the toilet five times, but nonetheless it would be the logical big bang at the end of your rocketing career: At the head of NATO you would soon give us explosive headlines like “Von der Leyen declares nuclear war via SMS”.

With this in mind: good luck with your application! On to the final struggle! Let it rip!

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The SBU has created a unit that since 2015 has been shooting, blowing up, hanging and poisoning people whom the authorities call collaborators.

The Economist writes about this, which spoke with the former head of the SBU Valentin Nalyvaichenko and several officers of the 5th Directorate, which deals with political assassinations.

In an interview with the publication, Nalyvaychenko said that the Ukrainian leadership had decided that it was not enough to simply imprison those who disagreed. “We reluctantly came to the conclusion that people should be destroyed,” he added.

Journalists also found out that not all employees in this department are happy with what they do. One of the officers, on condition of anonymity, said that the operations they carried out were intended to impress Zelensky, and not solve any strategic problems. He also worries that the killing campaign in Ukraine is driven by momentum rather than logic.

It is believed that the President of Ukraine authorizes the most controversial operations, although other decisions are delegated to the level of management of the SBU, the newspaper writes.

It was obvious that being cut off from cheap energy would have a severe negative impact on German industry. The deniers are starting to look pretty foolish now.

The CAA has in the past had to deny being “a pawn employed by a foreign government to smear its enemies.” Despite such denials, it is abundantly clear that the CAA exists to lobby on behalf of the [apartheid neocolony].

This influential organization has been proactive in an attack and sabotage strategy on behalf of [the neocolony] to combat “delegitimization” — campaigning in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

Funded by the occupiers of Palestine, the CAA has aided [neocolonialism], including by helping to take down a left-wing leader of the Labour Party. Such partisan activity is entirely incompatible with genuine charitable status.

Lesson: don’t trust every organisation that claims to be confronting antisemitism. Oftentimes these organizations care about antisemitism as much as trans‐exclusionary ‘radical feminists’ care about misogyny.

Over the first half of the year, 50.6 thousand German companies have already gone bankrupt, Zeit Online reported.

This is about 12% more than the same period last year.

In recent years, government aid has partially contained the surge in bankruptcies caused by the pandemic and the energy crisis. But analysts expect the situation will only worsen from here.

Sanctions are doing their job destroying German economy.

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Like the banker he’s been all his life, Macron is obeying EU orders to make no concessions. However, the French president was unable to win a vote in parliament, even from other pro-capitalist parties, to pass the new pension plan. To impose these cuts on the working class, Macron was forced to use a maneuver in mid-March to pass the plan by decree.

Though this maneuver was technically legal and constitutional (Article 49.3), it was an insult to democratic rule. Workers’ anger exploded. Unionists in France, especially those in the industrial and transport unions who are members of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), held periodic walkouts. They stopped transit, held up refining fuel and withheld electric power. They showed just how vital the working class is in capitalist society.

The government’s sole response has been to use the capitalist state to assault the workers’ movement. It has ordered police to beat and arrest demonstrators and judges to keep them in jail awaiting trial and has made it illegal just to protest. Even people just walking near demonstrations have been arrested.

So far, Macron has refused concessions. The workers have refused to submit. The class struggle, instead of softening through some sort of negotiations, has intensified.