You may be finding it interesting to read the ‘solutions’ being pushed to the economic ills of various ountries. Austerity once all the rage seems to be getting replaced by a rapid expansion in money supply an alleged parallel increase in jobs and credit and the stage is set for [...]
Will “Onshela” save Europe? History will register his plane struck by lightning on the way to Berlin, no fancy kisses, and asparagus with veal schnitzel on the menu. This is the way the eurozone ends (or begins again); not with a bang, but a … lightning strike. Merkollande — the new European power [...]
German chancellor Angela Merkel is to have face-to-face talks with François Hollande in Berlin. Photograph: Patrik Stollarz/AFP link http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/may/13/eu-leaders-showdown-eurozone-crisis Europe is braced for a crucial 48 hours of high-stakes summitry likely to decide whether Germany and France can strike a grand bargain aimed at dispelling growing pessimism over the chances of the single currency surviving in its current form. [...]
. Britain: Germany Needs to ‘Get Over WW2,’ Fight in More Wars ‘Huge Potential’ for Germany to Fight Massive Wars by Jason Ditz, May 02, 2012 Print This | Share This Speaking today in Berlin, Britain’s Defense Secretary Philip Hammond said he believesGermany has a [...]
Marco-Urban.de Young Israel‘s New Love Affair with Germany By Juliane von Mittelstaedt link http://www.ikners.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=54192&action=edit&message=6 German passports, Berlin DJs and language lessons: After decades of wariness, Israelis have discovered a new love for Germany. For a new generation of confident, young Israelis, the country has become one of their favorites. On his first night in Germany, Tomer [...]
Same venom by http://www.agnostic-library.com/ma/tag/atheist/ From my balcony on Manhattan’s West side, I can see the spot on the Palisades above Weehawken New Jersey where Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton in July, 1804. Hamilton, a Federalist, had called his Democratic-Republican adversary “a dangerous man” not to be trusted with the reins of Government.” Burr responded [...]
Gunter the Terrible By Uri Avnery Stop me if I have told you this joke before: Somewhere in the US, a demonstration takes place. The police arrive and beat the protesters mercilessly. “Don’t hit me,” someone shouts, “I am an anti-communist!” “I couldn’t give a damn what kind of a communist [...]
privat German historian Moritz Pfeiffer asked his granddad what he did in World War II, and then fact-checked the testimony. His findings in a new book shed light on a dying generation that remains outwardly unrepentant, but is increasingly willing to break decades of silence on how, and why, it followed Hitler. Germany has won [...]
AP One year after the reactor accident in Fukushima, resistance to nuclear energy is growing around the world. But the atomic industry continues to push for the construction of new reactors, primarily in emerging economies. The German government even wants to support that expansion — despite the fact it has abandoned nuclear power back home. By SPIEGEL Staff. [...]
“To forbid the use of military bases on our territory” By davidswanson - Posted on 09 April 2012 U.S. Military Bases in Germany and a Brief History of Protests Against Them By Elsa Rassbach On September 25, 2009, U.S. and NATO commanders emblematically chose Ramstein Air Base in Germany to announce the request [...]
Honeybees fill a hive at Golden Angels Apiary in Singers Glen, Va., last month. Though colony collapse disorder has not affected Valley beekeepers, local hives are still susceptible to a variety of dangers, like neonicotinoids, an insecticide thought to attack the insects’ central nervous system. Michael Reilly/Daily News-Record/AP Studies fault Bayer in bee die-off A corn pesticide manufactured [...]
French president Nicolas Sarkozy has aligned himself with German chancellor, Angela Merkel, during the eurozone crisis, but François Hollande has positioned himself as a challenger to her. Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images Whoever wakes up on 7 May as French president will have to deal with aEurope turned upside down by two years of currency crisis and [...]
The Two Saddest Words In Any Language Are ‘If Only…’ In Honor of the 70th Anniversary of the Munich Students Movement – 3rd Leaflet The White Rose Third Leaflet Munich, 1942 “Nothing is so unworthy of a civilized nation as allowing itself to be “governed” without opposition by an irresponsible clique that has [...]
Hundreds of body parts have been found in the cellars of the University of Cologne‘s anatomy department. Photograph: Stefano Paterna /Alamy The University of Cologne is investigating after hundreds of human body parts were found in the cellars of its institute of anatomy, apparently abandoned there for years. The scandal has shaken the German academic [...]
REUTERS A German Bundeswehr soldier in Iman Sahib: The military is closing a base in Afghanistan early in response to deadly protests. The German military said Friday it would move up the planned closure of a base in northern Afghanistan in response to deadly protests over the inadvertent burning of copies of [...]
AFP photo It can not be stressed enough that the Greek bailout is really about getting present investors some return on their money. It is not a loan to tide over the Greek economy while they look to carry on helping their own people. The ultimate price to be paid is for Greeks to become [...]
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, said efforts by the international community to stabilise the situation in Greece had not worked. Photograph: Michael Sohn/AP Angela Merkel casts doubt on saving Greece from financial meltdown German chancellor speaks candidly to the Guardian and five other leading European newspapers as part of a unique collaboration to explore the EU’s predicament Angela Merkel has cast doubt for the first time [...]
DPA Merkel the Mistress and Sarkozy the Butler A screenshot from the German parody of the famous ‘Dinner for One‘ The link to the video is at Der Spiegel site at http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,806784,00.html Remember it is in German Gikners ikners.com gikners@gmail.com Angela Merkel is the lady of the manor and Nicolas Sarkozy her fawning butler. A German [...]
