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De brand in de Hoge Venen is de grootste natuurbrand ooit in ons land: al 3.000 hectare is afgebrand. Had dit kunnen worden voorkomen? België onderzoekt samen met tien andere NAVO-landen of microgolfstralen drones goedkoper uit de lucht kunnen halen. Hoe werkt dat? En Liechtenstein past zijn erfopvolgingsregels aan: vrouwen mogen voortaan ook de troon bestijgen. Maar hoe conservatief is dat kleine Alpenstaatje eigenlijk nog?

Brady breaks down the Bitcoin community's open letter to Anthropic: red team researchers report over a thousand serious vulnerabilities found across Bitcoin's open source ecosystem, and by their account not one was surfaced by an American frontier model Rob Hamilton's line lands hardest: getting locked out of a US cyber program mid-investigation "guts him as a patriotic American," but he uses the models that work, and so do the attackers Isaiah reaches for the crossbow: medieval bans on easy-to-use weapons never held, and hobbling defenders while attackers ignore the rules is the same losing proposition A viral Sam Altman clip about AI watching your screen and hearing your calls prompts the show's sharpest frame: take the Bitcoin ethos to intelligence itself, and control your own model like you control your own money The debt reality check: Trump told Bob Woodward in 2016 the $19 trillion debt could be erased in eight years through trade; a decade later the US approaches $40 trillion and interest payments have passed defense spending Groceries tell the story the CPI smooths over: food prices up roughly a third since 2019 by the AP's chart, quality quietly falling, and full-time employment down millions from its early-2025 peak Japan shrank its debt-to-GDP from 229 to 204 without repaying a dime through financial repression, a roundabout tax nobody voted on, and the gap savers should have earned is exactly what the government kept The catch: Japan owes itself, with the Bank of Japan holding 48% of its own debt, while foreigners hold 31% of America's, so when Washington tried the same trick, foreign holders sold and yields broke five percent Bear market check-in: Brady's third, Isaiah's second, and the shared lesson that conviction is earned in the first winter, while the 200-week moving average and cost-of-production zone mark where Bitcoin sits now The week's rare good news: FinCEN permanently ends beneficial ownership reporting for US companies and deletes the collected data, days after Liechtenstein's equivalent register leaked 31,000 entities ► For high-net-worth individuals and corporations seeking to build generational wealth with Bitcoin, Swan Private is your guide ✔ https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private?utm_campaign=private&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_source=podcast&utm_content=swan_signal_live ► Secure your bright orange future with the Swan IRA today! Real Bitcoin, no taxes ✔ https://www.swanbitcoin.com/ira?utm_campaign=ira&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_source=podcast&utm_content=swan_signal_live ► Secure your Bitcoin with Swan Vault ✔ https://www.swanbitcoin.com/vault?utm_campaign=vault&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_source=podcast&utm_content=swan_signal_live ► Download the all-new Swan Bitcoin App ✔ https://www.swanbitcoin.com/app?utm_campaign=app&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_source=podcast&utm_content=swan_signal_live ► Want to learn more about Bitcoin? Check out Welcome To Bitcoin a FREE Introductory course. Learn about Bitcoin in under 1 hour! ✔ https://www.swanbitcoin.com/welcome?utm_campaign=welcome_to_bitcoin&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_source=podcast&utm_content=swan_signal_live ► Connect with Swan Bitcoin: ✔ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Swan ✔ Instagram: https://instagram.com/SwanBitcoin ✔ LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/swanbitcoin ✔ Threads: https://www.threads.com/@swanbitcoin ✔ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SwanBitcoin/ ✔ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realswanbitcoin

Suze takes us inside the UK's debanking inquiry. A director and co-founder of Bitcoin Policy UK, she's submitting evidence to Parliament's cross-party inquiry this week, and explains what an APPG can and can't do about banks blocking lawful transactions. The numbers are staggering. The Locked Out report found roughly 40% of payments to exchanges blocked or delayed by UK banks, with one exchange reporting a billion pounds in declined transactions in a single year. All legal transactions. Even the advocates got debanked. Suze's organization goes by BPUK partly because a name containing "Bitcoin" risked losing banking services. A survey found only 14% of firms successfully opened and kept an account with one of the nine largest UK banks. Nick Neuman of Casa surprises the room with a report from inside the Coldcard response: all hands taking calls for a week, helping people rotate keys, and his estimate that far more Bitcoin moved to safety than was stolen. Why multisig held up. Neuman explains why wallets requiring multiple keys haven't been swept: attackers go after single-key wallets first, and unrevealed public keys make paired devices dramatically harder to crack. The takeaway from both hosts: upgrade to multisig. Casa has been debanked twice. When Silicon Valley Bank failed, the company's Bitcoin treasury meant it could keep operating no matter what happened to the account. His advice: keep a backup bank and self-custodied Bitcoin as a stopgap. Does Bitcoin in an ETF still count? The room digs into BlackRock lowering conversion minimums into IBIT, why the conversion mostly runs one direction, and whether Bitcoin keeps its fundamental value if real coins stop circulating. Why self-custody matters to the network, not just to you. Brady walks through the block size wars: holders running nodes are who kept Bitcoin's rules intact, and concentrated custody would hand that influence to a few large institutions. Selling freedom instead of fear. Alec raises the "sovereignty multiple," the positive case for holding your own money, and Suze describes orange-pilling her beautician by paying in Bitcoin: adoption through use, not through warnings. Lebanon, El Salvador, and Liechtenstein. Suze's reporting tour: what a country looks like after banking trust dies, holding two ideas at once about El Salvador, and a breached ownership register as the case against data honeypots.

Island skal stemme over å gjenoppta forhandlingene om EU-medlemskap. Men hva kan et islandsk ja bety for Norge, EØS-avtalen og konkurransekraften til norsk sjømat?29. august stemmer innbyggerne på Island over om landet skal gjenoppta forhandlingene om EU-medlemskap. Et ja kan etterlate Norge alene med Liechtenstein i EØS, og flytte Island over til motsatt side av bordet i fiskeriforhandlingene.I denne episoden av Nord-Norge i verden møter programleder Stein Vidar Loftås EU-rådgiver Pål Frisvold og Øystein Valanes, som leder arbeidet med markedsadgang i Norges sjømatråd.Frisvold løfter frem de viktigste argumentene for og mot EU-medlemskap, hvorfor forhandlingene kan være ferdige på ett til tre år, og hvorfor EU kan komme til å kreve en kraftig forenklet EØS-avtale. Valanes tar for seg hva som står på spill for sjømaten: EU kjøpte norsk sjømat for nesten 100 milliarder kroner i 2025 av en samlet eksport på 181,2 milliarder. Om Island blir EU-medlem får de fri tilgang til EU-markedet, men må samtidig si opp frihandelsavtalen med Kina. I tillegg vil de øke tollen fra 0 til 10 prosent inn til USA.Du kan lese transkripsjon av alt som ble sagt i episodene på kbnn.no/podkast.Nord-Norge i verden er produsert av Kunnskapsbanken SpareBank 1 Nord-Norge i samarbeid med Helt Digital. Programleder er Stein Vidar Loftås. Redaktør er Jeanette Gundersen. Musikken er komponert av Emil Kárlsen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Was ist der „Operationsplan Deutschland“? Uwe Kranz, ehemaliger Präsident des Thüringer Landeskriminalamtes, erläutert die Hintergründe. Hat Niedersachsen eine „Lex AfD“ beschlossen? Daniel Gräber, Investigativjournalist von „Apollo News“, berichtet über zweifelhafte Ausschlüsse von AfD-Kandidaten von der bevorstehenden Kommunalwahl in Niedersachsen. Ist der Finanzplatz Liechtenstein am Ende? Der Finanzjournalist René Zeyer schildert einen spektakulären Hackerangriff auf vertrauliche Kontodaten im Fürstentum Liechtenstein. Und Markus Vahlefeld kommentiert skandalöse Vorgänge in der Ausländerbehörde von Köln.

Vom 3. bis 5. September sorgen in der historischen Burgruine Schellenberg noch einmal international ausgewählte Formationen für Gänsehautstimmung. Pascal Seger, Produzent und Gründer des «Princely Liechtenstein Tattoos», blickt bereits mit etwas Wehmut auf die Jubiläumsausgabe: «Wir haben diese Veranstaltung mit viel Herzblut, Leidenschaft und zahlreichen freiwilligen Helferinnen und Helfern aufgebaut», sagt er im Gespräch mit der SRF Musikwelle. «Wir sind wie eine Familie.» Zum Aufhören habe ihn und sein Team vor allem der steigende finanzielle Druck gebracht. Eine besondere Herausforderung ist der Austragungsort selbst. «Da oben gibt es nur ein WC-Häuschen der Pfadi, einen Brunnen und einen einfachen Stromanschluss – sonst nichts», sagt der künstlerische Leiter Jean-Luc Kühnis mit einem Schmunzeln. Infrastruktur, Technik und Material müssten jeweils aufwändig zur Burgruine transportiert werden. Gleichzeitig mache genau dieser Ort den besonderen Charakter des Tattoos aus. Was erwartet das Publikum an der zehnten und letzten Ausgabe des «Princely Liechtenstein Tattoos»? «Wir geben natürlich noch einmal Vollgas», antwortet Jean-Luc Kühnis. Es werden Formationen aus England, Schottland, den Niederlanden oder Belgien auftreten – und natürlich auch solche aus dem Fürstentum Liechtenstein und der Schweiz. Bereits zur Tradition geworden ist zudem die «Princely Tattoo Parade», die am Samstag um 11 Uhr durch das Städtchen Vaduz zieht. Begonnen hat alles im Jahr 2012 mit einer spontanen Begegnung. «Ich bin durch Vaduz geschlendert und habe einen einzelnen Dudelsackspieler gehört», erinnert sich Pascal Seger. Da sei er auf die Idee gekommen, eine Veranstaltung auf die Beine zu stellen. Anfänglich fand das Tattoo jährlich, später zweijährlich statt. 2024 lockte das «Princely Liechtenstein Tattoo» (inklusive Parade) fast 8'000 Zuschauerinnen und Zuschauer ins Fürstentum Liechtenstein. Ticketverlosung World Band Festival Zudem haben Sie bei der Fiirabigmusig die Möglichkeit, zwei Festivalpässe für das World Band Festival 2026 zu gewinnen. Diese gewähren Ihnen vom 19. bis 27. September freien Eintritt zu allen Konzerten des Festivals.

(Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 108: OpenAI got on the Black Hat stage and walked through how its own agent swarm hacked Hugging Face. We discuss and struggle to decide whether to clap or panic. Plus, why only the attacker can do forensics now, frontier models being built as cyber-weapons on purpose, APT29's "Dark Hotel" comeback in luxury hotels, China's swipe at Palo Alto, the Iran-water-system FUD, and an eye-opening Liechtenstein money-laundering hack. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu. Timestamps: 0:00 Introductory banter - Black Hat went full RSA 1:11 TLP Black sponsor read 3:58 A deflated, AI-pilled show floor 8:31 AI stunt hacking and AI slop 16:20 The OpenAI–Hugging Face talk 21:00 Not all the same incident: OpenAI vs. Meta, Anthropic, and Irregular 25:49 Swarms of agents, Artifactory message boards, and the defense gap 32:26 Offense vs. defense: what's really in the training data? 41:22 Guardrails, KYC, and "too dangerous to release" 48:07 JAGS's unpublished Opus 5 benchmark — grinding to 25% and stuck 59:30 AISI, recklessness, and the OpenAI Frontier Risk Council 1:06:27 Stronger models everywhere: Qwen, Sol, Astra, rushing off the cliff 1:18:32 APT29 / "Dark Hotel" reborn + travel OPSEC 1:39:56 China's Palo Alto review, spy-agency rankings, Iran/water FUD 1:57:28 Liechtenstein AML hack, JAGS's promotion, mental health

Join Rutvika Acharya Olofsson, Co-Founder and CEO of Caplyzer, for a candid exploration of deeptech venture building in an era obsessed with fast software iteration. In a market where artificial intelligence enables founders to build, package, and monetize software products in a matter of hours, hardware deeptech faces a fundamentally different reality: multi-year R&D cycles, physical supply chain constraints, and high capital intensity. Drawing from her international career as an aerospace engineer leading product strategy across Sweden, the US, Liechtenstein, and Singapore—as well as her experience building and closing her first startup, MOAI—Rutvika shares why software speed cannot replace physical infrastructure when it comes to solving humanity's largest industrial challenges.

Artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed the cybersecurity landscape by reducing the expertise needed to launch sophisticated attacks. Open-weight AI models now automate reconnaissance, vulnerability analysis, and exploit development, allowing attackers to scale operations in minutes instead of days. The Zhuhai-linked "knaithe" campaign demonstrated this shift by combining DeepSeek with the Hermes Agent Framework to autonomously identify and target vulnerabilities. Although configuration barriers prevented successful exploitation, the attackers exposed their own API keys and logs, highlighting operational security risks for both defenders and adversaries.Nation-state actors are increasingly targeting critical infrastructure as a tool of strategic coercion. Iran's CyberAv3ngers group has progressed from website defacements to manipulating industrial control systems in water and energy facilities. Recent attacks on Minnesota water utilities disrupted operations and created risks to water treatment, demonstrating how cyberattacks can produce real-world physical effects without conventional military action.Data sovereignty and supply chain security remain major concerns. Attackers breached Liechtenstein's beneficial ownership registry by bypassing rate limits and exposing sensitive ownership records, undermining trust in a jurisdiction built on financial privacy. Meanwhile, ShinyHunters continues exploiting third-party IT service platforms to steal credentials and compromise organizations through trusted suppliers, creating lasting consequences that cannot be undone by ransom payments.Defensive innovation is shifting toward stronger system design rather than reactive filtering. New techniques isolate sensitive AI knowledge, while formal verification enables machine-checkable reasoning that improves trust and reliability. These advances strengthen AI security but cannot replace effective governance.Confidence in surveillance technology is also weakening. Investigations into Flock Safety's automated license plate reader network found gaps between public claims and operational practices, prompting dozens of municipalities to cancel deployments and reinforcing the need for transparency and accountability.Overall, AI is accelerating offensive cyber capabilities, critical infrastructure is becoming a routine target, and organizations must combine resilient technology with strong governance to defend against increasingly automated threats.

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Guy Swan on learning the wrong lessons. The takeaway circulating is "go with the biggest company," which forgets Mt. Gox and FTX and everything else proving size is not safety. His analogy: when a libertarian politician betrays you, libertarianism didn't break, you got scammed. He wants a rule that works forward. His sharpest point: "I don't want a rule that only works in hindsight." Anyone can now point at the source-available license. The useful question is what indicator predicts the next failure before it happens. His own heuristic broke in both directions. He had trained himself not to dismiss builders for being abrasive, and now concludes that for security specifically, a maintainer who attacks people reporting problems is telling you something. Yan Pritzker paired it with the engineering version: without a culture of safety, people stop surfacing mistakes. James O'Beirne's tripwires. He seeded wallets on-chain carrying graduated entropy over broken Coldcard seeds, five dice rolls, ten, fifteen, one and two-word passphrases, as bait. The bare seed was swept within an hour and nothing else has moved, mapping attacker capability live. The red team's numbers. Rob Hamilton and Calle have scanned over 300 repos and spent roughly $40,000 on tokens in two days, finding critical vulnerabilities at about one per person per hour. OpenSats is now funding most of that budget. Every company needs an agentic security pipeline. Yan's argument: agents are non-deterministic, so one scan proves nothing. The real work is harnesses that find, test, distill and reproduce on a loop. Swan has been building this for six to twelve months. The asymmetry is the whole problem. Attackers need one vulnerability, defenders need all of them, and the economics favor the attacker. Some have been paying up to 90% of stolen funds in fees to get transactions mined quickly. A fake Coldcard desktop app is circulating. No such application has ever existed. Trezor reported a phishing spike since disclosure, and a counterfeit Wasabi wallet reached an app store. Nobody legitimate asks for recovery words, and unsolicited migration instructions are always hostile. Yan's read on whether this repeats. He calls the bug exotic: entropy wasn't weak, it was switched off entirely. Scans across the popular hardware wallets show correct and consistent entropy use, so he thinks this specific failure is unlikely to recur elsewhere. Government overreach, the other half of the show. Suz on Liechtenstein's beneficial ownership register, roughly 31,000 entities, built in 2021 for EU anti-money-laundering compliance and now breached and offline. Yan on the Bank Secrecy Act's 1970 threshold, never inflation-adjusted, capturing dramatically more data for near-zero measured effect.

Zwei Tage nachdem über 30'000 Datensätze aus einem liechtensteinischen Behördenregister gestohlen wurden, ist klar: Die Angreifer haben die Daten einzeln abgefragt und heruntergeladen - dafür waren sie stundenlang im System. Wie kann das passieren? Cybersicherheitsexperte Raphael Reischuck erklärt. · Je früher Kinder Soziale Medien benutzen, desto schlechter sind sie in der Schule - zeigt eine neue Studie. Kinder mit einem Konto ab der 6. Klasse schneiden in Tests schlechter ab als Kinder, die erst ab der 9. Klasse Soziale Medien verwenden. Klaus Zierer, Leiter Schulpädagogik an der Universität Augsburg, ordnet ein. · Das Kino-Unternehmen IMAX befindet sich im Höhenflug. Der Film "The Odyssey" hat weltweit das Publikum in die Säle mit der ganz grossen Leinwand gelockt. Nun bricht auch der neue Spiderman-Film Eintrittsrekorde. Das spiegelt sich auch in der Aktie: sie klettert auf ein neues Allzeithoch. SRF-Filmredaktor Enno Reins analysiert. · Können wir übers Leben reden? Diese Frage stellt SRF-Moderator Donat Hofer in der Serie "Donat auf Achse" auch diesen Sommer wieder. Er fährt mit einem kleinen Kamerateam in einem alten Auto durch die Schweiz und spricht spontan mit Menschen. Wie spontan ist das alles wirklich? Donat Hofer erzählt vom Dreh.

A hacker breached Hungary's State Treasury, Russia will mandate 40 apps on all smartphones next year, hackers steal Liechtenstein's business database, and an AI agent got real CVEs for hallucinated vulnerability reports. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Hacker breaches Hungary's State Treasury

New Shai-Hulud campaign compromises popular npm packages. Easterly says small municipalities shouldn't have to fend for themselves. Chinese threat groups accelerate exploits. Samsung bans smart TV apps with residential proxies. Hackers breach a Liechtenstein banking database. Swiss government IT agency hit in suspected SharePoint Attack. Microsoft's bug bounty program awards record payouts. Researchers expose privilege boundary flaw in AI-driven CI/CD workflows. Roberta Anderson, Air Force veteran and CISO at Onterris is sharing her "Breaking the Firewall" book. And, bug hunting turns into bug sorting.  Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest Today we are joined by Roberta Anderson, Air Force veteran and CISO at Onterris, sharing her "Breaking the Firewall" book. Selected Reading Keyv and friends compromised in npm supply chain attack (Aikido) Small Towns Shouldn't Have to Defend America's Water Supply From Iran (The New York Times) China-Linked Threat Actors Weaponize New Vulnerabilities in Under a Day (Infosecurity Magazine) Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users' internet connections with strangers (TechCrunch) Liechtenstein says hackers access information on 31,000 legal entities (Reuters) Swiss IT agency hacked, 200 accounts compromised, SharePoint vulns suspected (The Record)  Microsoft Bounty Program year in review More than $20 million awarded in our biggest year yet (Microsoft Security Response Center) I'll Just Call You: Agent-to-Agent Privilege Boundary Failures in CI/CD on Google's ADK Repository (Pillar Security)  Apple struggles to keep pace with AI ‘bug' hunters (Financial Times) Share your feedback. What do you think about CyberWire Daily? Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey. Thank you for helping us continue to improve our show. Want to hear your company in the show? N2K CyberWire helps you reach the industry's most influential leaders and operators, while building visibility, authority, and connectivity across the cybersecurity community. Learn more at sponsor.thecyberwire.com. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc.

In Liechtenstein wurden am Sonntag bei einem massiven Hackerangriff zentrale Daten eines Finanzregisters gestohlen. Am Dienstag informierte die Liechtensteiner Regierung zum zweiten Mal dazu. Weshalb sind die geklauten Daten so sensibel und was kann man mit damit anfangen? (00:00) Intro und Schlagzeilen (01:22) Die Auswirkungen des Datenklaus in Lichtenstein (07:23) Nachrichtenübersicht (12:34) Die EU analysiert die Ereignisse in Ceuta (22:05) Trumps «Reflective Pool» und Bundesstaatsanwältin Pirro (28:03) Die Auswirkungen der Hitze auf die Gesundheit

Amazon zahlt OpenAI die vollen 50 Milliarden aus, obwohl keine der vereinbarten Bedingungen eingetreten ist. Google hat für Anthropic eine 200-Milliarden-Konstruktion aus Broadcom, Apollo, Blackstone, Morgan Stanley und ehemaligen Krypto-Minern gebaut. Pip erklärt dabei von Grund auf, wie Off-Balance-Sheet-Finanzierung funktioniert und warum niemand diese Chips in der eigenen Bilanz haben will. Daraus entwickelt er eine These: AI 2.0 kommt erst noch. Aus China kommen die passenden Belege, mit Alibabas neuem Modell und einem DeepSeek, das je Aufgabe ein Hundertstel der westlichen Konkurrenz kostet. Dazu Palantirs Zahlen und ein Rechenexempel über die Margen zwischen Chip und Kunde. Zum Schluss schauen wir in die SpaceX Earnings. Unterstütze unseren Podcast und entdecke die Angebote unserer Werbepartner auf ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠doppelgaenger.io/werbung⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Vielen Dank!  Philipp Glöckler und Philipp Klöckner sprechen heute über: (00:00:00) SpaceX vor den Zahlen (00:13:06) Amazon investiert in OpenAI (00:17:25) Eine Milliarde Nutzer (00:19:51) Off-Balance-Sheet erklärt (00:23:23) Googles 200-Milliarden-Maschine (00:41:32) AI 2.0 (00:43:57) Alibaba Qwen3.8-Max (00:44:53) DeepSeek V4-Flash (00:46:41) Chinas Militär destilliert (00:48:49) Amazon bei drei Billionen (00:49:30) Palantir (01:00:33) Snap (01:01:07) xAI gegen Minnesota (01:03:05) Telegram im App Store (01:04:07) Google zieht Satellitenbilder zurück (01:05:25) Liechtenstein gehackt (01:08:47) Airtable an Bending Spoons (01:09:26) SpaceX-Earnings Shownotes Amazon schließt 50-Mrd.-Investment in OpenAI ab - ft.com OpenAI überschreitet eine Milliarde Nutzer - wsj.com Googles 200-Mrd.-Finanzierungsmaschine für Anthropic - ft.com Off-Balance-Sheet-Finanzierung erklärt - corporatefinanceinstitute.com Alibaba veröffentlicht Qwen3.8-Max - bloomberg.com DeepSeeks V4-Flash ist das günstigste bekannte Modell - reuters.com Chinesische Militärforscher trainieren mit US-Modellen - reuters.com Amazon überschreitet drei Billionen Dollar Marktwert - bloomberg.com Palantir-Quartalszahlen, Umsatz plus 93 Prozent - cnbc.com Palantir-Aktie steigt nach turbogeladenem Wachstum - marketwatch.com Snap stellt AR-Brille für 2.195 Dollar in Aussicht - bloomberg.com Snap-Aktie springt über 10 Prozent - cnbc.com Richter lässt Minnesotas Nudify-Verbot in Kraft - nbcnews.com Telegram nach kurzem Rauswurf zurück im App Store - reuters.com Google zieht KI-Satellitenbilder zurück - npr.org Hacker stehlen 31.000 Datensätze aus Liechtensteins Geldwäscheregister - zeit.de

