Lenau

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[Lenau @LenauAstronaut]

Jeremy Rifkin’s concept of the ‘empathic civilisation’:

- Rifkin reinterprets the history of civilisation as the evolution of human empathy.
- He shows how the capacity for empathy has decisively influenced the fate of humanity as a species and will continue to do so …

[Lenau @LenauAstronaut]

In the general assessment of advanced cultures and civilisations, empathy is seen not as a peripheral element but as a central one in social stability, cooperation and ethical development. It influences how effectively a civilisation resolves conflicts, holds communities …

[Lenau @LenauAstronaut]

it’s wind turbines, especially offshore turbines. Clearly, Trump is deathly afraid of the things. They haunt his dreams, day and night, with their looming towers and whispering blades.“
Ey Don Quijote, the times they are a changing:
Make Windmills Great Again
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[Lenau @LenauAstronaut]

„If Donald Trump really wants to annex Canada 🇨🇦, he’ll have a big problem on his hands.
The Canadian 🍁 province of Nova Scotia is laying plans to begin exploiting its copious offshore wind resources, and if it’s one thing Trump can’t stand, … 1/2

https://t.co/QPgUBDSKD1

[Lenau @LenauAstronaut]

Then the U.S. government and all media outlets should immediately begin reporting on it nonstop, issuing warnings, and providing information.

[Rohoza (Дев'ятий) Mykhailo 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇨🇦 @Oct7NeverForget]

🚨 BREAKING: U.S. intelligence says Russia has launched a new campaign to interfere in the November midterm elections.

According to The New York Times, citing classified U.S. intelligence reports, the Kremlin has authorized another disinformation operation aimed at sowing chaos, deepening divisions, and undermining trust inside American society.

So far, researchers say much of the content is targeting Democratic candidates in competitive races.

Russia is increasingly using AI to manufacture fake videos and posts designed to look like reports from CNN, BBC, and The New York Times. Candidates are falsely accused of corruption, antisemitism, and other inflammatory positions.

One fabricated video falsely attributed comments criticizing Democrats over transgender policy to actress Jamie Lee Curtis. The claim was debunked — but not before the fake post reportedly received nearly 200,000 views on X.

Researchers detected two waves of this activity in just the past week. Graphika has linked it to the Russian influence operation known as “Overload,” or “Matryoshka.”

U.S. intelligence has not found evidence that Russia is attempting to hack election infrastructure or directly compromise the voting process.

But researchers warn the information operation is accelerating.

Graphika senior researcher Jean Le Roux:

“I don’t think they’re going to stop.”

Russia is coming for American minds again — not with tanks, but with AI-generated lies, fake news reports, and manufactured outrage.

And the closer America gets to November, the louder it may become.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Boris Johnson on Russia:

Russia’s problem is that it cannot let go of its empire. The British had the biggest empire the world had ever seen. At one point it was roughly seven times the size of the Roman Empire — and we gave it up.

The Russians need to let Ukraine go. It is like that old piece of relationship advice: if you love someone, let them go. If they come back, they’re yours. If they don’t, they never were.

They have to let Ukraine go. The age of empires is over.

[Lenau @LenauAstronaut]

Empfehlungen aus dem Friedensgutachten 2026:

[Lenau @LenauAstronaut]

Das Friedensgutachten 2026* zeigt, was gegen den fortschreitenden Zerfall der Weltordnung getan werden kann.“
3/3
https://t.co/43p1zA61bE

[Lenau @LenauAstronaut]

Soziale Spannungen & Populismus
US-Polarisierung zwischen Demokraten & Republikanern.
Europäischer Rechtspopulismus (AfD, RN, Fratelli d’Italia).
Weniger Reformen, mehr Instabilität.
Geopolitische Krisen (Öl, Halbleiter, Krieg)

Ich hoffe, ich liege vollkommen falsch!

[Lenau @LenauAstronaut]

Geldpolitik: Zu spät oder zu früh?
Fed könnte Zinsen zu lange hoch halten (Rezession), oder zu früh senken (Inflation kehrt zurück).
ECB & andere Zentralbanken folgen (globale Rezessionsgefahr).

