And to stay on topic, I think Habecks stance on Israel changed quite a bit compared to the old quotes on his wikipedia page after he witnessed the violence of settlers and the destruction of Gaza when travelling to the region:

https://audio.podigee-cdn.net/2370267-m-04879eca6e907e8b5ac81a995c901b28.mp3

(only the introduction is held in German the following interview is held in English)

FYI: Döpfner is a vile billionaire and Trump lover deep in the pockets of the fossil fuel industry who had a major influence on the premature collapse of the last green/socdem German government. The neolibertairian FDP was an (albeit small) party in the government coalition whose plans to crash the government (named D-Day papers) were leaked shortly before it ended a year prematurely.

Döpfner is the head of the Springer publishing house which diseminates the infamous biggest daily boulevard magazine BILD which drove a relentless two year long smear campaign mainly against the Green party and specifically against the economy minister Robert Habeck and his plans to electrify Germany with solar, heatpumps and green hydrogen. The latter was a success nevertheless as Germany had a record production of renewables when the government crashed eventually.

Leaked messages between Döpfner and Julian Reichelt (a sex pest and then chief editor of the BILD) exist in which Döpfner advises him to empower the FDP via his "journalism" to let the Traffic Light Coalition (Greens, Workers red and neolib yellow) crash. In addition multiple investigative reports were published from independent outlets which prove deep ties between the Döpfner/Springer and fossil fuel lobbying organizations like e.g. KKR or the Koch Brothers.

And oh yeah, to perfect the picture: Döpfners son works for Peter Thiel.

Thanks for your report. While looking for a daylight therapy panel I glanced over the reviews for red light panels and people were raving over them. Seems there is some truth to that. Congratulations for getting rid of your asthma. Know how that feels. Had pollen allergies through my whole teenage and young adult years which are completely gone now. I attribute starting running and exposing myself to that MFs.

You mean infrared, right? What positive changes die you experience?

I've read your posts and the ones of those you had the pleasure to talk to. I appreciate your commitment to the fight against dis-info. I'll just answer to both of your comments with this comment and hopefully keep it short because I hate this whole topic and how much time this all sucks out of our lifes just because we succumb to culture wars and being the instruments of those inciting them.

First. I think I'm not parasocial. I just watch him (like most of us I guess), because he gives us easy consumable but knowledgeable insights into complicated historical and current geopolitical events. I picked up quite a few topics and read up on them I wasn't aware of before I started watching him.

Him reporting and exposing himself on political events talking to the base and doing interviews with a lot of progressive politicians shows he is far from the sheltered grifting political arm-chair commenter, haters here and in the highest circles of spin-doctoring want him to paint as.

As you sharply described in your post with the "and yet you participate in society" meme, I'd too rather watch political analyses by someone whose opinions match my personal ideas of a just world, him being a millionaire or not. Bernie Sanders is a millionaire too, I guess, but I love listening to him as well. And opposed to consumers of content from real grifters, I don't think I'll ever be a millionaire.

Heck, Hasan interviewed two billionaires with political ambitions recently who had surprisingly progressive views and plans. Yes nobody should be a billionaire but if they at least really want to do good with their money, they can live. See MacKenzie Scott. And those claiming Hasans trip to Cuba was just egocentric self-promotion, has no idea how much he burns for recitifying the injustice Cubans are exposed to by the US.

OMG. Now it has become a wall of text again and I haven't even addressed any points of your observations on the video. I agree with you in what you wrote. Yes the dreaded internet problems and him being jet-lagged wouldn't justify him mishandling his dog. But as the trainer pointed out, he wasn't doing this at all even when he slightly yelled at her. Yes the clips he reacted to were very condensed and didn't show any of the million of interactions he had with his dog clearly showing he's a reponsible handler.

But it all doesn't matter anyway, as we all know this is all part of a big political assassination campaign and the critics bringing this up care as much about Kaya as they care about the animals they have on their plates (as Hasan doesn't either, btw).

Here's a video from a professional dog trainer, who claims he didn't know Hasan prior, analyzing the incident and the device. He concluded that it wasn't a shock- but a vibration-collar (or used as such). He did not see any misconduct from Hasan. I read somewhere the trainer was massively harassed after the video.

AFAIK he doesn't run AD's. Watching him for a year now. I've never seen any sponsored content. Maybe he gets money from the politicians he interviews on stream but I doubt it. He only invites those who he has a serious interest in growing their platform. He doesn't seem to sell out. He regularly mentions his work is solely sponsored by his viewers. I don't claim that he isn't a multi millionaire but I don't see how this invalidates his positions or work.

Yes constitutional democracy saves Austria and Germany from those bastards, I guess. I mean FPÖ and AfD are frighteningly strong and they can act on federal state level (sorry for those who didn't vote them) but the conservatives seem to still have enough reluctance to embrace full fascism and enough braincells to remember the last time that totally worked well.

The opposite would've happened if the coalition of the other parties hadn't prevented the far-right FPÖ and Kickl coming to power last year. Thanks Austria for keeping your house clean.

In addition he send the ICE goons to airports. I've seen pictures where they operate the computer-terminals. Some looked like teens. Can't say if they're at JFK too, though.

Stromberg is Germany's "The Office", btw.

"Die Anstalt" is goated, yes. On the more lighter side I like Pastewka, Sketch History (basically Germany's Monty Python), Die Familie Heinz Becker, Mitternachtsspitzen, Kalkofes Mattscheibe and Loriots as well as Gerhard Polts movies and series (very dated though sometimes timeless).