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In recent days, several Western leaders have sounded the alarm over Russia. Sadly, this only confirms what we already know: we have done far from enough to deter Russia. What is missing? Decisive military support for Ukraine - and crushing the economic foundations of Russia’s #SupportUkraine #StopRussia #MilitaryAid #RU #UA

Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz entlastet den Autofahrer. Ab 1. Oktober. 14 Cent weniger Energiesteuer, mit Mehrwertsteuer rund 17 Cent. 2,5 Milliarden, bis 31. Dezember, danach ist Weihnachten vorbei und der Staat wieder nüchtern. Das nennt man Hilfe. In Deutschland nennt man Hilfe: Man nimmt einem Mann die Brieftasche, gibt ihm das Kleingeld zurück und lässt sich dafür feiern. Was bleibt dem Staat am Liter? Vor dem Rabatt kassiert er bei Benzin die Energiesteuer fest: 65,45 Cent. Bei Diesel 47,04. Dazu die CO₂-Abgabe, 2026 so um die 16 bis 18 Cent beim Benzin, 17 bis 21 beim Diesel. Und oben drauf 19 Prozent Mehrwertsteuer – auch auf die Steuer, auch auf die Abgabe, auch auf den teuren Tropfen selbst. Steigt der Preis, steigt das Geschenk an den Fiskus von ganz allein. Nach der großen Entlastung sieht die Zapfsäule ungefähr so aus: Benzin: Energiesteuer noch gut 51 Cent. CO₂ bleibt. Mehrwertsteuer bleibt. Unterm Strich behält der Staat weiter knapp einen Euro je Liter. Diesel: Energiesteuer noch gut 33 Cent. Plus CO₂. Plus Mehrwertsteuer. Immer noch so 85 bis 90 Cent je Liter für die öffentliche Hand. Aus 1,20 Euro Staatsanteil bei teurem Super macht man 1,03. Aus der Hälfte des Preises macht man… immer noch fast die Hälfte. Das ist keine Entlastung. Das ist eine Rundung. Drei Monate. Nicht weil der Pendler im März weniger Tank braucht. Sondern weil Großzügigkeit ein Verfallsdatum braucht, sonst wird sie teuer. Im Mai und Juni gab es das schon einmal. Jetzt wieder. Dazwischen der volle Satz. Das ist kein Konzept. Das ist ein Abo mit Pause. Merz sagt, besonders die Menschen, die auf das Auto angewiesen sind. Richtig. Gerade die. Die zahlen den Liter, die CO₂-Predigt und die Pressemitteilung. Der Staat verdient am Benzin weiter ungefähr so viel wie der Autofahrer für das Benzin übrig hat. Nur dass der Autofahrer fahren muss. Der Staat muss nur den Hahn aufdrehen. 17 Cent Nachlass, ein Euro Behalt. Und dann der Satz: kein Pappenstiel. Stimmt. Für den, der ihn zahlt, war er nie einer. #Energiepreise #Benzin #Deutschland

From 800 🇪🇦 soldiers serving in 🇸🇰 to defence, technology, science, automotive & almost €4.6bn in trade. Numbers tell part of the story. People tell the rest. That is what diplomacy is about: knowing each other, listening & being there for each other when it matters. 2/3 https://t.co/zok4lHnIwe #Diplomacy #Trade #Defense #ES #SK

Nächste Beben bei Porsche - Jetzt könnten mehr als 13.000 Stellen wegfallen. Der Arbeitsplatzabbau in Stuttgart nimmt eine neue Dimension an. #Porsche #Stellenabbau #Automobilindustrie #Arbeitsplätze Stellenabbau: Bei Porsche ist bereits der Abbau von rund 9.000 Stellen vereinbart. Nach Informationen des Handelsblatts sieht eine Volkswagen Vorlage zusätzlich eine Reduktion um rund 4.100 Mitarbeiter vor, womit insgesamt mehr als 13.000 Arbeitsplätze betroffen sein könnten. Standorte: Im Raum Stuttgart sollen von ursprünglich knapp 23.000 Arbeitsplätzen bereits 9.000 wegfallen. Noch offen ist, ob die zusätzlichen rund 4.100 Stellen ebenfalls überwiegend Stuttgart und Leipzig betreffen oder teilweise im Ausland wegfallen. Der Umfang der geplanten Einschnitte zeigt, wie stark Porsche seinen Personalbestand in den kommenden Jahren reduzieren könnte. Vielen Dank für den wichtigen Hinweis! Quelle: (Handelsblatt) https://t.co/TqBqOmj1FI #Porsche #Stellenabbau #Automobilindustrie

