As I see it, this column is about the similarities and differences of crisses in the past and now. By highlighting what went wrong and what went right, we should be able to have a better focus on how to deal (or how not to deal) with current crises. In the past, inequality, famine economic exploitation, social malaise, crop failures, were a contributing factor. So though 2024 and 1848 are not the same; our current crisis shares similar trends: inequality, dwindling resources, climate change, resurgence of nationalism and war.

The elite in the past and some of them now, want to maintain their control and the status quo, by providing a ( false) narrative, whilst distracting us from finding a solution. An easy fix to war migration & climate problem doesn’t exist, but we could start addressing those issues that could be tackled, like the growing inequality.

This column carries also a warning. If we let our selves get distracted, the elite will simply create a “new horizon”, a false promise, albeit globalisation or a new economic deal, etc But their tomorrow would be one without tackling and changing what needed to be tackled yesterday.

Added: maybe it’s important to highlight another similarity, “misinformation”. Those narratives in the past which distracted us, are also distracting us now via the mis- and disinformation campaigns on social media, and by many Political actors and autocrats.

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Both indoor and outdoor air pollution with a PM above 10 micro meter, causes the early death of 7 M worldwide on a yearly basis. Plus there is severe illness to millions more according to worlddata.

refinery parts

And adding to your argument; I believe most refinaries were maintened by Western expertise and replacements were supplied by Western firms, but both aren’t happening anymore (like with the airplanes)

So yeah, I agree, these drones are doing damage for sure.

Tnx, via mozilla no problem though. But here alt link

Good news for European Spacecowboys.

TLDR; surprise surprise, analysts predict that Orban wants something out of it.

Funny maps

La folie, c’est drole

I’m going to create it anyway,

Allright, didn’t catch that bit. So then no need for a poll like you said. I thought you were discussing this option. So keep us posted indeed.

Seems @Alberto180 doesn’t mind to have lighter content posting here. I think that the question is whether people would like it to be intertwined, or keep like a focus for political discussion here… Also don’t know how that works a critical minimum of users for a Cty to take off, but maybe you can have them as part of the" same whole" too;like part of Europe.de and viceversa…

@Blaze I think a separate one called Yurup for memes/ Yt and occasional bla bla, would be nice.

ADD: we could have a a poll? proposal:

1. keep it here
2. separate
3. if separate (but maybe together) is an option what name?

It never occured to me that in modern day Europe, open cultural exchange can’t be taken for granted. And that apperantly, certain actors/ political parties ( Vox),are (trying to) censor art. These are strange times.

The AfD has been taken over by literal Neo-Nazis that see themselves in the tradition of the NSDAP though, calling them that is correct.

For sure, they have been taken over by Neo Nazis.

But they aren’t the only ones being called Nazis nowadays. For example, the other day someone called Nentanyahu ( Israel) a “Nazi” .

That’s just confusing, considering what happened in WW2. If they’d brand him Fascist, it would be more correct .

It’s almost literally a reenactment by the AFD of what happened around the 1930s. It’s so fucked up.

But this is 2024 , so people should be more aware, and are protesting massively. Unfortunately, the resurgence of (forms of) fascism is a worldwide trend, and not an isolated phenomena.

Add: many people seem to be calling Fascistist “Nazis” nowadays. That’s so confusing to me, as if they don’t know that Nazism is a particular form of Fascism. While Fascism in all its varieties and guises should be the true denominator for trouble, and is the enemy of democracy.

"He believes that societies are degraded by too much cultural mixing, and that unchecked multiculturalism is behind many of modern Europe’s problems. Sellner’s signature proposal is “remigration”, which he says stands for forcibly removing immigrants who break the law or “refuse to integrate”, regardless of their citizenship status. Critics say it amounts to ethnic cleansing.

And despite condemnation in the media, court-cases and government bans — he was barred from the UK in 2018 and the US in 2019 — his reach has only seemed to grow."

Imo, it’s democracy that allows people like him to have a voice, but it’s the same democracy they wish to destroy.

Some fearfull uncritical citizens believe,simply, that 100 to 200 year-old ideas and philosophies will bring them back their lost & spent youth.

Demagogues just swing their fake magic BS wand, and their target group is enthralled by it. Citizens which support them, are no real Citizens in the sense of the word; they are uncritical and prefer to believe a “Mighty All Father” figure will supply them with easy consumable answers, so they can carry on believing in their own delusional archaic fantasies. But they are "false prophets ", as history has proven over and over again.

These are undemocratic ideals, to circumvent your own adult repsoniblilties as a member of any society.

This is very good info, most US /EU comparison studies are US centric. And any comparison between these two, although interesting, is too different. This article compensates the difference by using Purchasing Power, finally.

But in this article, and this still bites me a bit, they are still comparing the US universities according to the US ranking and the Times ranking, in which they score lower. Other articles comparing education, state clearly that the standards for US/ EU education quality are different.

Also flinging in China’s economy as a third party for comparison, won’t help us much. The WTO ( iirc) just accepts any output figure Beijing gives them, but there is no accounting for it.

So let’s keep this quality studies and info rolling, and see how it can enlighten us.

Added:

● par 2:" Frustrated with current university rankings – mostly commercial ventures that give greatest importance to research – the European Union is backing a new form of listing." link euroactiv 2013

● par 3:" How to measure China’s true economic growth? Mr Li confessed that the province’s gdp figures were “unreliable”. link economist 2023

Or how is this working?

This is what I found:

Situation in Hungary and EU frozen funds:

Plenary will wrap up the discussion held on Wednesday with Belgian Foreign Affairs Minister Lahbib and Commission President von der Leyen on the rule of law situation in Hungary and the EU frozen funds with the adoption of a resolution at noon. MEPs are expected to support challenging the Commission’s decision to unfreeze funds for Hungary before the European Court of Justice.

Up to the European Court of Justice if the EP makes this a resolution. We’ll hear more info the coming days , I hope. EP has been working this angle for some while now. ( source EU- EP, plenary session 18 jan)

Yeah the question is whether being " politically blackmailed " by Hungary’s veto powerabuse on a regular basis, and EU giving in (partly) to their demands, is the correct course of action. It doesn’t sit right by me at all.

The support for invoking article 7 procedure is growing.

I am. Didn’t realize Lemmy.world was still at 18.5. tnx

Don’t know what’s going on, we are now at approximately 400. Something might be off.