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  • The good newsis that you can clean water of PFAS either at the water plant, or in a restauration project by pumping up the groundwater, filtering it and letting it re infiltrate.

    The bad news is that it is very expensive, especially when treating an aquifer. However the sooner whatever is already in the ground and water is contained, the more damage can be prevented down the line.

    Local authorities estimate nearly 3,000 people in the Haut-Rhin region fall into “vulnerable” categories. Each will receive a single €80 payment to help cover the cost of bottled water. But for people such as Wiedemann, the threat goes far beyond compensation.

    What the fuck France? 80€ for having to rely on bottled water for the foreseeable future is a complete joke of a compensation, especially only going to vulnerable households.


  • Unlike the comment i replied to, i do distinguish between the people who are aggressive about their anti-theism and atheists/anti-theists in general.

    Blaming the violence that resulted from centuries of colonial oppression and the resistance against it on religion is a pretty tired trope that is intellectually lazy and deeply ingrained in overt and subtle beliefs of Supremacism in “Liberal” countries.

    There is no doubt that the majority of Jews, Christians, Muslims and people of other faiths are just normal people, not holding more hate and not being more prone to violence than other communities. Calling them all " do support extremist hate religions" or referring to scriptures as “holy hate book” is lacking any differentiation.


  • What a load of bigoted bullshit.

    There is about 2 billion Christians in the world and 1.8 billion Muslims. If they were to “support extremist hate” like you describe it, we would be at a global war that would dwarf any war before it.

    Meanwhile people who are outspoken Anti-theists, often support the most vile supremacism, combining their belief of intellectual supremacism with beliefs of racial, cultural, ableist or other ideas of supremacism and subsequently justify bigoted violence including genocide. This also holds true for Zionism that for its longest time was a secular movement that faced heavy criticism by religious Jews and took a long time to create its warped understanding of Judaism in service of its imperialist ideology.

    Of course it is convenient to blame imperialist violence on religion so as to distract from the imperialist and racist violence in your own ideology. This is also why some of the staunchest anti-theists are big supporters of US Fascism under Trump, willing to work together with the Evangelicals as the main goal is Fascism.











  • DW is run by the federal government to further the image of Germany abroad. It is the equivalent in organization to Russia Today, Radio Free Europe and other government run foreign media outlets.

    DW wants to promote an image of an open and discussive Germany, so they pick up on some issues as a reaction to the German issues already having become known, but they will not be proactive about it, e.g. run investigative Journalism.

    Especially in regards to Palestine there have been huge turmoil as the DW arabic staff got very upset with the narratives they were told to push and now DW is backtracking a bit to not loose too much face with arabic speakers.


  • The left party has had a consistent affordable living and long term inhrastructure investment program.

    But they are successfully attacked by the alliance from far right to supposed “liberal” press and politicians on a basis of “stealing peoples income”, “doesnt work in practice”, “evil communists”, “Putin friends”, “lgbt lifestyle party” and other attacks.

    Meanwhile parties like the social democrats or greens have moved significantpy to the right, embracing neolibetalism and since a few years open Racism and unconstitutional authoritarianism.

    Like in the US on the federal level these “progressive liberals” would rather bring the fascists to power than embrace “left” policies. Note that a lot of whatbis now attacked as “left” used to be standard among conservatives in the 50s-70s when it comes to taxation and public investment.


  • People have been protesting Elbit systems since many years and increasingly moved to direct action as the governments deliberately stayed deaf to the calls to stop cobtracts with and the operation of this company which isn’t knees deep, but deep diving into Israeli war crimes, crimes agains humanity, wars of aggression and illegal occupation.

    It was and is madness to give such a company leverage by buying their products and obviously Elbit is deeply integrated into the Israelo state and intelligence apparatus. Makes you wonder how reliable the products are, if the Israeli government needs something to blackmail you with.

    So i don’t think Iran has anything to do with it. We just see an escalation of people being fed up with the complicity in Israeli crimes.



  • It was never about that. Germany loves being on the wrong side of history. Now they have an excuse.

    Also fun fact. Remember Saddam Hussein? The former dictator of Iraq who massacred thousands of people with chemical weapons? His chemical weapons program was mostly built by German companies.

    Then Saddam threatened Israel with those, so to make up with Israel, Germany gifted submarines running on hydrogen and likely being able to launch nuclear missiles. With the hydrogen drive they are practically undetectable so Israel could nuke a country and claim having nothing to do with it.

    If it involves being bringing death and destruction to people considered inferior, there is a good chance Germany is on board with it.