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Splits at Kopp Online News

Sunday 06 June, 2010

Frankly, I was looking forward about the coup: Since 1.6. 2010, there is the Kopp-Verlag online once daily news : read by Eva Hermann - there could be properly nostalgic. And the first day I was happy - really news that you usually do not find so easily. This is sorely needed in Germany, the most ill-informed country in the Western Hemisphere, where opinion is constantly mistaken message that official messages consist of disjointed snippets of info and anyone who wants to find out, anyway, must consult foreign media.

But on the fourth day of the "bereavement" Eva Hermann announced the Gaza aid flotilla was led by a boat of a Turkish "terrorist organization", the "IHH". This was the "confirmed Dutch secret service." "Renowned Danish Institute for International Studies" and the

I looked even know where this "message" because came and met Kopp-author Udo Ulfkotte, who is known that he liked and often etched against Islam, but also opponents have to admit again that his statements usually well documented are.

First, it is surprising that Ulfkotte has no word of sympathy for the oppressed people of the blockaded Gaza Strip. The humanitarian situation there is intolerable that the Israeli blockade illegal about it there is no international completely agree. For free!

So now was actually once a self-defense situation, which is why the fleet stopped and a few passengers - Sorry, sorry - had to be shot (more ...)

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Guttenberg announces more deaths in the next few years - not only in Afghanistan!

Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Quelle: Bundeswehr/

Source: Bundeswehr / Bienert / Andrea Bienert

Yesterday announced the press, our Defence Minister said at the memorial service for the last four fallen soldiers in Afghanistan in Ingolstadt Münster:

"Death and injury have become companions of our operations, and they will be again in the next few years, not only in Afghanistan." And: The German Society, "which so far it such services at most friendly distanced note" should rethink. Guttenberg chimed the public to more deaths and called for greater moral support for the soldiers. Another report, entitled: "Guttenberg asks soldiers' families for forgiveness" (cf. GA Bonn, 26.4.2010.)

In these reports, several things is strange: Guttenberg announces death and wounding the same for the next few years, and not only in Afghanistan. (more ...)

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Margot Käßmann resignation: backgrounds.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

If you look at what topics was Margot Käßmann, (freshly retired) Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany and Lutheran Bishop of Hanover in recent weeks in the headlines, one could know that they are on the "Red List" of those who did publicly distribute through the media "grades" and to hunt for blow disgraced persons; Margot Käßmann had to be extra careful from now on. Obviously, she was not aware enough ...

A church that does not interfere and zeitgeist pious a custom wallflower leads, politics kisses the feet and everywhere keeps itself incompetent in the evaluation of current events, people no longer need. She goes even their otherwise important function to set the party state at least a certain counterbalance. Such tame, rückratgebrochene, despondent church is certainly not in the following of Christ and falls to the right more and more into insignificance. What not least indicates leave the church.

It was a sigh of relief by Germany, as it for the first time in years, was a high-ranking church representative, the verfranste for Christmas not only feel bliss, but with a few words also to Afghanistan a - nudged social discussion - long overdue.

Typical representative of a politically correct, docile churches (a) direction is a certain Mr. Klose (SPD), the good news do not know God is written on his face.

Of course, he complained in FIG sharp Käßmann of what she had said to Christmas in their much-discussed Christmas sermon and asked her to be confined to the proclamation of the Word of God.

Limit? Limit? How limited you have to be to refer to something as Comprehensive restriction? How about times with this word of God: "Thou shalt not kill," Mr. Klose. Can they limited significance? Woe to the policy if the churches suddenly it seriously would take what is written in the Gospels! (more ...)

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En and interior protesting inside against the war (soldiers inside) in Afghanistan

Sunday, February 14, 2010

I just got an invitation to a demonstration in Berlin, about Afghanistan and fully up to date with the promised troop increase by Germany. I read; everything right so far - but something bothered me about the text ...

I have not the first time the feeling that an overly zealous grammatical gender correctness as applied particularly grotesque in this call, the contents into the background, so, this may even frustrate.

One could get the impression that it is the authors more a demonstration of gender correctness (a sub-division of political correctness), as to the great goal of "peace."

I put it on the Left in general, and in addition, more and more a stereotyped pettiness and korinthenköttelnde philistinism determined that conveys a sense of claustrophobic confinement. Yes, I even feel that this particular form of "Gutschreibs" is the thought and precise formulation detrimental. (more ...)

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Irritation due Persian phrasebook for the Bundeswehr

Thursday, February 11, 2010

The Bundeswehr soon with Israel against Iran? The Federal Office of Languages ​​publishes a Persian phrase book for soldiers, where sentences are to be read as: "I come from Cologne", "I belong to the UN peacekeeping troops", "Iran is a beautiful country". Furthermore, there is the Persian translation mliltärischer commands such as "stop stop."

