Ein neues Unboxing Video von einem Gamescom Goodie 2025 Paket von der Blogseite A2G - Addicted 2 Games gewonnen.

Es sind super tolle Sachen drin da war ich super überrascht.
Schaut mal rein, was da alles drin ist.

https://youtu.be/SolyiplOr-g

I have spent the last 2 years focusing on waste management, especially that of Electronic Waste—from the mining of the resources to the discarding of the commodities, and while we are well aware of the pattern of disparity between the over-consumption in the Global North and overproduction in the Global Majority parts of the world, the problems largely still exists. Who to blame, somebody is surely making profits from this trade deal.

Anthropocene is a (Poubelle)ocene.

Certain headlines, like the one below, always make me feel disgusted, knowing that the patterns of dreadful and atrocious colonial practices are still prevalent. I am so perplexed as to what design thinking hat to put on or what circular economy principles to explain the exporting of trash to their previous colonies.

Not only that, but in a recent survey commissioned by the Repair Campaign (https://repaircampaign.org/), more than 2,000 people in the UK found that 85% did not know that more than 3 million people had been forcibly shipped from Africa to the Caribbean by British enslavers. It also found 89% were unaware British merchants had enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years.

As Dr. Shashi Tharoor has mentioned various times, "And LOOT, a Hindi word which the Britishers took into their dictionaries as well as their habit" (Link below of the talk of Dr. Shashi Tharoor - Looking Back at the British Raj in India at the University of Edinburgh)

Sources -
1. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c14jy2dd8jeo
2. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/25/most-britons-do-not-know-scale-of-uks-involvement-in-slavery-survey-finds?utm_source=instagram&utm_campaign=ig_gu
3. https://youtu.be/OB5ykS-_-CI?si=iczPAnaOR5j6E-K-&t=224

When you #buy the presidency for $270M+, you expect a proportionate #RoI. This #corruptGOP #felon is the face of #CronyCapitalism.
#CorruptToTheCore #impeach #quidproquo #loot #thief #government #USPolitics

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/trump-plan-to-fund-musks-starlink-over-fiber-called-betrayal-of-rural-us/

Party of #LawAndOrder my foot! #GOP is the party of #grift and #corruption and #unscrupulous #felons. They only know how to #defraud the #exchequer and #loot from the #USTreasury and flout the #constitution. What we see here is #planned #disassembly of #government and open #contravention of court orders.

#IllegalAdministration #CorruptAdminstration #felon #impeachment #antiscience #TraitorMAGA #TraitorGOP

https://www.yahoo.com/news/inside-collapse-nih-154334572.html

Ich wollte mir nur Endeavor Tiefsee abholen. Aber so ein Spielefachgeschäft lässt einen nicht mit einem Spiel rausgehen. Da öffnet sich die Türe nicht.
#boardgames #brettspiele #spontankauf #loot

Under #California #law, a thief has no legal right to stolen property and therefore cannot pass legitimate title to others no matter how many times the #property is sold or how much time passes.

So what happens if a state applies this law to #Holocaust restitution claims, like the Cassirer v Thyssen case?

LA Times: new developments in Pissarro's “Rue Saint-Honoré, après midi, effet de pluie,” at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-08-10/california-bill-cassirer-stolen-pissarro-painting-nazis
#CrimeNews #justice #Spain #loot

The Atlantic on fighting high end antiquities trafficking:

THE TOMB RAIDERS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE

Inside the #Manhattan DA’s #Antiquities #Trafficking Unit
By Ariel Sabar

‘ a sea of red flags: three conflicting ownership histories, the involvement of known traffickers, a forged export license that bore the stamp arab republic of egypt before the country used that name. The Met had allegedly deleted emails at the dealer’s request’

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/bogdanos-antiquities-new-york/620525/

Juhuuuuu! Es ist da.
Es ist so schön.

Danke @systemmatters

Curious to see how the Met's new "#provenance task force" deals with concealed or inaccessible archival documents related to Nazi looted art.

Transparency and openness would be the best policy.

https://courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/van-Gogh-USDC-Northern-District-of-California-3_22cv8914.pdf

NYT reports that New York investigators filed a 160-page motion on Friday accusing the Art Institute of Chicago of blatantly ignoring evidence of an elaborate fraud undertaken to conceal that the artwork had been looted by the Nazis on the eve of World War II.
#loot #museum #provenance #Chicago #Schiele #investigation #NYT #Holocaust #ICOM #culturalheritage #theft #curator #arthistory #aic
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/arts/investigators-say-chicagos-art-institute-is-holding-onto-looted-art.html