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Failed out of academia into diplomacy PhD: https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/45406 movies: https://boxd.it/wx9b books: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/herrsurth

Zohran Mamdanis Politikstil Warum sich New Yorks Bürgermeister mit Netanyahu anlegt Zohran Mamdani zählt zu Benjamin Netanyahus schärfsten Kritikern. Der New Yorker Bürgermeister würde dem israelischen Premier am liebsten Handschellen anlegen. Rechtlich kann er das nicht, Wirkung hat sein Vorstoß trotzdem.
The spacex share price development since being listed. It can only bad happen.
Can one say that this form of nationalism was uniquely Western or European? I do not think this is possible. We can, for example, consider the strange case of Japan, recently discussed in a remarkable book by Tessa Morris-Suzuki.footnote2 She illustrates in wonderful detail the abrupt transformation that came with the Meiji Restoration in the way that the Ainu and the Ryukyu islanders were regarded and handled. It had long been the policy of the Tokugawa shogunate to forbid the Ainu to dress as Tokugawa–Japanese or adopt Tokugawa–Japanese customs and traditions; similarly, envoys from the Ryukyus bringing tribute to Edo were instructed to dress as exotically Chinese as possible. In both instances, the basic idea was to separate these peripheral (barbarian) peoples as far as possible from the imperial centre. But with the rise of Meiji official nationalism, there was a complete reversal of policy: Ainu and Ryukyu were now regarded as primitive and ancient types of the same Japanese race as the Meiji oligarchs themselves. Every effort, persuasive and more often coercive, was made to japanify them (with variable success). It could be argued that later imperial policy in Korea and Taiwan followed the same logic.
Book cover of Benedict Anderson: the Spectre of Comparisons
About four years ago I taught a graduate seminar at Yale University on nationalism, and at the outset I asked every student to state their national identity, even if only provisionally. There were three students in the class who, to my eyes, seemed to be ‘Chinese’ from their facial features and skin colour. Their answers surprised me and everyone else in the room. The first, speaking with an absolutely West Coast American accent, firmly said he was ‘Chinese’, though it turned out he was born in America and had never been to China. The second quietly said he was ‘trying to be Taiwanese’. He came from a KMT family that had moved to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek in 1949, but was born in Taiwan, and identified there: so, not ‘Chinese’. The third said angrily, ‘I’m a Singaporean, dammit. I’m so tired of Americans thinking I’m Chinese, I’m not!’ So it turned out the only Chinese was the American.
Als hätte es keine Warnung eines CDU-Kulturstaatssekretärs gegeben: CDU und SPD im Abgeordnetenhaus zeigen in der Affäre um die Vergabe von Fördergeldern an Projekte gegen Antisemitismus auf die Bürokratie. „Wir haben festgestellt, dass es ein rechtswidriges Verwaltungshandeln gab“, lautet das Fazit beider Parteien aus der Arbeit des Untersuchungsausschusses, der die Vorgänge klären sollte. Ein Abschlussbericht ist das allerdings nicht. Der soll erst im August vorliegen. Vetternwirtschaft oder Korruption habe es jedenfalls nicht gegeben – auch keine unzulässige politische Einflussnahme, sagen die Regierungsfraktionen. Immerhin: Die Nachrichten des CDU-Abgeordneten Christian Goiny („Liebe Sarah! Das muss jetzt wirklich mal vorangehen“) an die damalige Kultursenatorin Sarah Wedl-Wilson (parteilos, für CDU) hätten „schon teilweise den notwendigen Respekt gegenüber der Senatorin vermissen lassen“. Aber Druck aushalten gehöre zur Politik, sagt der CDU-Abgeordnete Stephan Lenz. Die Opposition, auf deren Betreiben der Ausschuss ins Leben gerufen wurde, sieht das erwartbar anders: „Die Regierungsfraktionen biegen sich ihre eigene Wahrheit zurecht“, ist Daniel Weseners (Grüne) Fazit vom Fazit
Table Media verliert offenbar fast seine gesamte journalistische Leitungsebene: Wie der Axel-Springer-Verlag am Montag verkündete, wird Chefredakteur Michael Bröcker das Berliner Briefing-Start-up demnächst verlassen und übergreifender Politikchef der Premium-Gruppe werden, die die deutschen Ausgaben von »Politico« und »Business Insider« sowie die »Welt«-Gruppe umfasst. Zusätzlich übernimmt er demnach auch die Chefredaktion von »Politico Deutschland«. Zuvor berichtete das Portal »Medieninsider«.
Cover of James Belich: Replenishing the Earth
A still of Littlefinger in a YouTube short, looking weird as hell
Meme: "Stonks"
Gefahren Daniel sitzt am Klavier und wird dramatisch beleuchtet
Bill Readings - the university in ruins
Wow. I actually didn't know that. I'm hearing this for the first time.
A comfy cat
On 2 March 1624, a resolution was passed by the House of Commons making it illegal for an MP to quit or wilfully give up their seat. Believing that officers of the Crown could not remain impartial, the House passed a resolution on 30 December 1680 stating that an MP who "shall accept any Office, or Place of Profit, from the Crown, without the Leave of this House ... shall be expelled [from] this House." However, MPs were able to hold Crown Stewardships until 1740, when Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn was deemed to have vacated his Commons seat after becoming Steward of the Lordship and Manor of Bromfield and Yale.[1] The practice of leaving the house when appointed as a minister of crown would result in a ministerial by-election until the early 20th century when this requirement was removed for most substantive offices.[citation needed] The Chiltern Hundreds last needed a Crown Steward in the 18th century. When John Pitt wished to vacate his seat for Wareham in order to stand for Dorchester, the Crown Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds was available for this purpose. Pitt was appointed Crown Steward on 25 January 1751.[1]
Two cats on a bench and a crate
Sticker: "ich lache gern!"
Cover of Ernst Fraenkel - The Dual State (German edition)
screenshot des tweets https://bsky.app/profile/fabius.bsky.social/post/3mpm7axuno22u
Telefonische Krankschreibung wird abgeschafft
Two long-haired cats, orange and tortie, sitting on a bench and a crate on a balcony, afflicted with lazy bones
Screenshot of the Financial Times Articles "The young Chinese choosing life im 'ghost cities'
"Stańczyk during a ball at the court of Queen Bona in the face of the loss of Smolensk" by Jan Matejko, 1862, fotografiert in dem National Museum in Warschau
Willy Brandt Portrait von Georg Meistermann: ulkig, irgendwie geil, "ich finde ich bin gut getroffen"