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mariacallous · 4 months ago

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After announcing sweeping new tariffs on the United States’ top three trading partners, U.S. President Donald Trump seems to have agreed to a 30-day pause on any new duties on Canada and Mexico while leaving those on China in place. The final outcome is still uncertain, and the drama that unfolded over the last week should not distract from the bigger picture: With his decrees on trade, Trump is making an unconstitutional power grab by using the declaration of a national emergency to grant himself authority he does not have. Congress, whose constitutional powers to regulate trade Trump has usurped, should act swiftly to retain its authority and bring back stability to U.S. trade policy.

In announcing the tariffs, Trump invoked the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which gives a U.S. president sweeping powers to regulate the economy during wartime or another emergency caused by a foreign threat. The law essentially grants a president extraordinary economic powers “to deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat” if he “declares a national emergency with respect to such threat.” The White House outlined its view of the current threat in Proclamation 10886, which on Jan. 20 declared a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border, supposedly “overrun by cartels, criminal gangs, known terrorists, human traffickers, smugglers, unvetted military-age males from foreign adversaries, and illicit narcotics that harm Americans, including America.”

Trump expanded the emergency beyond the southern border to also cover “the public health crisis of deaths due to the use of fentanyl and other illicit drugs,” claiming insufficient action by Canada and China to interdict shipments. His response to these claimed threats was a 25 percent tariff on imports from Mexico, 25 percent on imports from Canada (except energy at 10 percent), and an additional 10 percent on imports from China. Since Chinese goods are currently charged with an average rate of 10 percent and most tariffs on Canada and Mexico are near zero, Trump’s decree would have imposed higher levies against them than against China, a U.S. adversary, and put a significant shock to North American trade. Experts have called these tariff actions “reckless” and a “self-inflicted wound to the American economy,” while companies have warned that widespread tariffs will further upend supply chains and stoke inflation.

Historically, presidential authority under the IEEPA has been used to impose an array of sanctions that hit U.S. adversaries directly, such as export embargoes and the freezing of foreign assets. But it has never been used to raise tariffs on imports into the United States—which U.S. importers and ultimately consumers, not the targeted countries, pay. Nor has the law ever been used to punish allies and partners, such as Canada and Mexico. The predecessor statute that the IEEPA replaced, the 1917 Trading With the Enemy Act, was used by U.S. President Richard Nixon to levy a 10 percent across-the-board import tariff to address a balance of payments crisis, with the intent of creating leverage to force Japan and West Germany to revalue their currencies, which Washington saw as giving their exporters an unfair advantage. The tariff was a temporary measure and soon lifted. Nixon’s loose interpretation of the old law and use against friendly countries in peacetime was, in fact, the precise reason Congress worked on tightening the statute and replacing it with the IEEPA.

The legal challenges that sprang from Nixon’s actions are instructive today. In United States v. Yoshida International, the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals ruled in 1975 that measures implemented by the president must have an “eminently reasonable relationship” with the declared emergency. In other words, there needs to be a causal link between the emergency and sanctions response. The court upheld Nixon’s action because the tariff “had a direct effect on our nation’s balance of trade and, in turn, on its balance of payments deficit and its international monetary reserves.” Today, by contrast, it is a stretch of the imagination to suggest that across-the-board import tariffs have an “eminently reasonable relationship” to the domestic problem of fentanyl use and concerns over organized crime in the United States.

The fact that U.S. deaths from synthetic opioids such as fentanyl began to decline in 2023 raises additional questions about Trump’s invocation of the IEEPA, which is restricted to emergencies that are both unusual and extraordinary. What’s more, one day after proclaiming his tariffs, Trump took to his Truth Social platform to suggest that trade with the United States is a form of subsidy to Canada and that Canada should become the 51st U.S. state. This range of statements and possible motivations further obscures the relationship between the claimed emergency and Trump’s tariff action.

Although a president has ample discretion to take broad actions in times of national emergency, there is little evidence that an emergency exists—or that the emergency as described is even loosely connected to the remedy being offered. Even the weak guardrails contained in the IEEPA should suffice for Congress to check the president’s actions. First, it could terminate the emergency through a joint resolution; that, however, would need a veto-proof supermajority. Terminating the emergency also rescinds any actions taken by the president linked to the emergency. Second, Congress should amend the IEEPA to clarify that it does not allow the president to levy tariffs, and legislation to this end has already been introduced. Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the express authority to regulate commerce with foreign nations. This is a perfect example of where Congress should take back its power and rein in presidential abuse of delegated authority.

If Congress fails to act, there is still the courts. Firms affected by tariffs can challenge Trump’s decree. Furthermore, the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2024 landmark decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo overturned the previous practice of deferring to federal agencies—i.e. the executive branch—whenever vague language in the law left room for interpretation. Now, that final interpretation lies with the courts. This emphasizes the Supreme Court’s renewed skepticism towards broad statutory interpretations and lends persuasive power to the argument that the president is taking too much liberty with the IEEPA.

Trump is knowingly and unseriously using a fictitious emergency to attack U.S. allies in hopes of causing enough chaos to extract unrelated concessions. Solving the drug crisis is a domestic problem, not a trade issue. Trump has invoked security threats to address economic concerns in the past, such as when he imposed a 25 percent tariff on steel—mostly on U.S. allies—during his first term; at the time, lawyers at the U.S. Justice Department absurdly claimed that, hypothetically, peanut butter imports could be considered a national security threat and warrant sanctions. But unlike the statute Trump used to impose tariffs on steel, the IEEPA has far fewer guardrails and procedural requirements, meaning that there is little to check Trump’s interpretation of an emergency. While some of the tariffs are now on hold, there’s no guarantee that Trump won’t continue to abuse the IEEPA on these and other allies and partners. To use emergency powers as a tool of chaos and leverage in unrelated negotiations—and directed at U.S. allies and partners—is a blatant, unconstitutional abuse of power. Congress and the courts must act to stop it.

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eskwander · 5 months ago

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Capitalism and Genocide

Mathias Clivaz and Hugues Poltier. October 15, 2024.

1. In 2007, Israeli lawyer Ram Caspi published the following in the Tel Aviv-based financial daily Globes: "Neither ground invasion nor air attack, but strangulation... [...] the Israeli government will take steps to cut Gaza off from essential resources such as fuel, water, electricity, telephone, and will prevent anyone from providing them." (quoted by G. Levy in Haaretz, 10.6.2007) The election of Hamas that year – which Israel supported in order to oust Fatah – provides a ready-made pretext for initiating a blockade of the Gaza Strip. Slowly suffocated, GDP per capita falls by 27% and unemployment rises by 49% between 2007 and 2018.

2. But the stranglehold is only just beginning. There are signs, both rhetorical and institutional, of what is coming. In 2009, B. Netanyahu becomes Prime Minister of Israel, a position he will hold for eleven years, then again from 2022; and on several occasions he aims to make the Palestinians an abject people, for example when he blames them in a speech in 2015 of having suggested the Final Solution to Hitler. But it's really with the election of D. Trump to the White House in 2017 that everything accelerates. In obviously coordinated moves, the USA recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital and transfers its embassy there in May 2018 and, two months later, the Knesset approves a constitutional law that ratifies the settlement process in the West Bank, and declares Jerusalem the "whole and unified" capital of Israel. The two-State solution is buried.

3. The next stage is to secure impunity and consolidate power. A step in this direction is taken with the signing of the Abraham Accords in 2020, again under the patronage of D. Trump: peace agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), followed by normalization of diplomatic relations with Morocco and Sudan. Then in 2022, Israel and the UAE sign a free-trade agreement. The stakes are clear: normalization-pacification of Israel's relations with its Arab neighbors, bypassing the Palestinian question. — European companies are not to be outdone. A study by the coalition Don't Buy Into Occupation showed that between January 2020 and August 2023, 776 European financial institutions (including BNP Paribas, HSBC, Deutsche Bank and Société Générale, to name just the top four creditors) had dealings with 51 companies actively involved in Israeli settlements, for a total investment of $164.2 billion, and a stake of $144.7 billion in shares and bonds. This despite the fact that, under international law, such investments in occupied territories are illegal. — The American tech giants are there also. In 2022, Amazon and Google signed lucrative contracts with Tel Aviv for the construction of data centersand with the army to manage their cloud operations, including maintaining surveillance data on most Palestinians living in Gaza, data that is being used by the AI models that determine who should be targeted for attacks[1].

4. A transnational network of capital has thus been set up, whose interest lies in the growth of the Israeli State and its regional supremacy. This in turn involves the arms trade: Israel, whose defense budget is the highest on the planet as a proportion of GDP, is enabling the US military-industrial complex – which supplies 69% of its weapons – to make record profits in 2023 (the conflict in Ukraine being the other major market that year). Germany is not to be outdone, since the country supplies around 30% of Israel’s weapons. The United Kingdom, Italy, France and other countries are also part of this security-capitalist alliance, to which are added all the companies that export "dual-use" and consumer goods to Israel, have industrial, commercial and educational partnerships with Israel — and buy its surveillance systems.

5. In the meantime, the hands have tightened around the victim's neck: walls have been erected between 2017 and 2021 around the entire perimeter of the Gaza Strip, now a hermetically sealed open-air prison. The strangler waits, observing the effects of asphyxiation on his victim. The victim calls for help, but no one comes. Others sound the alarm, but no one listens. So the victim screams and struggles. And Israel will conclude – and with Israel all the countries of the Global North who have a hand in the operation – that Gaza is threatening Israel.

6. On October 7, 2023, 1,139 Israelis are killed by Hamas and other Palestinian groups. These included around 800 civilians. Atrocities were committed, with Hamas guilty of war crimes. Israelis are also killed under the “friendly fire” of the Israeli army, whose military doctrine aims to prevent hostage-taking. Hamas took 252 Israeli hostages captive, with the probable aim of exchanging them for the more than 1,300 Palestinians then being held in administrative detention (imprisoned without charge or trial) in Israeli prisons. But the Israeli scriptwriters have already written the rest of the story: Israel accuses Hamas of posing an "existential threat to Israel" and invokes the right to defend itself. Never mind that Hamas has no means of destroying Israel, and that in its 2017 Charter it declared itself in favor of a two-State solution on the 1967 borders.

7. From October 7, 2023, the declarations of genocidal intent are explicit. B. Netanyahu declared on October 12: “We will fight these savage beasts with all our might, destroy them and wipe them off the face of the earth”. Israel's president, I. Herzog, on October 13: “It is a whole nation that is responsible. The rhetoric about citizens not being involved, not being aware, is absolutely false.” A. Dichter, Minister of Agriculture, on November 12: “We are now carrying out the Gaza Nakba”. And it will continue. B. Smotrich, Minister of Finance, in May 2024: “There is no job half done. Rafah, Deir al-Balah, Nousseirat - total destruction.” The organization Law for Palestine has listed more than 500 instances of calls for genocide during the first months of Israel's war on Gaza[2]. Starting October 2023, there is no doubt that Israel launches a war of annihilation.

