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Liam O'Mara IV, PhDLiamOMaraIV
2026-01-27

When an officer was wounded by insurgents in , on in 1923 the British sent multiple airstrikes against... civilian villages & cattle. I mean, how dare they defend their homes! Huts & palm were burnt, animals slaughtered, fleeing villagers gunned down.

GrauDeckeKathrinBB
2026-01-27

@robilad.bsky.social
Und: Das gute alte -Plakat kommt zurĂŒck! 😁
WIE VIELE GIBTS fĂŒr gesuchte NEONAZIs??
"... Die Polizei startet eine Fahndungskampagne – auf Plakaten, auf Anzeigetafeln etwa in der Berliner U-Bahn, auf Handzetteln, die Beamte verteilen sollen."morgenpost.de/politik/article4

GrauDeckeKathrinBB
2026-01-27

Das gute alte -Plakat kommt zurĂŒck! 😁
"... Die Polizei startet eine Fahndungskampagne – auf Plakaten, auf Anzeigetafeln etwa in der Berliner U-Bahn, auf Handzetteln, die Beamte verteilen sollen."
morgenpost.de/politik/article4

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2026-01-26

How many runways can you see for Rafaela airport (Argentina) ? : The answer is on bigorre.org/aero/meteo/safr/en vl

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2026-01-24

Latest arms trade news

Latest CAAT newsletter reveals UK role in killing around the world

January 2026

The Winter 2025 edition of the Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) news discusses the many issues to do with the supply of arms by the UK and others internationally. The government frequently claims to employ ‘robust’ measures to control the trade which has much potential to cause misery around the world, but the facts seem to suggest otherwise: CAAT reveals the top two purchasers of weapons are two nations which have abysmal human rights records. In the period 2020 – 2025, the top country for our weapons was Saudi Arabia at £6.4bn and second was Qatar at £4.1bn. Further down the list, is UAE at £825m.

All these countries do not permit opposition to exist, torture is widely practised, human rights lawyers and activists are routinely arrested, and women are not equal citizens. Foreign workers are treated dreadfully and the gleaming towers which feature in their promotional videos involve the deaths of many hundreds of indentured labourers.

Needless to say, Israel features and the UK governments continued support for arms sales despite the genocide taking place there. Interestingly, they report that Spain has ceased all arms sales and Germany likewise. It had been reported that the German Chancellor has reduced sales but CAAT report that no new exports have been approved.

The claim by the UK government that it has ‘robust’ controls is contradicted by the use of the secretive Open General Export Licences (OGEL). Looking at the list of restricted destinations [accessed 23 January] one finds that Israel is not listed. CAAT say that around half our exports to Israel are by this method.

Revolving door

The scandal of the revolving door continues. This concerns senior individuals in government or the forces taking up roles for arms companies following their retirement. There is a set of rules, which are largely sidestepped, to prevent abuse by people using their contacts to further the interests of the arms companies. These are set to be abolished this year and a new system introduced following a long list of scandals. We await to see how effective the new system will be. CAAT reveals the names of two new entrants to this hall of shame: Sir Simon Bollom, Head of the MOD’s Defence Equipment and Support, and Sir Mark Poffley formerly Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff. They will be joining Elbit Systems the Israeli arms firm which has facilities in the UK. They can use their influence to promote the interests of Elbit Systems. CAAT say there is no suggestion of impropriety.

A lengthy Private Eye report on this corruption, lists many names of politicians and others involved.

RAF flights over Gaza

The RAF continues to overfly GAZA and there are reports that the information gathered is being used to assist the Israeli IDF. The Ministry of Defence maintains that these flights were “solely to locate hostages,” yet the scale, timing and persistence of the flights raises questions as to how much they aided Israel’s military operations despite being conducted under the banner of humanitarian intent. It is not clear that any hostages were identified by the RAF.

