New from me VANITY FAIR (1/5): I spent part of the past year and a half investigating Germany’s wealthiest person, Klaus-Michael Kuehne, and his cover-up of his family’s and company’s Nazi history and Holocaust profiteering. vanityfair.com/news/story/ric…

Der reichste Deutsche hat eine Studie verschwinden lassen, weil er nicht zugeben will, dass sein Vermögen auf der Beteiligung seines Vaters und seines Onkels an Naziverbrechen basiert. Recherchiert hat das kein deutsches Medium, sondern die Vanity Fair. t-online.de/nachrichten/pa…

🎙️ Caught on tape "Kim Jong Un speaks and his people stand up at attention. I want my people to do the same." This alone should be a disqualifying statement for someone seeking to be President.

Was macht eigentlich…

"If you see German soldiers, don't panic. They're here to help," says Polish PM Donald Tusk after announcing that German troops were volunteering to help tackle the floods in Poland

Fact check: ChatGPT kann kein Schweizerdeutsch (behauptet es aber)

„Die postkoloniale Theorie wird inzwischen oft mit Judenhass gleichgesetzt. Doch das diskreditiert eine komplexe Denkschule zu Unrecht.“ spiegel.de/geschichte/deb…

Hezbollah chief speech in a nutshell: - this crossed many lines but not going for open war for now - no end to Lebanon border escalation before Gaza ceasefire (no end in sight) For Israel, this is another round where they upped ante and it didn’t lead to open war…new rules

How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers Israel established a shell company that posed as an international pager producer - the only client that really mattered was Hezbollah and its pagers contained explosives nytimes.com/2024/09/18/wor… via @NYTimes

Wichtiger und kluger Zwischenruf von ⁦Joerg Lau⁩ zu den #Pagern : Ob der Angriff ethisch gerechtfertigt war, darüber lässt sich streiten. Aber war er strategisch klug? In keinem Fall sollte die Debatte die extreme Gewalt in #Gaza verdrängen. zeit.de/kultur/2024-09…

BBC and Mediazona have identified the names of 70,000 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine – the actual number of dead is considered to be significantly higher. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama is a welcome guest in Western capitals - in part because he is helping Europe with its refugee problem. His opponents, though, say he has transformed Albania into an autocratic narco-state. spiegel.de/international/… via DER SPIEGEL

Trump Says That if He Loses, ‘the Jewish People Would Have a Lot to Do’ With It nytimes.com/2024/09/19/us/…

BREAKING: Israeli jets conducted a "targeted air strike" in Beirut, IDF says

Broad, intense and sustained overt Israeli military pressure on Hezbollah now. The first Israeli air strike in Beirut since the killing of Fuad Shukr in July.

🚨🚨An Israeli official said that the entire senior command of Hezbollah's Radwan force was eliminated in the strike (around 20 commanders)

🧵 Europe Invasion Investigation 1/ We dug into Europe Invasion, a blue tick X account spreading disinformation, xenophobia, and Islamophobia. Elon Musk has boosted it several times, and police say its fake news helped spark the riots in the UK earlier this summer.

Das schwedische Fernsehen SVT hat rassistische und islamfeindliche Blauhaken-Accounts untersucht, die von Elon Musk gepusht wurden. Ergebnis: Hinter den Accounts sitzen offenbar Menschen aus der Türkei, die damit Geld verdienen. Hass ist auf Twitter zum Geschäftsmodell geworden.