GER politics thread

[Jimbuna]

How do all these seriously mentally flawed people manage to get the time off work to carry out their antics?

[O.Kusch]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

How do all these seriously mentally flawed people manage to get the time off work to carry out their antics?

Grand part of this kind of people living supported by the German social system. The word work(er) exist only in the name of their party.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

How do all these seriously mentally flawed people manage to get the time off work to carry out their antics?

Lets put it this way: there are legal and financial reasons that form the reason for me why - if I were interested and would have a brilliant business idea or a greatly designed product idea - I would not found a company in Germany or in the EU. Never.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by O.Kusch

Grand part of this kind of people living supported by the German social system. The word work(er) exist only in the name of their party.

Originally Posted by Skybird

Lets put it this way: there are legal and financial reasons that form the reason for me why - if I were interested and would have a brilliant business idea or a greatly designed product idea - I would not found a company in Germany or in the EU. Never.

Apologies, I was trying to be facetious.

[mapuc]

As a friend wrote:
The Germans have got what they asked for-by their voting.

Markus

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by mapuc

As a friend wrote:
The Germans have got what they asked for-by their voting.

Markus

And they want even more of it. Everbody loves to party, but nobody wants to clean.

[Skybird]

Super-Uschi did in the defence ministry what she did in the minsitries she led before, too: failing with flying colours. Thats great - it rewarded her the EU presidency.

Originally Posted by https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article210190453/Berater-Affaere-Jetzt-ist-klar-warum-von-der-Leyen-nach-Bruessel-fluechtete.html

It is now clear why Ursula von der Leyen [former "minister" of defence, Skybird] fled to Brussels

The Bundestag has an opposition again. Representatives of the FDP, the Greens and the Left have published a minority report on the advisory affair, which says what needs to be said: The then Minister of Defense failed completely.

Certificates will be awarded again these days. Ursula von der Leyen got one too, and it's not a good thing. It is quite a disaster. Your era in the Ministry of Defense will long be seen as the time when a species called advisor was allowed to nest there. This harmless sounding word conceals tangible interests.

Because a ministry like this, which, according to the federal budget, manages around 45 billion euros, magically attracts lobbyists on behalf of third parties, as it does on its own behalf. Problematic characteristics of officials to consultants; Ministry letterheads used by external parties; Costs of millions for state-owned GmbHs, pressure on decisions of subordinate bodies relevant to expenditure and ordinary civil servants. All in all, a lively entry and exit of highly interested people in the von Leyen house.

Three-digit million sums in two years: The advisory system in the Ministry of Defense is “completely out of control,” says Christian Schweppe. He has been reporting from the Advisory Committee's Investigative Committee for a year.

The Union was concerned to protect them in the parliamentary committee of inquiry. For over a year, this body researched the consultant syndrome and sharply criticized the conditions in the Ministry of Defense under von der Leyen. But the coalition parties' final report did not criticize them.

If so, the impression is given that some things may have gone wrong only at the lower level, but the top of the house hovers above it indifferently - which citizen should believe that?

It may be that Ursula von der Leyen was a good choice for the top of the commission in Brussels, but as many eyes as one would have to squeeze so that her hasty departure from Berlin was not also a well-organized escape from the mess left behind there - no one has so many eyes.

On the other hand, the opposition parties' joint “Minority Report” is encouraging. Even more gratifying: the Bundestag has an opposition that deserves this name. The representatives of the FDP, Greens and Linker in the committee of inquiry on the advisory affair have published a minority report that says what needs to be said - which not only illuminates the misdeeds in the giant apparatus of the house, but also does not spare the boss.

"Complete factual failure" - that is in Ursula von der Leyens testimony. It is one that you would not have dared to go home with as a student.

[O.Kusch]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Apologies, I was trying to be facetious.

Yes I know.
I like to compare this kind of people with my children: if they have too much time and boredom they come up with stupid ideas.
But o.k. some make a pool in their garden, others a statue of Lenin. the question is, what is more fun?

[Kongo Otto]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Super-Uschi did in the defence ministry what she did in the minsitries she led before, too: failing with flying colours. Thats great - it rewarded her the EU presidency.