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As imagens de milhares de pessoas a chegarem a Ceuta podem contribuir para “normalizar a ideia de uma Europa Fortaleza”, considera a investigadora Maria Ferreira. A professora no Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas da Universidade de Lisboa sublinha que o que aconteceu no enclave espanhol no norte de África alimenta “a representação discursiva muito utilizada pelos partidos de direita radical da grande invasão” e alerta que essa narrativa já entrou na agenda política dos partidos moderados que vão “cavalgar a onda do alegado perigo dos fluxos migratórios”. “O que seria desejável era que se encontrasse um princípio de solidariedade entre os Estados-Membros que pertencem ao espaço Schengen”, diz Maria Ferreira, mas, até agora, o que esta crise revelou é essa falta de solidariedade. A chegada a Ceuta, na semana passada, de milhares de migrantes desencadeou uma crise diplomática entre Espanha e os parceiros europeus mais críticos em relação à política de migração do Governo do socialista Pedro Sánchez. O líder espanhol lamentou a falta de solidariedade dos parceiros europeus, lembrou que Espanha controlou a sua fronteira em 48 horas e que repatriou a quase totalidade dos migrantes. Mesmo assim, 22 Estados-membros pediram uma reunião de emergência de ministros do Interior, esta terça-feira, em que participam também governantes dos países que não pertencem ao bloco da UE mas que integram o espaço Schengen, como a Suíça, a Noruega, a Islândia e o Liechtenstein. A liderar esse movimento esteve a primeira-ministra italiana, Giorgia Meloni, que foi rápida a suspender o tratado de Schengen por causa de Ceuta, tendo no horizonte a campanha eleitoral italiana de 2027. De recordar que, segundo a Frontex, entre 2021 e 2026, a Espanha registou metade das entradas irregulares de migrantes do que Itália, mesmo sendo o único Estado-membro com uma fronteira terrestre com África. Para falarmos sobre este tema, convidámos Maria Ferreira, investigadora no Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas da Universidade de Lisboa, que alerta que esta situação pode contribuir para “normalizar a ideia de uma Europa Fortaleza” e sublinha que “o que seria desejável era que se encontrasse um princípio de solidariedade entre os Estados-Membros que pertencem ao espaço Schengen”. O problema é que esta crise parece revelar precisamente essa falta de solidariedade, três anos depois de a União Europeia ter ajudado Itália durante a crise migratória de Lampedusa. RFI: O que se espera da reunião desta terça-feira? Maria Ferreira, Investigadora no Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas da Universidade de Lisboa: “O que seria desejável era que hoje se encontrasse um princípio de solidariedade entre os Estados-Membros, nomeadamente os Estados-Membros que pertencem ao espaço Schengen. No passado, essa solidariedade permitiu, de alguma forma, que se ultrapassassem as anteriores crises migratórias que foram fustigando as fronteiras externas do espaço Schengen. O que se está a passar neste momento é que Ceuta e Melilla estão a surgir como as cadeias mais fracas da vasta rede que é formada pela fronteira externa do espaço Schengen. E como as questões migratórias estão na agenda não só dos partidos populistas de direita radical, mas também na agenda dos partidos do centro, quer de centro-esquerda quer de centro-direita, os Estados, perante aquelas imagens que percorreram os media e as redes sociais, sentem necessidade de dar resposta perante as suas próprias populações e não parecerem vulneráveis àquele tipo de, digamos assim, violação das fronteiras externas do espaço Schengen.” Está a haver, de certa forma, uma instrumentalização da situação em Ceuta por parte dos governos populistas do resto da Europa? “Não só por parte dos governos populistas. Há que notar que é verdade que as questões migratórias e as questões do asilo - que são coisas distintas, muito embora os partidos populistas de direita radical tendam a não distinguir estes dois factores - são um importantíssimo elemento da agenda política dos partidos radicais de direita populistas, mas há um efeito de contágio para as agendas mesmo dos partidos mais moderados de centro-direita e de centro-esquerda e dos governos mais moderados de centro-esquerda e centro-direita, que muitas vezes estão em coligação com partidos de direita radical ou que, de alguma forma, têm uma posição muito frágil e dependem dos partidos de direita radical - como por exemplo, acontece com a AD e o Chega [Portugal]. Por isso há aqui um efeito de contágio entre os partidos de direita e os próprios partidos que normalmente eram moderados e que tinham uma posição de maior equilíbrio em relação às migrações, mas que hoje têm que responder perante as suas populações e têm que responder perante o medo crescente da população europeia em relação àquilo a que se chama ‘a grande substituição' e aos fluxos que vêm de outros continentes, de outras culturas, e acabam por cavalgar a onda do alegado perigo dos fluxos migratórios que é uma representação discursiva, mas que acabou por ser confirmada por aquelas imagens que nos chegaram nos últimos dias de Ceuta e que vêm, de alguma forma, corroborar a imagem tradicional que é muito utilizada pelos partidos de direita radical da ‘grande invasão', da onda que vem do mar, da onda que vem de uma cultura diferente do Islão e que - dizem - nos vem de alguma forma assaltar e pôr em causa o nosso estilo de vida.” A reunião de hoje, que decorre por videoconferência, surge depois de uma carta assinada por 22 Estados-membros do bloco europeu, não subscrita por Portugal. Esses países lamentaram o que chamaram de “imigração descontrolada”, que constituiria uma “ameaça para a Europa”. Também chegaram a propor a exclusão de Espanha do espaço Schengen, a zona de livre circulação na Europa. É possível excluir a Espanha do espaço Schengen? Ceuta e Melilla pertencem ao espaço Schengen? “Ceuta e Melilla têm um estatuto específico dentro do espaço Schengen porque não é possível haver livre circulação entre os territórios de Ceuta e Melilla e o território continental espanhol. Não é possível à União Europeia excluir um Estado do espaço Schengen. Já foi feita uma proposta pela Comissão Europeia de ser a Comissão Europeia a decidir quando e em que circunstâncias se pode suspender do espaço Schengen. Essa proposta foi vetada, curiosamente, pelos parlamentos nacionais da União Europeia que invocaram o princípio da subsidiariedade e não deixaram que o poder de suspender um Estado do espaço Schengen coubesse à Comissão Europeia. Portanto, esse poder permanece nas mãos dos Estados e só um Estado pode decidir se uma determinada circunstância é grave o suficiente para que esse Estado tome a decisão de suspender o espaço Schengen e reinstaurar o controlo externo das fronteiras. No caso de Ceuta e Melilla, o governo espanhol não precisa de tomar essa decisão porque têm um estatuto especial dentro do espaço Schengen e isso é confirmado por documentos da própria União Europeia. A Espanha não precisa de suspender a livre circulação no espaço Schengen porque não há a possibilidade de haver livre circulação entre esses dois enclaves e o território continental espanhol. Ou seja, há verificação de documentos de identificação entre esses dois territórios que são autónomos e o território continental espanhol, exactamente porque se considera que Ceuta e Melilla são, digamos assim, os elos mais fracos de uma cadeia muito vasta que são as fronteiras externas do espaço Schengen. E como a robustez dessa cadeia depende da robustez dos elos mais fracos, a Ceuta e Melilla foi-lhes concedido este estatuto especial e não há possibilidade de se entrar no espaço continental espanhol e logo no espaço Schengen através de Ceuta e Melilla. E é por isso que a reacção italiana ou a reacção finlandesa ou mesma a reacção francesa noutro grau não têm grande sentido porque não é possível aos migrantes, como aliás se viu, entrarem no território continental espanhol via Ceuta ou via Melilla e depois passarem a circular livremente no espaço Schengen de forma regular. Não quer dizer que isso não aconteça de forma ilegal ou irregular, mas de forma regular isso não pode acontecer até porque nem Itália nem a Finlândia fazem fronteira directa com a Espanha, só França e Portugal é que estariam nessa situação. Por isso, a reacção, sobretudo italiana, quer de outros Estados europeus, não faz sentido no quadro das próprias leis do regime de Schengen.” Alguns analistas sugeriram que Marrocos poderia ter permitido a travessia dos migrantes para exercer pressão diplomática sobre Espanha, que recentemente melhorou as suas relações com a Argélia. As autoridades espanholas, por sua vez, responsabilizaram redes criminosas de difundir boatos sobre a questão do Tribunal Supremo Espanhol sobre a imigração. Qual é que é concretamente a política migratória espanhola? Pedro Sánchez tem uma visão diferente do resto dos europeus, uma visão mais aberta para acolher os migrantes? “Tem uma visão que é, ao mesmo tempo, mais humanista porque trata os migrantes como seres humanos, o que muitas vezes é esquecido na retórica dos partidos populistas de direita radical - e chamo a atenção que hoje saiu a notícia de que o governo espanhol está já atento ao facto de grande parte destes imigrantes serem menores não acompanhados e terem que ser, por exemplo, reintegrados em centros de acolhimento - mas também tem uma perspectiva particularmente pragmática porque com o envelhecimento demográfico nós sabemos que a Europa e a União Europeia precisa de mão-de-obra. E se nós ouvirmos os testemunhos destes jovens que fizeram a travessia, muitas vezes eles dizem: ‘Nós temos skills, nós temos profissões, nós temos coisas para dar aos europeus, nós podemos trabalhar'. A Europa precisa dessa mão-de-obra laboral, algo que muitas vezes é esquecido na retórica dos partidos de extrema-direita que rejeitam este tipo de fluxos migratórios, sabendo, por exemplo, que em Portugal, no sector da construção, há uma grande necessidade de mão-de-obra. Agora, não podemos pôr só o foco de análise nos governos europeus. O governo de Marrocos tem aqui um papel fundamental porque, de alguma forma, fechou os olhos a este fluxo massivo para Ceuta, porque tem problemas internos de desemprego, de instabilidade social que nós, quando olhamos para a questão migratória no sul da Europa, tendemos a esquecer. Portanto, não podemos olhar só para as políticas migratórias italiana, francesa, portuguesa e neste caso, espanhola. Também temos que olhar para os vectores que vêm do sul, ou seja, para os problemas que os países como Marrocos ou como a Argélia têm. E não estou só a falar de problemas de política internacional que têm a ver, por exemplo, com os acordos entre Espanha e Argélia que teriam beliscado a relação com Marrocos. Estou a falar de problemas de segurança humana, de escassez de recursos para manter a população. E é claro que essa pressão sentida por Marrocos faz com que estes países facilitem o trânsito, sobretudo de jovens que não conseguem empregar e que não conseguem integrar nas suas sociedades, para os países europeus. Temos que ter aqui uma análise, penso eu, mais abrangente. Olhar não só para as nossas necessidades enquanto país de acolhimento, mas também para as necessidades dos países que são a origem dos fluxos migratórios e é aquilo que a União Europeia tem estado a fazer nos últimos anos, e tentar eliminar as raízes dos fluxos migratórios, sobretudo ilegais, nos países de origem. E não nos esqueçamos que daqui a quatro anos e meio, Marrocos vai também organizar com Portugal e Espanha, o Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol e, portanto, vão aqui existir dinâmicas de fluxos migratórios possivelmente mais intensas e esta questão vai ser recorrente, mesmo que Espanha agora consiga reenviar para Marrocos como está a fazer com grande parte destes fluxos migratórios, esta questão será sempre recorrente. Como nós vimos, basta uma notícia começar a correr nas redes sociais de que haverá uma maior facilitação por parte de Espanha, uma perspectiva mais favorável em relação aos fluxos migratórios, para esta questão poder ser recorrente e poder ocorrer mais vezes.” O que aconteceu em Ceuta, com estes milhares de pessoas a tentarem entrar a nado, pode fechar ainda mais as portas da Europa? “Vem, no fundo, normalizar a ideia da ‘Europa Fortaleza', a Europa que mesmo estando com uma situação de inverno demográfico, não está disponível para aceitar fluxos migratórios que venham de países pobres e, sobretudo, fluxos migratórios que venham de países com práticas religiosas e práticas culturais muito distintas das nossas. Aqui a questão é que os partidos populistas de extrema-direita conseguiram normalizar a ideia de que os fluxos migratórios que vêm, por exemplo, do Norte de da África ou que vêm do Médio Oriente, mas sobretudo do Norte de África, são fluxos migratórios cujo objectivo é substituir a população nativa europeia, que - dizem - têm uma religião diferente porque têm práticas culturais diferentes, por isso são um perigo para a nossa sobrevivência enquanto cultura. Esta é uma ideia que não circula só nos partidos de direita radical, é uma ideia que foi internalizada pelos partidos de centro-direita e de centro-esquerda, sobretudo centro-direita, e que se está a tornar recorrente, não só a nível dos Estados como também ao nível da União Europeia. Repare que a Comissão, nas suas políticas de integração de migrantes, aconselha aos Estados que façam uma triagem da população migrante que quer efectivamente integrar nos seus Estados. Ou seja, a própria Comissão Europeia sinaliza aos Estados que prefere a integração, por exemplo, de migrantes altamente qualificados vindos de Estados que não coloquem uma ameaça existencial à sobrevivência daquilo que se considera ser a cultura europeia. Isto é um anátema porque a cultura europeia sempre foi mestiça, sempre foi feita de trocas, de interculturalidade, mas isto é obliviado por esta ideia da ‘grande invasão'. Ainda ontem eu ouvia comentários de analistas insuspeitos do centro a dizer que há uma vontade dos líderes religiosos islâmicos de colonizar a Europa. Isto não é dito por líderes de partidos de extrema-direita, é dito por analistas de política internacional, insuspeitos, de centro. Portanto, é uma ideia de que ‘a grande invasão' está em marcha e que, a longo prazo, o objectivo é voltar a colonizar certas áreas da Europa, por exemplo, a Península Ibérica, que já foi uma área islâmica.” Há um pacto de migrações e asilo da União Europeia. O que é que diz este pacto e as políticas migratórias de cada Estado-Membro são diferentes? “As políticas migratórias de cada Estado-Membro são muito diferentes porque na União Europeia está proibida a harmonização de políticas de integração. A União Europeia só tem políticas migratórias no que toca ao controlo das fronteiras externas, nomeadamente das fronteiras de Schengen. A União Europeia, porque não tem competências no campo das leis da nacionalidade, não pode interferir nas regras que cada Estado define para a integração de migrantes e está muito bem definido no Tratado sobre o Funcionamento da União Europeia que a União Europeia não pode harmonizar nenhum tipo de regulamento que tenha a ver com integração de migrantes. O que significa que os Estados têm uma grande margem de manobra para definir as suas políticas migratórias internas porque a União Europeia só intervém na gestão das fronteiras externas e faz - isso é muito visível no tratado sobre o funcionamento da União Europeia, nas regras do espaço, liberdade, segurança e justiça - faz uma divisão muito vincada entre os cidadãos europeus e aquilo a que se chama os nacionais de países terceiros. Portanto, os Estados-Membros sentem-se com margem de manobra - e vão sentir que esta regra da não harmonização das políticas de integração vai prevalecer no futuro – sentem-se como margem de manobra para poderem definir as suas políticas migratórias. A União Europeia, no fundo, tem muito poucas competências para além da gestão do controlo do espaço Schengen no campo da migração e do asilo. Tem algumas competências no campo do acolhimento dos migrantes, mas o verdadeiro cerne das competências de migração e de integração - aqui as políticas de integração são fundamentais - está nas mãos dos Estados.”