The CAAT newsletter, together with previous newsletters and reports, paints a picture of the UK government which is more interested in supporting sales of weapons as part of its growth policy, than in the humanitarian effects these weapons have on the millions who suffer from their use. The high use of open licences means few meaningful controls are in place. They also proudly promote and support the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) each year in London with the innocent sounding claim that it ‘promotes the UK’s defence ethos, agenda and leadership while encouraging opportunity and cooperation with our global allies‘. ​(Source, DSEI 2027 Home page).

The sums involved are large and defence firms are a key part in some local economies. Controls based on a sense of moral purpose and a proper exercise of end user certificates would curtail their activities and hence employment. It is a tail wagging a somewhat compliant dog.

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2026-01-23

Londres investit 520 millions d’euros pour Ă©quiper 40 avions Typhoon FGR4 avec le nouveau radar ECRS Mk2

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2026-01-23

[VIDEO] “Is Donald Trump about to lose this military base in Britain?”

feat. Phil Miller & Dania Akkad in Declassified UK on YT

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“With Donald Trump making threats to seize Greenland and attack a Nato ally, the status of American military bases in Britain is being questioned like never before”

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2026-01-22
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2026-01-22

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2026-01-21
2026-01-21
Side view of a twin propellor-engined, World War 2-era bomber aircraft taxiing along a runway from left to right. The plane is covered in an olive-green and grey camouflage scheme, with thick black and white bands around the lower rear fuselage. There are very pale letters "HT-E" either side of a blue, white, and red roundel outlined in yellow. There is a blue, white, and red fin flash on the lower part of the tail, above the black serial "RR299" on the upper rear fuselage. Lush green grass fills the foreground, with more grass leading up to a house and a fire truck in the distance, with trees beyond, under hazy grey skies.
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDLiamOMaraIV
2026-01-21

Successful organizing cannot be tolerated by liberal empires. On in 1920, biplanes strafed two encampments of the movement (), which was resisting colonialism in , genocidally targeting the sheep & camels.

Tod dem Faschismuseibart@zirk.us
2026-01-21
2026-01-19

Diffamierung statt AufklÀrung?

Seit einigen Monaten fĂŒhren in NRW vor allem die 3%-Partei FDP, aber auch die in ihrem einstigen Kernland auf unter 20% gefallene SPD einen Kleinkrieg gegen die Integrationsministerin Josefine Paul (GrĂŒne). Kern ihrer Arbeit ist bei beiden Parteien, die sonst politisch nahezu keine Themen zu haben scheinen, der Ministerin angebliche “Verantwortungslosigkeit” wĂ€hrend und vor allem nach dem Solinger Mordanschlag eines Islamisten anzuhĂ€ngen. Im politischen Ping-Pong mit zwei Redakteuren des “Kölner Stadtanzeiger” wird Josefine Paul mindestens einmal wöchentlich mit neuen “Zweifeln an ihrer GlaubwĂŒrdigkeit” konfrontiert, jĂŒngst beweist eine “Geheim-SMS” angeblich “krasses Fehlverhalten” und “grobe Verantwortungslosigkeit”.

Der Anschlag als Anlass

Schlimmes getan hat zunĂ€chst jemand anderer. Am Freitag, den 23.August 2024 gegen 21:37 sticht ein  Terrorist auf dem Stadtfest in Solingen wĂ€hrend des Auftritts der Band “Susan Köchers Suprafon” auf mindestens fĂŒnf Personen mit einem Messer ein. Drei davon sterben, der TĂ€ter kann zunĂ€chst unerkannt flĂŒchten. Tags darauf geben Staatsanwaltschaft und Polizei auf einer Pressekonferenz bekannt, man ermittle gegen unbekannt, nachdem zunĂ€chst ein 15-jĂ€hriger festgenommen wird, der sich aber spĂ€ter nicht als TĂ€ter verifizieren lĂ€sst.  MinisterprĂ€sident WĂŒst, Bundesinnenministerin Nancy Faeser, die stv. MinisterprĂ€sidentin Mona Neubaur von den GrĂŒnen, Innenminister Herbert Reul  und andere Regierungsmitglieder eilen nach Solingen. MP WĂŒst sagt wörtlich: “Wir werden uns nicht erschĂŒttern lassen von Terror und Hass.”