Der Tankrabatt 3.0 kostet uns 2,5 Mrd. €. Was der Staat mit diesem Geld finanzieren könnte: 1 Jahr Kindergrundsicherung 1 knappes Jahr 🇩🇪-Ticket 2 Generalsanierungen von Bahnstrecken 4 Jahre Radverkehrsförderung 250.000 Klimaanlagen in Klassenzimmer Was für ein Trauerspiel😫 #Tankrabatt #Bildung #Klima

"CIVICO 93": FROM SAN SEVERO TO STANFORD UNIVERSITY: THE 'SIX-SEAT REVOLUTION' OF TEATRO EDICOLA" SOURCE: https://www.civico93.it/da-san-severo-alla-stanford-university-la-rivoluzione-a-sei-posti-del-teatro-edicola/ SAN SEVERO (FG) - The scholarly reportage by Luciano Magaldi Sardella on the micro-theatre of Francesco Gravino has appeared in the most authoritative journal in the world in the field of social innovation: six chairs and four square metres that are transforming the manner in which we conceive theatre and the city. The "Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)", the academic review published by the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society of the prestigious Stanford University, ranked second in the world in the Shanghai Ranking of World Universities, constitutes the global point of reference for researchers, policy-makers and practitioners of innovative enterprise and philanthropy. It has published the reportage "The Six-Seat Revolution" on the Teatro Edicola of San Severo, the smallest theatre in the world by dimension and capacity, born from the intuition of Francesco Gravino, artistic director of the company Foyer '97. Its author is Luciano Magaldi Sardella, an independent researcher and international journalist, a native of Orta Nova with maternal roots in San Severo, already the author of studies published in international academic journals. The piece appeared in the autumnal edition [Fall 2026] of the academic review, within the section dedicated to Arts and Culture. A presence that projects San Severo, and more generally the Capitanata, into the international élite of research on cultural and urban innovation. The theatre originates from a disused newsstand It all began on 27th March 2026, World Theatre Day, in the Piazza Municipio in San Severo. A newsstand disused for years in Via Matteo Tondi raised its shutter to reveal, in place of newspapers and cigarettes, an actor upon the stage. Within: six chairs. Every fifteen minutes, a new audience takes its place. Taking inspiration from the televisual format of Edicola Fiore by the well-known Sicilian radio and television presenter, there was born the Teatro Edicola, a structure now recognised in the media as the smallest theatre in the world by dimension and capacity: four square metres in total, with a stage area of less than two metres. Gravino has led Foyer '97 for almost thirty years, constructing a rigorous artistic trajectory within a context, that of southern Italy, historically penalised from the standpoint of public funding for culture. And yet, when he beheld that empty newsstand, he chose the path of provocation: to transform the bare minimum into a manifesto on the very meaning of theatre. Gravino has led Foyer '97 for almost thirty years, constructing a rigorous artistic trajectory within a context, that of southern Italy, historically penalised from the standpoint of public funding for culture. And yet, when he beheld that empty newsstand, he chose the path of provocation: to transform the bare minimum into a manifesto on the very meaning of theatre. The model and its measurable effects The inaugural season lasted three days. All performances were sold out. In a single afternoon, more than sixty persons attended the representations. The cost of the entire pilot operation was less than three thousand dollars. The formula is radical in its constitutive elements: ● performances of five to twelve minutes' duration, conceived expressly for the space ● rotation of the audience every fifteen minutes ● direct and ineluctable visual contact between actor and spectator ● no architectural or psychological distance between stage and auditorium ● ticket offered at five euros per person, with a hybrid economic model providing for municipal support, local sponsors, and box-office receipts. According to the analysis published in the "Stanford Social Innovation Review", the Teatro Edicola represents a replicable model of urban regeneration at low cost and high impact, capable of reactivating abandoned commercial spaces [newsstands, tobacconists, telephone boxes] without the necessity for major infrastructural investment. The voice of him who built it all Francesco Gravino has no doubt as to the meaning of the undertaking: "One does not need grand theatres to change a fragment of a city. What is needed is a good idea and the courage to restore to the community a space that has lost its function." And on the import of the international recognition: "Teatro Edicola was born to demonstrate that a place of encounter and culture may come into being anywhere, even in two square metres. That today this work should be studied at an international level and that requests for information should arrive from cities such as Lucca and Rome is confirmation that we are upon the right path." The director has also explicated the symbolic choice of the site: the newsstand was the point at which each morning one would pause, catch up on news, recognise oneself as a community. Its disappearance lacerated a precise social fabric. To restore to it a cultural function is to mend that tissue at the very point where it was torn. The challenges: scalability, institutional recognition, rootedness The SSIR reportage does not confine itself to celebrating the project but analyses also the critical nodes. The first is sustainability over time: an activation of three days, however successful, does not yet constitute a stable programme, a veritable seasonal programme (at weekends from spring to autumn) with a rotating roster of local and regional companies. The second node concerns replicability without loss of identity: the Teatro Edicola functions also by virtue of the profound roots of Foyer '97 in the territory of San Severo. To transplant the model elsewhere requires not merely a physical kit, but an entire process of community building. The third obstacle is institutional: in a system of public funding that rewards organisations with consolidated premises and predictable output metrics, a project deliberately experimental, hyper-localist and by its very nature impermanent struggles to gain access to the ordinary channels of the National Fund for Live Performance (Fondo Nazionale per lo Spettacolo dal Vivo - FNSV) of the Ministry of Culture. A lesson that travels beyond Puglia In the Stanford Social Innovation Review the author concludes that the intuitions of the Teatro Edicola transcend the context of San Severo: in any community wherein cultural institutions struggle to reach youthful, diverse, or economically marginal publics, the principle of proximity proves disruptive: to meet people where they already are, in the spaces they inhabit daily. From the populous centre of Daunia to the pages of Stanford University: San Severo and its newsstand demonstrate that six chairs, four square metres, and a vision are sufficient to alter the way in which a city conceives itself. And to offer the world a model that costs less than one might suppose but is worth a great deal more than one might imagine.

