A Change in Tone

The moment you realise that something is wrong with you is accompanied by the awakening to political hatred.

There were times in German political debate when talk shows spent hours and hours on tin recycling regulations, subsidies for solar power, whether or not a tax rate was to rise 1.2% or to fall 0.78%. The Chancellor Gerhard Schröder called out the evil media, particularly of the media empire Springer, and accused them to launch unfair campaigns against his government. If I remember it correctly that was about the lack of GDP growth (at a level of about 2% that was called recession at the time and is called overheating now).

In other words, we were damn innocent. At least that is how I remember it. Political debate was encouraged and even seen as intellectual.

I don’t want to hide the fray. Schröder botched a welfare reform, called “Hartz IV”, and made everything more beaurocratic and less generous at the same time. Disgruntled voters went to the openly Socialist party DIE LINKE.

Then the contempt started. The secret service Verfassungsschutz surveilled the party, even popular, high-ranking party members. The voters, however, were not bullied by the elites. They were seen as stray kids who would eventually return.

Fast forward to the insolvency of the Greek state and Angela Merkel’s rescue efforts. To cut a long story short, the Greek were not happy about it and the conservatives in Germany were neither. Yet, something changed.

The dissent came from the right. Talks about disentangling both countries’ monetary systems, ‘leaving the EURO’, was willingly conflated with hate against the EU, hating Europe, hate for peace in Europe, wanting war in Europe and much worse.

The only reason you could oppose the wish of the German government with their austerity blackmailing credit transfer ideas for Greece was that, you guess it, you were supposed to be a Nazi.

No other explanation was accepted. The media started a witchhunt against newly founded conservative party AfD. They entertained folks with stories about backbenchers who said stuff if twisted like mad could be put into the mouth of Josef Goebbels.

Mass immigration did not help, either. Stories who tried to smear AfD voters (‘Who are they?’) became legion.

In short we don’t argue about privatisation of government services anymore. All German media is reduced now to telling their audiences who to hate and nothing more.

G20 Summit Turmoils

To be clear the G20 was as pointless as expected, the final resolution unspecific and not binding. That is what a sane mind knew already before the summit and sees confirmed after the summit.

But things do last. Shop windows were broken, cars were burnt, tax payer money was wasted, streets laid to waste. These long lasting effects were also known before and the raison d’etre of the event, which could have easily been held somewhere on the countryside where security can be ensured.

It was a show of force. The left could prove that there is an even more obnoxious leftist milieu that makes them look ‘centrist’. Their state organisers could prove that they are in command and present police and weaponry to the public eye. And their street thugs could pretend that they fight against same state by attacking the working-class in uniform, the policemen on the ground.

But there is one more lasting effect. Almost five hundred of these policemen were wounded, not all of their wounds will heal. It was a calculated game and the men and women in uniform who had the least influence on what happened suffer the most.

Let’s pray for their recovery!

Europe’s Mass Migration: The Leaders vs. the Public

“[T]he more generous you are, the more word gets around about this — which in turn motivates more people to leave Africa. Germany cannot possibly take in the huge number of people who are wanting to make their way to Europe.” — Bill Gates. The annual

via Europe’s Mass Migration: The Leaders vs. the Public — Gatestone Institute :: Articles

India accused of Ceasefire Violation

The Foreign Office (FO) on Sunday lodged a protest with India and urged New Delhi to investigate civilian casualties in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) due to unprovoked ceasefire violations along the Line of Control (LoC) a day earlier. Indian troops heavily shelled different areas of AJK from across the LoC on Saturday, leaving at least…

via Pakistan lodges protest with India over AJK civilian casualties after LoC firing — The Dawn News – Home

The Ills of the German Constitution

To begin with there are naturally so many ills of the constitution, the Grundgesetz, that I just come down with the most important shortfalls.

It is a book

It sounds silly, particularly for people who don’t live in the English-speaking world, but there’s already a problem when a constitution is not concise. The reality of the thought-out and crisp US-American constitution is that everybody reads it and is constantly talking about it. Only a people who knows what needs to be defended when it matters will defend it.

It is already outdated

First, it must have sounded like a good idea to restrict government power by defining exactly what the government can do and to allow for nothing else. However, that did not only lead to the oversized text, but required the writers to know everything about the future. Debates on whether the authors had thought of the internet, gay marriage and so on haunt Germans forever more.

It is treated like a religious book

Like any religious text the Grundgesetz is never read, always believed to say whatever somebody wants it to say and must not be contested, not even amended beyond some petty left-wing policy goals. To ‘leave the ground of the Grundgesetz’ is a phrase uttered whenever somebody is accused of apostasy. The name Grundgesetz replaces the words ‘democracy,’ ‘human rights’ and so forth, leaving the populace wildly uninformed. Germans regard their constitution as an embodiment of their values, which are actually the media-driven zeitgeist of the day. They don’t see it as a document to restrict the powers of the government. The saints of that “religion” are called the ‘fathers of the Grundgesetz’ and nobody can say who they are and why they are always right.

