Monthly Archives: January 2012

The Schulze from Brussels: Who has the crosses, blesses himself.

Tuesday, January 31 2012

What actually gets an MEP? The following is a compilation:

  • A MEP receives 7646.99 euros gross per month, as the deputies of the German Bundestag.

Of this amount, go income tax, solidarity surcharge, church tax and health and nursing care contributions from.

  • Continue to receive the MEPs from the European Parliament - as well as the members of parliament by the German Bundestag - a so-called "general expenditure allowance". This is currently 4,202 euros per month and is tax-free.
  • In addition, the European Parliament every month MEPs 19.364 euros available to enable it to deal with the information necessary for the performance of their duties staff in Brussels, in Strasbourg and in his home country. These funds are administered by the European Parliament, and not paid to MEPs directly. (More ...)
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War against Iran decided in 2001?

Monday, January 30 2012

US four star general Wesley Clark (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

On 2.3.2007 led Amy Goodman of "Democracy Now", an independent US news station, an interview with the American four-star general Wesley Clark, who was 34 years in the service of the US Department of Defense. In addition, he was, among other things 1997-2000 Supreme NATO Allied Commander Europe.
Clark kept a degree of independence in its judgment, inter alia, he was against the Iraq war.

Clark reported in Goodman as follows:

"About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon, and I saw Minister Rumsfield and his deputy Wolfowitz. I went down to short some people from the Joint Staff to say hello, who had worked for me.

And one of the generals called me and said:
You must come in time, I have to briefly talk to you. '
I said, we are too busy. '
He said, 'No, no, we have made the decision to wage war against Iraq'.

It was on or about September 20, [2001] around.
I said, 'Why are we lead to the Iraq war'?
He said, 'I do not know'. He said, I guess they have otherwise nothing else to do '.
I said, 'Well, they have information that bring Saddam to al-Qaeda in connection'?
He said, 'No, there's nothing new in this type you have just made the decision to wage war against Iraq.. I think they do not know what to do against the terrorists, but we have a good army and we can turn governments. ' He said., I guess if the only tool is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail '(more ...)

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Caution diet increase!

Monday, January 30 2012

Recent protest of federal taxpayers

On February 2, it should be time again: diet increase in North Rhine-Westphalia state!

The member of parliament want to approve 500 euros more per month for their retirement. They already pay out of their monthly remuneration in 1614 in the Euro MPs pension plan a.

This ensures they and all the other Members of the age more than adequate from, finds the Association of Taxpayers. After all, the planned increase of the deputies paid about 500 euros to 10,726 euros, to increase the monthly payments for pensions to 2,114 euros, privileged once again MEPs to the citizens - in the statutory pension scheme are the maximum contributions at 1097.60 euros per month.

Who wants to have more money in old age, must make provisions themselves.

Who is this opinion that would protest the BdSt support. (Read more ...)

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The EU Torquemada

Sunday, January 29 2012

Murray Abraham as Inquisitor

Do you remember the movie "In the Name of the Rose" based on the novel by Umberto Eco? Darin Murray Abraham occurred very scary as the inquisitor Bernard Gui, who pursued relentlessly and torture revealed who disagreed with the then principles of the Catholic Church. Latin "Inquisitor" - stands for "tracker" or "Followers" and indeed of heresies; These are teachings that are contrary to prevailing opinion.

17 January 2012 Martin Schulz was elected as the new President of the EU Parliament. He is since 1994 a member of the European Parliament in Brussels, where he was for seven years Chairman of the Socialist Group.

"I am a notorious limelight" - Schulz is as combative and its announcements sound after: he wants more power for themselves and the European Parliament and will not shy away from them, to take on elected governments: "We must have the courage, the open to seek confrontation with Merkel and Sarkozy. "

Here Schulz with his criticism of the current crisis summits and policy behind closed doors right, just not necessarily the kind remedy that he wants to create.

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Cheng for Wulff scandal

Monday, January 23 2012

Just recently I got a crime of "Cheng" series of Heinrich Steinfest paid, an Austrian author, who lives in Stuttgart. Because it was Volume 3, I wanted to but then still have the first two volumes.

I consider myself a pretty Crime expert and what is not the same moves from the start, comes with me away immediately ...

In short, "Cheng - his first case," plays in Vienna, sometimes to beep funny, in parts completely surreal, full of wit and surprises with profound, often quite viciously-crisp statements to social, to art, current affairs.

