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Euro Bonds already a done deal?

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Over the weekend, reported Bert Rürup, head of five years farming practices in terms of euro bonds and transfer union to speak: "tell the truth now. Controversial Euro bonds are former farming practices, according to already decided to tangible e. "(GA Bonn on 27 / 28.8.2011).

This Rürup follows an already familiar pattern: First, the voters, the people misled the public, it is appeased, abgewiegelt, denied. Then, after a time, is called upon the people to pour pure wine, to tell the truth.

The one who "bravely" brings the truth to surround himself naturally with the aura of decent, even heroic. The media regularly succumb to his charms.

However, it is here in many ways a travesty and an incredible audacity: (more ...)

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Boetticher - the harried Straight

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

The resignation of Schleswig-Holstein, Deputy Prime Minister and party leader of the CDU in Schlesw.-Holst. Parliament has annoyed me.

The man actually had to withdraw not because he did anything wrong - a 16-year-old is finally no longer a child, but usually a woman with a rule, if you did not have a development problem - but because he has not held. ( read more ...)

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The "war game" of DER SPIEGEL, or the return of war aesthetics

Thursday, November 18, 2010

It is not to be overlooked (Der Spiegel No. 46, pp 126-139, "The War Game".): The Heroic comes again, the Warlike, hard, inexorable.

After decades it carefully exorcised, inexorably expelled, and even put under punishment, it is now in demand in Germany again.

The Germans had nearly six decades, the applicable "Never again war" to their highest bid and even laid down in their constitution that they would only apply in a case of defense ever return to arms, but in the meantime, a new era was ushered in.

The new era began almost imperceptibly to and fawning. It was of "responsibility" is mentioned. The fracture was initiated by a purely external completely unwarlike, yes unsoldierly, most unsportsmanlike, sometimes even downright flabby figure. This was all the more convincing speak of the necessity of the war.

Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer Martin then cracked the resistance of the Greens and the Germans as a whole, in which he threatened to resign and specifically the "Auschwitz crowbar" ansetzte:

"We have always said: 'No more war!' But we have always said: 'Never again Auschwitz!' "

So he qualified totally inadmissible the horrors of the Holocaust, by equating the situation in the former Serbian province of Kosovo with events of the past and at the same time that trauma Deutsche whether that debt deliberately exploited and paralyzed so for political debate. (more ...)

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