Crossing the line of war

 You don't need a million poets and prophets with their pens if you have one idiot who delivers us into a radiant crescendo.

RIP?

Volksverhetzung durch ZDF-Kanäle

 

Diese beiden Bilder von vom ZDF betriebenen Youtube-Kanälen, am 27. August 2022 abgerufen, sehen zunächst harmlos aus. Doch einen Tag vorher, am 26. August 2022, hat das ZDF über den Begriff "Indianer" das hier verlauten lassen:

Da das ZDF also den Begriff Indianer für rassistisch hält, gibt es zu, dass seine Youtube-Kanäle zu Hass und Gewalt gegen andere Völker aufstacheln. Im Strafrecht nennt sich das "Volksverhetzung".

Oder krasser ausgedrückt: Der Rundfunkbeitrag wird verwendet, um wie in der NS-Zeit volksverhetzende Propaganda durch staatlich betriebene Propagandamedien zu betreiben. Vielen Dank aber auch!

Ravensburger's racist agenda

 Currently Ravensburger sadly has taken up a racist agenda by which it wants no more books by Karl May published (especially the novels with Winnetou and Old Shatterhand that criticized the genocide against Native Americans). They cite "cultural appropriation" as the reason, which means essentially that they don't want foreign influences in their works but rather a German only culture.

Nearly 70 years after the nazi dictatorship, the dreams of pure Aryan art and the banning of "Entartete Kunst" should not exist in Germany anymore, but Ravensburger lets them live high again!

As they are shitting on the grave of Lothar Schmid with this, who was leading the Karl May Verlag (Karl May Press) for around half a decade - who also criticized Ravensburger sharply for this nazistic action -, as well as going against all good taste, I hereby openly criticize them for this.

The Russian people are not the culprits!

 I am very saddened about the current direction the world as a whole moves towards.

I believe - want to believe - that if they could most Russians would end the war immediately, without the west destroying their lives as it does by excluding them from SWIFT, Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, etc.; and without further sanctions such as the IOC excluding their athletes while celebrating the extermination of Uyghurs in China.

What we achieve is to make sure the Russians - and Belarussians - will hate us for the foreseeable future because we treat them horribly. This is no basis for peace, it is only a basis for further escalation.

Putin says he reacted to the threat by biolabs in Ukraine. Biolabs that were funded by companies tied to the Bidens. The same Hunter Biden that funded the Gain-Of-Function research in Wuhan. If that is true, then Russia had every right to fear the use of bioweapons. This does not excuse the response that equals massive war crimes in Ukraine. This does not excuse attacking Ukrainian civilians. But it shows that this is not another one-sided affair. If we want to hold Putin responsible, we also must hold the Bidens responsible, we must hold Zelensky and Xi responsible for funding the research of bioweapons in Wuhan, and of biolabs in Ukraine that might or might not have also been used for bioweapons, which Russia might be unable to tell from the outside.

But we must not hold the innocent population responsible. While we do not outright kill them, we treat them not like humans, we destroy their lives by excluding them from receiving any kind of payments from abroad. We exclude them from sports events. All the while China, which is at least as much of a threat to the free world as Putin, gets its military presence in the South Chinese Sea up, it can prepare unhindered to invade Taiwan (aka the real China), it can support Russia's war against the Ukrainian people without having to fear any repercussions from the corrupt west, from the corrupt United Nations, from the nearly dead United States, from anyone.

The Ukrainian people have lost this war, they had no chance as they were just pawns in the games of politicians which since 2014, if not earlier, were ready to be sacrificed. More and more aggression towards Russia was sparked in rhetorics, but nothing was done to protect Ukraine from an attack.

The "Star Wars" program, the Strategic Defense Initiative, is useless against modern Russian MIRVs. The west has no chance to survive a nuclear war. Putin might be crazy enough to start one, and some western politicians would want this. Instead of doing anything useful, western leaders virtue signal by sending weapons to Ukraine, punishing the innocent Russian population, competely ignoring the Chinese influence on Russia and that they have the greatest own interest in this war, in this partial genocide.

