GER politics thread

[Jimbuna]

Germany to push ahead with Chinese takeover of chips plant

German spy chief has warned that China buys into strategic industries in order to exert pressure.

Despite warnings from intelligence agencies, Germany's government is set to approve a Chinese takeover of a German company's microchips production facility.

German outlet Handelsblatt reported Thursday that the deal — which would see a takeover of the semiconductor production of Dortmund-based Elmos by Sweden's Silex, a wholly owned subsidiary of China's Sai Microelectronics — was set to get the green light against security advice.

The deal is currently being reviewed by the German economy ministry. A final decision on approval is expected within the next few weeks.

Europe — and Germany in particular — has been grappling with its reliance on autocratic third countries for critical infrastructure, after its dependency on Russian energy was exposed by Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine.

The reports come only days after the German government gave the green light to Chinese state-owned shipping giant Cosco buying a foothold in a container port in Hamburg. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz not only ignored warnings from the EU but also from six of his own federal ministries, including the Greens' Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck.

Elmos is one of Germany's smaller semiconductor companies, which mainly produces chips for the automotive industry. Silex plans to take over the plant for €85 million. Elmos will use the investment to give up its own production and instead process chips bought from contract manufacturers.

The German government says that the technology Elmos uses is old and not to expect any outflow of critical know-how to China. The German security authorities, on the other hand, argued that they are not only concerned about exiting knowledge, but also that China is systematically increasing its chip production capacities.

According to Handelsblatt, they advised the government to block the deal.

The president of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) also recently warned that China is deliberately buying into strategic industries in order to exert pressure on other countries.
https://www.politico.eu/article/repo...rvice-warning/

[Skybird]

It is known that Bubble-Olaf wants this deal to be pushed through, too.

Decisions like this had to be expected because Bubble-Olaf is known to be a confessing and kow-towing China-friendly ally of Bejing. I said that already during the elections last year.

Germany is detmerined to not let go its illusion of a German eneryg transformaiton unique int he world and not follwoe dby anyone els ebecasue it is unrealistic. It stays with the illusuion, and to feed it, it needs China delivering the stuff. Conclusion: to kepe the drema gooing, increasing dependency from China and helping China to grow its influence in Europe is logical to do. Righ? Right.

Germany is becoming increasingly a security risk for the Western alliance of nations. Not the only one there is, but the fastest growing one - and soon biggest one. If it is not already now. The Germans say they have learned form the failure of depending on Russia. Thats nbot trtue, its a lie. They jave not learned anythign fro it. Nothing at all. They just repeat the very same mistake.

Thats also something I repeatedly said: do not trust Scholz, he is a notorious liar. You must not trust the Germans.

I have come to think of Germany as a security risk for the West similar to Turkey in NATO. If I were the US I also would think twice about selling Germany F-35s or modern weapon systems, namely latest block of Patriots.

I am not exaggerating, I mean it bloody serious. Washington urgently needs to kill some illusions it still has about Germany. Rejecting Germany'S request to become member of the Five-Eyes club, was a necessary first step, but it should not stop there. That German politics have not even debated about the rejection and its reaosn and cause, should tell yopu something. The germans live in an alternative reality where they are the standard to which everybody else must compare. They have made it unimaginable for themselves that others do not wish to follow their shining examples, and where this refusal takes palcle it collides wioth German self-perception and tbus gets faded out, and ignored. Ignorign things is a known psychological defence mechanism if you suffer from cognitive dissonance.

[Jimbuna]

[Skybird]

The dilettantism in the Ministry of Defense continues despite an additional 100 billion. What can you expect when bloody amateurs keep presiding over the whole association as if it were a matter of hobby gardening? DEUTSCHE WELLE writes:
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Media: Six defense projects put on hold

Defense Minister Lambrecht's wish list cannot be kept, it is said. The Federal Court of Auditors had criticized technical errors in the planning for the debt fund.

According to media reports, the Defense Ministry in Berlin has reacted to criticism from the Federal Court of Auditors and revised the economic plan for the 100-billion-euro debt fund to better equip the Bundeswehr. In the process, Christine Lambrecht's department put six armaments projects on a waiting list, report the "Spiegel" and the "Welt am Sonntag" (WamS) in agreement. Deputy Inspector General Markus Laubenthal informed the members of the budget and defense committees in the Bundestag.

According to the report, the Army and in particular the Navy are affected. The procurement of a successor model for the Army's Fuchs armored transport vehicle will be postponed for the time being. The Navy will have to do without a fifth and sixth frigate 126. The number of 130 corvettes will also reportedly be reduced from ten to six.