Die Landesregierung handelt – jede:r an seinem Platz

Am Samstagabend durchsucht die Polizei eine FlĂŒchtlingsunterkunft und etwa 24 Stunden nach der Tat bestĂ€tigt Innenminister Reul, dass eine “höchst verdĂ€chtige Person” festgenommen worden sei. Es handelte sich, wie sich im Laufe des Sonntag herausstellt, um den Syrer Issa al H. Am Morgen des Sonntags, 25.8. ĂŒbernimmt die Generalbundesanwaltschaft die Ermittlungen nach § 129a StGB. WĂ€hrenddessen schlĂ€ft auch das Ministerium nicht, das auf Bitten der Ministerin intern die ZusammenhĂ€nge und HintergrĂŒnde aufklĂ€rt, sobald der mutmaßliche TĂ€ter identifizierbar wird. Dessen IdentitĂ€t wird erst im Laufe des Sonntags verlĂ€sslich bestĂ€tigt. Dass Terroristen uns nicht daran hindern dĂŒrfen, die Demokratie im Alltag unbeirrt weiterzufĂŒhren, war und ist Konsens der demokratischen Parteien seit den AnschlĂ€gen der RAF in den 70er Jahren bis heute. Das gilt auch fĂŒr eine Ministerin Paul und ihre Termine.

Ministerien arbeiten auch sonntags. Die Ministerin auch

WĂ€hrend dieses Samstags befindet sich die Ministerin Josefine Paul auf dem Weg zu einer lange zugesagten Rede in Frankreich aus Anlass einer Gedenkstunde fĂŒr die Verbrechen, die die SS wĂ€hrend der deutschen Besatzung in Frankreich begangen hat. Was ist daran falsch? Sie hat absolut richtig gehandelt, denn  eine Absage hĂ€tte auch als eine Mißachtung der Gedenkfeier und ein Affront gegen die deutsch-französische Aussöhnung aufgefasst werden können. Sie spricht wie verabredet am  Sonntagvormittag. Noch am Samstagabend erkundigt sie sich bei ihrer Abteilungsleiterin per SMS, und ihr Haus klĂ€rt intern die von ihr erfragten Sachverhalte, die der Gruppenleiter der Ministerin und dem StaatssekretĂ€r umgehend  um 21.21 Uhr weiterleitet. Die aus dieser Tatsache abgeleiteten VorwĂŒrfe sind bei nĂ€herem Hinsehen nichts als Unterstellungen.

Unterstellungen mangels Sachkenntnis

SPD-Fraktions-Vizevorsitzende Lisa Kapteinat spricht nun von einer “Geheim-SMS” und gar von einem “politischen Skandal” einer “bewußten TĂ€uschung  des Parlaments und der Öffentlichkeit” – und dichtet gleich ihre eigene Meinung hinzu “ die Ministerin war frĂŒhzeitig informiert und blieb anschließend untĂ€tig und nicht erreichbar.” Woher Frau Kapteinat ihre Weisheit hat, bleibt im dunkeln, denn sie war zwar nicht dabei, als Frau Ministerin Paul die Antwort gelesen hat, was sie aber nicht davon abhĂ€lt, mit Wertungen und Unterstellungen um sich zu schlagen. Vielleicht hat ja Paul nicht mehr reagiert, weil sie wegen des bevorstehenden Termins noch an ihrer Rede gearbeitet hat?  Oder – wie verwerflich – einfach frĂŒh schlafen gegangen ist, weil ein anstrengender Tag und eine absehbar anstrengende Woche vor ihr lagen?