8. At the same time, Israel invests millions to circulate propaganda messages on all the channels of the global North, including the most macabre fake news (forty babies beheaded by Hamas, a pregnant woman disembowelled, etc.), picked up on a loop by Germany and the USA. On smartphone screens across the planet, the cognitive war is in full swing: between the selection of the visible by Silicon Valley algorithms and the oligarchy's stranglehold on the mainstream media; between the constant threat of accusations of anti-Semitism against individuals and the editorial offices of independent newspapers, and the more than 100 journalists killed in Gaza by the Israeli army in 6 months. In plain sight, disguising the announced massacre of the Palestinian people as a "fight against terrorism", the "world's most moral army" is strangling Gaza, strangling it with fury, strangling it with the laughter of Israeli soldiers on Tik Tok, strangling it to death.

9. In truth, it's nothing new. As historians know, this is the latest act in an ethnic cleansing that began in 1948, and whose tools are forced displacement (over 6 million Palestinians are refugees in neighboring countries), apartheid of Israel's Arab citizens (kept under 20% of the country's population), the murderous and violent colonization of the West Bank, the destruction of Palestinian land and infrastructure, and the normalization of arbitrary detentions, executions, torture and sexual abuse, including in Israeli camps where 9,700 Palestinians, most of them kidnapped, were being arbitrarily detained in July 2024. Nothing new, and that's the problem.

10. In the year following October 7, 2023, Gaza's Ministry of Health has counted 41,689 Palestinian deaths because of Israel's war, the overwhelming majority of them civilians and, according to the UN, over 15,000 children. That's without counting the number of wounded (at least 96,625) and sick, the chronically ill (around 350,000), the malnourished and starving (100% of the population), the severely mentally harmed (100% of the population), in a situation where hospitals have been systematically bombed by Israel. Schools, places of worship, universities, housing, refugee centers, water management infrastructures, heritage – nothing is spared. In August, the UN satellite agency reported a volume of debris in Gaza 14 times greater than the combined total of all the conflicts of the last 16 years. The body politic of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has been effectively annihilated. To understand the extent of the massacre and the intent behind it, we need to add up the direct and indirect victims, and multiply these figures (based on the experience of past wars and genocides) by a factor of 3 to 15[3]. that puts Palestinian deaths to date at between 150,000 and 770,000, or 9% to 30% of the Gazan population. But while the countries of the Global South and a few rare voices in the North call for an end to the genocide, the USA and Germany continue to deliver arms, unperturbed.

11. There are several conclusions to be drawn from these events, which will enable us to get to the heart of the problem facing all societies today.

12. First conclusion: the crime of genocide does not exist in a binary yes/no mode. It is a process, beginning with an aim and ending with its implementation by all kinds of means, not just State means. In this respect, when the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concluded that there was a "real and imminent risk of genocide" in January 2024, it established de facto that genocide was underway. By the same reasoning, Russia's abduction of Ukrainian children and their Russification amounts to genocide (Art. II, e), as does China's treatment of the Uighur people. Second conclusion: the alliance between Israel, the USA, Germany and a few others points to the rise of white capitalism, a trans-imperial formation whose supremacism is being exercised here against the Arab populations of the Middle East. As has been demonstrated time and again, capitalist States use racism in their imperialist ventures as much as in the colonization of their own populations. Third conclusion: capitalism, now complete on a planetary scale, is experiencing an acceleration in the frequency of its crises, due to its illimitation in a world of limited resources. The capitalist response to each crisis of capital is the same: to proceed with the fascization of society, with the aim of ensuring the further concentration of capital and the continuity of existing privileges, through the militarization of States, authoritarianism and the transformation of market competition into a war of "us" against "them" (à la Huntington). Low-key fascism has become the norm in "liberal democracies". Fourth conclusion: the war between rival capitalisms (American, Chinese, Russian, Indian, Europeans) is expressed by the intensification of imperialist struggles aimed at securing a greater capacity to mobilize resources, both material and human. The instrumentalization of racism leads to the total degradation of populations of no interest to capital. Understood as waste, they are integrated by capitalism via an economy of destruction that identifies them with the material substratum of their living environment. And so, after Gaza, the bombs rain down on Lebanon. Two lessons here: the imperative of control over the world’s most important oil-producing region remains a priority for US imperialism; the ensuing demand for "regional normalization" authorizes the treatment of hostile populations living there as enemies or waste to be eliminated. The USA and its allies, in any case, are arming this annihilation. There is a clear continuity here between the Nazi holocaust of the Jews and the genocide of the Palestinians by Israel and its allies, insofar as both peoples were/are treated as "obstacles" to a supremacist project, and put to death with capitalist tools. Fifth conclusion: since capitalist rationality is built on the reification of "nature", every non-human being is assimilated to a commodity. In this context, identifying a human being with "nature" is tantamount to degrading them: the Negro slave is historically the figure of the identification of human beings with a commodified nature, transformed into pure labor or merchandise. At the other extreme, this logic implies that the supremacy of one race over another is ipso facto the domination of the "human" over "nature". Capitalism, linked to the techno-scientific project of modernity, cannot be understood outside the interweaving of genocide – the destruction of peoples as raw material – and ecocide. Indeed, it is impossible to defend human rights without also defending the rights of nature.

13. How do capitalism and genocide fit together? First, on the immediate material level, capitalism, because it is defined by growth and because growth is today unrestrained, necessarily leads to the normalization of exclusion in the mobilization of resources. In order to exclude, capitalism engages social and State forces to degrade the target populations so as to dispose of them as pure resources. This zone of organized death is a potential reality anywhere on the planet, for all living beings: whether it's a matter of grabbing a territory rich in raw materials, gentrifying a neighborhood, managing immigration, or building a factory. Capitalism’s dream is to achieve an absolute mobilization of resources, viewing life as matter to be destroyed and shaped at will at the service of profit. Second, capitalism, on the immaterial level, is indexed to the valorization of value, i.e. to the valorization of capital, through constant and unfettered growth, in profit, in size and scale. As a result, capitalism enters a crisis at the first sign of a decline in surplus value. The response to this decline is always the same: for the same quantity produced, reduce human labor by replacing it with dead labor (machines, AI, etc.); and/or increase the quantities produced to at least maintain the level of surplus value. This has a twofold effect: it increases the absolute number of excluded/wastes that can be eliminated without damaging capitalism; and it increases global environmental predation, as shown by N. Machado[4].

14. The Palestinians are the figure of a population relegated to the rank of waste in the capitalist order, since they have been and are kept outside the global logic of value. In truth, they are valued more from being massacred than from being kept alive, since they are much more integrated into the logic of value through the arms market, and later through the market of “reconstruction”. If we shift the focus to other populations kept outside the circuits of valorization and "sitting" on exploitable resources, the conclusion is similar: their extermination is required by the demand to maximize profit; or, at the very least, their forced displacement. Extraction to maintain growth has as its necessary flip side the erasure of the rights of these populations, which happens simply by the signature of business contracts.

15. This dynamic gives rise to what we call, following A. Mbembé, a necropolitics[5]. At the heart of this process is integrated capitalism's ability to play both sides of the public/private, State/entrepreneurial divide, enabling it to pre-empt the legislative capacity of political bodies and the right of populations to self-determination. We can speak with S. Sassen of predatory formations: individual decisions and actions certainly matter, "but they are part of larger assemblages of mutually reinforcing elements, conditions and dynamics" (Expulsions, 2014). On the other side, States in turn attempt to capture these polymorphous flows, giving rise to what G. Deleuze and F. Guattari have called State war machines, which "take war as their object, and form a line of destruction extendable to the limits of the universe" (A Thousand Plateaus, 1980).

16. Confronted with these realities, international institutions are unable to give force to the law of which they are the depositories. As in the case of the ICJ's judgments concerning Israel, they can only observe their powerlessness to compel established powers, whether they be States protected by their military might[6], or transnational corporations that flout borders and rules and surpass most of the world's States in power.

17. The genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza signals the fate of all living beings confronted with the "progress" of capital, which its servants believe and desire to be the ultimate sovereign. At the crossroads of other fetishisms (that of the nation, that of religion, that of technology), effectual death materializes the abstraction of value: it consecrates the supremacy of capital over all other forms of social relations (this is, strictly speaking, the fetishism of value). With no conceivable opposition to stop it, capitalist necropolitics is this power that exists only by putting its destructive capacity to the test, by casting the concrete shadow of a supreme predation.

[1] Y. Abraham, "'Order from Amazon': How tech giants are storing mass data for Israel's war", https://www.972mag.com/cloud-israeli-army-gaza-amazon-google-microsoft/.

[2] https://law4palestine.org/law-for-palestine-releases-database-with-500-instances-of-israeli-incitement-to-genocide-continuously-updated/

[3] This is the methodology of an article published by R. Khatib, M. McKee and S. Yusufin in The Lancet on July 10, 2024, Cf. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext.

[4] N. M. C. Machado, La limite écologique du capitalisme, in Jaggernaut n°4, 2022, pp. 26-27.

[5] Published in 2006, https://shs.cairn.info/revue-raisons-politiques-2006-1-page-29.

[6] It seems pointless to hope for any change in this respect until the veto power at the United Nations held by the USA, China, Russia, France and the UK has been abolished.

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yuri-for-businesswomen · 1 year ago

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since the end of world war two - which was a reset as the world was devastated by war and shocked about the holocaust and other atrocities committed by nazi germany and the axis powers - the usa (in no particular order):

had segregation until only around 50 years ago despite taking the moral high ground for beating the racist nazis

granted immunity to nazis and actively recruited nazi scientists

declared the war on communism costing hundreds of thousands of lives and ravaging vietnam as well as funding islamistic terrorism as a countermeasure

then declaring the war on terrorism after the war on communism backfired with 9/11 costing another thousands if not millions of lives with devastating consequences for countries like afghanistan

destabilised and hindered democracy in several countries and regions that still deal with the consequences today such as venezuela

declared the war on drugs but also had a cia funded crack epidemic

have built a wall on the mexican but not the canadian border

spent billions over billions for military and other operations to control other countries and have the most power on a global scale while many of the population cant even afford healthcare and live in very precarious situations or even without housing due to the unwillingness to regulate corporations and grant better workers and tenants rights

refuse to regulate big corporations and let technology companies grow unchecked which is kind of ruining the internet

claim to hate religious fundamentalism when its about islam while evangelicals are one of the most powerful political groups and fundamentalists are allowed to homeschool and isolate their kids

abused the jews wish for their own country to install the state of israel for control in the middle east, funding displacement and systematic cleansing of palestinians with the help of the british

still systematically discriminate against the native population and leave them in a vulnerable position leading to a huge issue with kidnapping, trafficking and unsolved murders of native girls and women

has almost 5 % of its population incarcerated who then are not allowed to vote with 30 % of the female prison population being prostitutes

have a sham democracy run by billionaires and reagan is mainly responsible for undoing social progress by enforcing neoliberalism and lying about trickle down effects

have no public broadcast and all news sources are privatised

still have the death penalty and abortion bans in some states

probably a shit ton more im forgetting now

yet usamericans have the gull to get on a high horse and point fingers at other countries because what? a european was mean online? lmao. and what gets me the most is that they often couldnt even name the president or point out said countries on a map.

people joke about the usa because they have made themselves out to be land of the free, the best country in the world, the worlds cop, the poster child democracy, while miserably failing their own people, immigrants following the promise set by the usa for a better life, and every country that was unlucky enough to be invaded and destabilised by the us military and the cia. on top the usa have a hegemonic grip on the majority of the globe and export culture wars and propaganda through hollywood movies and shows especially to other western countries. so give me a break

#im not saying usamericans can never criticise other countries especially western ones #its the attitude that gets me #and sometimes maybe its better to focus on domestic issues because there are more than enough #i know my usa critical posts are not very popular but i dont care #i cant always be posting peer approved takes #rambling

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longwindedbore · 5 months ago

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Progressives bleating ‘Elon Musk is acting like he’s POTUS doing this and that domestically and in foreign countries blah, blah, blah’

Are we still not yet understanding that the true shot-callers in our ‘Democracy’ are the oligarchs who control the financial sector in conjunction with oligarchs who control natural resources and the major economic hegemonies which utilize those resources?

