Klaus-Gerd Giesen

Professor of Political Science
Université Clermont Auvergne, France
https://www.giesen.fr

#politicalscience #philosophy #bikepacking

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2025-01-11 17:06:57 UTC

In case the #SupremeCourt accepts the interdiction of #TikTok in the #USA because of the #risk that #China might covertly use it to manipulate the content shown to #Americans or collect #user #data to achieve its #geopolitical aims,it should be discussed in other #countries ,such as the #EU member #states , #Canada , #Japan ,if they should follow suit, and possibly extend the measure to #ElonMusk 's #X ,as this #socialnetwork now also clearly threatens their national security in a similar way.

2024-12-21 17:13:23 UTC

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4/4 ...crushed by the "new USA", and having to quickly submit to this type of neo-feudal state capitalism, or else the more #authoritarian one of #China and its #Russian economic vassal. #Softbank #CEO Masayoshi #Son was the first to understand this. #Conflict between the two #models of neo-feudal state capitalism (American and Chinese) remains a possibility, but can also be resolved by an #agreement between the #USA and China in favor of a #global #distribution of neo-feudal rents.

2024-12-21 17:12:24 UTC

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3/4 ... with the #RuleOfLaw) in favor of neo- #feudalism in which #loyalty (ideological and material) to the high-tech stato-oligarchic #elite and their political #representatives takes precedence over all other considerations, with the support of #farright political forces which guarantee rents and #protectionism . #Europe, organized around the #idea of political #pluralism and a #market that is both #competitive and #regulated by the state and the #EU , as well as #Japan , risk being... (4/4)

2024-12-21 17:04:28 UTC

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2/4 ... #hightech sectors such as #space #business , #AI and #databases ( #SpaxeX , #Palantir , #BlueOrigin , #GAFAM , etc.), while the rest of the U.S. economy is protected from foreign #competition by #protectionist measures (high #import #tariffs or unequal #freetrade #agreements with other #countries, and anti- #immigration #laws ). On the #ideological #front , attempts are being made everywhere to dismantle #political #liberalism...
(parliamentary #democracy closely coupled with... (3/4)

2024-12-21 17:03:09 UTC

1/4 Under #President #Trump , the #US #economy is likely to mutate from #financial #capitalism , based on #neoliberal practices in favor of #banks ( #GoldmannSachs , etc.) and #insurance #companies in particular, to a #state & #rentier capitalism in which a few #oligarchs ( #ElonMusk , Peter #Thiel, Jeff #Besos, etc. ) have directly occupied the top echelons of the #state , transforming it in depth to capture a steady #rent in the form of state #contracts and state #orders in a few... (2/4)

2024-11-13 22:23:50 UTC

" #Valencia is a #cycling #city – it’s the #European #Green #Capital of 2024 largely due to its 223km of segregated #bike lanes – but I didn’t realise just how many bikes there were in Valencia until this #disaster struck. The bike has become the mode of #transport at a #time of unprecedented #crisis ."
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/bicycles-save-lives-how-bikes-have-been-critical-after-the-valencia-floods

2024-11-09 15:04:21 UTC

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I don't accept *any* advocacy of violence on my wall, let alone racist or anti-Semitic ones, and I'm therefore blocking you.

2024-11-09 14:50:16 UTC

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As mentioned before I do not give any credibility to unverified, possibly fake videos broadcasted out of context on social networks. The reputable newspapers I consulted all point, concomitantly, to the criminal responsibility of people from outside football. In case Maccabi fans have sung reprehensible refrains (which has by no means been established, unlike in the case of violence), the response should under no circumstances be violence, but rather an attempt to dialogue.

2024-11-08 21:55:14 UTC

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If Macabi fans were really singing such song lyrics it definitely was a bad thing, but it certainly does not justify physical violence against them.

2024-11-08 08:39:38 UTC

Even in the #Netherlands violent #antisemitism is rising. Dark times, indeed.
#Israel #football #soccer #violence #MaccabiTelAviv #Ajaxamsterdam
Violent Attacks in Amsterdam Tied to Antisemitism https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/world/europe/amsterdam-israel-soccer-fans-attacked.html

2024-10-29 22:04:05 UTC

Voyager 1 was launched in 1977, later making close encounters with #Jupiter and #Saturn . It discovered two Jovian #moons ,Thebe and Metis, as well as five new moons and a new ring called the G-ring around Saturn. Since August 2012 it is the first #spacecraft travelling beyond our #solar system, in the #interstellar #space .Recently, it decided all of a sudden to switch to a different #radio #transmission with #earth ,and nobody knows why. Incredible #Voyager1 !
https://gizmodo.com/voyager-1-ghosts-nasa-forcing-use-of-backup-radio-dormant-since-1981-2000517890

2024-08-16 18:31:20 UTC

Sometimes there are #goodnews : #Russia now forced to even revive the age-old practice of #barter #trade to get around #Western #sanctions ,as almost all of #China 's #banks do not accept anymore its #money #transfers .
#Ukraine
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-economy-all-china-banks-refuse-yuan-ruble-transfers-sanctions-2024-8