[Peter Magulski @PeterMagulski]

Selbst Exxon f***ing mobile prognostiziert:

»Dieses Emissionsniveau im Jahr 2050 bedeutet, dass die globalen Temperaturen zwischen 2,5 und 3 Grad Celsius steigen könnten«

https://t.co/C9ysTkpqPy

[Lenau @LenauAstronaut]

@OluOlofin1 @GBC_Press No

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[Lenau @LenauAstronaut]

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[Lenau @LenauAstronaut]

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[Lenau @LenauAstronaut]

@FrankieB2826 @GBC_Press https://t.co/zlplsS3PCV

[Lenau @LenauAstronaut]

@MolekwaMaesela @GBC_Press https://t.co/zlplsS4nst

[Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz @BfV_Bund]

Gemeinsam warnen u. a. #NPA_KOHO (Japan), FBI, BND und #BfV_Bund vor weltweiten nordkoreanischen Cyberaktivitäten, deren Ziel die Finanzierung des Regimes ist: https://t.co/111HsaB3SW

[Lenau @LenauAstronaut]

@SeKes0 🫪
These bottle caps?
👇
isar aerospace
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esa
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easn
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in general
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[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

A few days ago people screeched that:

“Canada couldn’t get offered a great deal as associate membership wasn’t a thing”

Today the EU announced they’d like to explore that offer.

AND, I’ve got the rough motivator terms that both sides are looking at for the deal:

As I said Article 217 TFEU, allows the EU to make any “association agreement” it wants.

In-session discussions of Article 217 have noted that this can be up to “new classes of membership” that “do not compel the regular membership requirements”

So while previous AA agreements were not memberships, one for Canada could be offered.

The EU wants:

1) A stable trade partner with natural resources.

2) To enact the free trade that’s been blocked by some member states who didn’t ratify CETA.

3) To develop new manufacturing suppliers as EU space is tapped out and they don’t want to depend on China.

4) Defence manufacturing providers that are not US based.

5) Arctic stability and surveillance.

6) Accelerated tourist visa waivers for EU tourists, and accelerated review for EU skilled immigration (not open border)

7) European companies having access to Canadian markets and exchange listings as if they were Canadian.

8) Accelerated review of EU food and medical products by Health Canada for approved access to the Canadian market.

9) Canada’s development banks to be able to access and own projects in the EU that it deems inline with its investment mandate.

10) EU pension funds and wealth funds to be able to invest in Canada with preferred tax rules.

Canada would get:

1) Free movement for Canadian’s to live and work in the EU.

2) The right for Canadian companies to sell to EU government procurement as if they were European.

3) The right for Canadian defence providers to provide services to EU governments and militaries including in classified settings.

4) Free trade with Europe.

5) Canadian financial institutions having access to SEPA and other European transfer networks, improving Canadian banking competition.

6) The ability for Canadians and Canadian companies to sell to Europeans or invest in Europe without foreign buyer taxes.

7) Canadian products being eligible for EU tax credit rebates when sold in the EU.

8) The ability for Canadian companies to manufacture in Europe without repatriation tariffs.

All **WITHOUT**:

-Open borders in Canada
-Adopting the Euro
-Being bound by the EU commission
-Adopting Brussels oversight or policy

Now this is the starting point for each of the sides, the negotiations may water down or remove some points, or introduce new asks.

But both sides want very different things, that are *hugely* beneficial to both.

Yet Canada clearly comes out on top of this deal because they have the valuable primary industry that Europe needs and so would get potentially the lightest requirement offer that Europe has ever put forth.

While the EU seems to have acknowledged that because of the difference in scale, they can’t expect Canada to have fully open borders, or markets.

If Carney lands this plane, it would be historic.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 Remember the great Brexit promise?

Britain 🇬🇧 would leave the EU and secure a wonderful “Canada-style deal” 🇨🇦.

Now Canada 🇨🇦 itself is trying to move beyond that deal and build the deepest possible alliance with Europe while Brexit Britain 🇬🇧 watches from outside.

Britain will not be offered Canada’s proposed associate status for one simple reason: Canada is not European and cannot join the EU. Britain is European 👉and can.

❎ The door is not closed.

👏Our door is labelled membership.

Canada is responding to Trump’s coercion with ambition. Britain remains trapped behind its own Brexit red lines, pursuing a timid “
reset while other countries build the economic and security alliances of the future.

🔥 Britain is excluding itself.

[Maurice Martin ♦️#TAEM @MauriceMartin01]

♦️ « WAR »
La Pologne se prépare à la guerre avec Poutine. « Nous savons qu’il prépare quelque chose »

La tâche la plus importante maintenant est de préparer le pays à divers scénarios, a déclaré le Premier ministre polonais Donald Tusk.

« La Pologne et le peuple polonais ne peuvent, en aucun cas, se permettre d’être naïfs ou de s’adonner à des vœux pieux. Nous devons fonder nos actions sur des faits, et ces faits sont sans équivoque », a souligné le politicien.
#War #Pologne #UE #OTAN #France #Macron #Tusk #Russie #PutinWarCriminal #Trump