Natürlich kann man ohne Kinder glücklich sein. Ich war es auch. Ich habe aber auf andere gehört, die mir sagten, dass es mit Kindern noch viel großartiger ist. Sie hatten recht. Ich habe jetzt drei Kinder und mein Leben ist unendlich bereichert und zwar in zweierlei Hinsicht:
Es gibt zum einen das immer präsente, ganz grundlegende Glücksgefühl, das man schwer beschreiben kann. Es führt nicht zu Euphorie, aber zu einer fundamentalen, beruhigenden Zufriedenheit, die ich jedem wünsche.
Und dann sind da die vielen kleinen Glücks-Peaks im Alltag, die für Nicht-Eltern wahrscheinlich schwer zu verstehen sind. Man erlebt sie in ganz banalen Momenten. Die Kinder sagen oder tun etwas anrührendes, witziges oder mitreißendes und die Glückshormone schießen ein. Diese Momente hatte ich früher nur sehr selten.
Warum schreibe ich das? Weil ich meine, dass man auf Artikel wie diesen in der Süddeutschen nicht hören sollte. Habt Kinder und ihr werdet glücklicher. Das ist mein Rat!
https://t.co/PGoUdJ4NZ0
The American people have long sought transparency about the government’s knowledge of unidentified aerial phenomena. Under President Trump’s leadership, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is actively coordinating the Intelligence Community’s declassification efforts with the Department of War to ensure a careful, comprehensive, and unprecedented review of our holdings to provide the American people with maximum transparency. Today’s release is the first in what will be an ongoing joint declassification and release effort.
A single podcaster - Ben Ungeskripted - the Joe Rogan of Germany - has just dismantled the 10B propaganda machine of “public” broadcasting in a single strike .
He interviewed Bjorn Hoecke, an important AfD politician in East Germany who is soon to be governor of the state of Thuringia.
Bjorn ist the most dangerous person in Germany for the people in power:
A family father of four, a bleeding-heart teacher, and someone who understands and loves the rich German culture and history.
He is authentic, completely Black Rock independent and when you hear him speak , you realize something : he is calm , determined and unbribable.
That’s why German media has made him persona non grata: under no circumstances was he allowed to speak to the public , and no one was allowed to see him on any show or broadcast over the last 10 years. An absolute news embargo was imposed , he was declared the devil, and no one was allowed to mention anything he said.
Ben has now interviewed Bjorn for 2h, visible to everyone, and has nearly 1M views in less than 24h.
This is another domino that could bring the entire system of deception and destruction that has haunted Germany for so long crumbling down.
Very important point in history.
Thank you to @benungeskriptet and @BjoernHoecke for your bravery and for fighting harder than I dare to.
Nordstream: Der Präsident der Ukraine 🇺🇦 war über den Anschlag auf die Pipeline nicht nur informiert: "Selenskyj hat das genehmigt" bestätigt Journalist Bojan Pancevski vom Wall Street Journal bei Markus Lanz. Und jetzt?
BREAKING : THIS IS DEPLORABLE 🤮
🇺🇸US-Israeli 🇮🇱 airstrikes hit the B1 Bridge on the Karaj Northern Bypass west of Tehran.
This was one of the major infrastructure projects for the people of Iran 🇮🇷
US has now started targeting civilian infrastructure that runs Iran, soon they will target food, elections and water supply.
United States is the biggest terror organisation in the world.
„Ein unbewaffnetes iranisches Schiff wurde zusammen mit den USA zu einer Übung der indischen Marine eingeladen, und seine Matrosen paradierten an Land vor dem Präsidenten.
Die USA zogen sich in letzter Minute aus der Übung zurück und griffen stattdessen das iranische Schiff mit einem Torpedo an.
Wir brachen mit allen Normen der Zivilisation und der Kriegsführung und weigerten uns, die Ertrinkenden zu retten. Die sri-lankische Marine musste die Leichen aus dem Wasser bergen.
Mir fällt kaum eine andere Nation in der Geschichte ein, die so etwas Feiges und Verabscheuungswürdiges getan hätte. Wir sind wirklich einzigartig, und die amerikanischen Medien – die den Bombenangriff auf eine Mädchenschule größtenteils herunterspielen und so tun, als sei die Flächenbombardierung Teherans eine normale Militärtaktik – sind zutiefst mitschuldig.“
🚨🇦🇪🇺🇸 Prominent UAE billionaire Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor just published an open letter to Trump. It's brutal.
