@ggersh  
which of course turn into an expensive, full-price one-year subscription if you forget to cancel in time. Their hawkers are especially active during the Frankfurt and Leipzig book fairs.

These big book fairs provide a rare opportunity to give people who work for mainstream media face-to-face feedback. I tell them why I won’t subscribe and indeed have lost all interest in even reading them. I tell the state-financed media people why I resent having to pay the tax (a flat $250 per household per year, quite regressive for a senior citizen living alone) for biased domestic reporting and, internationally, regurgitated U.S. lies.

They’ve become mere stenographers for the neoliberal globalizers, the billionaires, the neo-Cold-War Atlanticists, the Five-Eyes deep state — however one wants to characterize the current elites mismanaging and ravaging the planet.

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/11/13/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-...

Ulfkotte’s book destroys the illusion/delusion that there is anywhere in the Western world an independent press. Ulfkotte describes in detail the cognitive appropriation of journalists by elites. Journalists serve as propagandists and public relations agents for intelligence agencies, businesses, lobbying organizations, politicians, and US foreign policy. The function of journalism is to deliver to the people the explanations that serve the interests of elites and Washington’s foreign policy. This message was so effectively delivered to the German people that readership of the main German newspapers collapsed.

Cuz like w/Blumenthal, this story won't be told to the people

@on the cusp @on the cusp @on the cusp wearing a Venezuelan flag scarf who is seen grabbing Benjamin's sign out of Medea's hands and throwing it on the ground. Benjamin didn't strike back. Most significantly, the same woman is seen subsequently in the primary video (Max Blumenthal) standing directly behind DWS while Debbie is shouting that someone is pulling her. It appears likely that the "assailant" in both instances is the same woman. The sign grabbing is clear in the video with an initial black screen (Empajada de Venezuela ante)

is in that jurisdiction.
In mine, it is, at a minimum, "offensive touching".
Grabbing one by the are most likely would meet the threshold.
Choking, no doubt, would meet the threshold.
Anybody checked the assault statutes for that jurisdiction?