#der spiegel

[daughterofhecata]

Spiegel finally asking the real questions!

#kaj rambles #german #german stuff #der spiegel #bin mir sicher dass das ein interessanter studiengang ist aber als geisteswissenschaftsstudent muss ich sagen #niemand mag bwler

[illustratus]

Magical portrait illustration of Richard Wagner with his Dragon Fafner for a cover of Der Spiegel, 2013.

#richard wagner #dragon #fafner #fáfnir #fafnir #dragons #german #composer #europe #european #der ring des nibelungen #the ring of the nibelung #portrait #der spiegel #jason seiler #illustration #germanic #mythology #folklore #germanic mythology #art #opera #norse mythology

[garadinervi]

«Cousin Aili holding a childhood photo of Jina Amini: "Nobody ever called her Mahsa."» [Poto: Robin Hinsch / Der Spiegel]

Jina jineke kurd bû, em ji bîr nakin. Jina beriya salekê şehîd ket lê çîroka wê hîn dirêj e. Jina nave te straneke tekoşin e. Jina em ê her û her ji te re stranan bibêjin. Jina, şehîd namirin. Jina. Jin jiyan Azadî.

(via: Maria Edgarda Marcucci – Eddi, Narîn|نارین)

#photography #jina amini #jin jiyan azadî #maria edgarda marcucci #narîn briar #robin hinsch #der spiegel #2020s

[upstairsdownstairsandinbetween]

Der Spiegel 1969-2011, Hamburg, Brandstwiete,

Architect Werner Kallmorgen,

Photo: Andreas Gehrke / Drittel Books

#art #design #architecture #photography #pool #der spiegel #hamburg #brandstwiete #werner kallmorgen #andreas gehrke #stairwell #staircase #stairs #stairway #stairsdesign #staircases #metalwork #handrail #balustrades

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

The head of the Directorate of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (PMLP) Maira Roze said that the article is so biased that it is difficult to talk about it, starting with the fact that the sensational story of the deportation of one "Igor Popov, a citizen of Latvia" –  as stated in the article – appears to be completely made up.

"I have no information that there is any deportation camp in Latvia. It is impossible to deport a Latvian citizen from Latvia anyway. This is a completely absurd statement," said the head of the PMLP.

Rihards Bambals, head of the Strategic Communication Department of the Cabinet of Ministers, also assessed that the journalist in question appears to have trouble differentiating between the status of Russian speakers in Latvia (who include many Latvian citizens) and Russian citizens who are, after all, citizens of a third country(..)

P.S. Here is another example of how the arrogance and very superficial work of the Western "objective" media in uncritically spreading Kremlin propaganda lies leads to very negative consequences... for German media. If they lie so brazenly about us, then imagine the utter nonsense and lies these "journalists" write about the rest of Eastern Europe, drawn from Kremlin propaganda pamphlets...

#Germany #Der Spiegel #useful fools #useful idiots #russian propaganda #anti-european propaganda

[1337wtfomgbbq]

I just found an article from 1996 where Der Spiegel refers to Jan as Bjarne's "Lieutenant".

And I can't help but agree.

Because domestique and even super-domestique ("Edelhelfer") doesn't seem to quite cut it for what Jan did in 1996.

For crying out loud, Bjarne trusted Jan so much he would discuss the strategy for the following stage with Jan the evening before, and tell the rest of the team only on the day of the stage.

Jan was instrumental for getting Bjarne into yellow and keeping him in yellow in 1996.

Like Bjarne said in 2020: They could not have realized their dreams without the other.

Thank you Der Spiegel for not being a dick to Jan in 1996.

#tour de france 1996 #der spiegel #jan ullrich #bjarne riis #cycling #cycling stuff #ullriis

[whatevergreen]

Karl Marx by Braldt Bralds, 2005

Cover art for an issue of Der Spiegel promoting an article entitled "Ein Gespenst Kehrt Zurück; Die neue Macht der Linken = A Ghost Returns; The New Power of the Left, in which Marx is reconsidered in a somewhat positive light by the magazine.

And now in 2022/2023...

Hatte Marx Doch Recht? = Marx was Right After All?

