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Tohle video mi připomnělo, že na YT kanálu WeAreCarFans kluci řešili, že sehnali nějakou starou dieselovou Audi za odvoz s 1.9 TDI, dali ji nějak do pucu a jejich kamarád si to půjčil, aby projížděl Evropu. Jenže v Rakousku ho stopli ve městě za křižovatkou policajti a auto poslali na kontrolu, kde neprošlo. Výsledkem bylo, že auto tam musel odstavit, do ČR jel vlakem a sebrali mu řidičák i značky. No a kluci se hrozně rozčilovali, jací jsou na nás Rakušáci vysazený (a něco na tom je) a jak je tam nebezpečné jet starým autem. Ono je víc lidí s podpobnou zkušenosti - na kontrole si tam pak vždycky něco najdou, aby auto neprošlo. Na druhou stranu podobné příběhy znám zatím jen a pouze od majitelů starých vylítaných TDI. Nepamatuju si, že by tam někoho stopli klidně se starším benzínovým autem a takhle ho popotahovali (sami tam jezdíme starou audi s benzínovou V8). Takže mám docela silný pocit, že rakušáky prostě sere, když jim tam taháme ty naše vylítaný naftový plečky do měst a smrdíme jim tam s tím za černých kouřových efektů. Já vím, že u nás takovou plečku člověk v pohodě protáhne, aby mohla zůstat v provozu. Ale holt nemůžeme čekat, že za hranicemi jsou na to všichni nějak zvědaví. Ani bych se nedivil, kdyby ti policajti, co čekali naproti němu na křižovatce a pak ho jeli rovnou zastavit, byli triggerováni třeba právě nějakým kouřovým efektem...🤷 #Audi #TDI #policie

Kākāpō rising: 90 chicks swell population of the world’s heaviest parrot — Critically endangered New Zealand bird enjoys record breeding season triggered by mass fruiting of native tree, pushing its numbers to 325 for the first time in the past 75 years https://t.co/ywvuWPspas #Kākāpō #EndangeredSpecies #Conservation #NZ

The 2006 rate hikes were what triggered the collapse of the US property market which then morphed into the Global Financial Crisis in 2008. 🇺🇸📉 https://t.co/QBaEvy7ako #FinancialCrisis #RealEstate #USEconomy #US

Demand for Japanese bonds is down 20%. Bessent is praying the BoJ raises rates. But that might just trigger a wave of zombie company defaults in Japan and create an economic crisis. 🇯🇵 #Japan #BoJ #EconomicCrisis #JP

WARNING! On Jan 8 I texted Susie Wiles, White House chief of staff: "An attack against Iran may trigger Iran to use its missiles against Israel. Netanyahu will use this as an excuse to use nukes." Now Trump is serious about using nukes. It may be the beginning of the end. #Iran #Nukes #Trump #IR #IL #US

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Pathocracy: How Institutions Become Captured by the Pathological **Pathocracy** is the process by which institutions are gradually converted to serve the pathological. It often starts when normal people lose the ability to distinguish honest, well-intentioned behavior from manipulative and perverse motives. The institution may keep its name, image, and stated purpose long after it has changed in practice. A key warning sign is the normalization of pathological individuals: when a community treats the judgments of manipulative, conscienceless people as equal to those of everyone else, pathocracy is already underway. These individuals are rarely obviously unstable; they are often composed, confident, and even charming—so alarms don’t trigger. As more institutions are pathocratized, the pathological begin coordinating across them, reshaping society to match their impulses. Lobaczewski described roles such as ideological architects (producing simplistic “two camps” doctrines), marketing teams (simplifying reality into emotionally compelling narratives), and then psychopaths taking command to capture institutions. He estimated about 6% could become the new authority class and ~12% the intermediaries who make the system function, with at most around a fifth genuinely backing it. The rest usually build quiet networks of resistance. The central lesson of political ponerology: totalitarianism isn’t made only by a single tyrant—it emerges when society can no longer tell the pathological from the honest.

#Rockfallocene is upon us. Surely one of the biggest most catastrophic glacier melt triggered floods on record. Not for long, though... #ClimateChange #GlacierMelt #EnvironmentalCrisis #Nospecificcountriesarementionedinthetweet.

