Today seen in Cologne Mainz, Rose Monday Parade.
The above is courageous. Note that a famous designer of carnival floats, Jacques Tilly, had been sued earlier this year by nobody else than: Vladimir Putin, for defamation of state organs.
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Last modified February 16, 2016.
UPDATE below.
YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen launched a scoop yesterday when he interviewed former US President Barack Obama on topics encompassing current President Donald Trump’s racist ape depiction of his predecessor and his wife, even Bad Bunny, and how the Democrats will win the next election.
The contrast between these two Presidents was breathtaking. Has Obama been Plato’s Philosopher King? At least Trump is not.
I have been critical of Obama’s presidency since I have launched this blog shortly before his election in 2008 (although, I have to admit that I had got goosebumps too when he spoke at Berlin’s Victory Column).
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One year on, I remember having got a panic attack when in the center of my city, just after an appointment to my dermatologist. The annual Munich Security Conference had its decisive moment when US Vice President J.D. Vance addressed the Europeans in a special way, admonishing. For democracy’s sake, as a, element of uncertainty, a security threat.
It was two weeks before the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on 28 February 2025, had come to the White House and was treated in a way, not only by President Donald Trump but also by Vance, nobody had ever experienced coming as an alleged ally of the United States. And later he was complimented out of the White House.
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President Donald Trump was the most prominent proponent of the “birther” movement, a conspiracy theory that falsely questioned whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States and was therefore constitutionally eligible to serve. In fact, Obama was born, in 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Trump started his claims in 2011, long before having decided to run for presidency himself. On 30 April 2011, Obama addressed, in his speech, Trump’s false claim when the latter was present at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
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What about Gaza? Does it make sense to make plans about rebuilding the strip in the foreseeable future? The above is a fantasy of Netanjahu’s, AI generated. “A massive free trade zone with rail service to NEOM”, the Saudi Arabian fantasy project in the desert. Netanjahu’s Gaza is not too different from Donald Trump’s shameless and vulgar “vision” of “Trump Gaza”.
It is now clear that Trump was sent a paper by George Washington University Professor Joseph Pelzman of 2024, which outlines the complete destruction of Gaza and rebuilding it from scratch. Was that a cart blanche for Israel to more or less nuke the strip?
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