Информацияна, която съобщих на Си Зин Пин. Ключово значение за интелектуалността има УВ облъчването, което се усилва от север на юг. В Южна Европа то е 30% по-силно от в Северна Европа, а на екватора е 70% по силно. Ефектът върху хората е в синтезирането в кожата на витамин Д, който се трансформира в полови хормони. Те определят външния вид, емоционалността и интелектуалността. Северняците са интелектуални, южняците са емоционални. Емоционалността задушава разума. Всеки градус движение на север и на юг усилват южняшките и северняшките качества. В южните части на южното полукълбо се наблюдава дебилност, в Австралия и Южна Америка. Икономиката и цивилизацията са продукт на интелектуалността. Интелектуалността е в научно-откривателското мислене насочено към решаване на проблемите на живота. Ключово значение има оценката на важните факти, изхвърляне на маловажните факти и създаване на тяхна основа на нови хипотези и теории. Разбирането на важни открития на другите хора ги прави собствено притежание и това също е научно-откривателско мислене. Всичко друго не е интелектуалност. Ключово значение за развитието на икономиката имат иновациите и те стават все по важни. Това е внедряване на нови научни открития в практиката. Южняците нямат научно мислене, нямат наука и научни открития и абсолютно никакви иновации. Те всичко заимстват от Северните Европейци. Те имат тези качества и само те имат иновации. Лидираща роля имат европейските преселници в САЩ. Многобройността на интелектуалното население е много важно за проявленията на интелектуалността. Това е точно като критичната маса при атомния взрив. Руснаците са най-интелектуални, но те нямат механизма осъществяващ иновациите свободната пазарна икономика. Творческа икономика може да има само при ниски данъци и свобода от опеката на властта. Двигател са супер високите печалби. Нови открития се внедряват в практиката защото те са най-печеливши. Високото данъчно облагане което е в полза на властта, изземва парите на икономиката и на гражданите, което убива производството, потреблението и творческите иновации в икономиката, в следствие на възможността успешните, конкурентни фирми да имат свръх печалби. Именно свръх печалби, защото те са единствения мощен стимулатор за решаването на новаторските внедрявания, които са най-рискови и най-опасни от загуба и фалит. Точно това който не е разбрал нищо не разбира от модерна икономика. Интелектуалността е познаване на истината. Словото е красиво и убедително, когато съобщава истини. Слово не основано на истината е фалшиво маниерничене. В френките автори на афоризми Ларош Фуко, Лабруер, Блез Паскал, Маркиз Вовнарк има много голяма концентрация на истини за живота и те развиват вкус към истината е към лъжата. Големият немски философ Хегел твърди, че китайското мислене е митологично, ненаучно и само античното Гръцко и европейското мислене е научно. Here is the information I conveyed to Xi Jinping. UV radiation plays a key role in intellect, and its intensity increases from north to south. In Southern Europe, it is 30% stronger than in Northern Europe, while at the equator, it is 70% stronger. Its effect on humans involves the synthesis of Vitamin D in the skin, which is then transformed into sex hormones. These hormones determine physical appearance, emotionality, and intellect. Northerners are intellectual; Southerners are emotional. Emotionallity stifles reason. Every degree of movement northward or southward intensifies these respective "Southern" or "Northern" traits. Instances of intellectual deficiency are observed in the southern parts of the Southern Hemisphere—specifically in Australia and South America. Economy and civilisation are products of intellect. Intellect manifests as scientific, discovery-oriented thinking aimed at solving life's problems. Key factors include evaluating significant facts, discarding trivial ones, and formulating new hypotheses and theories based on the remaining information. Grasping the important discoveries made by others—thereby making them one's own—also constitutes scientific, discovery-oriented thinking. Anything else falls outside the realm of intellect. Innovation is crucial for economic development and is becoming increasingly important; it involves the practical application of new scientific discoveries. Southerners lack scientific thinking, science, and scientific discoveries, and they produce absolutely no innovations. They borrow everything from Northern Europeans. Northern Europeans possess these qualities and are the sole source of innovation. European settlers in the USA play a leading role in this regard. The size of the intellectual population is crucial for the manifestation of intellectuality; it is akin to the critical mass required for a nuclear explosion. Russians possess a high level of intellectuality, yet they lack the mechanism that drives innovation: the free-market economy. A creative economy can only flourish amidst low taxes and freedom from state control. Super-high profits serve as the driving force; new discoveries are put into practice precisely because they yield the greatest returns. High taxation—which benefits the state—drains capital from the economy and citizens alike, stifling production, consumption, and creative innovation. It eliminates the possibility for successful, competitive firms to generate "super-profits"—profits that are essential, as they provide the only powerful incentive to pursue innovative implementations, which carry the highest risks of loss and bankruptcy. Anyone who fails to grasp this point understands nothing about the modern economy. Intellectuality is the knowledge of truth. Speech is beautiful and persuasive only when it conveys truth; speech not grounded in truth is merely hollow affectation. The French aphorists—La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère, Blaise Pascal, and the Marquis de Vauvenargues—offer a profound concentration of truths about life, cultivating a discerning taste for truth versus falsehood. The great German philosopher Hegel argued that Chinese thought is mythological and unscientific, asserting that only ancient Greek and European modes of thought are truly scientific.