Photograph: guardian.co.uk When war broke out in 1914, thousands of men rushed to join up – little thinking that they would still be at war, with no end in sight, at Christmastime. However, that first Christmas in the trenches also bore witness to the humanity of the soldiers at war when, disregarding any official orders from [...]
Christmas Day, 1914 Printed in Australia’s School Magazine, Apr. 2001 My dear sister Janet, It is 2:00 in the morning and most of our men are asleep in their dugouts—yet I could not sleep myself before writing to you of the wonderful events of Christmas Eve. In truth, what happened seems almost like a fairy tale, [...]
The Independent In Britain, distrust of Europe goes hand-in-hand with distrust of Germany. Relations between the two countries have cooled following the furore caused by the latest EU summit, and British euroskeptics are once again resorting to old stereotypes. British Prime Minister David Cameron had only been in office for seven weeks when he and [...]
‘German Society is Poisoned’ DPA Controversial author Thilo Sarrazin, shown here in a televised conflict with immigrants earlier this year. Social scientist Wilhelm Heitmeyer has been publishing studies on German attitudes for a decade. In a SPIEGEL interview, he discusses his latest results, which show that Germans‘ relationship to minorities and the disadvantaged has become increasingly hostile. [...]
Jung-Ullstein Bild, The Granger Collection Marcuse’s embrace of the student as revolutionary briefly made him a celebrity on campuses rocked by protests, like the Free U. of Berlin in 1967. By Carlin Romano “At the end of every concrete philosophy stands the public act.” —Marcuse Bless the American university, that exemplar of pluralism. Was it [...]
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu recently came to Germany to meet with the families of those murdered by the neo-Nazi terror cell. In a SPIEGEL interview, he sharply criticized German investigators, who suspected the victims were involved in criminal activities, and warned of an upsurge in racism as a result of the economic crisis. SPIEGEL: Mr. [...]
Germany, admired and envied for its economic success, has become a model for Europe in the debt crisis. The Continent is becoming more German as countries get serious about fiscal discipline. But the nation’s new dominance is also stirring resentment, and old anti-German sentiments are returning. By SPIEGEL Staff A French tricolor flag fluttering on a video screen [...]
DPA Europe Shudders at Germany‘s New-Found Power Many across Europe resent Germany’s influence in the current euro crisis. Germany, admired and envied for its economic success, has become a model for Europe in the debt crisis. The Continent is becoming more German as countries get serious about fiscal discipline. But the nation’s new dominance is [...]
By Uri AvneryIn the middle of the ’80s, a German diplomat conveyed to me a surprising message. A member of the Jordanian Royal family would like to speak with me in Amman. At the time, Jordan was still officially at war with us.Somehow I obtained official permission from the Israeli government. The Germans generously provided me with a [...]
Bankers Seize Europe Just Another Goldman Sachs Take Over by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS On November 25, two days after a failed German government bond auction in which Germany was unable to sell 35 per cent of its offerings of 10-year bonds, the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble said that Germany might retreat from its demands [...]
Unmanned drones will be on the agenda at the Anglo-French summit on defence co-operation. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Feat Proposals for new air drones and strengthened Nato role to be examined at Anglo-French summit reddit this Patrick Wintour, political editor guardian.co.uk, Friday 25 November 2011 18.15 GMT Article history France and Britain hope to deepen defence co-operation, [...]
The Stasi archives office in Berlin. Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images The researcher, the pope and the Stasi’s friends in the west Pieced-together files give rise to claim that West German pastor submitted a report on Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI reddit this Helen Pidd in Berlin guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 23 November 2011 13.42 GMT Article history [...]
Nick Cohen The Observer, Sunday 13 November 2011 Article history Guilt is both a reason, and an excuse, for German inaction Every attempt to resolve a crisis that could push us into a second great depression is met by German prevarication reddit this Comments (400) What more must Germans do to earn the trust of Europe? They [...]
A trader looks at computer screens at Madrid’s bourse. The UK is making contingency plans in case the euro falls apart. Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters UK Treasury prepares for ‘economic armageddon’ if euro falls apart Bank of England helps draw up British contingency plans after European commission slashes growth forecasts reddit this Patrick Wintour, David Gow and Nicholas [...]
Workers collect pay in laundry baskets in Berlin in 1923. Photograph: Popperfoto If we set aside the dispute over how much Greek debt should be written off, and consequently, how much European banks should be re-capitalised, there is a further stumbling block in Brussels – the German fear of hyperinflation. Stable monetary policies bring political [...]
Troubled Eurozone Finance Capital By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 12 October 2011 Troubled Eurozone Finance Capital – by Stephen Lendman For years, Progressive Radio News Hour contributor Bob Chapman warned about troubled Eurozone financial institutions and possible sovereign defaults. Greece died months ago. Default is certain. Only its obituary hasn’t appeared. Germany prepared contingency plans [...]
Merkel tries to rally support for Greece and euro ahead of crucial EFSF vote The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, warned that Greece should ‘do its homework’. Photograph: Picture Perfect/Rex Features Chancellor faces widespread scepticism to enlarging eurozone bailout fund among German public and her own MPs Germany pledged support to Greece today in a desperate effort [...]
George C. Leef Great Wars & Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal By Ralph Raico • Reviewed by: George C. Leef Published by: Ludwig von Mises Institute • Year: 2010 • Price: $15.00 •Pages: 263 • Buy Print This Post • Email This Post Essential to the maintenance of support for the government (almost any government, any time) is the idea [...]
Europeans Against Multiculturalism Political Attacks Misread History, Target Muslims, and May Win VotesJohn R. Bowen British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Chancellery in Berlin / The Prime Minister’s Office / Flickr(cc) One of the many signs of the rightward creep of Western European politics is the recent unison of voices [...]