Do we still believe that POTUS and the Legislature run domestic or foreign policy?

Even after -

Vietnam (rubber takeover attempt #4** Couldn’t get it out of a combat zone after 10 years of occupation so EVERY domestic tire company closed up shop in the 1970s and we pull out)

Iraq 1 and 2 (oil competitor UNDERCUTTING USA export prices)

Afghanistan (the effing Taliban was going to eradicate opium just as pharmaceuticals got it approved! Oops…decades later opioid addiction crises and big lawsuit…pull out! Pull out! Pull out!),

Panama in any decade (raising prices on the oligarchs without giving them a chance to raise prices on us first!)

Niger (who knew we had troops doing security for lithium mining?)

Etc

Consider that that the current foreign ‘threats’ are…coincidentally…the last two oil producing countries - Iran and Venezuela - who are willing to undercut our export prices?

At best our voting putting Dems in power can result in some limited actual trickle-down for the 99.9%. I used to think the Dems could ameliorate foreign hardships but then there was Gaza 2024.

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Skip the following if you thought the foregoing was tedious.

**All wars are for Plunder. The US made plays for French rubber in

#1. 1917-1919.

Wilson brought the US into WW1 (a war to seize colonies) immediately after the Bolsheviks concluded a peace treaty with the Central Powers.

The British and French debt for munitions and materials was so high it would have collapsed the US economy. Handing over the British/French rubber concessions in SE Asia would have gone a long way to paying the debts. (I suspect but have no evidence that Pershing kept most US soldiers off the battlefields for a year not for training as the history books state. Some contrivance over the debt and possibly seizing colonies by having the only unexhausted army in the field?)

The Brits and the French instead violated the terms of the Armistice Cease-fire (no victors) and, with Wilson’s contrivance, shifted the debt to newly declared ‘surrendered’ Germany which was stripped of its colonies and trade concessions.

The reparations forced on the Weimar German Republic, of course, created the conditions fueling the Fascist takeover.

#2. 1941.

FDR assumed it was likely that the Japanese would honor their Defense agreement with Germany and attack the Soviet Union in 1941.

At which point the US and Britain were going to seize Indonesia oil and French rubber before the Nazi occupation governments in Europe could assert control over the colonies.

The fleet sunk at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7th was the Pacific Coast Home Fleet and should have been at its home bases in San Diego, San Francisco and Puget Sound Washington (see Major General Smedly Butler’s ‘War is a Racket’)

Instead the PCHF had been shifted to Pearl to provide support for the Asian Pacific Fleet whose home base was Subic Bay.

As soon as the Japanese fleet sailed from their home bases in November 1941 the US APF left Subic Bay steaming for SE Asia.

HOWEVER, the Japanese viewed their mutual defense obligation to Hitler voided because he attacked the USSR rather than being attacked.

So the superior Japanese battleships steamed to to SE Asia while their aircraft carriers steamed in complete radio silence toward Pearl.

In SE Asia the Japanese sunk the British Indian Ocean fleet as well as a joint Dutch/British/US APC fleet.

In the Philippines, MacArthur moved the US colonial forces to Bataan Penisula for the same reason Cornwallis moved his forces to Yorktown Pennisula and n 1781 - to prepare for forces to be evacuated.

Both Generals were unaware of where their respective fleets were. Ironically, both fleets were sent to plunder Dutch island colonies. Neither fleet was successful. Neither fleet returned for the abandoned soldiers.

Successful defense of the Philippines with both US fleets intact and a U.S./Phillipine army against a Japanese invasion had been considered a ‘fantasy’ as far back as the 1920s. The Navy and Marines in the 20s began preparing for the island-hopping retake that eventually occurred.

Accordingly, MacArthur grounded his obsolete aircraft to preserve the skilled pilots who’d have been sitting ducks for the Japanese Zeros.

[So much of US ‘history’ is rigorously factual with dates but uses whitewashing mythology as interpretation of events. I spent a long afternoon with Wikipedia’s entry ‘United States Asiatic Fleet’ which has a horrendous list of loses for late 1941 to early 1942. I did a spread sheet of when they sailed and where they were sunk to reinterpret all the texts I’d ever read on the War in the Pacific ]

#3. 1950s

[Haven’t studied this cluster-F in depth]. For whatever reason at the end of WW2 the US decided to back the French and Dutch in reclaiming their colonies (probably a white vs brown issue?). So we supported the French against US trained in WW2 Vietnamese revolutionaries The French lost.

The nation was partitioned in two.

I suspect we could have gotten the rubber cheaper from the Vietnamese than the French.

#4. 1965-1975

Neither Detroit nor the domestic tire manufacturers wanted to invest in the massive cost to change over to radial tires from the rubber tires we’d been using.

Nixon sunk the tire manufacturer’s hope for getting rubber by committing treason. To secure the 1968 election Nixon got the President/Dictator of South Vietnam to reject the Johnson Admin peace treaty. The 1968 Democratic Party was split between factions for/against the War in the same way the Democratic Party was split in 2024 for/against the Palestinians in Gaza

As the war dragged on foreign vehicles with radial tires made inroads in the US market. The tire manufacturers decided not to invest, closed their factories and sold their brand names. Detroit retooled for imported radials.

And NO, the obsolete factory machinery wasnt disassembled, packed up, and shipped to foreign countries. The machinery was disassembled, different metals and alloys separated, and shipped to scrapyards or junkyards.

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bopinion · 7 months ago

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Aperçu of the week

„F-e-a-r has two meanings: Forget everything and run. Or Face everything and rise."

(Thomas Wirth on his transportable mega artwork "Global Gate", which is currently on display at the Zollverein UNESCO World Heritage Site in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia)

Bad News of the Week

"The Sick Man of Europe" was the headline of the British business magazine 'The Economist' in 1999, describing the toxic mixture of the burdens of reunification, a rigid labor market, excessive social benefits and a lack of dynamism that weighed Germany down at the time. 25 years later, it's that time again. Because Europe's largest economy is sick again. And this time even more fundamentally. And with very bad timing.

Yes, there was the coronavirus shock. And yes, there were supply chain problems and inflation. But the fundamental problem is homemade: Germany has been asleep politically and economically. And must now be careful not to fall into a coma. Like Japan, Germany has always been an exporter of high-quality goods. And, like Japan, has been too slow and inadequate in adapting to a new global economy. The shift of the dominant nations, the USA and China, has made it a very different one today than it was ten years ago.

Thanks to its huge market, China has been able to force foreign companies to settle locally and enter into partnerships. Originally "the world's extended workbench", China was able to benefit from an enormous transfer of technological knowledge in a short space of time. And thus became a quality supplier itself. As a result, China now covers more of its own production needs and has also become a serious competitor on the global market. Both bad for exporting nations.

The USA, on the other hand, has once again placed itself at the forefront of technological development (connectivity, digital, AI, etc.) and at the same time has brought industrial production back into the country through an increasingly isolationist trade policy. The restrictions imposed by Donald Trump in his first term of office were not (!) reversed by Joe Biden's government. And Trump has unequivocally announced that he will continue to tighten the America First screw - his declared favorite word is "import tariffs". Both bad for exporting nations.

The German flagship industry, automotive manufacturing, is symptomatic of the general economic trend. After decades of success stories and technological and brand leadership, we were crushed by electromobility. Which we underestimated in many respects. For example, the fact that it considerably simplifies vehicle construction - which brings us back to the competitive pressure from the USA and China. Now the share prices of our former industrial jewels are plummeting, short-time work is being introduced everywhere and now there is even talk of entire plant closures: Volkswagen - not long ago worlds biggest manufacturer - alone wants to close three German factories.

The political magazine Cicero analyzes: "The location conditions in Germany are getting worse and worse. In particular, the excessive bureaucracy, the tax burden and the high energy prices are having a negative impact. If politicians fail to find solutions here, things will look bad for the industrial future." Rising unemployment will increase social spending. At the same time, labor costs will continue to rise due to inflation. And the infrastructure, which has been neglected for 20 years, should be urgently and expensively modernized. Not to mention the necessary climate-neutral restructuring of the economy. I find it difficult to be optimistic about our economic future right now...

Good News of the Week

Lately, Ukraine has had to accept rather bad news from the USA. Donald Trump himself and his entourage have confirmed more than once that the extensive military aid from the USA will certainly not continue in full. This means that half of the arms deliveries are at risk and full compensation from other countries - Germany is a distant second - is practically impossible.

But now there has probably been a kind of farewell gift from Joe Biden, which could possibly even be a game changer. It concerns long-range weapons systems and their use on Russian territory. Until now, this was formally prohibited, as Ukraine's partner countries wanted to avoid the escalation of being seen as a party of war themselves. Specifically, this means that the US ATACMS missiles with their range of 300 kilometers can also be deployed behind the Russian border.

This is a decisive strategic advantage that replaces a previous disadvantage. Until now, the aggressor's supply routes, weapons depots, military bases, etc. have been practically unassailable. The outcry on the Russian side is correspondingly great. The "first deputy chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Russian Federation Council" (yeah, that's his title) Vladimir Jabarov even speaks of an "unprecedented step of escalation that could lead to the start of the Third World War".

Ukraine's NATO neighbor Poland, for example, sounds different. Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski wrote on Twitter that Biden had responded to the deployment of North Korean troops to Russia and the massive Russian missile attacks on Ukraine "in a language that Vladimir Putin understands". Let's hope so. And let's also hope that Germany, for example, allows the use of its Taurus cruise missiles, which experts see as ideal for Ukrainian defense purposes. The current Chancellor Olaf Scholz has always refused to do so. By contrast, the likely incoming chancellor (in the early elections at the end of February 2025), conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz, is in favor. As far as I know, this is the only position where I am leaning more towards Merz than Scholz. So at least there's something good in this respect too...