CIA Director Radcliff’s lightning visit to Moscow yesterday has triggered a storm of speculation, underscoring just how volatile the world has become. But one thing should be obvious: it would be a grave mistake to assume that Russia’s leadership will fundamentally alter its #CIA #Russia #Geopolitics #RU

CIA Director Radcliff’s lightning visit to Moscow yesterday has triggered a storm of speculation, underscoring just how volatile the world has become. But one thing should be obvious: it would be a grave mistake to assume that Russia’s leadership will fundamentally alter its #CIA #Russia #Geopolitics #RU

ZDF Sommerinterview mit @Alice_Weidel ZDF: ein hektischer Ritt von einem Thema zum nächsten mit klarer Intention. Moderator @wulfschmiese fällt ständig ins Wort. Beim Thema Euro ist er an einer ausführlichen Antwort weder interessiert noch vom wirtschaftlichen Wissen ihr gewachsen. Weidel lächelt vieles weg, echauffiert sich, brennt für ihre Sache, lässt sich aber auch triggern #ZDF #Sommerinterview #Politik

⚠️ SERBIA MUST STOP TERRORISM AGAINST KOSOVO — OR FACE EUROPEAN ISOLATION The latest renewed threats attributed to Severna Brigada, the “Northern Brigade” designated as a terrorist organization by Kosovo, must finally trigger a serious European response. This is not an abstract https://t.co/kKYmx99C5B #Serbia #Kosovo #Terrorism #RS #XK #EU

Harvard closed its writing center and layed off the center’s longtime director for financial motives, a decision that could trigger other universities to follow suit, concluding than original writing –by extension, original thought– isn't worth the cost https://t.co/ux0NOjVZml #Harvard #WritingCenter #HigherEd #Nocountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

Meine Befürchtungen wurden negativ übertroffen. Israel ist kein Land wie jedes andere. Im Gespräch mit Ben-Gvir hätte es 10 weitere Aussagen gegeben. Aber man stürzt sich halt obsessiv auf die eine Falschdarstellung. Um erst mal über die Äußerungen eines Politikers die gesamten (!) Beziehungen zum Staat Israel zu „überdenken“. Was für ein Irrsinn. Was macht man den bei anderen Ministern anderer Länder? Ein türkischer Minister, für den Juden eine Krankheit sind, sollte in Deutschland mehr Empörung hervorrufen als ein Israeli, der die Tötung von Terroristen fordert. Keine Reaktion in Berlin. Ich bis entsetzt, aber nicht überrascht. @n_roettgen - habe ich Erfolg, wenn ich nach einer Äußerung von Ihnen suche, dass Sie Sanktionen gegen diesen türkischen Minister verhängen wollen? Ernst gemeint: Was triggert an Israel, was wir anderswo durchwinken? Sanktionen gegen den syrischen Präsidenten, der ein Mörder und Terrorist ist, sind auch nicht auf dem Programm, was ich übrigens korrekt finde. Wann überdenken wir unsere Türkeipolitik? Diese Reaktionen auf Ben-Gvir sind derart außer Verhältnis wie die der UN-Vollversammlung auf Israel. Da stimmt grundlegend etwas nicht. #Israel #Politik #Menschenrechte