The reason for the members of the Bundestag Inge Hoger nachzuhaken (Die Linke). Thankfully on youtube is a video with the questions and the answers wife Högers set the Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Defence Christian Schmidt (CSU).

What you hear in the sequence is hard to believe:

Schmidt winds clear that questions obviously feels as a single impertinence, even aggressive towards the end. The Geschwurbel can be inferred, however, that the Voice was intended to improve the communication skills of the soldiers.

Then drop the words "Israeli President recently in parliament", "threat of Israel", "Israel's right to exist", "Iranian threat".

Schmidt recalls the Merkel promise that "an attack on Israel as an attack on us" is.

What can we conclude from this? (more ...)

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We are Foreign Minister: A heartfelt congratulations to the Atlantic Bridge

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Black and yellow.
When the cock crows on the dung, the weather's changing or remains as it is. We encourage us and we pick something around in the dung heap. First, we look forward very interesting times. The election result is not so bad. For it is in the next four years, the exciting piece "As we tried to drive out the devil with Beelzebub - a divine comedy" stand on the board. A special highlight will be an attempt to rehabilitate the state budget with its horrendous debt by less and less control oral, but less and less tax revenue, and even economic growth was talk.

However, there is a fear that we are as yet in the next few weeks and months have a slightly more painful encounter with reality. Mass layoffs, tax increases and other restrictions on social benefits had to wait until after the election. What to make of the announcement of the tax cuts became clear when Guido Westerwelle only four days before the election, calling on the government to make "instant cash check". The financial position of the Federal must be immediately disclosed. This was rejected by Merkel easily from. (more ...)

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Afghanistan's election issue

Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Afghanistan: Panschir-Tal; Foto: Ann Jones

Afghanistan: Panjshir valley; Photo: Ann Jones

Afghanistan is still become an election issue. The death of about 100 Afghans has caused this. The exact number of deaths and the exact percentage of gunmen who perished in the bombing of a requested Colonel Klein American F-15 Jagdbomers victim will probably not be currently out. Because the fronts are completely moved not only in Afghanistan but also in the home.

The German Basic Law and international human rights law prohibit wars of aggression, and the armed forces must be explicitly used only for defensive purposes. Indeed, Article 26 of the Basic Law says:

Actions that are appropriate and undertaken with the intent to disturb the peaceful relations between nations, especially to prepare the aggressive war, are unconstitutional. They are to be punishable.

Immediately following the terrorist attacks of September 2001 were called Laden as the mastermind of the heinous attacks out of Afghanistan a certain Osama Bin acting, though he himself, are just like his 19 accomplices in their (majority), Saudi citizens.

The attacks in 2001, there were certainly likely to disturb the peaceful relations between nations, but was Osama Bin Laden a state? Had his evil work is relevant under international law? This question was answered by America and NATO clearly "yes". The question can only be answered with good reason, just as with "no", because in this way could in the future, everyone fanatics, regardless of whatever stripe, the country in which he allegedly staying straight, can become a war aim. (more ...)

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Post from Afghanistan

Friday, April 24, 2009

Yesterday I had a call a living in Chicago Afghans under my Epost, I decided to translate: Dr. Mohammed Daud Miraki had obviously have my email address, I ordered his book "Afghanistan after Democracy" some time ago.

Afghanistan After Democracy

Dr. Mirakis book "Afghanistan After Democracy"

I would then see firsthand what is happening in Afghanistan itself: After German troops are there. Dr. Mirakis picture story shocked me. Then I read the book nor the German Afghanistan connoisseur Christoph Hörstel ( "bomb Afghanistan: The Bundeswehr in Your Eyes" ), I can only recommend if you want something closer to deal with the matter. (more ...)

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Against the Grain: The real gunman

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

If the media roller rolls again, I take always happy to brush.

A common direction for me has something threatening, and I imagine it figuratively a bison herd before, the drums on the prairie diversity of opinion; in the distance, perhaps lurks an abyss, which the excited herd animals no longer perceive the drums, snorting and stomping of conspecifics is simply overpowering and drowned out any warning signals. The clouds of steam, smoke from the nostrils and ears of snorting media armada make, deaf and block the receptors of the olfactory bulb in order to perceive the stench of actual scandals.

When I feel that something should be scandalized and someone will trigger certain emotions in me like a Pavlovian dog saliva, then I block, something goes against the grain, and then I brush up against the grain. I would hardly have believed that I would have to write something about guns and gun laws, I am surprised to themselves.

My childhood was marked by strict pacifism my parents, u .a itself. in a comprehensive ban on weapons in our children practically expressed. The reason for the ban was acting under painted and staged and so understood by us children: because our parents had both lived through the war. Both knew shoot what and bomb was, and I can only do write because my mother was on that day that her house was wiped out by a direct hit in the basement of the house next door to assist with her mother and her siblings a neighbor, whether the permanent air strikes threatened to lose his mind. (more ...)

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