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Listener Brett Bauch joins Jeremy to discuss this relatively new trail that crosses the entire country of Liechtenstein in less than a week.  The trail takes hikers through the Upper Rhine Valley in the heart of the Alps.  The trail winds through all 11 municipalities of this European monarchy, where hikers will see castles, walk on a roman road, and pass through quaint villages.  And of course Jeremy takes us through the history of this unique European destination.trail website:  https://en.tourismus.li/entdecken/liechtensteinweg.htmlMembership/Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/trailsworthhikingwebsite: https://www.trailsworthhiking.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trailsworthhikingpodcast/email: trailsworthhiking@gmail.comJeremy's YouTube channel:  Go-Go Retirement: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeko5J9u1WD-7Pc7TnCa9qQ

Az előfizetők (de csak a Belső kör és Közösség csomagok tulajdonosai!) már szombat hajnalban hozzájutnak legfrissebb epizódunk teljes verziójához. A hétfőn publikált, ingyen meghallgatható verzió tíz perccel rövidebb. Itt írtunk arról, hogy tudod meghallgatni a teljes adást. Bede Márton vállalja. Nyíltlevélreneszánsz. Orbán János Dénes vs. Kylian Mbappé. Cucurella a 12. kerületben. A Sex Pistols-karaoke (konyókrityó). Rendőrállam-revival. Stravinszkíj: Manók tánca. 00:00 Tartalomjegyzék. Orbán Viktor megtér az SZDSZ-hez.01:46 Ne menj bankba a Blahán! Az ügyfél, akihez rendőr kellett.05:38 Az államkincstárral sem egyszerű. Harc életre-halálra a Központi Azonosítási Ügynökkel.11:09 Uj Péter nem vállalja, Bede Márton és Heal Edina frankón, kajakra. A macska is extasyzna a Kolorádón. A Várnegyed belégkondizása.14:24 A nagy nyíltlevél-reneszánsz. A divatszakma követelései. Amikor Nagy Tímea még fideszes volt. Kokó pálfordulása. Kokó és Hadházy.18:40 Magyar Péter első nagy hibája. Eurovízó, konklávé, elnökválasztás. Nyilvános meghallgatást mindenhova! A Polgár Judit-doksi. Végre lehetett zsidózni.24:23 Orbán János Dénes és Kylian Mmmmmmmbappé. Még tart a vévéhőemelkedés. Kicsinálták Cucurellát a 12. kerületben. Magyarországon nincs hidratációs szünet. Magyarországon börtönválogatott van.30:22 Sex Pistols erőszakból. Dead Kennedys tévedésből. Fémdetektor a Budapest Parkban. A HVG koncertkrityója. Bede Márton 2008-as krityója.36:23 Steve Jones is megöregedett. Paul Gray visszaemlékezése a Dr. Feelgood 1986-as budapesti koncertjére. A Közhír kritikája. UFO Zsolti, a kerítő. VHK a Wikipedián. 43:46 Autósüldözés - Liechtenstein drift. A közmédiáról még egyszer, remélhetőleg utoljára. Egyszázalékot a közmédiának! Stravinszkij: Manók tánca.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stijn Schmitz welcomes back Steve Hanke back to the show. Steve Hanke is a Professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University. Hanke highlights the two major wars—the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran and the Ukraine war—as critical disruptors of global commodity flows. He notes that the Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed, with Iran controlling it, and the Houthis threaten the Red Sea chokepoint, severely constricting crude and refined product supplies. Russia's cutoff of diesel exports and domestic fuel shortages compound the strain. Oil markets are in backwardation, with spot prices above futures, signaling dangerously low inventories that have cushioned prices so far but are nearing depletion. Hanke warns that once physical inventories run out, oil prices could spike dramatically, potentially later this summer. He advises going long on oil, especially major producers, as a straightforward trade for most investors. On gold, Hanke maintains a bullish outlook, projecting a peak around $6,000 per ounce based on historical ratios to real disposable income. He attributes recent pullbacks to dollar strength and rising interest rates but sees central bank buying as a fundamental driver. He also discusses the pressure on the Fed to monetize debt, which could fuel inflation and support gold. The conversation shifts to the broader commodity supercycle, fueled by deglobalization, underinvestment, and the need for larger precautionary inventories. Copper and tungsten are identified as clear bullish plays due to supply deficits. Hanke notes that high diesel prices are squeezing mining and agriculture, potentially raising output prices. He also touches on dollarization, recommending developing countries adopt the U.S. dollar to expand its use rather than de-dollarize. The interview concludes with Hanke emphasizing the importance of money supply growth as the key determinant of nominal GDP and inflation. Timestamps: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:01:05 – Key Developments on Radar 00:04:58 – Oil Predictions vs Reality 00:10:53 – Inventory and Flow Analysis 00:14:40 – Crack Spreads and Refining 00:16:27 – Demand Destruction Dynamics 00:20:51 – Anticipated Oil Price Spike 00:22:32 – Long Oil Opportunity 00:27:37 – Gold Bull Market Outlook 00:29:38 – Central Bank Buying Drivers 00:45:54 – Concluding Thoughts Guest Links: X: https://x.com/steve_hanke Website: https://thegoldsentimentreport.com Amazon Book: https://www.amazon.com/Making-Money-Work-Rewrite-Financial/dp/1394257260 Amazon Book: https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Interest-Waiting-Controversies-Additions/dp/3031633970 E-Mail: mailto:hanke@jhu.edu Steve H. Hanke is a Professor of Applied Economics and Founder & Co-Director of the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Troubled Currencies Project at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., a Senior Advisor at the Renmin University of China's International Monetary Research Institute in Beijing, a Special Counselor to the Center for Financial Stability in New York, a contributing editor at Central Banking in London, and a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal's Opinion pages. Prof. Hanke is also a member of the Charter Council of the Society of Economic Measurement and of Euromoney Country Risk's Experts Panel. In the past, Prof. Hanke taught economics at the Colorado School of Mines and at the University of California, Berkeley. He served as a Member of the Governor's Council of Economic Advisors in Maryland in 1976-77, as a Senior Economist on President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors in 1981-82, and as a Senior Advisor to the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress in 1984-88. Prof. Hanke served as a State Counselor to both the Republic of Lithuania in 1994-96 and the Republic of Montenegro in 1999-2003. He was also an Advisor to the Presidents of Bulgaria in 1997- 2002, Venezuela in 1995-96, and Indonesia in 1998. He played an important role in establishing new currency regimes in Argentina, Estonia, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ecuador, Lithuania, and Montenegro. Prof. Hanke has also held senior appointments in the governments of many other countries, including Albania, Kazakhstan, the United Arab Emirates, and Yugoslavia. Prof. Hanke has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Universität Liechtenstein, the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, the Free University of Tbilisi, Istanbul Kültür University, Varna Free University, and the D.A. Tsenov Academy of Economics in recognition of his scholarship on exchange-rate regimes. Prof. Hanke and his wife, Liliane, reside in Baltimore and Paris.

Em 2025, o Uzbequistão conquistou a primeira vaga da história de um país da Ásia Central em uma Copa do Mundo, um feito que o governo de Shavkat Mirziyoyev rapidamente incorporou à narrativa do “novo Uzbequistão”. Em parceria com o GEsEu, Grupo de Estudos da Eurásia (UNIPAMPA), Flávio Lira (UNIPAMPA/GEsEu) recebe Guilherme Geremias da Conceição (UNESP/CIRE), um dos maiores especialistas brasileiros no país, para usar essa classificação como ponto de partida de uma leitura de longo prazo sobre o Uzbequistão contemporâneo. Guilherme percorre dois mil anos de história da região, da Rota da Seda ao império de Tamerlão, até a delimitação nacional soviética de 1924, que deu origem ao Uzbequistão como Estado. A conversa revisita a política externa de Islam Karimov, guiada por um único princípio, a defesa da soberania recém-conquistada, mesmo ao custo de aproximações e afastamentos sucessivos entre Moscou, Washington e Pequim. Já sob Mirziyoyev, o país transformou sua condição de duplamente sem litoral, característica que divide apenas com o Liechtenstein, em estratégia diplomática deliberada, equilibrando simultaneamente Rússia, China, Estados Unidos, Turquia, União Europeia e os países do Golfo. Aperte o play. Quer apoiar o Chutando a Escada? Acesse chutandoaescada.com.br/apoio Mande um café usando nossa chave PIX: perguntas@chutandoaescada.com.br Comentários, críticas, sugestões? Escreva pra gente em perguntas@chutandoaescada.com.br Participaram deste episódio: Flávio Lira (UNIPAMPA/GEsEu) e Guilherme Geremias da Conceição (UNESP/CIRE). Capa do episódio: Reuters Escute também no Spotify, no YouTube ou Apple Podcasts. Capítulos: 00:00 Abertura e a vaga inédita do Uzbequistão na Copa do Mundo 04:00 Apresentação do convidado e o significado da classificação 11:00 Onde fica o Uzbequistão e por que a região foi sempre disputada 18:00 Da Rota da Seda a Tamerlão, dois mil anos antes da URSS 24:00 A criação soviética do Estado uzbeque em 1924 36:00 Independência e o pragmatismo de Islam Karimov 47:00 Andijan e os limites da política externa isolacionista 58:00 Mirziyoyev e a diplomacia multivetorial entre grandes potências The post Uzbequistão entra em campo appeared first on Chutando a Escada.