Anyway, I found there a few phrases that are very true, what the terms "uncovering" of scandals by journalists, also in the current "Wulff scandal": (more ...)

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Property and currency crash

Monday, January 23 2012

On January 21, 2012, a very excellent article by Erwin Grandinger (financial expert, a partner at EPM Group Berlin) in the "Berliner Morgenpost" was zulesen. He leads a sharp reminder of how many times we have actually already within a long human life experience (of the 90 years) Währungreformen- or changeovers. The article is a necessary refresh our long-term memory - because anyone who has been so listened carefully at the decisive point in history lessons? Grandinger devoted to the question of whether real estate can actually provide security crisis and how it looks with our savings. (Angela Merkel: "The savings are safe").

Here the Link: www.morgenpost.de/wirtschaft/finanzen/article1886299/Immobilien-sind-keine-Rettung-beim-Waehrungscrash.html

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Hardware on the wheat field

Wednesday, January 18 2012

Despite declining populations will be built without restraint: Especially bad is the unchecked land use between Bonn and Cologne - the landscape is very flat, which attracts so-called investors, DIY stores, furniture centers and similar to fertile farmland slog where grain was grown only yesterday... ,
Ugly's looks and depressing. Who visits merely all these factory outlets?
Municipalities and private landowners attract lucrative sales to protect farmland against - the grain is still far from international markets and not from the farmer next door. The concept of self-sufficiency is defamed as outdated.

But what if by - let's say a currency crash - our rolling granary from somewhere remain lying somewhere along the way?

Enclosed is a little ditty about. Where last year ... Audio Piste

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Germany is the ultimate sacrifice of the European Monetary Union

Monday, 09 January, 2012.

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, "Telegraph", London, I was reading on 2.12.2011 an excellent analysis on the subject of Germany and monetary union, subtitle: "The German nation was lulled." She was worth me to translate them:

Source: Bloomberg

Enough is enough. Please stop because defame out in the blogsphere Germany. The Germans are not involved in a mercantilist conspiracy to subjugate and auszumelken southern Europe. They perform no "war by other means", and - Heaven forbid that - not trying to build a Fourth Reich.

The German people joined the monetary union from honorable motives, the Germans believed that one should so act as good Europeans. It is distressing for them to see these posters in Athens on Syntagma Square, showing Chancellor Angela Merkel with a swastika or this sign "Arbeit macht frei" to read.

They gave the D-Mark reluctantly under pressure on French and Italian, as the price for the attainment of reunification. They entered the European Monetary Union with an overvalued exchange rate after the reunification with bladder; thus they got half a decade in a fast recession. Slowly and hard they fought back the competitiveness by repressed wages and productivity driven upwards. (More ...)

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The Biegel-front for truth

Monday, 09 January, 2012.

Yesterday at Günther Jauch in Gasometer: Hochnotpeinliches meeting of top representatives from image and mirror - the "mirror" Georg Mascolo -Chefredakteurs and deputy chief editor of the "Bild" newspaper Nicolaus Blome- in the role of the supreme Truth Seeker Germany in the Causa the Federal President.

No, there is nothing more important at the time to report self-portrayal as a message, free advertising as information? Anyway, a proof of the insignificance and provincialism German journalism '.

That can not remain uncommented: (more ...)

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The President-Totmacher: combat boots and mirror shards in the face of the Republic

Sunday, 08 January, 2012.

Christian Wulff, Young Leader Alumnus of the Atlantik-Brücke, at a speech at the presentation of the Vernon A. Walters Award-Jürgen Grossmann at 5.6. 2007; 2. v. Li. Chancellor Schröder

The campaign to the German President is taking on ever more grotesque traits: The newspapers fill - page long discussions "scandal" cover up only with difficulty that there is no new information in the matter. Oh yes, of course, the call from Christian at Kai.

Are we mad? Yes - because we can make us crazy by a smear campaign led by the Springer media. As and an initially privately worried Credit is against a gray, rather modest house (who wants to live in it anyway?) Geböllert, as did Christian Wulff handed over the recipe for the bomb in person to the Iranian president.

The personal call of the President at the BILD CEO Diekmann - and leave a message on the voicemail box of the same - as will the Fukushima bundespräsidialen actions portrayed: as threats against journalists and preventing research and collection of information for subsequent reporting.

Now times quite calmly: (more ...)

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