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Crazy ´religious´ fanatics murder and torture (allegedly in the name of Allah) their own people in Iran, hundreds of deaths until now. Dictators and military officials around the world are doing the same.

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Now some people offer simple solutions for imaginary problems and sidetrack from real problems, such as
Ex-Fake-PotUS Trump and his Republican sect (Tea Party 2.0; Sideline critics, de-democratization, Lies (so-called ´ALTERNATIVE FACTS´), disenfranchisement of the ♀ population; dominance of a fundamentalist evangelical minority), Half of the US population does the ´lemming´ and follows the pied pipers (we are probably also on this path with the AFD).
TSAR Putin - Leading war criminal; perpetual term of office; criminalization and calls for violence against his opponents and so-called ´ENEMIES OF RUSSIA´ - this goes as far as controlled assassination actions (probably only a selection: 2003 Sergei Yushenkov-politician, 2006 Anna Politkovskaya-journalist and Alexander Litvinenko-Putin critic, 2008 Sergei Magnitsky-lawyer, 2013 Boris Berezovsky-oligarch, 2015 Boris Nemtsov-opposition politician, 2019 Selimkhan Khangoshvili-´Tiergarten murder´, 2022 Ravil Maganov-oil company boss and Alexander Subbotin-oil company manager, 2023 Yevgeny Prigozhin-mercenary chief, 2024 Maxim Kuzminov-former helicopter pilot, Alexei Navalny-opposition politician and Witalij Robertus-oil company deputy manager); lying to the population; War - from 1999 in Chechnya (1994-1996 was before Putin), 2008 Georgia, since 2011 Syria, since 2014 annexation of Crimea, occupation (establishment of ´independent people´s republics´ after alleged genocide of Russians) of Donbass and Luhansk, since 2022-02-24 even more murderous in the whole of Ukraine; Media suppress⇒alternative truths, Orwell´s 1984 sends its regards.
the brothers and sisters in spirit - Jarosław Kaczyński, Jair Bolsonaro (fortunately removed from office in the meantime), Viktor Orbán, Robert Fico, the dictator at Putin´s mercy Alexander Lukashenko as well as currently Nicolás Maduro (illegitimate ´president´ of Venezuela, plans by ´law´ occupation/takeover of a large part of the neighboring country Guyana because of large oil deposits found there) etc., they are approaching countries whose determiners are always right:
SULTAN Erdogan (witch hunt against opponents, war against Syrian Kurds on dubious grounds),
Emperor Xi Jinpíng - Uyghurs, sabre-rattling against Taiwan,
Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un - dictator dynasty, the madman with the atomic bombs, arms supplier for the murderous Russian war against Ukraine,
Ali Khamenei - supreme religious determiner in Iran, ruled with massive support of the Revolutionary Guards, violence against its own population, for some time (besides North Korea) arms supplier for the murderous Russian war against Ukraine, support for the Houthi rebels, Hezbollah and Hamas, now also theft (´seizure´) of a tanker in the Red Sea,

Thanks to the populist and Trump-subservient Republicans - e.g. in the events surrounding the election of the Speaker of the US House of Representatives and the practiced fundamental opposition - the USA, like some other countries ruled by populists or autocrats, will soon have to be called an ex-democracy (if these states were real democracies at all).

@´QUERDENKER´/QANON/Conspiracy Theory Fans: If you believe the nonsense spread by Sputnik/Russia Today (directly in RT-DE/RT-UK, indirectly, e.g. in Trump´s house channel FOX News or by some ´influencers´) is really no longer to help you!

politicians/parties with populist changes of opinion or statements - e.g. AfD before/after April 2020, again and again Markus Söder and Friedrich Merz (both felt at least weekly and usually quite wrong in terms of content).

Fake news: The worst distributors constantly complain in their forums about what they call ´fake news´ from media, people and institutions. Their filter bubbles are the only accepted ´truth´ for a loud, often aggressive minority, so anyone who shouts ´LIE´ loud enough is right. the media they call ´LIE PRESS´ (radio, TV, newspapers and their counterparts on the Internet) are more trustworthy - with the exception of populist opinion changing of media such as SUN etc.

For many years - not only since the events around FIFA and Qatar - I have not been interested in major sporting events, there is too much money and thus manipulation involved! But what FIFA has done (probably in the spirit of Qatar) - various bought World Cups, whitewashing the incidents in Qatar, muzzling criticism, etc. - is even more underground (actually works) than the actions of other associations (e.g. IOC). And now the icing on the cake on the part of the IOC, in addition to the planned re-admission of athletes from Russia/Belarus, is the condemnation of the boycott threat by Ukraine expressed in this context - business as usual, only money (for the IOC, FIFA etc.) counts!

2023-12-08: Now the IOC has fallen over as expected, ´selected´ athletes will be invited to the Olympics in Paris 2024, provided they do not support the war against Ukraine and act ´neutrally´ - ridiculous with a (at least in Russia and Belarus) close ties of almost all athletes to the military! This is contrary to the spirit of the Olympics!

2023-12-08: The dam burst in Thuringia is repeated, the CDU and FDP are pushing through a law with the right-wing extremist AFD that makes the construction of wind turbines in Thuringia more difficult or even impossible... this is likely to be another case for the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe. So this is what the political ´firewall´ looks like.

Until the last federal election, I considered (among others) the former Minister of Transport Scheuer (CSU) to be the absolute lowest point in the long line of abysmal transport ministers. Now the current Minister of Transport Wissing (FDP) is scratching at this ´top position´, his ´arguments´ against all possible and necessary measures in his area of responsibility and his threats of measures and populist counter-proposals are only embarrassing! So it can be even worse than under CxU ministers...

Even before the enlargements, the EU functioned only to a limited extent, partly because of the massive influence of individual member states, especially Germany, France and Great Britain (until Brexit). Now (with currently 27 Member States and 7 candidates) this has become even worse. Small-minded wrangling and more and more populism, as well as some strange processes - e.g. the elections to the European Parliament in 2019 - as well as partial blockades, e.g. Orban/Hungary, do not fit into a constructive democratic coexistence.

The situation in NATO is particularly muddled, where Turkey and Hungary are currently blocking decisions - Erdogan and Orban seem to be Putin fans and each have a very peculiar view of their legitimacy to manipulate law in other countries.

In some countries, corrupt or otherwise criminal politicians rise to the highest offices. The most recent example is probably Israel, where coalition negotiations are intended to undermine the legal system in favor of some politicians/parties. 2024-01-01: The Supreme Court has overturned a central part of the ´judicial reform´ - no judicial obstruction of ´inappropriate´ decisions of the government; let´s see what Netanyahu and his ultra-right-wing religious ministers come up with as a countermeasure...

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