Medical missionaries are often called upon to provide care that is beyond the scope of their training and previous experience. This interactive case presentation looks at the realities of clinical decision-making in a critically ill snakebitten patient, and offers suggestions on how to navigate similar challenging situations.

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Jeremy Doku is no longer just a tantalizing prospect with bags of trickery—he has officially evolved into a ruthless, system-breaking match-winner for Pep Guardiola. The 24-year-old Belgian winger has spent the 2025–26 season refining his raw, explosive pace into a clinical weapon, transforming into the ultimate big-game cheat code for both club and country.In this episode, we dissect Doku's electrifying campaign and analyze how he became the most feared one-on-one specialist in world football: Reliving his mind-boggling, 32-minute cameo in the FA Cup semifinal against Southampton, where he grabbed a goal and an assist to earn a perfect 10/10 Sofascore rating and secure Manchester City a historic fourth consecutive final berth. Breaking down his 10 direct goal contributions (5 goals, 5 assists) across 30 league appearances, looking past the basic stats to see how he routinely dismantles low-block defenses.Looking back at his record-breaking Euro 2024 exploits, where he completed more successful take-ons than anyone else in the tournament, leaving even Lamine Yamal in his wake.Tracking his lethal form in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, including dominant multi-goal performances against Kazakhstan and Liechtenstein to spearhead the Red Devils' post-Golden Generation era.Tune in as we look at how Pep Guardiola's tactical demands have unlocked Doku's decision-making in the final third, positioning him to become one of the undisputed best wide players on the planet. Jeremy Doku, Manchester City podcast, Pep Guardiola tactics, Premier League 2026, Belgium football, FA Cup highlights.

Understanding how values and communication styles differ across cultures is key to succeeding internationally. That’s why training in cross-cultural communication has become commonplace in the international business world. In this session, we’ll look at 6 dimensions of cross-cultural communication and their application to medical scenarios.

Lightrock arrived in India with nearly a billion dollars and royal backing — the Liechtenstein dynasty's centuries-old fortune funding bets on around 40 growth-stage startups.The firm moved fast, doubled down on existing investments more aggressively than most peers, and scaled hard during the zero-interest-rate boom. Then the cycle turned. Its portfolio — Waycool, Pharmeasy, Dunzo — ran into trouble. New cheques dried up.Lightrock shifted from investor to caretaker, managing what it had rather than building what came next. A royal wager on Indian tech, still waiting for a payoff.Tune in.*This episode was originally published on 24th April 2026.Daybreak is produced from the newsroom of The Ken, India's first subscriber-only business news platform. Subscribe for more exclusive, deeply-reported, and analytical business stories.

With nearly 1.3 billion disabled people in the world, we assume that the medical community focuses on physical health. But who is helping people with the emotional and spiritual impact of disability? In this session, we will explore the emotional and spiritual impact of disability and how the church and global workers can effectively support the disabled community with this critical need.

In today's episode of The Quiz, we're testing your knowledge on everything from the legendary figures who ruled the music charts to royal leaders and crucial diplomatic roles. Can you answer these? Music Royalty: We look back at the absolute icons of the music industry. Do you know the legendary performers widely crowned as the "King of Pop," the "King of Rock & Roll," and the "Queen of Soul"? Foreign Diplomacy: We shift our focus to international relations. Can you identify the specific official currently serving as the United States Ambassador to Israel? Global Monarchs: Testing your knowledge of unique world governments—do you know the name of the current Sovereign Prince who rules over the European microstate of Liechtenstein? Play. Share. Listen, with Country Musician David Bellamy. Get tickets to The Bellamy Brothers summer concerts HERE: https://bellamybrothers.com/tour/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Die Fussball-WM in den USA weckt unweigerlich Erinnerungen an das Jahr 1994 und an jenes Turnier, als sich das Schweizer Nationalteam erstmals seit 28 Jahren wieder für eine Weltmeisterschaft qualifizierte. Gemeinsam mit SRF-Reporterlegende Beni Thurnheer blicken wir zurück: auf die Stimmung in den USA, die Rückkehr der Schweiz auf die grosse Fussball-Bühne und auf seine unvergessenen Erlebnisse als Kommentator vor Ort. Wie erlebte Thurnheer die Reise in die USA? Wie funktionierte die Zusammenarbeit mit Co-Kommentator Günter Netzer? Und welche Parallelen sieht er zwischen damals und der heutigen Schweizer Nationalmannschaft? Zudem richten wir den Blick auf das bevorstehende Spiel der Schweizer Nati gegen Bosnien-Herzegowina. Nach dem 1:1 zu, Auftakt gegen Katar steht das Team von Murat Yakin bereits unter Druck. Wie stabil ist die Mannschaft aktuell? Welche Rolle spielt Captain Granit Xhaka? Und wie ist die Stimmung innerhalb des Teams wirklich? Host: Tilman Pauls Co-Host: Dominic Wuillemin Produzent: Noah Fend Die Themen: 00:00 Intro 01:29 Hodgson, einer wie General Guisan 06:00 Netzer und «es gibt keinen Zweiten wie Bregy» 13:15 Die USA damals und heute 20:50 Legendäre Anekdoten und Sex-Verbot 24:26 Der Beruf des Kommentators 31:00 Thurnheers Hang zur Ordnung 33:45 Was die WM mit Liechtenstein und Winterthur zu tun hat 44:11 Vorschau aufs Bosnien-Spiel In der Dritten Halbzeit wird über den Schweizer Fussball diskutiert. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Das Fürstentum Liechtenstein hat eines der strengsten Abtreibungsgesetze Europas. Und dabei dürfte es bleiben. Erbprinz Alois hat nämlich sein Veto angekündigt, sollte sich die Bevölkerung in einer Abstimmung für legale Abtreibungen aussprechen. Schätzungsweise 40 Frauen aus Liechtenstein reisen jedes Jahr ins benachbarte Ausland, um eine Schwangerschaft abzubrechen. Im Fürstentum sind Abtreibungen verboten. Ärztinnen dürfen mit ihren Patientinnen nicht einmal über das Thema sprechen. Ein Initiativ-Komitee möchte das ändern: Es sammelt derzeit Unterschriften für eine Abstimmung über legale Schwangerschaftsabbrüche. Doch noch bevor ein Abstimmungstermin feststeht, erteilt der Erbprinz dem Anliegen eine Abfuhr. Warum kündigt das Fürstenhaus bereits jetzt sein Veto an? Und was hält die Bevölkerung von diesem Machtinstrument des Erbprinzen? ____________________ Habt Ihr Fragen oder Themen-Inputs? Schreibt uns gerne per Mail an newsplus@srf.ch oder sendet uns eine Sprachnachricht an 076 320 10 37. ____________________ In dieser Episode zu hören - David Sele, Leiter Politik bei der Liechtensteiner Zeitung «Vaterland» ____________________ Links - https://www.srf.ch/audio ____________________ Team - Moderation: Dominik Rolli - Produktion: Lea Saager - Mitarbeit: Julius Schmid ____________________ Das ist «News Plus»: In einer Viertelstunde die Welt besser verstehen – ein Thema, neue Perspektiven und Antworten auf eure Fragen. Unsere Korrespondenten und Expertinnen aus der Schweiz und der Welt erklären, analysieren und erzählen, was sie bewegt. «News Plus» von SRF erscheint immer von Montag bis Freitag um 16 Uhr rechtzeitig zum Feierabend.

What does it look like when one of the world's most longstanding institutional investors ($120B) decides to go deeper into venture capital? And what happens when one of the most respected LP teams in the business joins forces with them?Thomas Kristensen, who is responsible for the venture capital business at LGT Capital Partners, joins hosts Nick and Beezer for a wide-ranging conversation that doubles as an announcement: the Sapphire Partners team – including Beezer, Laura and Nate – have joined LGT Capital Partners. Thomas explains why the fit made sense.LGT Capital Partners manages over $120 billion on behalf of more than 700 institutional clients and is owned by the Princely Family of Liechtenstein. That ownership brings a long-term perspective, often measured in decades rather than years, and it shapes how Thomas and his team approach venture: with patience, close partnership and a willingness to be both buyer and seller in private markets.Together with Nick and Beezer, Thomas unpacks the firm's recently published white paper on the case for increasing venture allocation, built on three pillars: lifecycle diversification, an innovation hedge against AI-driven displacement and the maturation of secondary markets as a liquidity tool. He also offers a frank assessment of the current market, noting that the pace of deployment feels reminiscent of 2020-2021, and that a valuation dip may be coming regardless of how transformative AI ultimately proves to be.From the endowment model's stress test to the temptation of clinging to a single fund-returner, this is a thoughtful conversation about long-term thinking from an investor who has spent more than two decades refining his approach.Quotes“It's not new that incumbents are challenged by new entrants. I think what's new is the speed at which this is happening. In the age of AI, it feels like there is a risk that many incumbents could be displaced quite quickly. And so including venture capital in your portfolio is a way of hedging against this.”“Are LPs gonna run out of capital? I don't know. Sometimes I wonder if the world is going to run out of capital to fund CapEx for AI right now. We always say, ‘Listen, if you come into venture capital as an asset class, if you're an allocator, you can go in when it's hot, you can go in when it's not. You will only really figure out in hindsight.' The most important thing if you start committing to venture is, make sure that you can commit at a steady pace over a long, long period of time because it's a market you cannot time. There's just no way.”Time Stamps04:13 Meet Thomas Kristensen, Head of Venture Capital at LGT Capital Partners05:52 The Princely Family of Liechtenstein and the Long-Term Mindset08:37 The White Paper: Why LGT Capital Partners Is Increasing Its Venture Allocation09:45 Three Pillars: Lifecycle Diversification, Innovation Hedge, and Secondary Markets12:35 Big News: The Sapphire Partners Team Joins LGT Capital Partners17:35 LP Consolidation: What It Means for GPs23:47 GP Advice: Keep First Things First on LP Alignment32:03 Engineering a More Liquid Private Portfolio37:07 AI Market Heat and Fundraising Pace45:44 Closing Remarks and What's NextLinksConnect with the guest and hosts on LinkedIn!• Thomas Kristensen• Beezer Clarkson• Nick ChirlsLearn more about:• LGT Capital Partners• Asylum Ventures• OpenLP• LGT Venture Capital White Paper

Bäm! Badautz! Bumm! Batsch! Wenn Harry Potter ein Comic wäre, würden die Seiten dieser Folge wohl so klingen. Denn Hagrid ist am Ragen und teilt zum ersten Mal seit fünf Jahren richtig aus. Umbridges Versuch, ihn gefangen zu nehmen (warum auch immer), geht damit gründlich daneben. Die Hilfe von Professor McGonagall, die aus dem Schlossportal geeilt kommt, ist leider wenig hilfreich: Sie wird nämlich von vier Schockzaubern getroffen, noch bevor sie überhaupt ihren Zauberstab ziehen kann.​Ach so, und was passiert nebenbei noch? Prüfungen! Die Astronomieprüfung läuft während dieses Verbrechens nämlich einfach weiter. Egal was in Hogwarts passiert – die Prüfungen müssen weitergehen. Das gilt auch für die Prüfung am nächsten Morgen. Wie Harry diese Prüfung meistert und was Liechtenstein mit alldem zu tun hat, erfahrt ihr in der nächsten Folge.Und jetzt viel Spaß beim Zuhören!Hier geht's zu unserem Whatsapp-Kanal: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbB8C00CRs1obJUivo2ZWir haben auch eine Patreon-Seite!Schaut doch mal vorbei, es gibt Bonus-Episoden, Sticker und andere aufregende Dinge! Besucht uns auf den sozialen Netzwerken, unserer Webseite und erzählt euren Freunden von uns! Vielleicht haben die ja auch Lust auf einen Harry-Potter-Podcast!Patreon: www.patreon.com/happypotterDiscord: discord.gg/QpJfFSXY73Facebook: www.facebook.com/happypotterpodcastInstagram: @happypotterpodUnd wir haben jetzt auch Playlists mit unseren Lieblingssongs:Martins Playlist:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2IBxDsPVm1UdNBiW2QkgEJ?si=rU6HLkoFQfGGjvab8g8yEQ&pi=e-bKuIHap7RWCuSophias Playlist:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0kuOP0TujMhrqOWzLwUH1O?si=9LIZkc2nQTOajHPaqpP_RA&pi=e-tc6w0NgQRo-WAragog empfiehlt diesen Podcast! (Angeblich.)Wer das liest, ist bezaubernd.

