Well, there goes my steep discount on perfectly fine food. I often get 30% off or more buying “sell by” dairy products. It’s a strike signal for me, yet for others it’s the opposite. Reducing confusion makes sense when you look at the colossal amount of waste it has generated. And my favorite part of this story is the conclusion.
With no federal regulations dictating what information labels should include, the stamps have led to consumer confusion — and nearly 20% of the nation’s food waste, according to the Food and Drug Administration. In California, that’s about 6 million tons of unexpired food that’s tossed in the trash each year.
Nate Rose, a spokesperson for the California Grocers Association, said some grocers have had to overhaul their labeling systems, but as a whole, the association has been supportive of the change.
The new labels will result in “a win-win where we can reduce food waste and consumers will find these decisions a little bit simpler,” he said, adding that shoppers will still find old labels in stores for months to come as grocers sell through the products that already have them.
He is talking about a stamped exact date as if it’s just a vague process that runs for months on its own. That alone exposes the complete mess of “sell by” label management.
Interesting to note a coalition of left wing groups brought the suit against the police powers, even though right wing politicians are who could be put under surveillance.
Judges in Karlsruhe opened a two-day hearing on Tuesday into the state’s 2017 and 2018 changes that expanded police powers in cases of a merely “impending threat.”
The law lowered the threshold for action in cases involving threats to state security, life and health. It allows police to use tools that include covert searches of phones and computers, undercover officers, drones, and surveillance to determine whether a concrete threat may emerge.
Castanet News has posted a video of a Tesla at highway speed near Revelstoke, British Columbia with a sleeping driver at the wheel, and two children in the backseat.
While Tesla Full Self Driving (Supervised) is currently available in Canada, in B.C., the Motor Vehicle Act prohibits anyone from driving, or permitting the driving of, a Level 3, 4 or 5 automated vehicle. “This means that highly automated self-driving vehicles cannot yet be driven on public roads in B.C., nor can highly automated self-driving features be used, unless enabled through a pilot project under the Motor Vehicle Act or by regulation in the future,” notes the Ministry of Transportation and Transit.
Below is the analysis of AfD disinformation tactics, evidence of a Russian active influence campaign, as found in “Is the AfD a threat to Germany? Mehdi Hasan & Maximilian Krah | Head to Head”
Methodology
The coding applies three published frameworks for Russian information warfare.
The strategic layer, predetermining an adversary’s decisions by feeding them a false picture of reality, is Soviet reflexive control doctrine, documented in Timothy L. Thomas, “Russia’s Reflexive Control Theory and the Military” (Journal of Slavic Military Studies 17:2, 2004).
The rhetorical fingerprint matches what I already have documented in the Trommelfeuer der Desinformation campaign analysis and the Reutlingen grid investigation: the AfD supplies the domestic voice for narratives whose production values and strategic objectives are in Moscow.
But before I expose the method, look at the outcome. Two tines of an antisemitic pitchfork are built on stage and presented as a tool, to obscure intent as a weapon. He even shows the audience the handle.
§130 StGB criminalizes trivializing Nazi crimes: His 5:53 statement that Nazi SS membership “proves nothing” trivializes an organization Nuremberg declared criminal, worded one element short of the offense.
§86a criminalizes Nazi slogans, and Höcke was convicted under it twice. Krah’s 7:20 answer converts those convictions into a free speech complaint.
The Soros line deployed at 28:19 is the puppet-master libel, chargeable as incitement, delivered as if Judengeld hate speech can be a 2026 funding critique.
At 12:47 he admits the method outright: the manifesto was drafted by lawyers against a constitutional court ban.
Krah is a lawyer trained in criminal code, which is why he boldly deploys such prepared antisemitic attacks.
Holocaust trivialization are the first two (5:53, 7:20) with conspiracy libel later (28:19), after an admission of intent (12:47). His antisemitic attacks are prepared precision legal engineering, committing the substance of a German crime on camera, withholding only the element a prosecutor would need to convict him.
The unmistakable Nazism from a German politician, mocking the laws written to stop men like him, is enabled by Al Jazeera as a ballot-box on-ramp for voters who want to repeat heinous crimes of their grandparents.
And now the full record.