Rabaa: The Hour the World’s Conscience Stood Still On the anniversary of one of the largest single-day killings of protesters in modern history, one question remains unanswered: who will be held accountable? By Adham Hasanin Egyptian journalist and political writer, based in the Netherlands On 14 August, the anniversary returns of a day unlike any other in modern Egyptian history. Not simply because it was the bloodiest Egypt has known wars and massacres before and since ,but because it was the day a state chose to open fire on its own people in broad daylight, in front of the world’s cameras, and then let thirteen years pass without a single officer ever being held accountable. This article will not be a cold recitation of statistics, though the statistics exist, are documented, and are horrifying. It is an attempt to understand something deeper: how a square in the heart of Cairo, filled with tents, children, and worshippers, became the site of the largest mass killing the Arab world has witnessed in the past decade and why the echo of that day still reverberates in every Egyptian prison cell today. I. A Morning That Began Like Any Other For readers unfamiliar with the background: in July 2013, the Egyptian military, led by then-General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, removed Mohamed Morsy Egypt’s first freely elected civilian president, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who had taken office in 2012 following the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak. In response, tens of thousands of Morsy’s supporters staged an open-ended sit-in demanding his reinstatement. By 14 August 2013, more than twenty thousand people had spent weeks camped out at two Cairo squares, Rab’a al-Adawiya and al-Nahda, in a peaceful sit-in. They were not an army, nor a uniform bloc; they were entire families men, women, and children, some affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, many simply ordinary citizens who saw the restoration of elected legitimacy as a cause worth the risk. There were tents for sleeping, communal kitchens feeding the demonstrators, speaking platforms, and a small field clinic that no one imagined would, within hours, become one of the most terrifying places in modern Egyptian history. In the early hours of that morning, Central Security Forces and army units, under the command of then-General Sisi, began what was officially described as a "dispersal" operation targeting both sit-ins simultaneously. It was not a dispersal in any ordinary sense of the word. According to a year-long investigation by Human Rights Watch, it was a pre-planned operation that anticipated, from the outset, thousands of deaths. II. The Numbers the Regime Refuses to Speak The Egyptian government, to this day, cites a death toll of "over 600" for that single day a figure that, even at its official lowest, is horrifying enough to warrant an independent international investigation. But the field investigation conducted by Human Rights Watch, drawing on field hospital records, survivor testimony, and analysis of video footage from dozens of angles, arrived at a far more disturbing figure: at least 817 people killed at Rab’a Square alone, with the true toll likely exceeding 1,000, plus another 87 killed at the nearby al-Nahda Square. When the deaths from the weeks surrounding 14 August are added from the dispersal of the Republican Guard sit-in on 8 July, through the Mansoura Street killings, to the dispersal of an October 6 march the combined total reaches at least 1,150 deaths in just six weeks, according to Human Rights Watch’s meticulous documentation. This figure led the organisation to use a term not deployed lightly in international law: crimes against humanity. Human Rights Watch described the Rab’a killings as "one of the world’s largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history." Not in Egyptian history alone in modern history as a whole. What happened at Rab’a is cited in international reporting alongside China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. This is the true scale of what the Egyptian state has spent thirteen years trying to minimise, justify, and reduce to a mere "security incident" in a news bulletin. III. "All According to Plan" When Mass Killing Becomes Administration, Not Chaos The title Human Rights Watch chose for its detailed report on the massacre deserves lingering on: "All According to Plan." This is not an emotive headline; it is a precise legal conclusion built on field evidence. According to the investigation, what happened at Rab’a was not a dispersal operation that spiralled out of control amid chaos or panic, as the regime later tried to portray it. It was a carefully planned operation that assumed, in advance, massive casualties. Then-Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim admitted, in a televised interview broadcast on 31 August 2013 just weeks after the massacre that his ministry had anticipated losses of "10 percent of the people" present at the sit-in, acknowledging that the number of demonstrators exceeded twenty thousand. By simple arithmetic, this is an official admission that the state anticipated, in advance, the deaths of roughly two thousand people and proceeded with the operation regardless. This is the true horror at the heart of the Rab’a story: it was not a security operation that spun out of control, but a conscious administrative decision, made in an air-conditioned room, with advance calculations, by men who knew precisely how many human beings would die under their fire and who proceeded anyway, or perhaps because of it. According to Human Rights Watch’s analysis, the objective was to send an unambiguous message: whoever challenges the new state will pay an irreversible price. IV. Snipers, Women, and Children The Faces the Reports Do Not Tell Behind every number in the Human Rights Watch reports lies a full human story, deliberately omitted from the state’s official narrative. The investigation documented how security forces opened fire from multiple angles, and how snipers positioned themselves atop buildings surrounding the square, targeting according to survivor testimony and analysed video footage any movement in the square, regardless of whether it was an armed combatant or a nurse trying to reach a wounded person. According to documented testimony, entire families had their tents burn over their heads as fire swept through the sit-in. Doctors and paramedics were killed while trying to pull the wounded from the line of fire. Most damningly of all, the documentation shows deliberate targeting of ambulances and field medical points meaning that wounded people who survived the first bullet then faced death by bleeding out, because anyone attempting to save them was themselves a target. This detail the targeting of medics is what elevates the event from "excessive violent repression" to what human rights organisations have described as a systematic crime. When security forces target those trying to save the wounded, they are not merely dispersing a sit-in; they are preventing witnesses from surviving to tell what happened. V. Thirteen Years of Total Impunity The most painful part of the Rab’a story is not only what happened that day, but what has not happened in the years since. From 14 August 2013 to today, not a single officer, of any rank, has been held accountable for the deaths of hundreds, or thousands, of Egyptians. Quite the opposite: the state has moved to entrench impunity through the force of law itself. Egypt issued legislation granting senior military officers immunity from questioning over any violations that may have occurred following Morsy’s removal a law specifically designed to close the door on any future judicial accountability, regardless of how political circumstances might change. Even the fact-finding committee established by then-interim President Adly Mansour to investigate the June and July events concluded, in its report issued more than a year after the events, that the sit-in’s leaders bore responsibility for the deaths, on the grounds that they had allowed weapons into the square even as the same report admitted, in a glaring contradiction, that security forces had failed to target only armed individuals, meaning they had fired indiscriminately on everyone: armed and unarmed, man and woman, adult and child. This is the pattern that has repeated for over a decade: as each anniversary approaches, official statements re-narrate the events and shift blame onto the victims, while the actual perpetrators — those who planned the operation, gave the orders, and pulled the trigger — remain free. Some now occupy the highest offices of the state. VI. Why This Anniversary, Why Now? A reader might ask: why revisit this story after all these years? Has the world not moved on to newer crises? The answer lies in the very nature of impunity. When a state is never held accountable for the largest massacre of protesters in its modern history, it does not simply "forget" the crime it sets a precedent, telling every future ruler and every future security apparatus: mass killing is possible, politically profitable, and free of cost. This poisonous lesson does not remain confined within Egyptian borders; its echo reaches every Arab capital contemplating how to handle its own opposition. More dangerously, this system of impunity did not stop at Rab’a’s edges; it is the foundation on which Egypt’s entire subsequent decade of repression was built: thousands of political prisoners, grossly unfair mass trials that produced death sentences for dozens of defendants in cases linked directly to the Rab’a events themselves, laws criminalising peaceful protest, a muzzled press, and a civil society hollowed of substance. All of it traces back to the morning of 14 August 2013, when the state learned that overwhelming force succeeds, and that the world will condemn for a few days, then move on. VII. Delayed Justice Is Not Forgotten Justice Despite more than a decade of official silence and impunity, the Rab’a case remains alive in international legal memory. Human rights organisations, from Human Rights Watch to Amnesty International, continue to renew their annual calls for an independent international investigation, grounded in the legal principle that crimes against humanity are not subject to statutes of limitation: delayed justice is not forgotten justice. The victims who fell in that square were not numbers in a statistical report. They were fathers who left behind children too young, that day, to understand why their father would never return. They were mothers who, thirteen years later, are still searching for a clearly marked grave to which they can carry flowers, and young people who had decades of life ahead of them that they never got to live. Their memory does not fade with time; it grows with their children, who carry with them the same question their parents asked before they were killed: when will justice come? Conclusion: What Does This Anniversary Demand of Us? Every year, as the anniversary of 14 August returns, the same question resurfaces one the Egyptian state refuses to answer: who gave the order? Who planned the operation? Who decided that twenty thousand human beings deserved to be shot with live ammunition because they staged a peaceful sit-in? This anniversary is not a call for vengeance, nor an invocation of the past for its own sake. It is a reminder that justice, however delayed, remains a debt still owed. And that every instance of international silence over a massacre of this scale opens the door to the next one, elsewhere, under a different pretext, carrying the same lethal conviction: that the world will condemn for a week, then forget. We will not forget. And we will not stop asking the question that unsettles everyone who took part in that crime, regardless of the office they hold today: where is the accountability? Rab’a is no longer merely the name of a square in Cairo. In the conscience of everyone who believes in justice, it has become a test of the world’s conscience itself a test the world has not yet passed.