Personal happy moment of the week

I've really thought about it. But I'm so stressed at the moment that happiness just doesn't get enough attention. But I did remember one thing: we got our winter tires fitted just in time before the first snow. You get modest in age... ;-)

I couldn't care less...

...that it is always possible to use legal sophistry to overturn a groundbreaking court ruling. In this case, and once again at the expense of the environment. The British-Dutch oil and natural gas giant Shell does not have to drastically reduce its CO2 emissions after all. This is because a civil court in The Hague overturned a corresponding climate ruling by the court of first instance and dismissed the lawsuit brought by environmentalists. The latter had originally demanded that the company reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by a net 45 percent by 2030. However, the appeal chamber found that this figure lacked a "reliable basis for calculation". Excuse me? So now - exactly: nothing is happening.

It's fine with me...

...that fat doesn't always have to be bad. It's actually considered fattening. And extremely unhealthy, especially belly fat, which not only looks shitty (I've been developing alarmingly for ten years now), but can also damage the organs. However, a study by the Charité hospital in Berlin and the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) in Potsdam has now shown that a diet containing polyunsaturated fatty acids - such as those found in oils, nuts, avocado or fish - not only melts belly fat, but also has a positive effect on cholesterol levels, blood pressure and the brain. That should give me pause for thought.

As I write this...

...EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is putting together her new Commission. Each country has the right to one post - with 27 countries in the European Union, this is quite a large governing body. Its members are appointed by the respective country. So in the case of Italy, for example, Raffaele Fitto from the right-wing Fratelli d'Italia is actually an imposition - but in the shadow of Viktor Orban, everyone seems harmless. Nevertheless, von der Leyen seems to have managed to find a balanced personnel tableau. This is also necessary, as this Commission can only be confirmed as a whole by the European Parliament. Or not.

Post Scriptum

Apparently, New Zealand is not a perfect world either. At least not for the original population, because ruthless colonialism was also practiced there. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has publicly apologized in parliament for the immense suffering that occurred according to an investigation by the Royal Commission of Inquiry. Around 200,000 mainly young people and mainly indigenous Maori experienced violence in New Zealand's state and religious institutions between 1950 and 1999. In view of a population of just 5 million, this is a huge number. This means that almost one in three people under protection suffered some form of abuse. We're talking about rape, electric shocks and sterilization, among other things. Whew, that's hard to take. I could cry over their wounded souls.

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More than 200 lawmakers from 13 countries issued a joint statement Friday expressing opposition to their nations' weapons exports to Israel and pledging to do everything in their power to halt the flow of arms that are being used to massacre Palestinians in Gaza."

We, the undersigned parliamentarians, declare our commitment to end our nations' arms sales to the state of Israel," reads the statement, which was coordinated by Progressive International. "Our bombs and bullets must not be used to kill, maim, and dispossess Palestinians. But they are: We know that lethal weapons and their parts, made or shipped through our countries, currently aid the Israeli assault on Palestine that has claimed over 30,000 lives across Gaza and the West Bank."

The statement's signatories include legislators from Israel's top allies and weapons suppliers, including the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Canada. Just two U.S. lawmakers—Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Cori Bush (D-Mo.)—backed the statement.

#palestine #israel #us politics #germany #united kingdom #france

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Could Turkey buy Gripens from Sweden if the Eurofighters are denied?

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 05/01/2024 - 19:32in Military

Turkey has repeatedly stated that it has other options for fighters if Germany does not raise its opposition to a proposed agreement for 40 newly built Eurofighter Typhoon fighters.

Is it conceivable that Turkey will consider resorting to Sweden for its capable Saab JAS39 Gripen after Ankara approves Stockholm's admission to NATO?

November reports revealed that Turkey has started negotiations with Great Britain and France for the more advanced version of the Eurofighter.

Since then, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared that his country has “many other doors to knock on” for the combat jets if Germany persists with its opposition.

As a member of the Eurofighter consortium, Berlin has the right of effective veto over which countries Great Britain, Spain and Italy can export the game. He blocked the British sale of 48 additional Eurofighter Typhoons to Saudi Arabia, which is probably the reason why Riyadh is now discussing the purchase of Dassault Rafales from France.

Turkey is also waiting for the approval of 40 new F-16s from the United States. He expects the U.S. Congress to approve the sale, proposed for the first time in October 2021, in exchange for Turkey raising its objections to Sweden's accession to NATO. At the end of December, the foreign affairs committee of the Turkish parliament voted for the ratification of Sweden's accession, awaiting final ratification and approval by the general assembly.

Sweden's admission to NATO would remove some obstacles to Turkey's acquisition of F-16, although it is not clear whether this would influence Germany. It is unlikely that Turkey will resort to France in search of Rafales for a number of reasons, and the purchase of Russian fighters increases the undesirable prospect of additional American sanctions. Turkey has already suffered sanctions for the purchase of Russian S-400 air defense missiles and has also been expelled from the F-35 program.

As described above, Turkey may still look for Eurofighters if the F-16 agreement is approved. However, if the Eurofighters were denied, then a comparable fighter would be needed, and the Gripen undoubtedly fits the profile as a suitable alternative to many of the functions that Ankara imagines the Eurofighter to fulfill.

The sale of Gripens to Ankara would also mark the first export of these jets to the Middle East. Even though it is a very reputable fighter, the export history of the Gripen is quite gloomy compared to the Eurofighter and the Rafale. A successful sale to Turkey could pave the way for more sales.

France fought for years to export the Rafale. The sale of Rafale in 2015 to Egypt gradually opened the way for multiple sales, the most profitable being undoubtedly the $19 billion agreement with the United Arab Emirates in December 2021 for 80 jets.

Suleyman Ozeren, a professor at the American University and a senior member of the Orion Policy Institute, believes that Turkey's prolonged blockade of Sweden's accession to NATO will make any potential agreement with Gripen unlikely.

“Although Ankara has guaranteed some concessions from Stockholm, such as the lifting of the ban on the export of military equipment to Turkey, the point is that Turkey has exaggerated Sweden's candidacy for NATO membership,” Ozeren told me.

“It took too long for Ankara to complete the process without presenting convincing arguments and practical excuses, other than trying to pressure Stockholm to give up more concessions,” he said. “This dragged approach frustrated Sweden so much that it seemed that Ankara hijacked the NATO membership candidacy.”

Ozeren believes that Turkey will probably continue to explore its options for other fighters, including the Gripens, if Congress continues to postpone the F-16 agreement.

"However, given the current situation, Ankara may have to do more than ask Stockholm for the Gripens to normalize their relationship," he said. "Therefore, Ankara's best bet is still the offer of the F-16, which also includes a modernization component for the existing F-16s."

Ozeren also believes that Turkey will still be able to "purse its interest" in the Eurofighters if the F-16 agreement is approved in order to diversify its air force. But neither the F-16 Block 70, the latest Tranche Eurofighter, nor the Gripen are long-term replacements for fifth-generation stealth aircraft.

“Even if the Eurofighter may have formidable capabilities, it will not replace what the F-35s can offer, which also means what Ankara lost when buying the S-400s from Russia,” Ozeren said.

"As for the Gripens, considering all the circumstances, the possibility of acquiring them is a distant enterprise for Ankara."

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“The Kremlin’s vaunted military machine became mired in thick Ukrainian mud before having to surrender most of its initial gains. The repercussions are being felt everywhere. In Moldova, the government has openly condemned a Russian coup plot. In the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, Russian peacekeepers have been standing by helplessly while Azerbaijan reinstates its sovereignty over the disputed Karabakh region. Russia has been forced to inform its longtime Armenian allies that they must accept that Karabakh Armenians live in Azerbaijan. In Kazakhstan, the government has broken from Moscow, signaling its support for Ukraine’s sovereignty.

The effects are nowhere stronger than in Europe, where Poland now aspires to become the next military superpower, the Baltic states welcome a permanent NATO presence and Germany has promised to rearm against the menace in the East.

The most cataclysmic changes for Russia have been north of the Baltic Sea, where the neutral countries of Finland and Sweden flew into the arms of NATO and its Article Five protections. Putin claimed that Ukraine’s NATO pretentions were an existential threat to the Russian Federation — Kyiv is, after all, only an 11-hour drive from Moscow. But Putin now shares a NATO border with Finland, a mere five-hour drive from Saint Petersburg.

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The biggest wildcard now is China. After declaring its relationship with Russia as something closer than an alliance, China announced that it would not provide lethal aid to Russia. Now it has gone a step further, declaring that it will ban the export of its dual-use drones.

On balance, America is backing the winning side in this global competition. Despite the Russian/Chinese propaganda that America is a nation in decline, it still maintains the greatest conventional military in the world. Its nuclear arsenal is only matched by Russia’s; its economy is the marvel of the world. And Russia has almost single-handedly done something the United States could not do: expand and reinvigorate the American-led NATO alliance.

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Putin’s worldview, however, visible to all since the 2007 Munich Security Conference, is that America is an implacable enemy that must be stopped from imposing its values on the Russian world. Negotiations cannot alter this perception — they can only give Putin time to rearm and renew his struggle with the West.

The U.S. should continue to support Ukraine in its struggle for independence from its northern hegemon. At the same time, it should look to other fronts that will weaken the Kremlin’s desire to continue fighting.

Renewed ties with China will go a long way toward stymying Moscow. America should also help other countries facing Russian occupation. Moldova would like to restore its sovereignty over its territory; Armenia and Azerbaijan do not need Russian troops on the border; Georgia should not be bound by a unilateral renunciation of force that Russia has never reciprocated.

It is time for the U.S. to stop looking toward the next election drama in Washington, D.C., and reclaim its title as leader of the Free World.”

#russia #ukraine #russia ukraine war #putin #vladimir putin #imperialism #nato

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Switzerland and Austria have signed a declaration of intent to join the European air defence system Sky Shield.

The system was initiated by Germany following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and is designed to allow European countries to buy defence systems together, and train together.

It's being viewed as a historic moment for neutral Switzerland.

But some Swiss fear the move compromises their country's long standing neutrality.

Joining a Europe wide defence system would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, but Russia's invasion of Ukraine has focused minds.

The continent is unstable, and for many European countries an upgrade of air defences has become inevitable. The Swiss government says working with European neighbours on a common system makes both strategic and financial sense.

Austria is also a neutral country, and the government in Vienna argues that by pooling military resources it is able to maintain that status.

This is not the first dent in Switzerland's traditionally strict neutrality.

As part of Nato's partnership for peace it has had a peacekeeping battalion in Kosovo for two decades. And, to Moscow's anger, it has joined EU sanctions against Russia.