Have you noticed how nobody gives a shit about the sham elections in Russia? The country used to be oligarchy but now it's just a dictatorship, and everyone knows the elections are pointless. This is how voting under Russian rule looks like: https://t.co/pjR76AK1iM #Russia #Elections #Dictatorship #RU

Irish musicians are currently playing a pivotal role in the cultural boycott of 🇮🇱 Here's everything you need know about Ireland's golden opportunity to lead the sporting boycott. But we're running out of time 🇮🇪🇵🇸 #stopthegame https://t.co/hw2OjxXRru #Ireland #CulturalBoycott #SportingBoycott #IL #IE #PS

We are not intimidated because we know that our security today and tomorrow is at stake in Ukraine. In the coming weeks, we will have a G7 meeting devoted to these energy issues, both to strengthen cooperation and to avoid unnecessary tensions between the G7 countries and our main partners.

Iesaku jauku nodarbi lietainai rudens sestdienai. Vēlaties paši, bez citu piepalīdzēšanas izprast, kādā mentu zaņķa valstī dzīvojat? Aizejiet uz VID amatpersonu datu bāzi - https://t.co/mMG30PxsMX. Ievadiet tur lodziņos vārdu un uzvārdu - Osvalds Tocs. Izejiet cauri šīs valsts amatpersonas deklarācijām no 2001. gada līdz pagājušā gada rudenim, kad šī persona klusi un mierīgi pameta amatu Valsts policijā, un redzēsiet, kādā veidā šis policists Osvalds Tocs laikā 25 gadu laikā ir kļuvis faktiski par miljonāru. "Laimesti", kas pārsniedz gada algu, māmiņas dāvinājumi 100 000 latu apmērā, neskaitāmi darījumi, dividendes, amati, aizņēmumi un aizdevumi, beigu beigās jau divi īpašumi Emirātos - un tas viss ir noticis ne tikai Valsts policijas vadības un KNAB parazītu acu priekšā, bet, visticamākais, ar viņu ziņu un līdzdalību. Kā Jūs domājat, kāpēc Ruka policija rīkoja kratīšanas un aizturēšanas hiēnu grāmatu sakarā un Meistera prokuratūra mani apsūdz par mentu zaņķa grāmatu izdošanu?... Un, lai Jums būtu pavisam skaidrs par mentu zaņķa saplūšanu ar valsts varu un mediju prostitūtām, pavērojiet - kāda būs reakcija uz šo informāciju. Vai būs kaut pīkstiens no tieslietu ministra, kuram, lūk, pavisam nesen bija valstisks sašutums par kādu citu deklarāciju? No iekšlietu ministra, kura pārziņā ir šis mentu zaņķis? No visiem ļoti ieinteresētajiem un objektīvajiem ručekistiem un anālītiskajiem raidījumiem? Jūs taču jau zināt, kā būs (pareizāk - nebūs). #Latvija #Korupcija #ValstsPārvaldība