Vermutungen mangels Fakten, populistischer Symbolismus

Wer weiss, wie ein Ministerium funktioniert, und auch einer SPD-Abgeordneten, zudem im Fraktionsvorstand, sollte das zuzutrauen sein, weiss auch, dass weder hektische Telefonate noch Aktionismus, noch ein Abbruch der (vielleicht nicht der FDP) politisch wichtigen Reise in der Sache irgend etwas geĂ€ndert, sondern Schaden angerichtet hĂ€tten. Aber um die Sache geht es offensichtlich auch nicht. Es geht vielmehr um die populistische Befriedigung der Erwartung von Öffentlichkeit und Medien, wer die beste symbolische Politik macht. Daraus folgt, dass das rechtzeitige  Zurschaustellen von Betroffenheit – mit oder ohne Gummistiefel – oder die Anwesenheit am Tatort inzwischen  höher bewertet wird, als das sachliche Handeln. Und fĂŒhren – in diesem Fall besonders deutlich – im  Vertrauen auf zuverlĂ€ssige Arbeiten der Mitarbeiter:innen des Ministeriums. Und dabei wird die PrivatsphĂ€re, auf die auch Regierungsmitglieder ein Recht haben, durch die RundumĂŒberwachung von SMS, elektronischer Kommunikation und persönlichen Daten natĂŒrlich ebenso zunehmend an Bedeutung.  Fehlt nur, dass demnĂ€chst U-AusschĂŒsse fordern, die Fitnesstracker oder Herzschrittmacher von Politiker:innen auszulesen.

Falsche Fakten â€œĂŒber Bande” gepielt

Der Ministerin daraus einen Vorwurf zu konstruieren, dass sie Sonntagvormittag diese Rede gehalten hat und erst erst am Nachmittag wieder Kontakt mit ihrem Ministerium hatte – der verantwortliche Redakteur des KStA, Axel Spilker, macht daraus:  Paul sei “52 Stunden nach dem Anschlag fĂŒr MinisterprĂ€sident WĂŒst, Mona Neubaur und Innenmininster Reul nicht zu sprechen gewesen.” Der Redakteur des eigentlich seriösen “Kölner Stadtanzeiger” beteiligte sich offensichtlich aktiv daran, derart ein Schein-SkandĂ€lchen aufzubauschen, denn es waren in Wirklichkeit wohl etwa 12-14 Stunden davon 8 Stunden Nachtruhe, in denen die Ministerin nicht mit ihrem Haus und ihren Kolleg:innen in der Landesregierung Kontakt gehalten hat. Fairer, faktenbesierter Journaismus liest sich anders.

Politiker:innen-Bashing im Stil der (a)sozialen Netzwerke

Ein Schelm, der dabei denkt, es könne sich um eine besonders perfide Form des GrĂŒnen-Bashing oder gar den Versuch der Diffamierung einer offen lesbisch lebenden Ministerin handeln. Nein, was hinter diesem asozialen Schaukampf mit unfairen Mittel steht, ist in Wirklichkeit beispielhaft. Ein populistisch geschĂŒrtes und von den Medien skandalisierend aufgebauschtes Politiker:innen-Bashing, das die RealitĂ€t eines Regierungsamts völlig ausblendet. Es ist ĂŒblich geworden, nicht nach dem realen Beitrag oder der realen Verantwortung von Politiker:innen zu fragen, sondern nur, ob sie  schnell reagiert, auch gerne ohne Sachkenntnisse in die Medien gepupst oder – wie beim  inzwischen berĂŒhmten Gummistiefel-Einsatz Gerhard Schröders in der Oderflut 2002 – vor Ort Betroffenheit gezeigt oder auch nur geheuchelt wurde.

Ein Hetzblatt macht’s vor: “DAS war Kai Wegners grĂ¶ĂŸter Fehler – BILD.de”