Nineteen countries have now signed up for the Sky Shield initiative, including the UK, the Nordic and Baltic countries, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.

But some right-wing Swiss politicians fear Sky Shield is a compromise too far.

If an attack heading for one of its Sky Shield neighbours flew over Switzerland, for example, would the Swiss shoot it down, even if it wasn't involved in the conflict?

In signing an agreement to join the initiative, Switzerland and Austria have stressed their neutrality remains unchanged, but that hypothetical question hasn't really been answered. Probably they are hoping such a situation would never arise.

But the debate over sanctions, and now over Sky Shield, is just part of a wider Swiss soul-searching over neutrality.

Its historic origins dating back to the 19th Century have become obscured by the myth. At the time, Switzerland was sandwiched between much bigger, often warring powers, and it suited them to have a neutral buffer in between.

During World War Two, the Swiss defended their borders, but carefully stayed out of the conflict by making compromises with both Allied and Axis powers. Their population, and their cities, emerged virtually unscathed - which contributed to Switzerland's economic success today.

But now Switzerland is a member of the United Nations, and the UN has said Russia's invasion is a violation of the UN Charter.

Last month the Swiss parliament voted against a proposal to allow Swiss-made weapons and ammunition to be sent to Ukraine.

The decision is out of step with Switzerland's neighbours and some here have become frustrated by what they see as an outdated construct of neutrality.

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Everything You Need to Know About Shipping From Germany to Israel

Shipping internationally can seem overwhelming, especially when you're navigating customs regulations, delivery timelines, and multiple shipping options. Whether you're a business sending inventory, a traveler relocating, or an individual sending personal packages, shipping from Germany to Israel requires planning and understanding of key logistics. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know to ensure your shipment arrives safely, affordably, and on time.

Why Ship From Germany to Israel?

Germany is one of the world’s top exporters, known for its high-quality goods, technology, and engineering. Shipping from Germany to Israel is common for:

Online purchases from German retailers

eCommerce fulfillment for Israeli customers

Personal gifts and packages

Business logistics and B2B trade

Relocation and moving services

With strong trade ties and efficient shipping infrastructure, Germany offers various options to suit different shipping needs to Israel.

Main Shipping Options From Germany to Israel

1. Air Freight

Air freight is the fastest and most reliable option for shipping urgent or high-value goods. It is suitable for:

Electronics and luxury items

Documents and paperwork

Express delivery needs

Delivery time: 2 to 6 business days Pros: Fast, trackable, secure Cons: More expensive than sea freight

2. Sea Freight

Sea freight is ideal for heavy or bulk shipments that are not time-sensitive. This includes:

Household goods for relocation

Commercial or industrial shipments

Large product orders for resellers

Delivery time: 3 to 5 weeks Pros: Cost-effective for large loads Cons: Slower delivery, port handling required

3. International Courier Services

Leading courier companies like DHL, FedEx, UPS, TNT, and Aramex provide door-to-door delivery from Germany to Israel with reliable tracking.

Best for:

Small to medium-sized packages

eCommerce orders

Personal parcels

Delivery time: 2 to 5 business days Services offered: Express, Economy, and tracked options

4. Postal Services

Deutsche Post and Israel Post collaborate for economical shipping of letters, documents, and small parcels. It’s the most affordable method but may be slower.

Delivery time: 1 to 3 weeks Best for: Lightweight items, low-value goods Note: Tracking may be limited for economy shipments

Customs & Import Duties in Israel

Shipping from Germany to Israel involves customs clearance. It’s important to know what to expect to avoid unexpected delays or charges.

Documents Required

Invoice or Pro Forma Invoice

Packing List

Waybill or shipping label

Import license (for restricted items)

Duties & Taxes

VAT in Israel is typically 17% on most imports.

Customs duties vary based on the item type and declared value.

Trade agreements between Germany and Israel may offer reduced tariffs.

Prohibited/Restricted Items

Firearms and ammunition

Certain food and agricultural products

Hazardous chemicals

Counterfeit goods

Medical products without approval

Always check with Israeli Customs for the most up-to-date information.

Estimated Shipping Costs from Germany to Israel

Costs vary based on factors like package weight, dimensions, delivery speed, and carrier. Here’s a general idea:Shipping MethodCost (Est.)Delivery TimeDHL Express€40 – €702–4 business daysFedEx Economy€35 – €603–6 business daysDeutsche Post (Parcel)€15 – €307–15 business daysSea Freight (per CBM)€80 – €1503–5 weeks

Use shipping calculators on courier websites for real-time estimates.

Tips for Safe & Efficient Shipping

1. Package Properly

Use sturdy boxes and secure packing materials like bubble wrap or foam. Label “fragile” items clearly.

2. Label Accurately

Include both sender and receiver’s full name, address, phone number, and email. Use both Latin and Hebrew if needed.

3. Declare Correct Value

Under-declaring can result in delays or fines. Always declare the actual value of goods.

4. Track Your Package

Choose services that offer tracking and delivery confirmation.

5. Insure High-Value Items

Add insurance for expensive items to protect against loss or damage.

Using Package Forwarding Services

Many German retailers do not offer international shipping. You can still order from them using package forwarding services like:

MyGermany

Shipito

Forward2Me

How It Works:

Order your product and ship it to that address.

The forwarder receives it, repacks (if needed), and ships to your address in Israel.

This is ideal for:

Accessing local-only deals

Consolidating multiple orders

Saving on international shipping fees

Best Carriers for Shipping From Germany to Israel

Here are trusted companies for reliable deliveries:

DHL Express – Great for fast, secure shipping

FedEx International – Offers economy and express options

UPS – Trusted for commercial logistics

Deutsche Post + Israel Post – Affordable for light items

Aramex – Popular in the Middle East

EMS International – Government postal express service

FAQs: Shipping From Germany to Israel

Q1: How long does it take to ship a package from Germany to Israel?

It depends on the method:

Express courier: 2–5 days

Postal service: 7–15 days

Sea freight: 3–5 weeks

Q2: Can I track my shipment?

Yes, most courier and postal services offer tracking. Economy mail may have limited tracking updates.

Q3: Do I need to pay tax on personal shipments?

Yes. If the item value exceeds Israel’s tax-free threshold, VAT and possible customs duties apply.

Q4: What is the cheapest way to ship from Germany to Israel?

For small, non-urgent items, Deutsche Post is usually the cheapest. For larger parcels, use economy courier or sea freight.

Q5: What happens if my package is delayed in customs?

Customs may hold packages for inspection or if documentation is incomplete. You or the recipient may be contacted for clarification or additional paperwork.

Conclusion

Shipping from Germany to Israel doesn’t have to be complicated. With the right carrier, proper documentation, and an understanding of customs procedures, you can ensure your package arrives safely and on time. Whether you're an eCommerce seller, expat, or online shopper, following this guide will help you choose the best shipping method based on speed, cost, and convenience.

Take the time to compare shipping rates, prepare your documents, and pack your goods securely—and you'll enjoy a hassle-free shipping experience between Germany and Israel.

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When U.S. President-elect Donald Trump was first elected in November 2016, many European countries rallied around German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the new leader of the free world. This time around, they will have to look somewhere else: The three-party coalition in Berlin under Chancellor Olaf Scholz has just collapsed after the Free Democrats—a small pro-business party—rebelled on the economic direction of the country.

The timing seems terrible after Trump’s reelection just the day before, which threatens to throw Europe and Germany into an era of instability. In reality, however, the crisis in Berlin could prove to be good news. The coalition of Scholz’s Social Democrats, Greens, and Free Democrats was the most dysfunctional, dithering, and divided German government in decades. The members of the coalition actively worked against one another on European Union affairs, Ukraine aid, China policy, and economic reform. With Trump returning to the White House, Germany and Europe cannot afford near-total paralysis in Berlin.

After the 2021 national election in Germany, the three parties declared “a new beginning” to break the reform stagnation of the Merkel era. Then, after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, they promised a reckoning with Germany’s old business model, which had depended on Russia for cheap gas, China for growing exports and investment, and the United States for military protection.

Two years on, even the rosiest of optimists would struggle to see the glass of change as even half full. Rather than step up as a leader of Europe and the West, the coalition abdicated leadership in Europe, avoided pressing strategic decisions, and pursued narrow national interests first. On Ukraine, Germany can scrape together a passing record at best. Yes, it has been one of the biggest donors, leads in commitments for heavy weapons deliveries, ranks second in total aid to Ukraine after the United States (although only 15th by aid as a percentage of GDP), and has accepted the most voluntary Ukrainian refugees of any country.

However, Germany has no strategic focus or sense of urgency. Going against his coalition partners and contrary to his own claims of being in lockstep with allies, Scholz has continued to prohibit the delivery of German-made Taurus missiles, even after Britain, France, and the United States delivered their own long-range strike missiles. And support for Ukraine has been cut and deprioritized in the 2025 federal budget, with the German government disingenuously declaring that loans backed by the interest earned by frozen Russian assets would offset the cuts. This clever use of Russian assets was supposed to expand Western aid, not replace it.

For its own defense spending, Germany finally reached NATO’s minimum of 2 percent of GDP this year, but the special off-budget fund created to boost spending to this level will run out in 2027. How Berlin intends to finance defense in 2028 and beyond is entirely unclear; the coalition simply kicked that can down the road. Social Democratic Defense Minister Boris Pistorius—the most popular politician in Germany, which is why the unpopular Scholz has largely sidelined him—said that the 2025 budget does not provide the necessary funds to cover increased personnel costs, much less to invest in new capabilities. Germany’s discussion about restoring conscription to its depleted forces led nowhere beyond a voluntary option. Far from becoming a leading security player and the “best-equipped armed force” in Europe, as Scholz promised, Germany looks to be continuing business as usual.

In Europe, the Scholz government has been seen as the most unilateral, inward-looking, and uncooperative German leadership in a long time. Not only did Berlin unilaterally reintroduce border controls in a panicked reaction to right-wing populists surging in opinion polls following a series of violent attacks involving migrants, but the German government’s representatives at the European Union were also increasingly abstaining from votes because the coalition’s three parties had no unified position.

Broader European interests seemed completely absent from German calculations; for example, when Germany joined Hungary, Malta, Slovakia, and Slovenia to vote against imposing tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. And Free Democrat Finance Minister Christian Lindner, whom Scholz fired on Nov. 6, was the first to say “no” to former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s proposal to increase European competitiveness with large-scale investments financed through joint debt.

With early elections expected by the end of March, it will be a new opportunity for Germany to assert leadership on these strategic issues. If a vote were held today, the most likely result would be a grand coalition of the right-of-center Christian Democrats and the left-of-center Social Democrats—with the former coming out on top and thus providing the chancellor. They collectively poll at about 48 percent of the vote. When Merkel, a Christian Democrat, was the chancellor, she ruled under this constellation for 12 of her 16 years in power, and although this time was marred by perceptions of inertia, a change of chancellorship could bring new strength to Germany’s foreign policy.