Go and vote, urged the Örebro mosque in an election campaign full of anti-Muslim statements. At the same time, the Moderates knocked on thousands of doors and spoke about frozen rents. Non-voters streamed to the polling stations. – Jimmie Åkesson woke the bear that was sleeping, says Yonis Abokor. (translated)

Fact or Fiction: “Vrigil Van Dijk is the greatest defender of the modern era” Alexander Isak: “FACT” Isak knows 💪 https://t.co/SpEJWInUMK #Futbol #Defensores #VrigilVanDijk

📣 Det finns en logisk väg ur regeringslåset: M, KD, L och C bildar regering. SD står utanför. C erbjuds ett tungt regeringspaket: vice statsministerposten, centrala departement och möjlighet att sätta ett historiskt stort centerpartistiskt avtryck på politiken. SD får inga ministerposter och regeringen binds inte upp av något nytt Tidöavtal. Då ställs både C och SD inför varsitt obekvämt men ganska enkelt val. För C: vill ni säga nej till en borgerlig regering som ni själva kan sitta i och få historiskt inflytande över – för att i stället regera med stöd av ett V marinerat i antisemitism, terrorromantik och extremism? För något annat realistiskt alternativ finns knappast. För SD: är kravet på ministerposter viktigare än att få en borgerlig regering och möjlighet till genomslag i centrala profilfrågor – inte minst en fortsatt stram migrationspolitik? Båda måste kompromissa. Och SD behöver inte ens rösta för regeringen. Vill partiet markera att man inte accepterar att hållas utanför Regeringskansliet kan man lägga ned sina röster i statsministeromröstningen. Budskapet blir glasklart: vi stödjer inte den här regeringen, men vi tänker inte heller fälla den och därmed öppna vägen för en S-ledd regering. Det fungerar eftersom Sverige har negativ parlamentarism. En statsminister behöver inte samla en majoritet bakom sig. Det räcker att färre än 175 ledamöter röstar nej. Därefter får regeringen lägga fram sin politik och söka hoppande majoriteter. SD kan rösta för borgerliga reformer man stöder och emot sådant man ogillar. I andra frågor kan regeringen söka stöd hos S eller MP. Ibland kommer regeringen att förlora en omröstning. Det är parlamentarism, inte regeringskris. Alternativet är knappast bättre: en skakig S-ledd kaozregering med V-ministrar och partier som inte kan enas i några frågor. För C vore paradoxen monumental. Partiet skulle tacka nej till historiskt inflytande i en borgerlig regering – för att i stället regera med ett sällskap som många av C:s egna väljare inte ens skulle ta i med tång. M, KD, L och C har åtminstone en bred borgerlig grund att regera på. Det är dags att alla partier besinnar sig, slutar fantisera om parlamentariska majoriteter som inte finns och börjar förhålla sig till den matematik väljarna faktiskt har gett dem. Det finns inga perfekta alternativ kvar. Bara vuxna kompromisser – eller fyra år av politiskt kaos. #politik #parlamentarism #Sverige

I Dalarna petar den relativt okände vänsterpartisten Mohamed Abdukadir Ali partiets klimatpolitiska talesperson Kajsa Fredholm från riksdagsmandatet. Ali stod först på nionde plats på listan men fick 648 personröster, mot Fredholms 356. Ali har knappt något digitalt avtryck och en stor del av hans valrörelse bedrevs på somaliska. #Politik #Val2023 #Klimat

Somalisk doldis knuffar ut V-toppen ur riksdagen Vänsterpartiets klimatpolitiska talesperson blev omkörd i personkryssen https://t.co/f65AYzrlKr #politik #Sverige #klimat