Our politicians have completely failed us, and they have completely failed the Ukrainian people!

Nice job breaking it, heroes

So we ban Russian artists because...?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_anti-war_protests_in_Russia

 

 By 27 February, 4,000 scientists and science journalists, 6,200 medics, 5,000 architects and 6,700 artists in Russia have signed electronic petitions against the invasion.

 

Oh, right. That will show warmonger Putin if we ban the people who spoke out against him!

Nice job breaking it, heroes!

Merry Christmas, the war is over soon (also: Finally bring down the NYT!)

 Merry Christmas, my fellow friends!

It seems that we will win the war against the China Virus soon. We should not settle for any less than the complete extermination of our enemy, and that is where we might be getting at, thanks to new medical breakthroughs. The following one looks especially interesting.

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/12/us-army-creates-single-vaccine-effective-against-all-covid-sars-variants/360089/

 

Keep on fighting, my friends. Stay healthy, and if the SPFN vaccine will actually work to exterminate our enemy, we will hopefully live in a free world in a year again. At least as free as possible with the devastation that was caused, and with the lost trust in governments and a hostile mass media that calls it racist to shut down international travel.

I'll rather live in a world of racists than in a world of dead people because of mass media cronies trying to help our enemy to spread. Never forget that in early 2020 those fascists actively tried to help the virus to spread by advising against shutting down airports!

But then, the New York Times is widely known as the propaganda newspaper of Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin. And they were among the antisemitic mass media that called everything racist that a certain jewish family father did during his presidency. So never forget that the mass media rather would play politics and kill millions than actually do anything sane. Hold them accountable when this is over.

Cure for COVID-19 found?

 Sometimes I must write about something that is unrelated to chess, and so also this time. Apparently a cure for the officially dubbed "COVID-19" virus has been found.

https://elifesciences.org/articles/59177

https://elemental.medium.com/a-supercomputer-analyzed-covid-19-and-an-interesting-new-theory-has-emerged-31cb8eba9d63 

The supercomputer "Summit" analyzed all the data and found a theory on how the virus works and how it can be cured. The best news? There are already nearly a dozen different treatments available, which also can be combined.

Is this the breakthrough?

Readers should be aware that this is no vaccine. It won't prevent people from getting sick, but hopefully it will prevent sick people from dying, or worse.

Chess composition and the pandemic

As we find on ChessblogYG and MatPlus, the great chess composer Sergey I. Tkachenko works in the Chernobyl medical centre. The Ukrainian TV interviewed him (in Ukrainian):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcxpf5UQaJo

In addition, on MatPlus, Serbian chess journalist Marjan Kovačević writes:

Chess composers cover many different professions, but this year one profession deserves more appreciation and gratitude than all others.
I don't know how many medical workers among composers have been actively involved in daily struggle with Covid-19, but now I know there are at least two great composers among them.
Our GM Mario Parrinello has been in the first lines of Italian medical defense, as a general practitioner doctor, for more than four months. It was at the beginning of April when he wrote he had never witnessed such a scary situation in his 30 years career of a doctor. June is ending, but the troubles of medical workers in Italy still last ...

Emil Joseph Diemer 112 (und ein Blick auf das Weltgeschehen)

Der Prophet von Muggensturm wäre heute 112 Jahre alt geworden. Die Welt befindet sich in der größten Krise seit Ende des Kalten Krieges. Diemer verstarb am 10. Oktober 1990, um 10:10 Uhr, so die Erzählung derer, die ihn kannten. Kurz vor seinem Tod versuchte er, Schäuble vor einem bevorstehenden Attentat zu warnen - welches am 12. Oktober 1990 schließlich stattfand.

Diemer bemühte sich zeitlebens, Kräfte zu entwickeln, die ihm die Vorhersage der Zukunft ermöglichen sollten. War er erfolgreich? Handelte es sich um einen Zufall, eine richtige Vorhersage, die zwangsweise eintreffen muss, wenn man genügend unrichtige hatte?