Ich habe die letzten Tage 27 Charts durchgearbeitet. On-Chain, Derivate, Liquidität, Zyklusvergleich. Der Grund: die halbe Timeline ruft gerade den Bitcoin Boden aus. Und je tiefer ich in die Daten gehe, desto klarer wird, dass fast alle diese Signale dieselbe Sache messen. Eine Sache, die sie alle nicht messen, fehlt seit sechs Monaten. Am Ende stehen bei mir drei Trigger und zwei Preismarken. Damit kann jeder selbst prüfen, welche Seite recht behält. Ohne auf irgendeine Meinung angewiesen zu sein. Meine eingeschlossen. Soll ich dazu ein Video machen? #Bitcoin #Krypto #Investieren

I call on Prime Minister Albin Kurti and all institutions of the Republic of Kosovo: continue Kosovo’s strong support for Ukraine. @ZelenskyyUa The recent Belgrade visit should not trigger a spite reaction or lead Kosovo to reduce pro-Ukrainian activities. Kosovo must act #Kosovo #Ukraine #SupportUkraine #XK #UA #RS

Ukraine is once again a victim of American strategic stupidity. You’ve triggered one of the biggest oil crises since World War II by starting a foolish war, and now you’re worried about the price of oil. #Ukraine #OilCrisis #AmericanPolicy #UA #US