It doesn’t do what it says it does

Church and state are separated. The problem is that churches are legally organs of the German state and even school indoctrination is commanded by the Grundgesetz. The contradictions go on and on, hardly mentioned, hardly discussed. Who would? Nobody reads it! And doesn’t the government and the media put out legal constitutional experts to safeguard the people against government overreach? Isn’t that good enough? For Germans it is.

It doesn’t enforce Democratic Principles

The government is elected in a way that the majority party leadership, the government and the leading functions of the parliament are in the hands of the same people. These small circles of power don’t even change much over the course of multiple elections. The Supreme Court doesn’t bother to explain what legal sections they base their judgements on. Only G-d knows how they manage to demand law changes to set government payments to the penny.

That is just a quick overview of what is wrong with both the text and the practice.

Disclaimer: Since the government is a tad nervous at the moment, I confirm that the constitution must be respected. Changes are applied by the channels that the constitution itself sets and must not result in the removal of our freedoms.

Pakistan Discusses Transgender Bill

This sounds utterly like the direction the Western Left is heading to. Protection for transgender looks like segregation. Separate identity for official documents like ID cards, separate prison cells and so forth. All in the name of equality of course.

The Federal Ombudsman on Friday forwarded a bill on the protection of transgenders’ rights, prepared in consultation with several stakeholders, to the Senate’s Standing Committee on Human Rights for further deliberation. However, the committee, despite the Ombudsman’s go-ahead, has decided to further consult members of the society on the bill. Sources told DawnNews that one…

More on The Dawn News

Blogs and Social Media – Brainstorming

At the beginning blogs were for the most part a matter of special interests. These artsy photo shots you wanted to display, the recipes of your nana, your life as an  Asperger and so on.

Then came Zuckerberg. His college interest was about shaming fellow students. He created Facebook. I’m not using FB, because I started taking interest in such affairs fairly recently, but leave all marketing aside and there is nothing but an ordinary blog. With time some gadgets were added to upload and play videos, send files and so forth, but nothing of it was extraordinary.

The whole reason why almost everybody is blogging now is that we as human beings have a tendency to be mean. And FB was the first ‘mean first’ blogging site.

Along came reddit. This started fairly innocently and was about following news and discussing matters of the day. Mean bloggers + politics = even meaner bloggers. Somehow, the age of doxxing began.

I’m not on reddit either so far and I can’t speak of its shortcomings, but somehow ‘Twitter’ rose up to more attention. Twitter differs from other blogs because never-ending texts were replaced with the one-thought-one-post concept. Anywhere in a discussion a different user can come in and make an argument or issue a correction to a post. Also new is that comments and posts are one and the same thing, giving everybody the same tools to slug it out.

The situation today is that Facebook is the basis for many arrests of political opposition around the world. We can’t prove that the company might even be cooperating, but we know that they are very gullible to governments. Until fairly recently Twitter was more defiant driving governments (like Germany) mad and having the lickspittle media complaining about it on end.

Now Twitter cracks down on its users. The tool gab.ai from Texas promises freedom of speech. However, Germans who access gab.ai receive a warning message not to break the law. If gab.ai is willing to kowtow to the German government (and given the threats to fine them I understand it), I’m sure that they will not resist the Chinese, the Pakistani, the Russians and so forth.

Along comes disqus. Disqus allows more signs per post and groups people into channels. You can join a discussion or issue a new post to one of the established channels. I can’t really tell, but I think that is equivalent to the FB Group concept. Disqus, however, does not have the reputation of constantly blocking users, closing accounts, or (I can’t prove it) passing information to totalitarian governments. They have found their niche by offering a widget that manages the comment section of many blogs (most famously Breitbart News).

As far as I can tell disqus is also better programmed than slow-motion Twitter.

And then of course there is WordPress and (Blogger) blogspot who are very traditional. Their strength is that they still serve the cat-photo-autism-poetry clientele well with features most other sites can’t provide. The weakness is indeed the lack of connection between the different bloggers.

That is my quick, uninformed brainstorming on Blogs and social media. Tell me what you think in the comment section?

More than half of the people who came to Germany since 2015 are now unemployed

2015 Germany started to import millions of refugees. This is a business plan which was planned many years before. The aim was to import people with children or people who would make children on their way to Germany in their hope for a better life. The majority of refugees cannot work in the country because […]

via Trafficking in human beings in Germany: More than half of people stamped refugees are unemployed — Olivier Renault

Stone Pelting

Stoning is one of the reasons why I have difficulties to decide what is a Western World Leftist and what is an Islamist. Two of a kind.

 

I’m deeply embarrassed by my fellow German citizens

 

Dear world, my name is Gerd Buurmann. I am a German citizen who would like to express my revulsion at the violence occurring in Hamburg right now. Dear G20 rioters, thanks a real lot for reminding the world how „German political opposition“ looks like: German storm troopers rampaging through the streets of Hamburg, torching cars, […]

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