Tbh, Skybird, the only reason why she had a political acreer to begin with is the fact that she's the Daughter of Ernst Albrecht.
Otherwise she wouldn't be there where she is today. It's the classic "Daddy opened the doors for me" scenario, so to say she the German equivalent to Hunter Biden, except for the meth.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Kongo Otto

Tbh, Skybird, the only reason why she had a political acreer to begin with is the fact that she's the Daughter of Ernst Albrecht.
Otherwise she wouldn't be there where she is today. It's the classic "Daddy opened the doors for me" scenario,

True.

[Skybird]

Language police at work in Stuttgart. Like in Cologne 2015.

Stuttgart language regulations are fatally reminiscent of Cologne

If you watched the Twitter videos of the breach of the peace and the looting in Stuttgart, you already knew: Blond women and bio-German men were hardly to be discovered. After all, people with non-German citizenship and Germans with a migration background were clearly overrepresented.

The Stuttgart police and the still acting green mayor Fritz Kuhn also tried to de-escalate the language. The perpetrators were called people and they came from the “party and event scene”. As if the outdoor meeting accidentally got out of hand at midnight. A drug control of a German dealer is said to have been the occasion.

Now the chairman of the police union in Mannheim reveals the actual socio-demographic data of the aggressors and thieves in a Facebook post: "For many police officers this assignment is misleading, they criticize it as wrong". It is a “trivialization of the basic problem,” says Thomas Mohr, the chairman of the GdP police union in Mannheim. For him it is clear: The riots were triggered by "predominantly migrant adolescents, adolescents, but also adults." Reports RTL. And further: "Largely testosterone-charged young men who escalate quickly in group dynamics," he quotes a colleague and pronounced tendency towards escalation ", he attests to the rioters. They would fundamentally not adhere to any rules of conduct. Also Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann, who is also green, states that the term party scene is incorrect.

In the meantime, the actual "event scene", which is still not allowed to perform real concerts, plays and other cultural representations, operate clubs or present fairs and other events, bathes the places where they do their work in order to draw attention to their impending doom . But only on the side.

The Daily Mail finds completely different words: "Looters called Allahu Akbar during Stuttgart's worst riots, which turned the city into a battlefield." Such formulations are otherwise only found in German publications that are "right". You can see that Facebook and Twitter still have a pitiful remnant of freedom of expression.

These language regulations are fatally reminiscent of the events on that New Year's Eve in Cologne in 2015, not least because the Cologne police officially announced at 8.59 a.m. in a press release about the New Year's Eve celebrations in the city: "Exuberant mood, largely peaceful celebrations, police force well positioned." Joachim Frank reports in his cover story in the Kölner Stadtanzeiger on January 2, 2016. "Is there a reasonable reason to doubt it? Not at first. ” The original message continues:

“Shortly before midnight, the station forecourt in the area of ​​the stairway to the cathedral had to be cleared by uniformed officers. In order to prevent a mass panic by firing pyrotechnic ammunition at the approximately 1,000 celebrants, the officials began to clear the space at short notice. Despite the unplanned break from work, the situation was relaxed - also because the police were well positioned and present in critical areas. ”

More than 500 lawsuits were subsequently filed for sexual harassment and rape. The perpetrators and suspects were almost without exception refugees and men with a migration background. If you follow the videos from Stuttgart, women were hardly at the “party”. Here the aggression of the young men was directed exclusively against police officers.

"Parts of my answer would worry the population," said Federal Minister of the Interior Thomas de Maiziére on November 17, 2015, when he canceled an international match in Hanover shortly after the Islamist terrorist attacks in Paris, and revealed how dosed the German state is Expects the truth from citizens.

Statistics is not racism, but sometimes a relatively accurate reflection of reality. You can change that too - let's say. And socio-demographic data show that old white men were absolutely underrepresented at the Stuttgart Peace Break. Incidentally, no one has criticized the lack of women in arrests. Those who justify quotas and social distancing with statistics cannot demonize social profiling as long as it is not based on “hearing say” or prejudice.

This does not mean that individuals, regardless of their origin or religion, may be treated worse than others. But the silence of the factual state of affairs fosters prejudice and discrimination because the underage citizens feel that they are not being poured pure wine and the truth is actually much worse.