From the article: “[Criticism] of capitalism is nothing new. But in the beginning of year four of the pandemic and in year two of the Ukraine war, it is noticeably gaining momentum. Too many things no longer work: globalisation is crumbling and with it the German model of prosperity. The world is entrenched into hostile blocs. Inflation is causing rich and poor to drift further apart. Almost all climate targets have been missed. And politicians can no longer keep up patching all the new cracks appearing in the system…

“One huge problem follows another and they are all interconnected. Energy crisis, trade war, looming world war. Democracy is under attack from populists and autocrats.

“Until recently, there would have been one solution to all these problems: the market would take care of itself. But who still seriously believes that today? Especially given the major multiplier of all upheavals, the climate crisis.”

#karl marx #capital #capitalism #der spiegel #art

[archtroop]

#is it? #the liberal democratic majority is hell bent for it to not #israel #der spiegel #world news #protests in israel #ישראבלר

[wakasawakasa]

Roland Emmerichs new movie just dropped.

#Goncharov #Unreality #Roland Emmerich #Emmerich #Operation Staatsstreich #Spiegel #Der Spiegel #Germanstuff #German stuff #Germany #Deutschland Sachen #Deutschland

[daughterofhecata]

Wird nur mehr berichtet oder wird die (gewalttätige) Trans-/Homophobie im Moment schlimmer?

#queer #german #german stuff #deutsches zeug #der spiegel #transphobia #transphobic violence #violence tw #transphobia tw #fuck ey #(do appreciate tho that spiegel didn't lower itself to any misgendering) #(would even more appreciate them using 'trans Frau' instead of 'Transfrau' but idk how the german 'guidelines' are atm tbh) #kaj rambles

[bopinion]

2023 / 01

Aperçu of the Week:

"You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face."

(Ian Fleming's James Bond)

Bad News of the Week:

"The Return of the Reconciler" headlines Der Spiegel, a renowned German political weekly, its article on the inauguration of Brazil's new (and old) President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He takes office in difficult times. The general conditions are anything but favorable, whether economically, socially or psychologically. Because the country is deeply divided due to the polarizing polemics of his predecessor in office; it is not for nothing that Jair Bolsonaro has been called "Tropical Trump."

It will be difficult for Lula, says political scientist Mauricio Santoro of the University of Rio de Janeiro, among others. Unlike when he first took office in 2003, Lula can now rely neither on a boom in commodity exports nor on a humming Chinese economy. "Today we have a polarized country with an extreme right that is well organized both in the streets and on the net. And we live in a world still suffering the consequences of the pandemic, plus the war in Ukraine and its impact on inflation, food prices and oil."

For this reason, among others, the problem will be that Lula will not be able to fulfill the hopes placed in him. Not in the short term, not in the medium term. But with such negative omens, no one could. What always suffers most in such constellations are projects that are designed for the long term. Because these cost money and effort now, but the result will only be noticeable in the distant future. Or supposedly not at all. At least locally. Like the set of issues that most western people are most concerned about Brazil: environmental protection, stopping the depletion of the Amazon rainforest, preserving biodiversity, protecting indigenous minorities, and so on.

When a Brazilian community has a choice between jobs and personal income from slash-and-burn forest clearing or nothing to eat on the table, but a clear conscience in the face of taking global responsibility, I suspect they know the choice. And can you blame them? After all, you have to be able to afford a clear conscience. In this respect, it will become all the more decisive if humanity still wants to have a chance that precisely this happens: to think globally. If people in Germany only think about protecting the bees in their own village, calming the traffic on their own doorstep and the eco-tariff on their own electricity bill, that won't be enough.

Good News of the Week:

This year, Germany will lead NATO's rapid reaction force. In view of all the negative headlines of recent times, one should really be afraid: the Bundeswehr is running out of ammunition, 18 of 18 modern Puma tanks failed during a training exercise, the troops are blind to the right, the procurement system is not working, and Defense Minister Christine Lamprecht is obviously hopelessly overtaxed by her job in technical, factual and personal terms.

And now Germany, of all countries, is taking over command of the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force in the face of a diffuse threat situation. In the event of a crisis, it is on the front line, responsible for the so-called spearhead, which is supposed to mobilize up to 20,000 soldiers within a few days, and perhaps even has to do so. A nightmare?