Im Jahr 2000 war die Technologie noch nicht so ausgereift. Das Videospiel "Deus Ex" konnte die Zwillingstürme in New York City nicht darstellen. Sie wurden aus dem Spiel gestrichen, ein Terroranschlag hätte sie vernichtet. Im März 2001 wurden im Pilot von "The Lone Gunmen", einem Spinoff der kürzlich wiederbelebten und wohl nun endgültig begrabenen "Akte X", die titulären Charaktere die letzte Bastion zwischen Flugzeugen und dem World Trade Center.

An einem Dienstag im September desselben Jahres wurde die Welt in einen furchtbaren Krieg geworfen. Der Schrecken - lateinisch Terror - der Vernichtung an diesem Tag führte zu einer Serie von Ereignissen, die die Geopolitik prägen sollten: Die Jagd auf den Massenmörder Osama bin Laden, die Vernichtung einiger arabischen Diktatoren und Bürgerkrieg in anderen arabischen Staaten, der Aufstieg einer religiös-pädophilen Sekte, die aus Boko Haram und al-Qaida hervorgegangen versuchte, die Agenda 2020 zu vollenden und eine Weltdiktatur herbeizuführen, an deren Spitze ein "Kalif" stehen sollte.

Im Schatten aller dieser Entwicklungen stieg China zu einer Weltmacht auf. Irgendwo in dieser Weltmacht ist etwas im Jahr 2019 unglaublich schiefgegangen - sofern es nicht gar Absicht war.

In den 30 Jahren seit Diemers Tod hat sich die Welt stark verändert. Als Diemer 30 Jahre alt war, stand ein Weltkrieg kurz bevor. 30 Jahre nach Diemers Tod droht wieder einer. Der kommende Hungerwinter in den Vereinigten Staaten, zehntausende dauerhaft Geschädigte durch die globale Pandemie alleine in Deutschland, die Präsenz des Todes als Damoklesschwert über uns allen, das nicht mehr an einem Faden, sondern nur noch an einem dünnsten Haar hängt, das durch einen Hauch zum Fallen gebracht werden kann, inmitten innerpolitischer Krisen in allen betroffenen Staaten: Eine Entladung der Spannung scheint immer wahrscheinlicher. Chinesische Raketenteile, die beinahe New York City getroffen hätten, lassen Spekulationen aufkommen, ob es sich tatsächlich nicht um einen gezielten Beschuss mit Weltraummüll handelte. Zwei Atommächte stehen sich gegenüber, die komplett unterschiedliche Werte haben: Das brutale diktatorische Regime Chinas mit einem Sozialpunktesystem, das aus den schlimmsten "Dystopien" stammen könnte - man vergesse bei dem Wort nicht, dass "Utopia" selbst eine "Dystopie" war und das Wort "Utopie" eher die Propaganda der Stadt als ihre Realität widerspiegelt -; die freiheitsliebenden Vereinigten Staaten, deren Geheimdienste in der Vergangenheit häufig an kriminellen versteckten Operationen beteiligt waren und deren Bundespolizei sich mit der nazistischen "Demokratischen Partei" gegen den jüdischen Präsidenten verschworen hatte und die deshalb in einen zweiten Bürgerkrieg zu rutschen drohen. Die Grundzüge für einen Weltkrieg sind gelegt.

Vielleicht hat es ein großer Literaturnobelpreisträger einst am treffendsten gesagt: "If God's on our side, he'll stop the next war."
Falls Gott an unserer Seite ist, wird er den nächsten Krieg stoppen. Es könnte der letzte sein.

Diemer würde diese Welt nicht wiedererkennen. Genausowenig wie das moderne neuronalgenetzwerkte Schach. Aber im Gegensatz zum Weltgeschehen würde er das gnadenlose Kampfschach lieben, das "vom ersten Zug an auf Matt" - ganz nach seiner Devise - den h-Bauern als Sargnagel etablieren will. Einst löste ich ein Stellungsproblem in einer praktischen Partie mit 6.h4:

Hornecker - Ott, Landesliga Heidenheim - Sontheim, 17. April 2005
1.d4 Sf6 2.Sc3 e6 3.e4 d6 4.Ld3 Le7 5.Sf3 0-0 6.h4!! Sc6? 7.e5! dxe5 8.dxe5 Sd7 9.Lxh7+ Kh8, und ich begann langsam, die Partie zum Remis zu versauen... (Remis, 45)

New study about After-Death Communication by Evelyn Elsaesser

As I am very interested in the field of Near- and After-Death experiences, I am very thankful that Evelyn Elsaesser, a famous Swiss researcher on that field, makes her new research available for free (in English and Spanish). She very kindly sent me the research via e-mail two days ago, now I see that it is also on her website (PDF).