Die Kritik an Kai Wegners Tennismatch fĂ€llt in die gleiche Kategorie des primitiven Populismus. So wurde ein Regierender BĂŒrgermeister durch die Medien gezogen, dem jeder vernĂŒftig denkende Mensch sehr wohl  eine oder zwei Stunden Sport am Samstagnachmittag zubilligen wird, solange er seine AmtsgeschĂ€fte ordentlich fĂŒhrt. Im Gegenteil: Vielleicht ist ihm sogar dabei eine gute politische Idee gekommen, die irgendwann fĂŒr unsere Demokratie oder nur fĂŒr Berlin viel mehr bewirkt, als gezielter Medienzirkus und populistisches Politiker-Bashing.  Glaubt irgend jemand ernsthaft, dass es in der Sache irgendetwas geĂ€ndert hĂ€tte, wenn Kai Wegner seinen Sport abgesagt und stattdessen sich wie seine Stellvertreterin Giffey neben einen Bagger gestellt und unbestĂ€tigte Habwahrheiten ĂŒber die angeblich linksterroristischen TĂ€ter in die Öffentlichkeit geplĂ€stert hĂ€tte? FĂŒr die Strafverfolgung der TĂ€ter hat er schließlich eine Innensenatorin und fĂŒr die ElektrizitĂ€tsinfrastruktur die zustĂ€ndige Wirtschaftssenatorin Giffey.

Giffey hat erfolgreich Bilder produziert und abgelenkt

Die hat die Medien scheinbar geschickt genutzt, um HandlungsfĂ€higkeit zu demonstrieren. Auf einer Pressekonferenz ohne Bagger hĂ€tte vielleicht der eine oder die andere Journalistin die Gelegenheit genutzt, um die kritische Frage zu stellen, wie es zu diesem riesigen Ausmaß des Stromausfalls ĂŒberhaupt kommen konnte. Was sie als verantwortliche Energie-BĂŒrgermeisterin und vorher als “Regierende” in den vergangenen Jahren  versĂ€umt hat, um die Berliner Energieinfrastruktur resilient gegen das Gelingen von AnschlĂ€gen und StromausfĂ€llen diesen Ausmasses hĂ€tte machen mĂŒssen – nicht zuletzt aufgrund der Sicherheitslage seit Beginn des Ukrainekrieges. Danach hat “am Bagger” aber keine Medienvertreter:in gefragt.

Trumps Theater und Demokratie-Bashing ist real bei uns angekommen

Wir sind vom oberflĂ€chlich inszenierten Polit-Theater eines Donald Trump, das weder nach HintergrĂŒnden fragt, noch investigativ nach Fakten sucht,  nicht mehr weit entfernt.  Die FĂ€higkeit, mediale Inszenierungen oder Ablenkungsmanöver zu durchschauen, werden fĂŒr Journalist:innen immer komplexer zu durchschauen und fĂŒr die Öffentlichkeit immer unĂŒbersichtlicher. DarĂŒber hinaus wirkt sich negativ aus, dass die Presse aufgrund des Abwanderns von Werbeetats von der demokratischen Presse zu personalisierter Werbung der (a)sozialen Netzwerke der US-Oligarchen um Milliarden geschwĂ€cht wurde und weiter werden wird. Deshalb wird es nur weiter investigativen, guten Journalismus in Europa geben, wenn die (a)sozialen Netzwerke und ihre personalisierten Werbestreategien, die auf der illegalen AusspĂ€hungen der Nutzer:innen beruht, durch eine konsequente Regulierung eingedĂ€mmt, nicht durch die von EU und Deutschland geplante Aufweichung des Datenschutzes noch begĂŒnstigt werden.

2026-01-18

Starmer’s over 60s in the Army plan has a big problem | UK | News

The headlines almost write themselves. Yesterday, the Ministry of Defence announced that the upper age limit for recalling former

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The World at Wartheworldatwar
2026-01-18

A British RAF Avro Lancaster B Mk I gets ready to set off on a mission over Berlin - England 1942. CREDIT : ron_eisele

Underground Former RAF Member Calls for Solidarity with Daniela Klette

At the 31st International Rosa Luxemburg Conference on January 11, excerpts from a greeting by Burkhard Garweg, a former RAF militant living underground, were read aloud:

Dear comrades,

I send you warm greetings from underground.

We, who are persecuted as militants of the past, as well as the wanted antifascist comrades, are forced to live underground today by the repression of an increasingly authoritarian state. In Germany today, living underground is a necessary defensive position.