If you're planning a trip to Switzerland and want to make the most of your limited time in Zurich without feeling overwhelmed with logistics, a small group tour could be your answer.In this episode, I'm joined by Catharina De Sa from Swiss Epic Tours to learn more about their guided small group day tours from Zurich. We chat through the full range of Zurich day trips they offer, including memorable journeys to Mt Titlis (with a private lakeside fondue experience!), the spectacular Rhine Falls and a visit to the Lindt Home of Chocolate. You'll hear all about the charming villages of Appenzell, scenic day trips to Liechtenstein from Zurich, historic Bern and postcard-perfect Gruyeres, as well as adventures into the Black Forest, just over the German border.For lovers of nature and classic Swiss landscapes, we cover tours through the Bernese Oberland region, as well as panoramic rides up Mt. Rigi, one of the most beloved peaks for locals and visitors alike.If you're looking for guided day tours from Zurich that are intimate, hassle-free and fun, this episode is for you. Plus, don't miss our exclusive listener discount code for Swiss Epic Tours.Happy travels,Carolyn

The practice of healthcare is inherently powerful, and our patients are vulnerable to our power. Though power can be abused, the righteous use of power, for the benefit of the vulnerable, is profoundly Christlike. We will explore the lessons of power which help us understand our roles, including the fundamental nature of professionalism and key kingdom strategies of healthcare missions.