I hope that, despite this not being about chess, some of my readers will enjoy the interesting science carried out here.

https://www.evelyn-elsaesser.com/research/

While you hopefully will stay safe during these fierce times, the research shall reinforce your knowledge that - while the process of dying is a very horrible one from the current pandemic - death itself is a mere transformation.

(I want to however warn that now suicide is not an option, as it will lead to repeating the issues you had in this life, as evidenced by many reports. Exceptions are justified suicide, such as saving the life of another person by giving yours - jumping into a river to save a child but not making it out yourself, for example. Another exception is when your death is already imminent and you face excruciating pain, such as with terminal cancer. But those are narrow, and in general suicide is not a way out, but rather one to prolong your suffering into your next life.)

[German] Info-Broschüre: Sexuelle Gewalt im Schach

Walter Rädler hat eine Infobroschüre zum Thema "Sexuelle Gewalt im Schach" bereitgestellt (und die Verbreitung erlaubt), die von Jörg Schulz und Malte Ibs erstellt und als Vortrag bei der Bundesvereinskonferenz in Berlin gehalten wurde.

Bitte verbreiten Sie dieses wichtige Dokument und Thema weiter, insbesondere auch an Trainer und Übungsleiter! Beachten Sie auch die weiteren Informationen und Materialien auf der offiziellen Website und - sofern nötig - die dort aufgelisteten Ansprechpartner RA Fischer und Frau Jussupow.

Vortrag/Infobroschüre:
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Offizielle Website:
http://deutsche-schachjugend.de/dsj-inside/gesellschaftliche-verantwortung/kinderschutz/

United Airlines Flight 93 Memorial Service with President Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLIBvZYJp0g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQBMaWAxxUE

On one Tuesday in September, 17 years ago, 40 heroes sacrificed their lives to save the lives of many others.

Christian Adams
Lorraine G. Bay
Todd M. Beamer
Alan Anthony Beaven
Mark Bingham
Deora Frances Bodley
Sandy Waugh Bradshaw
Marion R. Britton
Thomas E. Burnett, Jr.
William Joseph Cashman
Georgine Rose Corrigan
Patricia Cushing
Captain Jason M. Dahl
Joseph DeLuca
Patrick Joseph Driscoll
Edward Porter Felt
Jane C. Folger
Colleen L. Fraser
Andrew (Sonny) Garcia
Jeremy Logan Glick
Kristin Osterholm White Gould
Lauren Catuzzi Grandcolas
Donald Freeman Greene
Wanda Anita Green
Linda Gronlund
Richard J. Guadagno
LeRoy Homer
Toshiya Kuge
CeeCee Ross Lyles
Hilda Marcin
Waleska Martinez
Nicole Carol Miller
Louis J. Nacke II
Donald Arthur Peterson
Jean Hoadley Peterson
Mark David Rothenberg
Christine Ann Snyder
John Talignani
Honor Elizabeth Wainio
Deborah Jacobs Welsh

For the forgotten victims of the 11 September putsch and it's aftermath

Stay strong and fight on! The truth must be revealed!
45 years later, the perpetrators still can be brought to justice!

The mysterious Ephraim Halpern murder (10,000 Deutsche Mark offered as of 1984)

Apologies for something different, but this bothers me since I first learned about it in December 2017.

In September 1983, the Israeli citizen Ephraim Halpern was murdered in Hamburg. The murder weapon was a Wehrmacht gun P38 with the serial number "80 10 e". The gun was found together with two magazines in a trash bin. Police in Hamburg asks who is in possession of a Wehrmacht pistol P38 with a nearby serial number.
As of  December 2017, the Ludwigsburg Central for solving National Socialist crimes has had no lists of Wehrmacht gun serial numbers.