For 30 years, despite many adversities, we lived a life characterized by solidarity – beyond the isolation and exploitation inherent in capitalism. Now, this is held against us.

Nevertheless, we could imagine something other than battling our way through the sometimes thorny thicket of illegality and, inevitably, prison. That’s how it was, and that’s how it is.

It was and is the apparatus of repression that forces us into illegality and bears sole responsibility for it. Or should we surrender ourselves to a state whose police and prosecutors openly threaten us with execution by special forces upon arrest? A state whose police and prosecutors lie through their teeth so that even the last person believes the state’s version of our brutality. The aim is to denounce the history of resistance. They are trying to divide us from the rest of the world, they are striving to cement us in their prisons forever. All I can say is: Don’t believe a word they say. Given the reality of repression and state terrorism, we naturally have a right to live illegally.

For three decades, we have responsibly managed the necessity of organizing our lives and our survival. This is also proven by the results, which expose the police and prosecutorial narrative of our dangerousness for what it is: a fabricated lie. One wouldn’t have to take it seriously if they weren’t using it to threaten our imprisoned comrade Daniela Klette with a long prison sentence. The talk about our dangerousness as a fabrication in the upcoming two legal trials against Daniela is nothing but denunciation.

We, who are persecuted and harassed as “terrorists” both in prison and while living illegally, have nothing to do with terror or terrorism. It is not we who, through the means of the police, the judiciary, the military, intelligence services, and politics, are willing to enforce a system that, in the current erosion of capitalism, will only produce more misery and violence. It is grotesque to call ourselves “terrorists.” The real terror lies in the normality of the capitalist system. And terrorists, therefore, would surely be those who bring this terror to its culmination.

This is the era of the replacement of the “welfare state” system of a bygone epoch, in which the pacification of the metropolises at the expense of the colonized and exploited of the world enabled Western dominance. In its place, we are witnessing the establishment of the militarized, war-oriented, repressive, and authoritarian state of order and control of our time. It is the return of the proletariat as cannon fodder for the power of billionaires and shareholders, of intensified exploitation in the relations of production, of the decline of the welfare state, of the exacerbation of patriarchal power structures, and of state and societal racism that oppresses and threatens large segments of the population.

A comrade in hiding aptly wrote for a rally from the perspective of antifascist resistance: “As the situation escalates, fascism is once again becoming a viable option for domination. Antifascist practice means not only taking militant action against the Nazis, but doing so in close cooperation with revolutionary grassroots work in order to offer an alternative.” We must understand that a good life for all will never be found in capitalist sham democracy


The alternative is our global task, and it is a socialism that could be rich in historical experience and also in overcoming the major and minor mistakes of history—the large and small attempts at revolution, the urban guerrillas, the anarchists, the communists, the social revolutionaries, and the anti-patriarchal and anti-colonial struggles and movements. Achieving this will ultimately determine whether life on this planet will continue to be possible and under what conditions. We are at a critical juncture globally. The question for all of us worldwide about the alternative to capitalism and the systemic processes leading to it, as well as our own, is existential and cannot be postponed.

The system of repression will foreseeably intensify further in the wake of the crisis of capitalism. We see this in the repression against our friend and comrade Daniela Klette. A fabricated and false accusation of intent to kill, invented by the police and public prosecutor’s office, and an absurd portrayal of our dangerousness are intended to justify a long imprisonment and a corresponding sentence against Daniela.

Despite protestations to the contrary by the judicial authorities, this state will stems from the fact that, for this state and its executive branch, the enemy is fundamentally wherever capitalism and the state’s monopoly on the use of force are challenged. It is this same judiciary, led by the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, that will open another trial against Daniela in a few months, threatening her once again with life imprisonment for militant actions that took place more than 30 years ago.

It is a true mockery that the Federal Prosecutor’s Office is seeking to secure a long prison sentence for Daniela for actions she is accused of decades ago. No one was harmed during the resistance actions against war, prisons, and capitalism. The injustices against which these actions were directed, however, killed millions through war, brought hunger to millions, or created yet another monstrous prison system.