Friedrich Merz, the Christian Democrats’ party chairman and likely chancellor of a grand coalition, would finally achieve his life goal after having been pushed out from politics by Merkel two decades ago. On security, Merz has already signaled that he is more forward-leaning on Ukraine than Scholz. He publicly challenged Scholz to deliver Russian President Vladimir Putin an ultimatum: Stop attacking Ukrainian civilian infrastructure within 24 hours, or Germany will deliver Taurus missiles. Although Merz would need to follow up his rhetoric with action if and when he actually moves into government, a grand coalition could also provide new fiscal flexibility to underwrite defense spending and aid to Ukraine, since both parties could agree to loosen Germany’s fiscal restrictions, which Lindner and the Free Democrats opposed.

This would be the kind of leadership that Germany’s European partners have waited for since 2022, when Scholz proclaimed a Zeitenwende—or new era—in security and defense without ever following up. And that kind of leadership will be indispensable with war raging in Europe and Trump in the White House for a second term.

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Magic Circles Day

Monkey Around Day

Mourning and Hope Day (Lithuania)

National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Nazi German Concentration and Death Camps (Poland)

National Hoe Day

National Lion and Sun Day (Ethiopia)

National New Mexico Day

National YWCA Greater Los Angeles Unsung Heroes Day

No Kings Day

No Mailing Children Day

Obama Day (a.k.a. Obama Appreciation Day)

Own Your Share of America Day [Weekday closest to 6.14]

Pahaliraja (a.k.a. Pahili Day; India)

Pause for the Pledge Day [7 PM EDT]

Pig Callers’ Day

Pop Goes the Weasel Day

Raja (India)

Sandpaper Day

614 Day

Univac Day

U.S. Army Birthday

Women's Day (Iraq)

World Blood Donor Day (UN)

Yesterday and Today Recall Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Chicken Marengo Day

International Feta Day

National Bourbon Day

National Strawberry Shortcake Day

World Cucumber Day

Nature Celebrations

Dragonfly Day

Jasmine Day (French Republic)

National Skunk Day

Pimpernel Day (Bright Memories; Korean Birth Flowers)

Independence, Flag & Related Days

Flag Day (US)

Hawaii (Territory established; 1900)

Kopernik (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

Parliament Day (1st Session; Canada; 1841)

Roman Republic (Organized & 1st Consuls elected; 510 BCE)

2nd Saturday in June

Belmont Stakes [Saturday after 6.4]

Betty Picnic [2nd Saturday]

Dog Dad's Day [Saturday before Father's Day]

Family Health and Fitness Day [2nd Saturday]

Fathers Eve [Saturday before Father's Day]

Global Wellness Day [2nd Saturday]

International Drink Chenin Blanc Days, Day 2 [2nd Saturday]

International Yarmbombing Day [2nd Saturday]

International Young Eagles Day [2nd Saturday]

Missing Mutts Awareness Day [2nd Saturday]

National Dragonfly Day [2nd Saturday]

National Get Outdoors Day [2nd Saturday]

National Go RVing Day [2nd Saturday]

National Man Enough to be a Girl Scout Day [2nd Saturday]

National Marina Day [2nd Saturday]

National Outlet Shopping Day [2nd Saturday]

National Rosé Day [2nd Saturday; also 6.10]

National Sauna Day (Finland) [2nd Saturday]

The Queen’s Official Birthday (UK) [2nd Saturday]

Salad Saturday [2nd Saturday of Each Month]

Sandwich Saturday [Every Saturday]

Satirical Saturday [2nd Saturday of Each Month]

Six For Saturday [Every Saturday]

Spaghetti Saturday [Every Saturday]

Trooping the Colour (UK) [2nd Saturday]

World Bike Naked Day [2nd Saturday]

World Doll Day [2nd Saturday]

World Gin Day [2nd Saturday]

World Juggling Day [Saturday closest to 17th]

World Naked Bike Ride Day [2nd Saturday]

World Wide Knit in Public Day [2nd Saturday]

Weekly Holidays beginning June 14 (2nd Full Week of June)

Honor America Days (thru 7.4) [21 Days from 6.14)_

LA Beer Week (Los Angeles, California) [thru 6.22]

Pleasant Grove Strawberry Week (Pleasant Grove, Utah) [thru 6.22]

Festivals On or Beginning June 14, 2025

Arcata Bay Oyster Festival (Arcata, California)

Beer and BBQ Stroll (Westminster, Maryland)

Beer, Bacon & Cheese Festival (New Glarus, Wisconsin)

Berlin Biennale (Berlin, Germany) [thru 9.14]

Blueberry Jubilee (Poplarville, Mississippi)

Boulevardia (Kansas City, Missouri)

Brews on the Bricks (Hays, Kansas)

Cajun Fest (Purcellville, Virginia)

Cheshire Strawberry Festival (Cheshire, Connecticut)

Colorado Renaissance Festival (Larkspur, Colorado) [thru 8.3]

Cotuit Strawberry Festival (Cotuit, Massachusetts)

Hampton County Watermelon Festival (Hampton, South Carolina) [thru 6.21]

Highland Realm Blueberry Farm Bash (Hampshire, Mississippi)

Hong Kong Arts Festival (Hong Kong) [thru 7.4]

Hudson Valley Taco Fest (Newburgh, New York)

International Vinegar Festival (Roslyn, South Dakota)

King of the Wing Festival (St Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands)

Le Mans: 24 Hours of Le Mans (Le Mans, France) [thru 6.15]

Maine Whoopie Pie Festival (Dover-Foxcroft, Maine)

Mullet Toss (St. George Island, Florida)

National Cereal Festival (Battle Creek, Michigan)

Newburgh Seafood Fest (Newburgh, New York)

North Beach Festival (San Francisco, California) [thru 6.15]

Northampton Carnival (Northampton, United Kingdom)

Oink & Ale (Leaksville, North Carolina)

Pinconning CheeseTown Festival & Races (Pinconning, Michigan)

Ploye Festival & Fort Kent International Muskie Derby (Fort Kent, Maine)

Rice Planting Festival (Osaka, Japan)

San Diego Brew Festival (San Diego, California)

Snowmass Rendezvous Craft Beer Festival (Snowmass Village, Colorado)

South Windsor Strawberry Fest & Craft Fair (South Windsor, Connecticut)

Spring Classic Musky Tournament (Eagle River, Wisconsin) [thru 6.15]

Strawberry Festival (Middlefield, Connecticut)

Strawberry Festival (Topsfield, Massachusetts)

Taste of Kutztown (Kutztown, Pennsylvania)

Taste of Redwood Valley (Calpella, California)

Taste of Wisconsin (Beaver Dam, Wisconsin)

Testicle Festival (Ashland, Nebraska)

Texas Blueberry Festival (Nacogdoches, Texas)

Trooping the Colour (London, United Kingdom)

Winchester Beer Cheese Festival (Winchester, Kentucky)

Wine & Food Festival (Timonium, Maryland)

Wine and Vine Fest (Nicholasville, Kentucky)

World Margarita Championship (Tucson, Arizona)

Yellow Springs Street Fair (Yellow Springs, Ohio)

Lunar Calendar Holidays

Chinese: Month 5 (Ren-Wu), Day 19 (Jia-Yin)

Day Pillar: Wood Tiger

12-Day Officers/12 Gods: Success Day (成 Cheng) [Auspicious]

Holidays: None Known

Secular Saints Days

Rod Argent (Music)

Nicolas Bentley (Art)

Margaret Bourke-White (Photography)

René Char (Literature)

Diablo Cody (Literature)

Arthur Davis (Art)

Theobald Wolfe Tone FitzGerald (Art)

Steffi Graf (Sports)

James Gurney (Art)

Burl Ives (Music)

Judith Kerr (Art)

Jerzy Kosiński (Literature)

Ida MacLean (Science)

Peter Mayle (Literature)

Dorothy McGuire (Entertainment)

Harriet Beecher Stowe (Literature)

Harry Turtledove (Literature)

Junior Walker (Music)

Feast Days

Aes Dana (Celtic Book of Days)

Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea (Christian; Saint)

Bourbon Day (Pastafarian)

Burchard of Meissen (Christian; Saint)

Castora Gabrielli (Christian; Saint)

Caomhán of Inisheer (Christian; Saint)

Day of the Muses (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Dogmael (a.k.a. Toel; Christian; Saint)

Elisha the Prophet (Roman Catholic and Lutheran)

Fag Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Fortunatus of Naples (Roman Catholic)

Francisca de Paula de Jesus (Nhá Chica; Christian; Blessed)

Harry Nilsson (Humanism; Saint)

Joseph the Hymnographer (Roman Catholic: Orthodox April 3)

Louisey (Muppetism)

Media Ver VIII (Pagan)

Methodios I of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)

Muse’s Nativity Day (Celebrating their mother, Mnemosyne; Ancient Greece)

Nennus (a.k.a. Nehemias; Christian; Saint)

Psalmodius (Christian; Saint)

Quintian of Rodez (a.k.a. Rodez; Christian; Saint)

Richard Baxter (Church of England)

Rufinus and Valerius (Christian; Martyrs)

Rumor Sunday (Usually a Weekday; Shamanism)

Valerius and Rufinus (Christian; Martyrs)

Vidar (Norse festival to the Son of Odin)

St. Vincent de Paul (Positivist; Saint)

Lunar Calendar Holidays

Chinese: Month 5 (Ren-Wu), Day 19 (Jia-Yin)

Day Pillar: Wood Tiger

12-Day Officers/12 Gods: Success Day (成 Cheng) [Auspicious]

Holidays: None Known

Secular Saints Days

Rod Argent (Music)

Nicolas Bentley (Art)

Margaret Bourke-White (Photography)

René Char (Literature)

Diablo Cody (Literature)

Arthur Davis (Art)

Theobald Wolfe Tone FitzGerald (Art)

Steffi Graf (Sports)

James Gurney (Art)

Burl Ives (Music)

Judith Kerr (Art)

Jerzy Kosiński (Literature)

Ida MacLean (Science)

Peter Mayle (Literature)

Dorothy McGuire (Entertainment)

Harriet Beecher Stowe (Literature)

Harry Turtledove (Literature)

Junior Walker (Music)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 27 of 60)

Unlucky Day Spoof (Horror Comedy Film; 1981) [Saturday the 14th] (1 of 3 for 2025)

Premieres

And the Lonesome Ranger (Speaking of Animals Cartoon; 1945)

Antique Antics (Krazy Kat Cartoon; 1933)

April Showers (Aesop's Film Fables Cartoon; 1929)

At Seventeen, by Janis Ian (Song; 1975)

Baby Bottleneck (Blue Ribbon Hit Parade Cartoon; 1952)

Barnyard Babies (Fable Cartoon; 1940)

Beatles VI (U.S. Album; 1965)

Bosko the Sheep-Herder (WB LT Cartoon; 1933)