Ephraim Halpern supposedly was involved with secret services and gun deals, but it is unclear if this is true. What is known is that he worked for the SGH Spezial Gerätebau in Hamburg, a daughter of the Tadiran Isräl Electronics Ltd., Tel Aviv. The company is specialized in electronics and weapons, having fulfilled contacts for the (West) German Army "Bundeswehr". Prior to leading this business, Halpern was a Major of the Israeli Air Force.
Halpern likely worked for the MOSSAD. He might have been killed as a retribution for the killing of Saki El Selou. A few weeks prior to his murder he also met with arms dealers in Vienna, according to a 2017 book "The Secret War Against The Jews" by John Loftus and Mark Aarons.

The possibility exists that this is one of the last nazi crimes in Germany, so if you are able to provide any information, please contact the police in Hamburg. If this is not a nazi crime, it might be related to international terrorism.

Address: Caffamacherreihe 4, 20355 Hamburg, Germany

Phone: +49 (0)40 428670777

Do not contact me (this might put my life into danger) nor post in the comments but directly contact the police. You likely can also contact your local police and they will forward the information to Hamburg. If it is true that Halpern is a former MOSSAD agent, you might also want to contact the police in Israel.

Address: Public Complaints Unit, 91 Herzl Street, The Government Complex Building, Ramla 7243003, Israel

Email: tlunot@police.gov.il

(Some of the information here is taken by the internet and marked as speculative as far as the sources might not be reliable. Other information is taken from the German TV show "Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst" of 11 May 1984. As this might be a nazi crime, I have a personal ethical interest that the perpetrators are caught.)

EDIT, 15 July 2019:
Maybe it is helpful to link to sources:
SGH Spezial Gerätebau, Germany
"The Secret War against the Jews", allegation of meeting with arms dealers

Other links that were not used back then as sources:
Probably a German conspiracy theory publication, with newspaper clipping on the last page
(Important info from there: "Kommando 17. September", a Palestinean terror organisation, says they killed Halpern, he was 37 years old, he supposedly - according to the terrorists - was a former Israeli Air Force officer and was killed in front of his apartment - source: dpa - no mention of where they'd have gotten the gun from, so that might be a false confession)

I don't remember what other sources I did or didn't use. Should have written them down back then. But most info not found there or in "Aktenzeichen XY" is to be doubted.

Imageboard activists donate possibly several 100,000 Euro to cancer charity

Protesting against an article by cybersecurity "journalist" Brian Krebs, users of a big German imageboard donated - using the pun of "Krebs" as being the German word for cancer - an official 103,000 Euro to the Deutsche Krebshilfe until several hours ago. As the donations are still ongoing, the DKMS received also a lot of donations, and some donations were also made to foreign charities and other diseases' charities, the entire sum of the donations will likely remain unknown but in my estimation could be as high as 500,000 Euro.

The semi official slogan of the action:
Krebs ist scheiße >_

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/angry-users-donate-120k-to-cancer-research-after-brian-krebs-coinhive-article/

Stanislav Petrov (9.ix.1939 - 19.v.2017)

Without the courage of one man, we all wouldn't be here today!

The man who saved the world from a nuclear holocaust died already on 19 May 2017, as is known only now.

Is this the end of humanity?

With evermore and deeper worrying I look at the events that unfold in North Korea, at an onmicidal maniac that develops intercontinental nuclear weapons.

After the past few days, the Doomsday Clock should righteously be set to mere seconds before midnight. More and more it seems to me, that even with Donald Trump, who might be a time traveller that specifically came to avoid this, the nuclear holocaust in unavoidable. As much as in the height of the Cuba Crisis, as in the fateful seconds of Stanislav Petrov's decision, humanity faces its own extinction. With every passing day, Kim Jong-Un gets one step closer to starting a nuclear war.

God has protected us throughout the twentieth century, throughout the most improbable events, to prevent this end of the world. In this time that might be the end of time, may It protect us once more!