No. For two reasons. First, the task suits the quintessential German organizational talent coupled with a cool head. And second, the German military is a parliamentary army geared toward defense. It has no undemocratic claim to omnipotence like the United States. It has no glorification of a bygone past like France. It has not the instrumentalization of geostrategic hubris like Great Britain. It has not wounded vanity like Poland. It has no questionable loyalty to the alliance like Hungary.

Should it actually become necessary for the rapid reaction force to intervene quickly, it will work. Because neither national nor personal egos will play a role, only insight into necessities. The German mindset will neither unnecessarily pour gasoline on a fire nor dither in the face of real challenges. That lets me sleep reasonably soundly.

Personal happy moment of the week:

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. If this were true in digital life, no one in our family would ever be sick. Because we're an Apple family: I bought my first Macintosh in 1988. Had the first MacBook. The first iPod. The first AppleTV. The first iPhone. The first iPad. The first AppleWatch. In the meantime, I can no longer afford to always be up to date - so I'm typing this text on an iPad Pro of the 1st generation, i.e. from 2015, which is ages ago. Nevertheless, my children have been raised to be Apple children with their mother's milk, so to speak. In my younger years, I always gave my old devices to my older daughter first, and then she gave them to my younger son. At some point, this became too "old fashioned" for them in a figurative sense.

First, my daughter put her first self-earned money into various iDevices and is therefore now more up-to-date than I am. And last week my son followed suit and invested his collected "Christmas income". The festive unboxing reminded me of me back in the day. There were new things to discover all day: His own Apple ID. The first scribble with the Apple Pencil. He also made his first phone call afterwards via his AppleWatch - with his grandparents, who ultimately sponsored the whole thing significantly. And Dad's eyes also lit up. Always beautiful. Just like the old days.

I couldn't care less...

...that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI - also known as "Papa Ratzi" in Germany because of his civil name Joseph Ratzinger - didn't make it into the new year. Firstly, he was allowed to turn a venerable 95 years old, all inclusive with his private staff. Which fits in well with the saying "weeds never die". For all his life he was a hardcore Catholic functionary dropped out of time.

Benedict covered up for pedo-criminals during his bishop days in Munich. In his 20 years at the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he always refused even the slightest progressive development. Refused any German admission of guilt for the Shoa at Auschwitz, of all places. More than once, he has run afoul of his successor, most recently two years ago with a pamphlet in favor of celibacy. He seriously considered himself infallible. It is a pity that we here on earth will never know whether his supreme judge will let him go to heaven or to some place else.

As I write this...

...I am a little stunned. After each year, a balance sheet is drawn up, evaluations are made in every conceivable category, and winners are chosen. In the land of poets and thinkers, of course, this also applies to language. Among other things, the "cliché expression of the year" is chosen. And for 2022, the first place goes to "freedom." I beg your pardon? At this time of all times, this ideal, this noble goal of every democratic society is supposed to be just a cliché?

The official explanation is that "freedom" is not the subject of criticism or even a hollow phrase. But "egoistic misinterpretations" in the media have turned it into that. The term is "degraded by egomaniacs who ruthlessly undermine democratic social structures." In the name of freedom, they "self-righteously and unsolidaristically turn the essential values of a welfare state into the opposite - everything for their own benefit." Aha. If that's the case, we shouldn't take up this beating.

Post Scriptum

After Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 2020, Marcus Tullius Cicero in 2021 and Sigmund Freud in 2022, this year it is Aristotle whom I have chosen as a "symbolic thinker". The 4th century B.C. Greek polymath is undoubtedly one of history's best-known and most influential philosophers and naturalists. A student of Plato, he either founded or significantly influenced numerous disciplines: philosophy of science, political and natural philosophy, logic, biology, medicine, physics, metaphysics, ethics, the theory of the state, and poetics and poetry theory.

The statue shown is located in Aristotle Park on the east coast of the Greek peninsula of Halkidiki, about 100 km from Thessaloniki. For the first half of 2023, Aristotle holds a newspaper with the headline "Crises everywhere" and wears a peace button on his cape. One is an unfortunately ubiquitous inventory, the other a symbol of hope.