The Bourne Identity (Film; 2002)

Daydream Believer, recorded by The Monkees (Song; 1967)

Dog Gone Modern (Blue Ribbon Hit Parade Cartoon; 1944)

The Dragons of Eden, by Carl Saran (Science Book; 1977)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1947)

Johnny's Stepmother and the Cat (Gaumont Kartoon Komics Cartoon; 1916)

Finder's Eaters (WB Cartoon; 2001)

1st entry in “The Diary of a Young Girl,” by Anne Frank (Diary; 1942)

Flags of Our Fathers, by James Bradley with Ron Powers (History Book; 2000)

Fort Apache (Film; 1948)

The Full Monty (Sequel Film; 2023)

Ghosks is the Bunk (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1939)

The Gong Show (TV Game Show; 1976)

Kind Hearts and Coronets (Film; 1950)

Ko-Ko's Harem Scarem (Fleischer Inkwell Imps Cartoon; 1929)

Inside Out 2 (Pixar Animated Film; 2024)

In Watermelon Sugar, by Richard Brautigan (Novel; 1968)

King Looney XIV (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1935)

King Tweety (WB Animated Film; 2022)

The Last of Us (Video Game; 2013)

Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane recorded (1923) [1st country music hit]

Little Runaway (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1952)

Ludwig (Fragments from a Mystery), by Douglas Young (Ballet; 1986)

The Massacre at Fall Creek, by Jessamyn West (Novel; 1975)

Man of Steel (Film; 2013)

Men in Black: International (Film; 2019)

The Mouse's Bride (Aesop's Film Fable Cartoon; 1928)

Murder Mystery (Film; 2019)

The Parallax View (Film; 1974)

Private 2nd Class Norakuro: The Drill (Norakuro Cartoon; 1933)

Private 2nd Class Norakuro: The Training (Norakuro Cartoon; 1933)

Professor Offkeyski (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1940)

Pudgy in More Pep (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1936)

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Film; 1991)

Scooby-Doo (Film; 2002)

Shaft (Film; 2019)

She, by Elvis Costello (Song; 1999)

Sky Scrappers (Herman & Katnip Cartoon; 1957)

Snow Country, by Yasunari Kawabata (Novel; 1948)

Space Cat, by Ruthven Todd (Storybook; 1952)

Stealing Beauty (Film; 1996)

The Store, by T.S. Stribling (Novel; 1932)

Sylvia, by Léo Delibes (Ballet; 1876)

Tarkus, by Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Album; 1971)

A Thousand and One Nights (Japanese Animated Film; 1969)

Tibetan Peach Pie, by Tom Robbins (Novel; 2014)

That Touch of Mink (Film; 1962)

Two Lazy Crows (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1936)

2000 B.C. (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1931)

The Ugly Dino (Fleischer Stone Age Cartoon; 1940)

U.S. Army (Authorized by Congress; 1775)

Wallace and Grommit Festival (Animated Film; 1996)

Wild in the Country (Film; 1961)

Workingman’s Dead, by The Grateful Dead (Album; 1970)

Today’s Name Days

Hartwig, Meinrad (Austria)

Elizej, Rufin, Valerije, Zlatko (Croatia)

Roland (Czech Republic)

Rufinus (Denmark)

Leina, Leine, Leini (Estonia)

Kielo, Pihla (Finland)

Élisée, Valère (France)

Hartwig, Meinrad (Germany)

Elissaios, Nefon (Greece)

Vazul (Hungary)

Eliseo, Valerio (Italy)

Kitija, Klitija, Saiva, Sentis, Tija (Latvia)

Almina, Bazilijus, Digna, Labvardas (Lithuania)

Erland, Erlend (Norway)

Bazylid, Bazylis, Eliza, Justyn, Justyna, Ninogniew, Walerian, Waleriana (Poland)

Elisei (România)

Vasil (Slovakia)

Anastasio, Digna, Eliseo, Félix, Metodio (Spain)

Håkan, Hakon (Sweden)

Vladyslav (Ukraine)

Basil, Basilia, Jaren, Jaron, Jarron, Vasily (USA)

Today’s National Name Days

National Burl Day

National Harriet Day

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 165 of 2025; 200 days remaining in the year

ISO Week: Day 6 of Week 24 of 2025

Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 5 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Ren-Wu), Day 19 (Jia-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Snake 4723 (until February 17, 2026) [Ding-Chou]

Coptic: 7 Baunah 1741

Druid Tree Calendar: Fig (June 14-23) [Day 1 of 10]

Hebrew: 18 Sivan 5785

Islamic: 17 Dhu al-Hijjah 1446

Julian: 1 June 2025

Meteorological Summer [Day 13]

Moon: 88%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 25 Saint Paul (6th Month) [St. ]

Runic Half Month: Dag (Day) [Day 2 of 15] (thru 6.27)

Season: Spring (Day 86 of 92)

SUn Calendar: 15 Blue; Oneday [15 of 30]

Week: 2nd Full Week of June

Zodiac:

Tropical (Typical) Zodiac: Gemini (Day 25 of 31)

Sidereal Zodiac: Taurus (Day 31 of 32)

Schmidt Zodiac: Cetus (Day 8 of 26)

IAU Boundaries (Current) Zodiac: Aries (Day 32 of 39)

IAU Boundaries (1977) Zodiac: Aries (Day 32 of 37)

Calendar Changes

Fig (June 14-23) [Druid Tree Calendar] (Month 18 of 41)

June (a.k.a. Iunius; Julian Calendar) [Month 6 of 12]

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Holidays 6.14

Holidays

Baltic Freedom Day

Ban Live Exports International Awareness Day

Blood Type Awareness Day

Caldecott Day (Literature)

Colloyd Day

Congressional Baseball Massacre Day

Day of Memory for Repressed People (Armenia)

Day of Mourning and Commemoration (Estonia)

Day of Victims of Communist Terror (Latvia)

Diving Suit Day

Family History Day

Freedom Day (Malawi)

Green for Grenfell Day (UK)

Hydranencephaly Awareness Day

International Bath Day

International Steampunk Day

International Weblogger’s Day

John McCain Day

King's Birthday (Anguilla, Australia, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Norfolk Island, Papua New Guinea, Saint Helena, Turks and Caicos Islands)

Kiss Day (South Korea)

Last of Us Anniversary Day

Leinapev (Day of Mourning and Commemoration; Estonia)

Liberation Day (Falkland Islands, South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands)

Lunes Siguiente a la Festividad de San Antonio (Ceuta, Spain)

Magic Circles Day

Monkey Around Day

Mourning and Hope Day (Lithuania)

National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Nazi German Concentration and Death Camps (Poland)

National Hoe Day

National Lion and Sun Day (Ethiopia)

National New Mexico Day

National YWCA Greater Los Angeles Unsung Heroes Day

No Kings Day

No Mailing Children Day

Obama Day (a.k.a. Obama Appreciation Day)

Own Your Share of America Day [Weekday closest to 6.14]

Pahaliraja (a.k.a. Pahili Day; India)

Pause for the Pledge Day [7 PM EDT]

Pig Callers’ Day

Pop Goes the Weasel Day

Raja (India)

Sandpaper Day

614 Day

Univac Day

U.S. Army Birthday

Women's Day (Iraq)

World Blood Donor Day (UN)

Yesterday and Today Recall Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Chicken Marengo Day

International Feta Day

National Bourbon Day

National Strawberry Shortcake Day

World Cucumber Day

Nature Celebrations

Dragonfly Day

Jasmine Day (French Republic)

National Skunk Day

Pimpernel Day (Bright Memories; Korean Birth Flowers)

Independence, Flag & Related Days

Flag Day (US)

Hawaii (Territory established; 1900)

Kopernik (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

Parliament Day (1st Session; Canada; 1841)

Roman Republic (Organized & 1st Consuls elected; 510 BCE)

2nd Saturday in June

Belmont Stakes [Saturday after 6.4]

Betty Picnic [2nd Saturday]

Dog Dad's Day [Saturday before Father's Day]

Family Health and Fitness Day [2nd Saturday]

Fathers Eve [Saturday before Father's Day]

Global Wellness Day [2nd Saturday]

International Drink Chenin Blanc Days, Day 2 [2nd Saturday]

International Yarmbombing Day [2nd Saturday]

International Young Eagles Day [2nd Saturday]

Missing Mutts Awareness Day [2nd Saturday]

National Dragonfly Day [2nd Saturday]

National Get Outdoors Day [2nd Saturday]

National Go RVing Day [2nd Saturday]

National Man Enough to be a Girl Scout Day [2nd Saturday]

National Marina Day [2nd Saturday]

National Outlet Shopping Day [2nd Saturday]

National Rosé Day [2nd Saturday; also 6.10]

National Sauna Day (Finland) [2nd Saturday]

The Queen’s Official Birthday (UK) [2nd Saturday]

Salad Saturday [2nd Saturday of Each Month]

Sandwich Saturday [Every Saturday]

Satirical Saturday [2nd Saturday of Each Month]

Six For Saturday [Every Saturday]

Spaghetti Saturday [Every Saturday]

Trooping the Colour (UK) [2nd Saturday]

World Bike Naked Day [2nd Saturday]

World Doll Day [2nd Saturday]

World Gin Day [2nd Saturday]

World Juggling Day [Saturday closest to 17th]

World Naked Bike Ride Day [2nd Saturday]

World Wide Knit in Public Day [2nd Saturday]

Weekly Holidays beginning June 14 (2nd Full Week of June)

Honor America Days (thru 7.4) [21 Days from 6.14)_

LA Beer Week (Los Angeles, California) [thru 6.22]

Pleasant Grove Strawberry Week (Pleasant Grove, Utah) [thru 6.22]

Festivals On or Beginning June 14, 2025

Arcata Bay Oyster Festival (Arcata, California)

Beer and BBQ Stroll (Westminster, Maryland)

Beer, Bacon & Cheese Festival (New Glarus, Wisconsin)

Berlin Biennale (Berlin, Germany) [thru 9.14]

Blueberry Jubilee (Poplarville, Mississippi)

Boulevardia (Kansas City, Missouri)

Brews on the Bricks (Hays, Kansas)

Cajun Fest (Purcellville, Virginia)

Cheshire Strawberry Festival (Cheshire, Connecticut)

Colorado Renaissance Festival (Larkspur, Colorado) [thru 8.3]

Cotuit Strawberry Festival (Cotuit, Massachusetts)

Hampton County Watermelon Festival (Hampton, South Carolina) [thru 6.21]

Highland Realm Blueberry Farm Bash (Hampshire, Mississippi)

Hong Kong Arts Festival (Hong Kong) [thru 7.4]

Hudson Valley Taco Fest (Newburgh, New York)

International Vinegar Festival (Roslyn, South Dakota)

King of the Wing Festival (St Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands)

Le Mans: 24 Hours of Le Mans (Le Mans, France) [thru 6.15]