I can also understand well those people who feel set back because of their skin color, origin or religion and who, as special eloquent, successful and educated people, now point out in the talk shows that these qualities bring them unjustified disadvantages. That's unfair. But the senior employee of a DAX group can say the same about himself, to whom the supervisory board is confident that he will not become a board member only because he is not a woman. And vice versa. And as a concerned, under-sized man, I also have to put up with the fact that I don't end up with every young, beautiful, long-legged woman. That is also discrimination.
Only the relationship to physical violence is relaxed

Many of those who have not been here for so long come from countries where anti-Semitism is a good thing, who have a pre-Flood image of women and where the only thing that is relaxed is the relationship with physical violence. And not everyone is shedding this imprint, and many suffer from the fact that it is assumed that they cannot, although it has long been the case. This is a difficult dilemma for them. And for us, that we have to convince those who have not and will stay here that they must abide by human rights, law and order and benefit from an open society. As the Mannheim GdP chairman writes, one reason for the Stuttgart breach of the peace was the perpetrators' lack of respect for the state's monopoly on violence and its representative, the police.

When the obscure SPD leader Saskia Esken accuses the police of racism, she undermines their authority and legitimizes this disrespect. And if, like the taz author, you want police officers to waste on the garbage, you're not just acting inhumane, you're blowing the same horn. And anyone who believes freedom of expression is at risk because the Federal Minister of the Interior wants the criminal law relevance of the taz column to be examined by the ordinary courts of the constitutional state by filing a criminal complaint threatens him because he prematurely delegitimizes it. The Chancellor is said to have exerted her influence in preventing the constitutional minister from doing so.

The state endangers its own credibility by concealing and twisting it. Responsible citizens have the right to the truth in the free constitutional state and nothing but the truth and not their well-meaning, falsehood falsification.

Why am I not surprised. https://www.achgut.com/artikel/stutt...fatal_an_koeln And once again it is the poltical, left foremign the spearhead of the ambition to hide the troubling truth from the public.

[Skybird]

German KSK elite force, equivalent to Delta Force or SAS, to be partially disbanded, later complete shut down is not ruled out.


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53237685

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

How do all these seriously mentally flawed people manage to get the time off work to carry out their antics?

You mean the governments?

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Skybird

German KSK elite force, equivalent to Delta Force or SAS, to be partially disbanded, later complete shut down is not ruled out. [...][/url]

It is usually certain types with a certain mindset who find their way into those corps.
Must be militant leftists, all of them

Seriously, i don't know what is going on in some minds - violating the basic foundation of national law, and disregarding the organisation they swore oath to

[Skybird]

There is little progress in climate protection on the German rental apartment market. The housing companies and private landlords are investing billions of euros in more energy efficiency, in new heating systems, windows and insulated facades. But the bottom line is that the actually measured energy consumption hardly drops.

This emerges from data published by the Federal Association of German Housing and Real Estate Companies (GdW). Accordingly, more than 342 billion euros have been invested in energy-related modernization measures in residential buildings in Germany since 2010.

In the same period, however, the measured heat consumption of private households hardly decreased: in 2010, households consumed an average of 130 kilowatt hours (kWh) of thermal energy per square meter per year.

Eight years later, in 2018 it was 130 kWh. The figures are based, among other things, on surveys by the Federal Ministry of Economics and the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW).

In view of these figures, the federal government's climate targets appear to be hardly achievable. By 2030, CO2 emissions from buildings are expected to decrease by 40 percent, and by 2050 the entire building stock should be almost climate neutral. GdW President Axel Gedaschko is now sober: "Billions are being invested, but nothing is happening at all."

^ Writes Die Welt today.

Surprise, surprise! Well - really...? I know house owners for whom the costs have even risen - because the facade isolation has done damage in form to funghi entering the wall substance. After not even 4 years they had to rip it all off and replace it, once again completely renovating appartments as well: the people living there had health issues from the bad in-house climate: too dry in the air, too sweaty in wall corners, germs in the air.

There is a reason why in long forgotten days houses were int entionally built to NOT BE fully isolated, but to even have ventilation holes. In case of old farmer cottages with their combination of natural wood beams, bricks and loam this was even essential, else they would have rotten even earlier.

Today? Knock cautiously on the wall in the basement, and three floors above you somebody says "Come in!" Very, very, very bad materials are being used in house building today: lite, noisy, not robust. I see it in three construction work in our own 6-appartments house where I am co-owner - all the works went very, very wrong, due to bad materials, driving the costs and the time needed to get things done. Technology should compensate for that bad quality of used construction materials. Driving the costs and need for energy-consuming electric magic even more. And all heavily over-regulated, of course.