How is the German market different to English speaking markets, and why might it be worth looking into translation? What are the best ways to translate, self-publish and market your books in German? With Skye MacKinnon. In the intro, thoughts on feeling empty after a book, and the benefits of SubStack for authors [Stark Reflections; Wish I'd Known Then]; AI-Assisted Artisan Author webinars 16 and 23 May. This episode is sponsored by Publisher Rocket, which will help you get your book in front of more Amazon readers so you can spend less time marketing and more time writing. I use Publisher Rocket for researching book titles, categories, and keywords — for new books and for updating my backlist. Check it out at www.PublisherRocket.com This show is also supported by my Patrons. Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn Skye MacKinnon is the award-winning, USA Today bestselling author of over 70 books across romance and children's books under multiple pen names, most of which are also available in German, which is her bestselling market. Her latest book for authors is Self-Publishing in German: How to Translate, Publish and Market Your Books. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. Show Notes Why the German-speaking market is much bigger than just Germany, and which genres sell best there Title protection laws, the Impressum, and translator copyright How to find and vet human translators, and what a quality translation actually costs The current state of AI translation for fiction, and why quality assurance passes are essential Distribution decisions: the Tolino Alliance, Skoobe, libraries, and why IngramSpark doesn't work in Germany Marketing in German: BookDeals, LovelyBooks, ads, BookTok, and why pre-orders matter even more You can find Skye SkyeMacKinnon.com and her children's books at IslaWynter.com. Transcript of the interview with Skye MacKinnon Jo: Skye MacKinnon is the award-winning, USA Today bestselling author of over 70 books across romance and children's books under multiple pen names, most of which are also available in German, which is her bestselling market. Her latest book for authors is Self-Publishing in German: How to Translate, Publish and Market Your Books. Welcome, Skye. Skye: Hi. Thank you so much for having me. Jo: This is such an interesting topic. But first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. Skye: I've always loved writing, but I was always told, “Well, you can't be an author. Get a proper job.” So I became a journalist and did that for a few years, but there was always that love of creative writing. At some point when I was getting more active on social media, I was following some other indie authors and realised they're just like me. They're not special people. I had always pictured authors as these mythical beings high up above the rest of us. That gave me the courage to put out my own book. I self-published from the start, never even looked into trad publishing, and that was in 2017. I was really lucky because my first series totally hit it off. I was able to quit my job a year later and I have been a full-time author ever since. I started with romance and then, by accident, got into children's books. Which has been great fun. I don't even have children myself, but it's just that palette cleanser in between. Writing about cute animals and unicorns and just bringing some fun into everything. Nowadays I have about five or six pen names, depending on how you count, across genres, although most of it is romance, and that's my bread and butter really. Jo: Yes, I'm certainly one of those people who wish I could write romance. It always just seems to be the most profitable market in any language, I guess. Let's get into the book. It's a fantastic book. I've been through it myself. It's really packed full of everything you need, so we can't cover everything. Let's start by considering the German language in general. Why is German a good language market to consider expanding into? And for anyone who might not realise, why is it more than Germany? Skye: Well, Germans love to read, and depending on the statistic that you look at, they're generally seen as the third largest book market in the world after English and Mandarin Chinese. So it's a huge market, even though you think of Germany as a small little country in Europe. As you said, it's much more than Germany. Yes, you've got about 83 million people in Germany, but then you've also got Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, parts of Belgium, Luxembourg, and even Italy. So if you look at the whole footprint on the map, it is much bigger than just the one country. A lot of young people there still read and go to bookshops. There's a huge bookshop culture. You will find, if you go to a high street there, way more bookshops than you do here in the UK, for example. There's demand for quality and for really gorgeous books. They have been way ahead of the curve when it comes to special editions and sprayed edges, and they also like translations. I found one statistic where about two thirds of all newly released titles in German are actual translations. Readers are used to translations, but until a few years ago it was all trad-published translations. So this transition is coming now. It's coming very, very fast, especially with AI. They generally are very open to translations as long as the quality is there. Jo: So what about specific genres then? Obviously we mentioned romance there, and romance is not just one genre anymore. Whatever they're writing— How can somebody tell if it's worth expanding into German? How do we do this? It takes time and effort and money, potentially. Skye: It can take a lot of money, so it is worth doing research. There's one easy way, which is just looking at your current sales and looking at how many books you're selling in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland at the moment in English. That can give you an indication of which of your books might be already quite popular there. Sometimes it's quite surprising. A lot of my books sell very differently in German than they do in English. I've got one series that did okay in English, and I almost didn't translate it. The German version is, I think, my second bestselling series in German and has completely surprised me. So sometimes it's worth just experimenting a bit. Otherwise, obviously as you said, romance is doing really well. There are a few surprises though. I had a chat with Draft2Digital and they gave me lots of information from their statistics, and they said about 40% of all the western title sales on Draft2Digital are actually in Germany, which is just a huge percentage. Jo: In English? Skye: Across languages. Jo: Mm-hmm. Skye: Germans, to be fair, they love their westerns. My dad in Germany, he has been watching westerns for I don't know how many decades. It is one of those things that is just really popular there. Another thing is anything that is set in other countries and really has the location as almost like a character. There's lots of Cornwall, Scotland, different islands, but also mountains and cities. So if your book is set in, even in New York City, if it has a clear setting—if it's not just that it could be any city—then that's a good one to think about translating. In general, most genres can do well. There's a few where you have to be a bit careful. Second World War books, for example. If you have a book that portrays every single German as a Nazi and as evil, it might not do as well in Germany. So some common sense when it comes to historical books. Otherwise, just look at German retailers, look at what is selling there—and not just Amazon. Places like Thalia, which is part of the Tolino Alliance, and they have about 40% of the market. So it's really important to look at them too, and not just at Amazon. Jo: We'll come back to the distribution in a minute. There are some important differences between the German market and the US/UK market. Obviously we're talking about a different language, but of course there are a few things that are different that some people might not think about. So give us a few of those things that people definitely need to think about. Skye: Okay, so even before you start publishing, you need to be aware that title protection is a thing in Germany. Your book can't have the same title as an already published book. That is a law that is basically there to avoid readers being confused. So if you had five books with the same title, readers might not realise which book is by which author. You have to do your research and check if anyone else is using your title. There are some exceptions—if it's a completely different category, so if there's a children's book with that title but you write spicy romance, then the chance that the reader gets confused is much lower. Quite often you can then contact either the author or the publisher and ask, “Can I get written permission to use that title?” I did that for one of my series and it was totally fine. Just be sure to get it in writing, because if your book suddenly becomes a huge bestseller, they might reconsider. So title protection is an important one. You need to research that before you publish. One thing that people sometimes get confused about is reusing their English title. That's totally fine because it's your own title. So if your English title hasn't been used and you want to keep that same title, that works. It's just about other people's books where you can't use those titles. Another important legal bit is the Impressum. It's the copyright page. To be fair, websites that are targeting German readers or a German audience have to have that Impressum. It's usually on page two of the book, and it has things like your legal name, your address, and then the usual things like the translator's name, cover design, and other things you would usually put on a copyright page. The problem is that technically you need to put your legal name in there unless you have a limited company, in which case you can also put the business name there, and your address. A lot of people obviously don't want to do that for privacy reasons, especially romance authors where it's sometimes a bit sketchy when it comes to some readers who get a bit too obsessed. There are services where you can pay a monthly or yearly fee and then use their address. It's a bit of a legal grey zone, but a lot of German authors are doing it because—especially as indie authors—we don't always want to put our legal address out there. Jo: Just for people listening, I use my accountant's address. That's quite common. I mean, you have to share your address on your email for anti-spam laws and all that kind of thing. As you say, there are ways to use other addresses. That just needs to happen. What else then do we need to think about? Skye: There are things about the translator. A lot of things that people are sometimes scared about is when they hear that there is a copyright issue with translators and they think, “Oh, my translator has the copyright. I can't do anything.” Actually, the translator is seen as an author—almost like a co-author of the translation in German law—because, to be fair, it's not just putting one word into another. Translation is quite a creative job, especially when it's fiction. It is a very creative job where the translator has to put a lot of their own creativity into it. So in German law, they're recognised as the creator of that translation and therefore have certain rights. But you as the author, as soon as you have a contract with your translator—which is why you always, always, always have to have a contract—you get the usage rights. This means it's exactly the same as with your English books. You can do with them what you want. You can get audiobooks, you can do print books, you can do whatever you want in different formats. It just needs to be clear in a contract that the translator is giving you the usage rights of that translation. That's something that people sometimes find a bit scary, but actually it's really simple. Translations have been done for so long. It's a normal thing. It's just called slightly different. It has to be set out in a contract. Jo: Just on that, that's when the translator themselves is in Germany, because if they are based somewhere else, still doing a German translation, that's not necessary. So that's something else for people to consider. Skye: Yes, definitely. To be fair— I would always try to get a translator based in the country. I mean, I'm a native German speaker, but I've been in Scotland for so long now that I am not confident enough to translate my own books anymore because I'm not surrounded by German 24/7 and my grammar is slightly off and I don't have that up-to-date, modern lingo. So if it's a translator who's only just moved somewhere else or a few years, that's fine. But if it's someone who's been in the US or UK or somewhere else for 20 years, I would be a bit more hesitant. That's just a personal perspective on that. One other thing that's different is Sie and du. There are two different kinds of “you” when you talk to someone. There's the formal Sie, which you use basically amongst adults, in business contexts. But even my German grandma—she had a friend and they used the formal Sie for about 10 years as friends because in German etiquette, the older person has to offer the younger person the informal du, and they never did that for some reason. We found it hilarious as kids that they were still using the formal Sie as really good friends. So there's an entire culture there that people who haven't been to Germany or haven't lived there for a while just find a bit difficult, because there are so many different unwritten rules about when you use Sie and when you use the informal du. It's weakened a bit over the years and nowadays even strangers would sometimes use the informal du depending on the context. It really depends. A good translator will usually handle that themselves. They will find a scene where, for example, especially in romance, you meet as strangers in the beginning, so you use the formal Sie, and then at some point that formality turns to informality. The translator will usually choose that moment and add a little extra scene or a sentence where they either offer it to each other or they just naturally switch into it. But then there might be an internal little monologue of, “Oh, he just used the informal du—I guess we're at that stage,” or, “I really appreciate that.” Just to make it more natural, because that's something I quite often see with AI translation where that doesn't happen, and readers get confused. Why did they just switch from Sie to du without any kind of acknowledgement of that? Jo: This is the same in Spanish and other languages, I imagine. Skye: Yes, French as well. Italian too, I think. A lot of European languages have this. Jo: I think that's something that English speakers just don't get. It is a really interesting moment. I guess that might not happen so much in other genres—that really is a thing in romance. I was just thinking about some of my thrillers. They may never have time to get to du. Skye: But then sometimes using du can also be a rude thing. So if you have an antagonist who really doesn't like your protagonist, they might just use du as a rude sort of address. Again, that's something that English speakers just wouldn't understand or even think of because we just have the one “you.” Jo: We just have the one. Jo: It's the tone. Of course, it's the tone. Skye: Exactly, yes. Jo: Okay, well let's get into the actual translation of the books themselves. Over the years I've worked with lots of humans. I've also licensed my rights. I've used different AI tools. I mean, there are tons, but as we record this— What are the options that are available for translations? Give us some tips on working with humans and finding humans. Because it can be super pricey. And of course most of us will never know about the quality until we publish it. Skye: Oh, yes, definitely a note on that. I found that quite often you will already have German people on your newsletter list or on your social media, and most of them will be super happy to give you some feedback on your translation. That's something I've used a lot. Not for German, because I speak the language, but when I did French and Italian translations. My French is—well, it used to be quite okay. It is passable at best now. So I would never feel confident enough to rate a translation. So I asked my newsletter list, “Are there any French people here who would be happy to read the book? I'll send you a free copy at the end, and some swag.” There were a surprising number of people who got back to me. The same applies to German and other languages, because if you don't speak the language, you sometimes lack the confidence of knowing if this is any good. Getting some reader feedback is super helpful. For finding human translators, the easiest of course is word of mouth, and I'm a big fan of that because you get instant feedback on whether someone is good or not and whether it's easy to work with them. Then there are freelancer platforms. Reedsy is one where everyone is vetted, so that's pretty good. But there are tons of other ones like Upwork and Fiverr, though there you have to do all the vetting yourself, so that takes a lot more time and effort. There are also more and more agencies—translator agencies who specialise in doing indie book translations. There's Literary Queens, there's Valentine Translations, there are tons of them. Then there's also, which I think a lot of authors ignore or don't know about, translation databases. There are two databases for German translators, for example, where you can search and you can usually narrow it down to whether you want literary translators, what kind of fiction or nonfiction you want. An important thing is that a literary translator is very different from a standard translator who translates birth certificates or formal documents. You want someone who has experience with fiction if you write fiction. Someone who knows about adding drama through language. Sometimes, for example, when you have an action scene, you might have shorter sentences. If you have someone who doesn't know about stuff like that, they might just think, “Oh, in German it sounds really nice to have this really long sentence.” Those little nuances are where having an experienced literary translator is a big bonus. There are some platforms that do royalty-split translations that have been quite popular in the past. Most of them I wouldn't really recommend because you just don't get those professional translators there. You usually get people who speak the language but don't really have much experience. So you might end up with a pretty bad translation, or people might just be using AI translations without telling you. If you use a human translator, always, always get a sample, because yes, they might have amazing credentials, but until they've actually translated one of your books or a scene from your book, you don't really know how good they are. I like to always use, if I write romance, a slightly sexy scene, because sex seems to show you if someone can translate or not. It's just what I've found, because if it sounds absolutely awkward or more like mechanical rather than an emotional, spicy thing, then that's a clear point for me to say, “No, thank you. I'll look for someone else.” Action scenes, sexy scenes, really emotional ones, dialogue that has a bit of colloquial language or humour—those are good scenes to choose as a sample because that really shows you if a translator can do their job or not. Then, again, have some German people from your list give you feedback on that. Also, if you work with human translators, always try to make sure that they will be available for your entire series. And not even just a series—if you have lots of books, try to grab that translator, lock them in your basement, and never let them go, because you want their style for all your books. Just like you have a style as an author, translators have a style and that will always shine through, as much as they try to be as close to your original. A bit of their style will always come through. It helps to have the same translator for at least the same series, preferably for as many of your books as possible. You really want to tell them in the beginning, “This series has nine books. I want you to do all of these, even if we only do a few of them at the beginning. Are you available to do the rest later?” Because you don't want to end up having to find a new translator in the middle of the series. That gives you a whole lot of extra work with trying to have a world bible that explains which words get translated and which get left as the original, and stuff like that. When it comes to non-human translation, it's very different because of course you don't need to do all that vetting. Tools have different capabilities and abilities, but in the end, if you put your book into a translation tool, you will always get a slightly different output. So it's not quite the same where you need an entire vetting process. Jo: Just on the human translation, I think I'd be right in saying that every single author in the world would love to have the best human translator translating their book, whatever genre it is. That would just be amazing for all of us. But let's face it, that's extremely expensive. So if I've got, let's say, a 70,000-word thriller, how much money are we talking about? An approximate number, so people know what that might be. Skye: Usually it goes by the word, but by the target language word count. Although it depends on the translator, traditional translators usually go by the target language because that's what they actually produce as their output. The average at the moment is anything from about seven to nine euro cents per word as the medium price. You will find cheaper people. You can go up as high as you want really. I have definitely seen translators who charge 15 cents and above per word, but those will usually be the ones who have worked with a lot of trad publishers who are used to being paid like that. Although even in trad publishing, the rates are going down. With more and more authors wanting translations, I think in general rates are going down. Good for us, not so good for the translators. You're definitely looking at thousands, even if you translate novellas. Then it depends—some translators have editing included, sometimes they don't. A lot of them will have arrangements with other translators where they give the translation to another translator for them to edit it. Sometimes that's included in the price, sometimes it's extra. Always make sure it gets edited, because just like when we write a book, it will never be exactly perfect. I say that as someone who writes very clean because I have a journalism background, so I'm used to writing really fast and clean for deadlines, but there will always be a few typos that just wriggle their way in. Typos are evil like that. It's the same with