By now, God might be all that stands between our everyday life and the end of the world.
The clock ticks, and soon it might be not be two-and a half minutes left anymore, soon it might be midnight...

Erdogan orders attacks against U.S. citizen in the U.S.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ael30RH3gbU

In the history of the U.S., Erdogan now is one of the few the foreign government leaders who orders attacking U.S. citizens in the U.S.

[DE] Hitler und Erdogan

Der Vergleich, den die ARD verbietet, der aber nötig ist, da Erdogan selbst Hitler als sein Vorbild benennt.

Adolf Hitler
Geboren: 20. April 1889 in Braunau am Inn
Schwerste Straftat vor der Präsidentschaft, Urteil: Putschversuch, 5 Jahre Haft
Führer des Staats: Deutschland (Präsident 1933-1945, mit weiteren Gebieten, etwa Österreich 1938-1945)
Absolute Machtergreifung: 1933
Ausschaltung von Gegnern: 1933 nach Reichtagsbrand
Todesstrafe: 1933
Völkermorde: Juden (völlige Vernichtung gemeinsam mit Großmufti von Jerusalem beschlossen), Homosexuelle, Sinti und Roma, alle Nichtarier nach Definition der Nürnberger Rassengesetze
Gesamtzahl der Toten: 6 Millionen Juden, 56 Millionen Kriegstote (Hauptschuld gemeinsam mit Stalin), weitere zivile Opfer durch Völkermorde
Anklage: Hitler entzog sich der Anklage durch Suizid
Gestorben: 30. April 1945 in Berlin (56 Jahre alt)

Eccep Tayyip Erdogan
Geboren: 26. Februar 1954 in Istanbul
Schwerste Straftat vor der Präsidentschaft, Urteil: Anstiftung zur Gewalt, lebenslanges Politikverbot
Führer des Staats: Türkei (Präsident seit 2ß14)
Absolute Machtergreifung: 2014
Ausschaltung von Gegnern: 2016 nach vorgeblichem Putschversuch
Todesstrafe: 2016 geplant
Völkermorde: Kurden
Gesamtzahl der Toten: unbekannt, mindestens 5359 Kurden zwischen Juli 2015 und Mai 2016, mindestens 265 Tote durch vorgeblichen Putschversuch
Anklage: Der deutschen Staatsanwaltschaft liegen Anzeigen wegen Kriegsverbrechen und anderem vor.
Gestorben: Leider noch nicht (62 Jahre alt)

Carlo Pedersoli (Bud Spencer, 31.x.1929 - 27.vi.2016)

I never was a fan of the Bud Spencer & Terence Hill movies, and I never will be. Yet, like Meat Loaf or Chuck Norris, Bud Spencer was an actor of the "larger than life" category, one of a kind. Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct could be replaced by any attractive woman. Kate Winslet in Titanic could be replaced by any young woman. But try replacing a Bud Spencer. The movie is just not the same. You don't find a strongly built, muscular Italian with such a humor and ease of acting again. And if you do, it will still not be the same. Spencer's face is easily recognizable, yet it has something - yes - buddy-like. Bud the buddy.

In Germany, Spencer & Hill are called "Weltkulturerbe" - world cultural heritage. Their movies surely are. As I said, I never was a fan of those movies, but I do appreciate them, I like Spencer's humor and the fighting scenes. I am just not a big movie fan at all. My taste is so bad, in fact, that I like movies such as Playing God.

And yet, the private man Pedersoli had one of those quotes that perfectly fit with my own beliefs of life after death.

Ich vermute oft, dass alles, was im täglichen Leben geschieht, ein Traum ist und dass das wirkliche Leben in einer anderen Dimension erwacht. Ich hoffe nur, dass es in dieser anderen Realität weniger Gewalt und Missbrauch gibt.

(Translation: I often suspect that everything that happens in everyday life is a dream and that the real life awakens in another dimension. I just hope that in this other reality there is less violence and abuse.)

In my belief, in that reality there is alos a huge cultural life, and people will love to see good actors in theaters. Here's looking at you, Bud!