#thoughts #aperçu #good news #bad news #news of the week #happy moments #politics #James bond #Ian Fleming #der Spiegel #brazil #Lula da Silva #Jair Bolsonaro #Amazon #nato #germany #task force #apple #benedict xvi #Joseph ratzinger #Vatican #cliche #freedom #Aristotle #crises #peace #thinker #unboxing #Bundeswehr #thinking globally

[redshift-13]

Was Marx right?

#der spiegel #karl marx #marxism #socialism #capitalism

[nevzorovgif]

Томи Анджело на максималках.

Или... Лео Галанте.

Выбирайте сами, и помните, что "Джо, т.е. Путин, в сделку не входил".

#александр невзоров #невзоров #nevzorov #so cute #so much #der spiegel #mafia #leo galante #tommy angelo

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

The cover of the German edition of SPIEGEL came out with the headline "What are you afraid of, Mr. Scholz?" Source: Uкrinform

P.S. Very good question, and this is not just about Mr. Scholz!? The rhetoric of German politicians about Europe's 'values' and their lack of practical action casts great doubt on their true intentions ...The heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people broke not only the Kremlin's game, but also ruined the plans of corrupt Western politicians who followed Putin’s agenda in Europe...

#Ukraine #russian invasion #Germany #political hypocrisy #Olaf Scholz #European history #der spiegel #political corruption

[msgwendolenfairfax]

A headline from today’s Der Spiegel made me grin:

My translation: “Eliza-effect”. Google-engineer thinks AI is sentient being - and is being suspended. The artificial intelligence LaMDA had a soul, claims a google-engineer. Then he is being released from work by the company. Experts doubt his theory, the AI defends itself in its own words.

So I haven’t read the article yet, but I had to laugh about the wording “experts doubt his theory”. Like what kind of experts are you talking about? Soul experts???    

#der spiegel #artificial intelligence

[shi1498912]

Auszug aus dem Kommentar:

Wie würden sie reagieren, wenn ich Ihnen sagen würde, dass es eine mächtige, dezentrale globale Verschwörung gibt, die seit Jahrzehnten auf den Untergang der menschlichen Zivilisation hinarbeitet? Bisschen weit hergeholt? Mindestens übertrieben? Jetzt dreht er völlig durch?

[...]

Das sagte Guterres am 17. Juni 2022 bei einem virtuellen Klimagipfel großer Industrienationen.

Zum Gesamtbild gehören viele Puzzleteile, alle nur scheinbar unverbunden, alle Teil eines mittlerweile klaren, erschreckenden Gesamtbildes

Die Begeisterung westlicher Finanzmärkte für die Börsengänge russischer Öl- und Gaskonzerne. 

Die schamlose Lobbyarbeit deutscher Politikerinnen und Politiker aus CDU/CSU, SPD und FDP für Kohle- und Ölkonzerne, bei gleichzeitiger absichtsvoller Zerstörung einer gerade erstarkenden einheimischen Industrie für erneuerbare Energien.

Die Kriege um Öl und Gas.

Die unverbrüchliche Treue zu menschenrechtsverletzenden Autokratien wie Saudi-Arabien, selbst nach peinlichen Zwischenfällen wie der Ermordung und Zerstückelung eines »Washington Post«-Kolumnisten.

Das globale Wegsehen angesichts der katastrophalen Umweltzerstörung, die etwa die Ölförderung in Nigeria und anderen Staaten auslöst.

Die Liste ließe sich nahezu beliebig fortsetzen, aber der Kern bleibt immer der gleiche: Die Hersteller von CO₂ haben, wie Guterres sagt, die Welt im Würgegriff. Es gibt eine gewaltige Korrelation zwischen der Förderung und Verteidigung fossiler Brennstoffe und Aktivitäten, die absolut unzweifelhaft schlecht, zerstörerisch sind. Dabei hätten wir längst die Technologien, um uns aus diesem Würgegriff zu befreien. Aktuelles Beispiel: Diese Studie, die vorrechnet, wie Deutschland sich bis zum Winter von russischem Gas unabhängig machen könnte. [...]

TL;DR: Die einzige Verschwörung dies es tatsächlich gibt, ist eine kapitalistische.

#Environment #SCOTUS #Der Spiegel #SPON