"Who gave you the authority to drag our region into a war with Iran? Who gave you permission to turn our region into a battlefield?"
Al Habtoor's a major figure: billionaire, former diplomat, outspoken political voice in the Gulf. When he talks, UAE leadership's listening.
His questions:
* Was this your decision or Netanyahu's pressure?
* Did you calculate collateral damage before firing?
* You placed GCC countries at the heart of danger they didn't choose
* Your "Board of Peace" initiatives were funded by Gulf states. Now we're getting attacked. Where did that money go?
* You promised no wars. You've conducted operations in 7 countries: Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, Nigeria, Syria, Iran, Venezuela
* 658 airstrikes in your first year back = Biden's entire term (which you criticized)
* War costs $40-65 billion for operations, possibly $210 billion total
* Your approval rating's down 9% in 400 days
* Americans were promised peace. They're getting war funded by their taxes
The sharpest line: "Before the ink has dried on your Board of Peace initiative, we find ourselves facing military escalation that endangers the entire region. So where did those initiatives go?"
Al Habtoor's not some random critic. He's establishment. Connected. When UAE elites start publicly questioning Trump's decision-making, that's America's closest Arab allies saying "we didn't sign up for this."
The letter ends: "True leadership is not measured by war decisions, but by wisdom, respect for others, and pushing toward achieving peace."
@KhalafAlHabtoor
Was für eine Doppelmoral! Während #Trump inmitten fortschreitender Verhandlungen den #Iran überfällt, verurteilen #Merz, #Macron und #Starmer die iranischen Gegenangriffe, verlieren aber kein Wort über das völkerrechtswidrige US-Bombardement. Wer wie die Europäer derart mit doppelten Standards misst, muss sich nicht wundern, international keine Rolle mehr zu spielen und nur noch als Wurmfortsatz des US-Imperialismus angesehen zu werden.
Das ist völlig unfassbar.
Stufe 1 des Masterplans ist also ein #SocialMedia-Verbot für #Minderjährige. Das ist der Testballon unter dem Deckmantel der Pädagogik und der „Radikalismusprävention“. Die Jugendlichen können sich auch nicht durch Wahlen wehren.
Stufe 2 wird dann die Abschaffung der #Anonymität und die Einführung der #Klarnamenspflicht im Netz sein. Man höre und staune unten über den spanischen Ministerpräsidenten und #Plagiator #Sanchez, der ja Vorbild für #Leichtfried von der #SPÖ in #Österreich ist und der dies bereits expressis verbis fordert. Unter dem Vorwand, gegen „#HassundHetze“ agieren zu müssen, will man die Meinungsäußerung im #Internet überwachen.
#HassundHetze ist übrigens eine Wendung aus der Zeit des #Nationalsozialismus, so wie #UnsereDemokratie eine Wendung der #DDR ist. Mir liegen alle Nachweise aus den #Culturomics (n-grams) vor.
Stufe 3 wird dann das Verbot von #Regierungskritik sein. Dieses würde einhergehen mit einer linksgrünen Regierung.
Die Linken und die #EU wollen so eine sozialistische Gesinnungsdiktatur errichten.
Die Linken haben dies auch in Deutschland mit der Installierung von #BrosiusGersdorf für ein #AfD-Verbot versucht.
#Links ist link.
Sagt nicht, ich hätte Euch nicht gewarnt!
Germany did polling.
If Germany were to be invaded, how many men would be willing to fight to defend. It was 16%. In America it is over 55%.
If Germans were asked to go to Ukraine to fight against Russia, it would be 0%.
Germany's new goal is to increase their military from 180,000 today to 460,000 (active and reserve). They don't even remotely have the population willing to do that. Their men don't support what the government stands for. The govt is destroying the country with it's immigration and economic policies. The young men have mostly decided it's not worth fighting for.
Omg
Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs who owns a healthcare company in Ohio receiving tax dollars, also owns another LLC with the SAME ADDRESS as the somali money transfer org accused of funding t*rrorism.
His business partner appears to work for the money transfer org too.
This just keeps getting worse and worse
Some thoughts regarding the Ukrainian drone attack that targeted President Putin.