translations. Jo: So we are probably looking at 2,000 to 10,000 pounds, dollars, euros. We are talking about quite a lot, and this is the main reason I think that now, with AI becoming a lot better, people are looking at this. Originally—and I don't even know, probably eight years now since I did my first, might even be a decade or more—I did at some point do a version in DeepL, which was an early AI translation tool. This was nonfiction, and then paid an editor, a German editor, to then edit that in German. Those books still get good reviews. But now people are looking at options like GlobeScribe and ScribeShadow, or even just using Claude or ChatGPT. I'm actually working at the moment on a Claude Code pipeline through lots of different QA passes. That's been really interesting for me, because I can say, “Okay, now you are a reader who likes these kinds of books. Read it for that.” And because we can now put really big books in, I can actually get a lot of really interesting feedback. So I feel like there's a lot of potential with AI—potential for good stuff, potential for bad stuff too. So talk a bit about that and what to watch out for with AI. Skye: Okay, so I'm very much pro-AI and I use AI in lots of different things in my business, just to preface that. However, with translations, I'm still a bit wary, just because I have seen a lot of bad AI translations. To be fair, I've experimented with it myself for one of my other pen names. It was readable. It was definitely readable. It had sometimes beautiful, gorgeous prose. Really. But there were, occasionally—quite often even—bits where I stumbled as a native speaker. It's readable and, if I just need a little quick book in between, I would be mostly happy with that. I would read it. It's the same as some of the early KU days where you found a lot of bad quality writing, but you just wanted to read it because the story was pretty good or because you were reading it in KU and so it didn't really matter that much. There is that spectrum of quality where you have the, “Yes, it's good enough to read,” but, “Is it good enough to be up to your standards?” That's a decision that everyone has to make for themselves. If they want the same quality that they put into their English book, or if they're fine with just offering that book to a new audience because maybe you wouldn't be able to do it otherwise. I totally see that. Translation is so expensive. I don't even know how much I have spent on translations over the past few years. I'm lucky that most of my books make it back within the first weeks or months. I've never had a book that didn't make its money back, but I have heard a lot of people where that's not the case. It is a lot of investment and I would never tell someone to go into debt or anything to do translations. Do it when you're at a time where you can afford it, or where you can also afford the loss if it doesn't work out. Now, AI has changed that slightly because it now opens it up to almost anyone. Some of the AI translation tools are a few hundred pounds, but if you do it in Claude or ChatGPT or something where you already have a subscription, it can actually be quite cheap. You can do it for a few dollars or pounds. I love, by the way, having someone in the UK. I'm so used to automatically saying everything in dollars, but actually I should be using pounds. I think if you know what you're doing—and you clearly do, with your several passes, you know what you're doing with AI—but if someone just puts their book into Claude or ChatGPT or some random tool, it might just not be good enough. Jo: Let's say it won't be good enough if you just do that. We know that. You have to have QA passes—quality assurance. You have to have rules per genre. There are ways of doing it. It's kind of like you have to get to know how translation works. It's a process. It's not just a translation, like you put something in Google Translate or a menu or something, because we do care. I think that's really important. Skye: Yes. I think if you don't know how AI works—that you need detailed prompts, that you need a style guide, that you need all that extra material and not just your book, all those rules—then please don't do it. If you value your German readers—and I think sometimes when I see people just churn out those translations without doing any quality control, using exactly the same cover or even just putting a German flag on it or something—I really feel bad for German readers because they're not being valued as having the same sort of value to us as authors as our English-speaking readers. Maybe I'm a bit biased there because I read in multiple languages. I want to be able to get the same sort of quality in all languages. I want the author to think of me as being special because I'm their reader and I'm their customer. I think we are on the way where AI translation can be almost autonomous. I would personally always have a human look over it. I know what I'm doing, and I'm almost happy with my translation system that I've built now in AI, but it still needs that human touch for a few things. It still needs me to tell the AI, for example, “This is where we switch from Sie to du.” This is where I need to keep certain words in. For example, I write a lot of Scottish books, and so words like “glen” or “loch”—they are words I want to stay the same in my German translation. I don't want to translate it to the German equivalent of “lake” because that just misses that Scottish context. Things like that need instruction. A human translator will usually know that and chat to you about which words you want to keep and which ones you want translated. AI just needs our guidance, our helping hand, and if we don't know enough about the target language, we just miss knowing that. Now, a lot of tools do it all for you basically, and they set up all these rules. I think many of them are at a very advanced stage now. But AI isn't perfect and it likes to hallucinate, it likes to add random things. So I will always still have a human touch at the end, even if it's just a quick edit. A lot of people think that they just need a proofread after an AI translation, but AI doesn't really make typos—or not to an extent that humans do. So proofreading isn't really what's needed for an AI translation. It is actual editing where you go for the style, the phrasing, and sometimes the context. There's one example I always like to give. I have an alien romance where they go on a honeymoon, and because he's an alien and she's human, he misunderstands and thinks she wants to go to an actual moon. So it's a little pun in the book. It doesn't work in German at all because the word “honeymoon” has nothing to do with moons or planets in German. An AI would probably just try to translate that in a way that's quite close to the original. But my German translator, she had to come up with several different ways of fixing that issue, because humour is hard. It's hard even for humans to get the humour translated in a way that is still funny but also culturally appropriate. If you have a book that is full of puns, it gets harder with AI. I am not saying it's impossible, but it needs a lot of handholding. Jo: Yes, I think humour is hard to translate in general, isn't it? Let's move on to the distribution, because again, having done quite a lot of different languages over the years, I do use Amazon KU for my books in German and Italian and Spanish and some French. So I haven't gone wide in terms of ebook and print or audio, in fact, because I have a lot of books and it is hard to go wide in English, let alone in other languages. But you mentioned earlier that Thalia has 40% of the market or something, and that special editions and print books are important. So what are the decisions we have to make around the actual publishing? Skye: In Germany they did a really cool thing, and I wish they'd done that in other countries. When the bookshops saw that Amazon was growing and posing a threat to them—not just with print books but also with ebooks—a lot of the German bookstores got together and they formed the Tolino Alliance. They have big book chains like Thalia, but also I think it was over 1,500 indie bookshops that all got together. They all support this ecosystem for ebooks, which means they all share the same e-readers. They share the same sort of backend for the shops, which made it really easy for them because they didn't all have to develop an ebook system. It saved them a lot of money. It made it really easy to tell readers, “This is the Tolino system. You can get your books at our bookshops, but you can read them on your Tolino e-reader no matter where you get the books from.” The Tolino e-readers are actually the same as Kobo e-readers, just rebranded. They've got that big advantage there—these independent bookshops and book chains all got together. Now it's hard to find numbers because Amazon doesn't really like to share their numbers, but it's about 40% of the German ebook market, which means it rivals Amazon. They have about the same. Then the rest is split by Apple Books, Google Play, and some of the smaller players. So it is a huge chunk of the market. I'm wide with pretty much all my English books. So for me, I looked into KU, but when I saw that I was going to miss out on 60% of the market—even if Amazon has 45%, that's still a big chunk—I decided to go wide. To be fair, I haven't regretted it, because Tolino are amazing to work with. I like to compare them to Kobo because they have a really lovely human team where you can just email them and tell them, “I've got a new release coming up,” and they will put you into different promos and it's all free. Jo: Do you publish direct to Tolino, or do you use Draft2Digital? Skye: Yes, you can publish direct to Tolino and that's actually the best way of doing it. You don't have access to their marketing opportunities if you use a distributor. The Tolino dashboard is annoyingly all in German, but by now every browser has a translating plugin built in. I know lots of authors who don't speak a single word of German who navigate Tolino very successfully. They started with only ebooks in the beginning, and then about two weeks after the first edition of my book on German translations was published, they introduced print books, which meant my book was immediately out of date. I was fuming. But this time they introduced audiobooks a few weeks before my Kickstarter launch for the second edition, so this time the audiobook part is included. I was very happy about that, because it was a pain to just tell everyone, “Well, this book is out now but it's actually missing a big part of how to do print books in Germany.” So Tolino does print, ebooks, and audiobooks. And just because you're in KU with your ebooks doesn't mean you can't publish your print books via Tolino. I highly recommend that, because IngramSpark—which most of us indies use for distribution for print books—doesn't get you into the German bookstores. They used to. Then German stores have fixed price laws where books have to be the same price in all stores, and IngramSpark kept going against that. They kept sending them the wrong prices. So German bookstores at some point just said, “Nope, we've had enough of this. We no longer take books from IngramSpark.” So now Tolino, in my opinion, is the best way of getting your books listed in German online bookstores, but they can also help you get into brick-and-mortar stores. One of my books was featured by them, I think two years ago, and it was in about 300 of their shops all across Germany. It had its own little pedestal and it was amazing. Tolino love working with their indie authors. They also love romance, which is always a bonus because some stores are more prudish than others. It's really easy to work with them. They speak perfect English, so you can do all your communication outside of the dashboard in English. Their audiobooks feature is very new. Until they did that, it was much harder for German audiobook distribution because places like Findaway Voices and other distributors wouldn't get you into the Tolino Alliance stores for audio. That's a big chunk that we were missing out on. I was always looking for ways to get my German audiobooks into those stores, but the German distributors that I found were really difficult to upload to, to be honest. I'm a very technical person, but it challenged even me. I did not like that experience at all. At some point I really just gave up and wanted to throw my computer out of the window. So when Tolino introduced that, I was celebrating internally. The only problem with their distribution at the moment for audio, because it's so new, is that you can't exclude any shops. So it's all or nothing. They will get you into all the different places, including Audible, Spotify—you name it, lots of different streaming services and retailers—but you can't exclude any. So while they don't actually want exclusivity, if you published it yourself at the same time through ACX or Findaway Voices or something else, you would have duplicates, and of course, we try to avoid those. Jo: Is it human narration only, or do they also accept AI narration? Skye: They accept AI narration. The thing with Tolino is that they want everything made very clear. If you publish any books with them that have an AI production aspect, you need to put that into your Impressum. For audiobooks, there's a box to tick to make it clear. Jo: Hmm. Skye: So they are open to it all. You just need to declare it. Jo: Which I think should be true everywhere, to be fair. Skye: Oh, definitely. And a lot of German distributors—while I was researching for this book, one thing I always looked at is, “Do they need you to declare your AI use?” More and more German distributors and retailers now want you to do that. I think that's the way it's going. It's not a judgement thing. I think it's just making it clear to readers. In Germany, it's all about transparency. That's why there are all those laws with GDPR—everyone will have heard about that one by now. But there are lots of other laws where it's all about consumer rights and transparency, and that's one of them. Jo: Is there anything else on the distribution side we need to think about? Skye: One thing I like to highlight is libraries, because that's quite a big thing in Germany too. They love books and bookstores and they love libraries. Some of the ways we get our English books into libraries—like a distributor like Draft2Digital for OverDrive—OverDrive is growing in Germany. There are other systems like Onleihe, just to name one. You can't get into those through, for example, Draft2Digital or PublishDrive or StreetLib. Tolino gets you into those. There are also subscription platforms that are growing. I think it's the same as in the English-speaking market. People love a subscription, and I love them. I just don't like exclusivity. So I very much support any subscription platform that doesn't require me to be exclusive to them. Skoobe is one of them. They used to be an independent platform, and then the Tolino Alliance bought them. So now they're integrated into the Tolino stores. That means it's really prominent. Basically, any time you go to an ebook on, for example, Thalia, it will have a banner there saying, “You can also get this in our subscription.” So it's taken a while to grow, but actually in December I now made more with their subscription programme than I made in book sales. I think three of my books were in their top 10 in December. To be fair, that was a pretty good month. But it definitely shows that it can take a while to grow these subscription platforms, but when you do, it can be really successful and very much worth it. So I highly suggest looking into those sorts of platforms too, not just the standard retailers and the platforms that you're already used to. Jo: Fantastic. So we've now got translations, they're on the various stores, and then just like in English, one of our next challenges is actually marketing the books. Now this becomes another challenge, because one of the reasons I am in KU for foreign languages is because you get the five free days and you can do Amazon ads. I mean, you can do Amazon ads for wide books too, but it's easier to know that there are some options for marketing at all. I don't do email marketing. I don't do social media, so I'm pretty bad at marketing in foreign languages. So what are your suggestions for those who want to do more active marketing in German especially? Or even if we don't speak German, it can't be all the personal stuff. But are there also advertising things like BookBub? What are our options basically? Skye: There are quite a few things. It's not quite as easy as in English, of course, but I think sometimes you have to remember that you already have most of the material for marketing when you've released a book. You will have made graphics in English, you will have written a newsletter, you will have done some social media posts. All that material is already there, so you don't have to reinvent the wheel. You can just translate that, and for that, AI translation is really good because it's very quick. You don't have to bother your translator. You can just get that done. That's what I had to remind myself, because in the beginning I did everything from scratch and it took me forever and I was hating it. Then I realised, well, I could just look at the newsletter I wrote three years ago when that book released in English and translate that. That's done within a minute and I can send that out. So remember that you have a lot of content already. There's no BookBub or nothing as big as BookBub. There is a site called BookDeals, which sends out newsletters for both reduced or free books and also for new releases. I use them for pretty much all my new releases, or at least always the first in series. They're nowhere near as big as BookBub, so don't expect miracles, but I generally always break even or a bit more. It's hard to tell, of course, especially if you do several things for a new release. But my instinctive look on this is that it's worth it. BookDeals is the big one. There are a few other promo sites, but to be honest, I've not really found any of them to give me a positive ROI. I experiment with them occasionally and I listed them all in my book just for completeness, but BookDeals is the big one. Then there is LovelyBooks, which is the German Goodreads. Some Germans also use Goodreads, so always make sure to have all your German books listed there. But LovelyBooks is the big one. I love that place because people are so much kinder than on Goodreads. I avoid Goodreads completely. If I need a review, I send my assistant there to look at reviews. I don't go there. It is scary. LovelyBooks—the name is kind of telling. It is a more lovely place. People are generally more friendly. They are probably a bit more critical when they write reviews than they are on retailers, but I have found it really nice to build a community there. You can do these book clubs where you give away a copy of your book, either as print books—or I always do ebooks because I don't want to send books to Germany. Then people discuss the book as a sort of book club and then they review it at the end. I have had great success with that. I've built up a community of readers who will now buy my books too, even if they don't get them for free. I found some beta readers through that. So I love LovelyBooks. The annoying thing again is it's in German. However, their support all speaks English and you can email them with questions. They're really good. Even if you don't plan to run any book clubs or anything like that because you don't speak the language, I would always advise just setting up an author profile there because it makes it easier for your books to be found. You can track reviews, you can track reads, and that just gives you an extra place to get more visibility for free. Ads—there's not much difference compared to what you do for your English-language books. The one thing is with Facebook ads, now because of EU data protection laws, it's much harder to target because people can opt out of ads and targeting. In general, cost-per-click ads are cheaper than in the US or the UK, so that's a bonus. BookTok is big and only growing there. I don't really do social media for my German books because I just don't have the bandwidth. I wish I could, and I know some people who outsource that. In an ideal world, I would have a social media account for every single language, but it's not an ideal world and I just have limited hours in the day. But even just creating an account so that people can tag you, so that people can find you, can already be a good start. One thing that's not maybe a marketing strategy as such, but something I like to highlight, is pre-orders. If you write in series, always, always make sure that the next books in your series are up for pre-order, because— German readers have been burned so many times by authors or even publishers who just translate book one in a series and then stop. They are quite hesitant sometimes to start a new series when they see it's book one of something and they don't see the next book up for pre-order. To be fair, it's similar in English. I always make sure to have a pre-order up for the next book. Because people would just not read the series until it's complete or until they know it will be complete at some point. So always set up a pre-order if you can. Don't set it up when you don't actually know when your translation is being done, or choose a date far in the future. Just make it very clear to your readers that you are intending to translate the entire series, that you're not going to disappoint them, that they're not just wasting their money on a book one only to never find out what happens next. Jo: Fantastic. Well, this is a big decision for people to make, I think, because there's no point in doing one book in German and then not doing anything else, in the same way as doing one book in English or any language. You have to think about investing in an audience. So lots for people to think about. The book is fantastic. It's called Self-Publishing in German. So where can people find you and your books online? Skye: For my author-facing things, just go to SkyeMacKinnon.com/authors, and there you find the book about German translations. You also find more information on what I do. You can book consultations with me. I love doing those one-to-ones, especially about translations, because you can really dive into someone's catalogue and look at what would be a good strategy for someone, rather than just in general. Otherwise, it's SkyeMacKinnon.com for all my romance. If you want adorable children's books, it's IslaWynter.com. That's Wynter with a Y. Jo: Brilliant. Well, thanks so much for your time, Skye. That was great. Skye: Thank you so much for having me.The post Self-Publishing in German: How to Translate, Distribute, and Market Your Books with Skye MacKinnon first appeared on The Creative Penn.

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