Maine Whoopie Pie Festival (Dover-Foxcroft, Maine)

Mullet Toss (St. George Island, Florida)

National Cereal Festival (Battle Creek, Michigan)

Newburgh Seafood Fest (Newburgh, New York)

North Beach Festival (San Francisco, California) [thru 6.15]

Northampton Carnival (Northampton, United Kingdom)

Oink & Ale (Leaksville, North Carolina)

Pinconning CheeseTown Festival & Races (Pinconning, Michigan)

Ploye Festival & Fort Kent International Muskie Derby (Fort Kent, Maine)

Rice Planting Festival (Osaka, Japan)

San Diego Brew Festival (San Diego, California)

Snowmass Rendezvous Craft Beer Festival (Snowmass Village, Colorado)

South Windsor Strawberry Fest & Craft Fair (South Windsor, Connecticut)

Spring Classic Musky Tournament (Eagle River, Wisconsin) [thru 6.15]

Strawberry Festival (Middlefield, Connecticut)

Strawberry Festival (Topsfield, Massachusetts)

Taste of Kutztown (Kutztown, Pennsylvania)

Taste of Redwood Valley (Calpella, California)

Taste of Wisconsin (Beaver Dam, Wisconsin)

Testicle Festival (Ashland, Nebraska)

Texas Blueberry Festival (Nacogdoches, Texas)

Trooping the Colour (London, United Kingdom)

Winchester Beer Cheese Festival (Winchester, Kentucky)

Wine & Food Festival (Timonium, Maryland)

Wine and Vine Fest (Nicholasville, Kentucky)

World Margarita Championship (Tucson, Arizona)

Yellow Springs Street Fair (Yellow Springs, Ohio)

Lunar Calendar Holidays

Chinese: Month 5 (Ren-Wu), Day 19 (Jia-Yin)

Day Pillar: Wood Tiger

12-Day Officers/12 Gods: Success Day (成 Cheng) [Auspicious]

Holidays: None Known

Secular Saints Days

Rod Argent (Music)

Nicolas Bentley (Art)

Margaret Bourke-White (Photography)

René Char (Literature)

Diablo Cody (Literature)

Arthur Davis (Art)

Theobald Wolfe Tone FitzGerald (Art)

Steffi Graf (Sports)

James Gurney (Art)

Burl Ives (Music)

Judith Kerr (Art)

Jerzy Kosiński (Literature)

Ida MacLean (Science)

Peter Mayle (Literature)

Dorothy McGuire (Entertainment)

Harriet Beecher Stowe (Literature)

Harry Turtledove (Literature)

Junior Walker (Music)

Feast Days

Aes Dana (Celtic Book of Days)

Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea (Christian; Saint)

Bourbon Day (Pastafarian)

Burchard of Meissen (Christian; Saint)

Castora Gabrielli (Christian; Saint)

Caomhán of Inisheer (Christian; Saint)

Day of the Muses (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Dogmael (a.k.a. Toel; Christian; Saint)

Elisha the Prophet (Roman Catholic and Lutheran)

Fag Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Fortunatus of Naples (Roman Catholic)

Francisca de Paula de Jesus (Nhá Chica; Christian; Blessed)

Harry Nilsson (Humanism; Saint)

Joseph the Hymnographer (Roman Catholic: Orthodox April 3)

Louisey (Muppetism)

Media Ver VIII (Pagan)

Methodios I of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)

Muse’s Nativity Day (Celebrating their mother, Mnemosyne; Ancient Greece)

Nennus (a.k.a. Nehemias; Christian; Saint)

Psalmodius (Christian; Saint)

Quintian of Rodez (a.k.a. Rodez; Christian; Saint)

Richard Baxter (Church of England)

Rufinus and Valerius (Christian; Martyrs)

Rumor Sunday (Usually a Weekday; Shamanism)

Valerius and Rufinus (Christian; Martyrs)

Vidar (Norse festival to the Son of Odin)

St. Vincent de Paul (Positivist; Saint)

Lunar Calendar Holidays

Chinese: Month 5 (Ren-Wu), Day 19 (Jia-Yin)

Day Pillar: Wood Tiger

12-Day Officers/12 Gods: Success Day (成 Cheng) [Auspicious]

Holidays: None Known

Secular Saints Days

Rod Argent (Music)

Nicolas Bentley (Art)

Margaret Bourke-White (Photography)

René Char (Literature)

Diablo Cody (Literature)

Arthur Davis (Art)

Theobald Wolfe Tone FitzGerald (Art)

Steffi Graf (Sports)

James Gurney (Art)

Burl Ives (Music)

Judith Kerr (Art)

Jerzy Kosiński (Literature)

Ida MacLean (Science)

Peter Mayle (Literature)

Dorothy McGuire (Entertainment)

Harriet Beecher Stowe (Literature)

Harry Turtledove (Literature)

Junior Walker (Music)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 27 of 60)

Unlucky Day Spoof (Horror Comedy Film; 1981) [Saturday the 14th] (1 of 3 for 2025)

Premieres

And the Lonesome Ranger (Speaking of Animals Cartoon; 1945)

Antique Antics (Krazy Kat Cartoon; 1933)

April Showers (Aesop's Film Fables Cartoon; 1929)

At Seventeen, by Janis Ian (Song; 1975)

Baby Bottleneck (Blue Ribbon Hit Parade Cartoon; 1952)

Barnyard Babies (Fable Cartoon; 1940)

Beatles VI (U.S. Album; 1965)

Bosko the Sheep-Herder (WB LT Cartoon; 1933)

The Bourne Identity (Film; 2002)

Daydream Believer, recorded by The Monkees (Song; 1967)

Dog Gone Modern (Blue Ribbon Hit Parade Cartoon; 1944)

The Dragons of Eden, by Carl Saran (Science Book; 1977)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1947)

Johnny's Stepmother and the Cat (Gaumont Kartoon Komics Cartoon; 1916)

Finder's Eaters (WB Cartoon; 2001)

1st entry in “The Diary of a Young Girl,” by Anne Frank (Diary; 1942)

Flags of Our Fathers, by James Bradley with Ron Powers (History Book; 2000)

Fort Apache (Film; 1948)

The Full Monty (Sequel Film; 2023)

Ghosks is the Bunk (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1939)

The Gong Show (TV Game Show; 1976)

Kind Hearts and Coronets (Film; 1950)

Ko-Ko's Harem Scarem (Fleischer Inkwell Imps Cartoon; 1929)

Inside Out 2 (Pixar Animated Film; 2024)

In Watermelon Sugar, by Richard Brautigan (Novel; 1968)

King Looney XIV (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1935)

King Tweety (WB Animated Film; 2022)

The Last of Us (Video Game; 2013)

Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane recorded (1923) [1st country music hit]

Little Runaway (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1952)

Ludwig (Fragments from a Mystery), by Douglas Young (Ballet; 1986)

The Massacre at Fall Creek, by Jessamyn West (Novel; 1975)

Man of Steel (Film; 2013)

Men in Black: International (Film; 2019)

The Mouse's Bride (Aesop's Film Fable Cartoon; 1928)

Murder Mystery (Film; 2019)

The Parallax View (Film; 1974)

Private 2nd Class Norakuro: The Drill (Norakuro Cartoon; 1933)

Private 2nd Class Norakuro: The Training (Norakuro Cartoon; 1933)

Professor Offkeyski (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1940)

Pudgy in More Pep (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1936)

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Film; 1991)

Scooby-Doo (Film; 2002)

Shaft (Film; 2019)

She, by Elvis Costello (Song; 1999)

Sky Scrappers (Herman & Katnip Cartoon; 1957)

Snow Country, by Yasunari Kawabata (Novel; 1948)

Space Cat, by Ruthven Todd (Storybook; 1952)

Stealing Beauty (Film; 1996)

The Store, by T.S. Stribling (Novel; 1932)

Sylvia, by Léo Delibes (Ballet; 1876)

Tarkus, by Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Album; 1971)

A Thousand and One Nights (Japanese Animated Film; 1969)

Tibetan Peach Pie, by Tom Robbins (Novel; 2014)

That Touch of Mink (Film; 1962)

Two Lazy Crows (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1936)

2000 B.C. (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1931)

The Ugly Dino (Fleischer Stone Age Cartoon; 1940)

U.S. Army (Authorized by Congress; 1775)

Wallace and Grommit Festival (Animated Film; 1996)

Wild in the Country (Film; 1961)

Workingman’s Dead, by The Grateful Dead (Album; 1970)

Today’s Name Days

Hartwig, Meinrad (Austria)

Elizej, Rufin, Valerije, Zlatko (Croatia)

Roland (Czech Republic)

Rufinus (Denmark)

Leina, Leine, Leini (Estonia)

Kielo, Pihla (Finland)

Élisée, Valère (France)

Hartwig, Meinrad (Germany)

Elissaios, Nefon (Greece)

Vazul (Hungary)

Eliseo, Valerio (Italy)

Kitija, Klitija, Saiva, Sentis, Tija (Latvia)

Almina, Bazilijus, Digna, Labvardas (Lithuania)

Erland, Erlend (Norway)

Bazylid, Bazylis, Eliza, Justyn, Justyna, Ninogniew, Walerian, Waleriana (Poland)

Elisei (România)

Vasil (Slovakia)

Anastasio, Digna, Eliseo, Félix, Metodio (Spain)

Håkan, Hakon (Sweden)

Vladyslav (Ukraine)

Basil, Basilia, Jaren, Jaron, Jarron, Vasily (USA)

Today’s National Name Days

National Burl Day

National Harriet Day

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 165 of 2025; 200 days remaining in the year

ISO Week: Day 6 of Week 24 of 2025

Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 5 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Ren-Wu), Day 19 (Jia-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Snake 4723 (until February 17, 2026) [Ding-Chou]

Coptic: 7 Baunah 1741

Druid Tree Calendar: Fig (June 14-23) [Day 1 of 10]

Hebrew: 18 Sivan 5785

Islamic: 17 Dhu al-Hijjah 1446

Julian: 1 June 2025

Meteorological Summer [Day 13]

Moon: 88%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 25 Saint Paul (6th Month) [St. ]

Runic Half Month: Dag (Day) [Day 2 of 15] (thru 6.27)

Season: Spring (Day 86 of 92)

SUn Calendar: 15 Blue; Oneday [15 of 30]

Week: 2nd Full Week of June

Zodiac:

Tropical (Typical) Zodiac: Gemini (Day 25 of 31)

Sidereal Zodiac: Taurus (Day 31 of 32)

Schmidt Zodiac: Cetus (Day 8 of 26)

IAU Boundaries (Current) Zodiac: Aries (Day 32 of 39)

IAU Boundaries (1977) Zodiac: Aries (Day 32 of 37)

Calendar Changes

Fig (June 14-23) [Druid Tree Calendar] (Month 18 of 41)

June (a.k.a. Iunius; Julian Calendar) [Month 6 of 12]

#Holidays

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