The attack meets two of the criterion set forth in the “Fundamentals of State Policy of the Russian Federation on Nuclear Deterrence”, published on December 3, 2024, regarding acts of aggression designed to be deterred by Russia’s nuclear deterrence forces.
This includes “Aggression by any state from a military coalition (bloc, alliance) against the Russian Federation and (or) its allies is considered as the aggression by this coalition (bloc, alliance) as a whole”, and “Aggression against the Russian Federation and (or) its allies by any non-nuclear state with the participation or support of a nuclear state is considered as their joint attack.”
Ukraine operates as part of a NATO bloc whose stated objective is the strategic defeat of Russia. Ukraine’s targeting of the Russian President constitutes “actions by an adversary affecting elements of critically important state or military infrastructure of the Russian Federation, the disablement of which would disrupt response actions by nuclear forces.”
Had the Ukrainian attack succeeded, Russia would have carried out massive nuclear retaliation against all of Europe.
I don’t think the world understands how close it came to nuclear Armageddon.
Russia has no choice but to re-establish deterrence modalities by physically destroying Ukraine as it currently exists.
The current Ukrainian government cannot be viewed as a negotiating partner, but rather as a terrorist entity that must be eliminated in its totality.
I believe the Trump administration understands this.
Europe does not.
The examination of the drone debris by Russian special services will provide specific technical data pertaining to the targeting data used by Ukraine, which in turn will point to specific sources and methods used to collect and prepare this data for use by Ukraine.
In short, there can be no doubt Russia possesses incontrovertible intelligence information that establishes a European connection to the Ukrainian attack on President Putin.
Europe must be put on notice that it is culpable in the actions of the Zelensky regime, and that any effort or actions that facilitate continued Ukrainian strikes against the critical national security infrastructure of the Russian Federation (the Russian President, as the sole authority for release of Russian nuclear weapons, fits this definition) will be treated as a hostile act by Europe capable of triggering a Russian nuclear response.
In the coming days and weeks, one can expect to see Russian actions designed to target and eliminate the totality of the Zelensky regime.
Anything less than this would make moot the purpose of a Russian nuclear doctrine in the first place, and Russia under President Putin does not have a history of engaging in meaningless word games at the strategic level.
2026 will be the last year Ukraine in its current manifestation exists.
The question now is whether the same can be said about Europe.
I lived about 18 years in the USA and longer in (Northern) Europe.
What is fascinating to me is this:
The USA are a fundamentally less developed country. That becomes apparent in everyday life across all the little details, including education, health, communities etc. .
In effect, that makes life in Europe easier, higher quality and more enjoyable. The wealth inflection point where this changes is somewhere around $25M net worth, assuming you are also deeply embedded in an entrepreneurial and deal ecosystem, at which point the US becomes more attractive (but then you live two-continental anyway).
HOWEVER, when it comes to political culture, I am frequently SHOCKED how underdeveloped, and quite frankly, primitive the average European mind is.
When it comes to free speech; basic Democratic principles (people elect their governments etc), individual sovereignty and simply the fundamental philosophy of self-governance, it's extremely disturbing to see how plain ignorant so many Europeans still are. They are stuck in a lord-serf mindset that is deeply pathetic and regressive.
The shrugging of shoulders when political dissidents are jailed by the thousands in the UK and Germany; the casual dismissal of deeply undemocratic EU structures; the general ignorance towards the will of their own people; the confusion of freedom of speech with the freedom of press; comparing the US government screening FOREIGNERS' social media when they enter the US with EU governments SPYING on the social media of their CITIZENS; etc. is just astonishing.
To my fellow Europeans:
this is EMBARRASSING and also very, very bad. Grow up. Read stuff. Study John Locke and the others.
You have to learn the basic principles of Freedom, Democracy and individual sovereignty. Learn about the rightful role of the State, how it is always subordinate to its citizens; how Democratic leaders are servants and employees of US, the people. How media influences Democracy and must be subject to free market forces. Don't be stuck in the 19th century.
Once you are done with that, you will understand the importance of free speech; of X and Elon Musk; and have some more respect for your fellow citizens.
For the many of you who have already done that and understand our right to freedom and our duty to remove tyrants: keep fighting, we will win soon.