Evidence Table
Minute
Statement (Krah)
Institution attacked
Technique
2:47
BfV findings are “politically instrumentalized”; intelligence “get their orders from the ministry of interior”
Domestic intelligence
Dismiss
3:38
“The mainstream media is telling the audience that we are a danger for years and years”
Press
Dismiss
3:57
BfV was citable in the 2017 manifesto against Muslims, biased when assessing the AfD: “this is maybe biased and that is not biased”
Domestic intelligence
Firehose: no commitment to consistency
5:53
SS membership proves nothing; “you have to check personal guilt”
Historical record
Distort
7:20
Höcke, a history teacher, “didn’t know that this was a special Nazi slogan”; reframed as “a problem with free speech”
Courts (two convictions)
Distort
9:03
“I have never been a champion” of remigration, against his own 2023 book and interview quoted back to him
His own record
Firehose: no commitment to consistency
12:47
“This is why I advise my party not to use this word”, after Knaus notes the manifesto wording was drafted by lawyers against a constitutional court ban
Constitutional court
Reflexive control: shaping the regulator’s decision frame
13:47
“When you have a wife from Sri Lanka who looks like Sri Lanka, then you are not a racist”
Evidence of racism
Distract
16:05
Denies the Saxony-Anhalt election exists while being read his own party’s 2026 manifesto
Verifiable fact
Dismiss
26:04
Hiring a convicted Chinese spy “shows that I’m not a racist at all”; colleagues who warned him were the real bigots
Party whistleblowers
Distract: counter-accusation
26:45
“They raided my apartment and they found nothing”; Bystron’s 23 raids prove “That is Germany”
Prosecutors
Dismiss and Dismay
28:19
“Soros funded NGO facts are just lies”
Civil society research
Dismiss, via a named Kremlin antisemitic trope
28:42
Amnesty and human rights groups on Xinjiang: “Who pays multiple human rights?”
Human rights documentation
Dismiss
29:31
The Dresden pre-investigation exists “to interfere into elections”
Prosecutors, electoral process
Dismiss and Distract
30:22
“They produce one after the other such fake accusations”; each “fake story” indexed to a rising poll number
Government, press
Dismiss; polls retained as sole valid institution and only when AfD does well
32:38
Would host Putin, an ICC indictee; “the crime is to continue this war”; Germany “paid to continue the war”
ICC, allied governments
Kremlin narrative verbatim
36:27
Adenauer Foundation antisemitism data is “the official party think tank of our biggest competitor”; BfV “blamed us also for bad weather”
Academic research
Dismiss
37:20
Federal crime statistics miscount Muslims as far right; “no German believes those numbers anymore”
Government statistics
Dismiss and Distort
42:03
“There will be no EU in 10 years”; “It will fail and we will be happy about it”
European Union
Dismay; stated Kremlin strategic objective
47:14
“The state is not your mommy and your daddy. The state often is hostile to you”; trust belongs to those who “share the same beliefs and traditions”
The state as such
Substitution: white nationalism, ethnic bonds replace civic trust
48:32
Asked about three former AfD members on trial for plotting a Nazi-style state in Saxony, answers instead about the 2022 Reichsbürger plot: pensioners over 65 without “a real bazooka”; “they invent accusations and coup d’etats”
Judiciary
Distract: substitutes a dismissable case for the one asked, then Dismiss
The table documents technique convergence: every answer maps cleanly to a published Kremlin playbook. Direct authorship is documented separately and independently. Krah’s aide Jian Guo was convicted of espionage in 2025. Czech intelligence exposed Voice of Europe in 2024 as a Medvedchuk-financed influence operation that paid AfD politicians, the basis for the Dresden pre-investigation Krah confirms on camera at 29:23. The convergence and the payment channels in fact are corroboration, because both claims are provable and neither rests on the other being true.
Twenty-one entries, ten distinct institutions, one exemption: the poll number, which Krah cites approvingly twice while burning everything else. The exemption is interesting because reflexive control theory predicts exactly this shape: destroy every instrument the audience could use to verify, leave standing only the instrument that rewards you currently, then offer the falsely constructed “community of similars” as the replacement trust network.
Data analysis of the pattern shows two features. Dismiss runs the full length of the interview, opening at 2:47 and still firing at 48:32, while the specialized techniques cluster: the identity-shield distractions sit in the domestic segment before the break, and the Kremlin-alignment material concentrates in the 26 to 42 window once Hasan moves to China and Russia. The gap from 17 to 26 is the panel discussion and ad break, where Krah takes a rest.
The predator tactic to dismantle the safety of a herd is that every single verifier is attacked with the same published Moscow technique, a poison shot injected per answer, on camera, in under fifty minutes.
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