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MSc. Crisis and Security Management, working in Disaster Relief and Civil Defense as Crisis Manager. Volunteer @THW.

Interested in the intersection of security, defense, sustainability, social politics and disaster relief/crisis management.

Boost doesn't mean endorsement. Views expressed are my own.

⚠️ I try to minimise it but sometimes I might boost Posts with disturbing images/descriptions without content warning if I think the Info is valuable.

Working asCrisis Manager in Disaster Relief and Civil Defence
EducationMSc. Crisis and Security Management
VolunteerTechnisches Hilfswerk (THW)

People in #germany might be thinking less about the #climate #crisis since this year is less #hot and #dry. But in fact we are living through another year of #extreme #weather. The last 12 months had more #precipitation than any other 12 month period since the beginning of weather recording in #1881.

https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/deutscher-wetterdienst-meldet-naesse-rekord-seit-messbeginn-a-dd073c06-e2be-444c-8436-ae51efa477b8?sara_ref=re-so-app-sh

The results are #flashfloods , #erosion, destroyed #infrastructure, private #property, immense #costs for the #public and #loss of #life

We live in the climate crisis. It's a matter of #public #safety.

Nässe-Rekord: In Deutschland hat es seit Messbeginn noch nie so viel geregnet

Einzeln betrachtet gab es in keinem Monat einen Rekord beim Niederschlag. Betrachtet man die vergangenen zwölf Monate am Stück, sieht es anders aus: Seit 1881 schüttete es noch nie so viel in Deutschland.

DER SPIEGEL
First Deployment to flood-area with @THW. Feel excited and determined.
#Crisis #CrisisManagement #disaster #disasterrelief #flood #heavyrain #flashflood

The Saga continues. Literally ALL connections I booked and ALL the alternative connections I had to take had some sorts of delays or skipped stopps leading to conecting trains not being reached.

Two times I noticed foreigners in the trains speaking or asking me about how to get to their destination.

All i could think is that #DeutscheBahn is a fucking embarrassment for our country.
And it isn't because of the people working with #DB it's because of conservative #CDU and neo-liberal #FDP destroying the concern and infrastructure through #austerity #politics

This way people will never change from #Car to #PublicTransport

#Railway #Train #Germany #ÖPNV #Verkehr #Verkehrswende

I might have won this year's Deutsche Bahn Problem Bingo.

Mind you, the train doesn't stop at the station I had to change, or any other station on the way, or any of the stations on its alternative route for that matter. This means I can get off only at the last station, which is well past my destination.

For a change it seems it's not DB's fault, at least not entirely.

#PublicTransport #Train #Railway #Traffic #DeutscheBahn #DB #Verkehr #Verkehrswende #Bahn #ÖPNV

Das passiert, wenn man anfang des Jahres @Sicherheitspod entdeckt und sich dann alle Folgen ab der ersten reinzieht.

Danke für die interessanten Informationen, Einblicke, Diskussion und lustigen Momente!

#Sicherheitshalber

Question for the #OSINT community. I stumbled across a picture of #IDF #Merkava #tanks looking like #Merkava4 / #MerkavaIV with what appears to be #copecage on top of their turrets waiting near #Gaza .

I have never seen the IDF use cope-cages nor heared of it. However they seem to be mesh, so they don't serve as sun protection or something like that.
Did they start doing this recently after #Hamas used #drones to drop AT granades on to tanks? Or did they do it before? I know that in other #wars similar contraptions were fitted especially in #urbancombat situations to avoid grenades being thrown onto tanks or even inside openings like hatches which might also be a risk in #Gaza.

I would be very interested to hear from you!

#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #War #NATO #NAFO #Ukraine #Russia #Tank #Drone

#IDF advised #Civilians to leave north of the #Gaza strip, presumably in advance of the #groundoffensive .
#Hamas called this #Propaganda and hinders civilians to leave the north and sends them back into their homes forcing them in harms way.

#Israel #Palestine #War #MiddleEast

@chrisschmitz
@noelreports

https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-israel-freitag-100.html

Liveblog zu Israel: ++ Netanyahu: "Werden die Hamas zerstören" ++

Israels Ministerpräsident Netanyahu hat die bisherigen Gegenangriffe im Gazastreifen nur als "Anfang" bezeichnet - man werde die Hamas zerstören. Im Westjordanland kam es zu Unruhen. Die Entwicklungen im Liveblog zum Nachlesen.

tagesschau.de

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza

Anyone excusing the massacre of over 600 mostly unarmed Israeli civilians, rape, torture, abduction in any shape or form is fucking sick.

I am so shocked and incredibly disappointed to see how many of these people are here on Mastodon, and call themselves lefties, antifa or anti racist but have nothing better to do then to excuse the killing spree of a theocratic radical organisation which has genocide as their main goal.

To those I say: your moral compass is broken. Many, probably in good faith, are believing lies of Hamas or its proxy organisations like BDS.
You don't have to be a friend of Israel to see that they have shown their true face today. Use this to re-evaluate your moral stance.