Is Zapatero’s ‘jewel case’ included in the 143 socialist corruption cases? If so, it should be deleted, becasue the former socialist PM said that the jewels worth 1.3 million euros that were found in his safe as part of an investigation are only a ‘gift’ from a foreign country, and never intended to mean financial gain.

The Spanish socialists came to power on the promise of clean politics that works for the people.

In June 2026, Spain’s supreme court jailed Sanchez ally and former transport minister José Luis Ábalos to 24 in prison for taking bribes on public contracts.

A few weeks later, the Spanish prime minister’s brother David Sanchez was convicted of nepotism and banned from holding public office for 9 years.

An investigation in June led to a 12-hour police raid on Socialist Party HQ in Madrid. The allegation is that the party paid member Leire Díez to carry out a campaign to discredit police, judges and prosecutors who were investigating existing cases, such as that affecting Cerdán, who has been named as a suspect in this probe.

And this is, as the data in you link suggests, not everything.

The socialists are the same as the conservatives, the difference is just rhetoric. All these politicians don’t care for the people but rather work for themselves.

That’s a different topic. It has nothing to do with fast fasion’s impact and the environmental and social harm it entails.

There is ample evidence for the devastating effects of ultra-fast fashion.

Here are just two brief summaries, but you’ll easily find more:

The environmental costs of fast fashion

Toxic threads? The hidden dangers of ultra-fast fashion

France made a good first step. Let’s hope that others will follow soon.

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a healthy chunk of that is just us selling their refined oil back to them.

According to Comtrade, Angola’s imports from the U.S. is mainly machinery, electric equipment, articles of iron and steel, and other products. Oil imports from the U.S. account for 0.3%.

And Bilateral Angola-China trade in 2024 was USD 18.5 billion, with USD 16.24 billion are crude oil exports from Angola to China. This means that 99.9% of Angola’s entire exports to China is oil. That’s more than a ‘healthy chunk’ I would say.

Would it be a good idea to require an article to contain at least 1 sentence for being posted?

This ‘news’ is a month old, in the meantime Burnham is PM.

Both.

That’s the result at least in part of ongoing Russian propaganda to sow division.

Each of these incidents is a disaster for the affected individuals, but the number of hate crimes rose from 140 to 180. Using percentage (+30%) for such rare events is disingenuous.

Yeah, like the China-Russia friendship, right?

You are repeating the same propaganda narratives over and again. Such a conversation is waste of time very much as with a Chinese LLM.

It doesn’t make your arguments better (nor true) of you constantly repeat them.

You are flooded with Chinese government propaganda. There is ample evidence that Chinese LLMs serve the CCP and only the CCP.

One recent investigation says,

[Chinese] chatbots repeated the Communist Party’s rhetoric describing China as a “whole‑process people’s democracy.” Each praised this model as superior to Western democracies, arguing the Party enables “the entire people to participate in the country’s governance,” whereas multiparty regimes are “manipulated by money and interest groups,” fostering divisions in society.

[It’s almost hilarious to speak of ‘democracy’ in a single-party system like China’s, while multi-party systems where people have a choice and can vote another government are portrayed as divisive.]

The investigation also says,

When asked twice why Zhang Zhan — a Chinese journalist repeatedly sentenced to prison for documenting the COVID‑19 outbreak in Wuhan and reporting on human rights violations — was imprisoned, DeepSeek delivered two near‑carbon‑copy responses without naming her once, instead highlighting China’s “independent judiciary,” the need to “respect the law” and the dangers of “disinformation.”

Some prompts triggered even more flagrantly censored answers — sometimes to the point of absurdity, such as live self‑erasure.

When we asked DeepSeek to list Chinese Nobel laureates, several scientists’ names appeared, but as soon as the letters “Liu…” — for Liu Xiaobo — started to appear in the bot’s real-time response, the entire text vanished. The same phenomenon appeared when the bot was asked to compare the leadership styles of Xi Jinping, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: a pre‑written answer appeared and then disappeared entirely, clearly blocked by the mention of China’s president.

This is not a serious LLM. It is dictatorial propaganda and, therefore, unusable.

The only reasons why the dictator touts 'Open Source" is that China is still behind in the field of AI. And while Europe and others will have the opportunity to create own homegrown projects through collaborations, China hasn’t such opportunity - simply because it isn’t reliable partner.

I would rather say the U.S. are seen less favorably as it has gotten worse, but China isn’t a better option. The study says that, so the headline is a bit misleading I would say.

The Chinese AI are open weights at best, the aren’t open models as they don’t release training data nor any information about how they work.

@[email protected]

How does sabotage of a railway station or the electricity grid that leaves 100,000 citizens without power help?

They are the same because the only thing they are interested in is violence. The only thing they cause is harm for other, innocent people.

And?

How does attacking a railway or an electricity substation that leaves some 100,000 residents without power help to achieve what @[email protected] claimed?

These leftwing extremists are the same mentally deranged ‘cunts’ as the rightwingers, it’s just that they fabricate different fantasies to justify violence. But it’s the same mindset, equally disconnected from reality.

The left in Germany probably understands what will happen to them if cunts like the conservatives and AfD get more power.

And how does attacking a railway or an electricity substation that leaves some 100,000 residents without power help?

These leftwing extremists are basically the same mentally deranged ‘cunts’ as the rightwingers, it’s just that they fabricate different fantasies to justify violence. But it’s the same mindset, equally disconnected from reality.

And honestly how much damage could this actually do other than break peoples balcony solar panels?

Is this satirical?

Here is the article by CCC (in German)

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China Holds a Kill Switch to European Power Grids (May 2025)

Despite years of debate about supply chain resilience, more than 70 percent of world’s solar inverters come from Chinese manufacturers. The three biggest players – Huawei, Sungrow, and Ginlong Solis – are all Chinese. Here lies the first paradox: Huawei has been banned from a large portion of Europe’s 5G networks due to national security concerns, yet its technology is welcomed into the power grid.

Instead of 2045, Germany should adopt the European target year of 2050 … Germany’s current special path of aiming to become climate-neutral five years earlier than the European Union makes the country more expensive as a business location without achieving any additional climate impact.

It would be better if the world would move toward the German goal rather than the other way around.

But the world doesn’t seem to want that, particularly the world’s biggest emitters: the U.S. seems to quit any emissions reductions at all, and China aims to reach carbon neutrality in 2060, ten years later than the EU (yet China is hailed as the global leader in climate change actions).

The world isn’t on a good path, but I somehow feel Germany isn’t the biggest problem here.

Nah, the biggest problem are those authoritarian states actors that intentionally seek to undermine democratic societies by sowing division, inciting hatred, spreading false news.