The state is determined to prosecute resistance even decades later. This leads it into an aggressive and repressive pattern of police and judicial behavior, whose primary target today is Daniela. The state’s attempt to imprison Daniela for many years affects us all as leftists from various movements. Her imprisonment and the threatened verdicts are unjust. The first trial is nearing its end: Support Daniela! Scrutinize the justice system, monitor the trials in whatever way you can. Show solidarity. Create visible public awareness. Stand up to this collectively and find forms of resistance. The apparent intention to condemn resistance history in the trials against Daniela, and the attempt to use repression as a deterrent in times of crisis, in light of escalating violence, demand solidarity and the protection that can only be achieved through attention and public awareness. Nothing less than freedom for Daniela Klette is justified. All imprisoned comrades, wherever they may be in the world, deserve nothing less than freedom, while the entire prison system deserves to go to hell.

A moment of great sorrow for the revolutionary movements is the death of Rolf Becker, whose profound and deep solidarity we recognized and valued even in the underground. He will be missed by this left, by us. I am also thinking of Devran, Brigitte Asdonk, and Assata Shakur, who recently passed away. They, too, will be missed. All of you who have died as part of our long, worldwide history of resistance remain immortal in the liberation struggles of the present and the future.

Resistance against genocide, apartheid, Germany’s complicity, against the “war-readiness” of the ruling class, against exploitation, social cutbacks, and against patriarchal structures of violence is necessary and justified! Together for a world without capitalism, war, and patriarchy!

Fuck off, German raison d’état and every kind of fatherland! Freedom for all our imprisoned comrades worldwide, and the end of the entire prison system for all! Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal! Freedom for Daniela Klette!

Source: https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/515408.gru%C3%9Fwort-von-burkhard-garweg-zur-rosa-luxemburg-konferenz.html

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2026-01-16

Sasha Nash a été nommée au commandement des Red Arrows, un rÎle différent de celui du Leader, et une fonction forcément trÚs politique. #RedArrows #RAF #AvGeek

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Former Red Arrows chief engineer from Tregroes picked as Government Aviation Ambassador

Ross Priday, who grew up in Tregroes near Llandysul, has been named one of the Government’s new Aviation Ambassadors — a group of industry professionals tasked with getting young people excited about careers in engineering, flying and the wider aviation sector.

Priday, who once oversaw engineering for the world‑famous RAF aerobatic team, will now spend the next year visiting schools, colleges and events to promote the huge range of jobs available in aviation.

From Tregroes to the Red Arrows

Priday previously served as Chief Engineer for the Red Arrows, travelling the world with the team and managing the complex engineering that keeps the jets in the air.

He has since gone on to run his own aviation safety consultancy and has spoken internationally — including at the African Aviation Summit in Rwanda — about opening up the industry to under‑represented groups.

Speaking about his new ambassador role, he said he wanted young people to see aviation as a sector “full of opportunity”.

“Aviation gave me a career I could never have imagined, and I want others to see the incredible opportunities this industry offers,” he said. “Whether someone is fascinated by engineering, drawn to the skies as a pilot, or interested in roles like air traffic control, ground operations or aviation law, there truly is something for everyone.”

Government wants more young people in aviation

The Department for Transport says the ambassador programme is designed to boost skills, widen access and help build a future workforce for an industry facing major recruitment challenges.

Aviation Minister Keir Mather said the ambassadors would help “break down barriers” and show young people that “the sky really is the limit”.

The volunteers will give talks, run workshops and use social media to reach students, with a particular focus on areas where aviation careers are less visible.

Who else made the ambassador list?

The new cohort includes airport firefighters, airline operations bosses, outreach specialists and social‑media aviation influencers — including:

  • Lauren Turner, who rose from airport security officer to Operations Director at East Midlands Airport
  • Miguel Cabrera Vivas, known online as The Aviation Mentor
  • David Gardner, a senior firefighter and medical lead at Luton Airport
  • Sigourney Ansah, a future easyJet cadet pilot

They officially begin their roles on 28 January.

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