Further development: yes - procurement: no

The IDAS system for improved self-protection of submarines against air threats is to be further developed, but procurement will be put on the waiting list. Furthermore, the number of Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to be purchased in the USA would be reduced from twelve to eight. Finally, an unspecified "subproject" in the rebuilding of a short-range defense against airborne threats would be eliminated.

The reason for the deletions were technical errors in the procurement list initially drawn up by the ministry, write "Spiegel" and WamS. In an interim report for the budget deliberations, the Federal Court of Auditors criticized that the plans for the special budget submitted by Lambrecht's office had "considerable deficiencies" and would have to be "fundamentally" revised.

Price increases and interest rates not taken into account

According to the report, the Bundeswehr planners had listed dozens of armaments projects whose costs exceeded the 100 billion euro limit by almost ten billion euros. Apparently, the ministry had also overlooked the fact that the special fund is to be designed dynamically, i.e. price increases as well as interest on the debt must be taken into account.

The six projects mentioned would now be transferred from the special fund to the regular budget, reports WamS. However, it is unlikely that the necessary funds for procurement will be released there.
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Completely clueless in the house: Federal Minister of Defense Lambrecht. It's amazing that she hits the door at all when switching between two rooms, and not the wall. At the moment she is talking a lot about the Swiss ban on ammunition for the Gepard again - so she doesn't have to talk about the Marders or Leopards.

[Rockstar]

Swiss makes a crap ton of money selling ammunition with a contract stipulation nobody is allowed to use it. Who the hell approved that?

Are you telling me nobody over there saw this coming before they bought it? Next time read the fine print otherwise…

[Skybird]

Grrrr. One moment I read it, and when I go back to it and wanted to translate it, it has disappeared behind a paywall. But the first sentences alone are already the content:

Originally Posted by Die Welt

There was no open-ended examination of the question of nuclear lifetime extension. This is indicated by internal documents of the federal government, which WELT has analyzed. It also shows that Robert Habeck even acted against the assessment of his own experts.

What a surprise, why had I predicted that this is the case?

Liars. Cheaters. Fraudulent ideologist scum. Party before common good.

[Skybird]

The NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG writes:
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Olaf Scholz is overwhelmed with Europe

Germany and France are suffering from relationship stress. But Berlin's star is also falling in other EU countries. German go-it-alone efforts, fundamental differences and a clumsy chancellor are to blame.

It was October 2021 when Angela Merkel was praised at her last EU summit as if there were no tomorrow. She was a "monument," Belgian Council President Charles Michel quipped. He said it was impossible to imagine a summit without the outgoing German chancellor, saying it was like "Rome without the Vatican or Paris without the Eiffel Tower." With Merkel, said Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, Europe is being left by a "great person."

The chancellor had attended 107 European Councils - as the summits are officially called - in her 16 years in office. Because she became the longest-serving head of government in the EU, led Europe's largest economy and was able to dominate the Brussels Alpha Round in her calm manner, all eyes have recently been on Merkel - and thus indirectly on her successor Olaf Scholz. Would the new chancellor display similar leadership qualities and be able to "hold together" the club of 27 just as well?

German egoism?

One year after Merkel's departure, it doesn't look like it at all. After all, there is a great deal of friction between Emmanuel Macron, the French president, and Scholz. As is well known, nothing runs smoothly in the EU without the Franco-German axis, and so the breakdowns in relations also have direct consequences for Europe. The fact that it has come to this at all has to do with the force of the Ukraine war, the different responses to the energy crisis and possibly also with Olaf Scholz's style.

Anyone who had not yet noticed that there was a crisis between Paris and Berlin knew this last Thursday at the latest, when a long-planned Franco-German ministerial meeting in Fontainebleau was canceled. Private reasons were only pretended; the cause was major differences of opinion, for example on armaments and energy policy.

The French side was particularly annoyed by Scholz's boastful announcement of a "double whammy". Behind the term is a 200-billion-euro rescue package designed to protect consumers and businesses in Germany from the consequences of high gas and electricity prices.

In France, as well as in other member states, the plan is seen as distorting competition. Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki had already accused Germany at the beginning of October of exploiting the crisis to give its companies shameless advantages on the domestic market. Finland's head of government Sanna Marin and her Estonian counterpart Kaja Kallas expressed similar criticism, albeit more diplomatically. Scholz had not informed any of his EU partners, including Macron, about the "double whammy" in advance.

France thinks Germany would be better off joining an EU-wide program to boost and protect all European economies, similar to the 750 billion euro Corona reconstruction fund. But Berlin has so far gratefully rejected this proposal. It also points out that Paris itself subsidized energy prices in its own country with 120 billion euros in the summer.

Misguided nuclear policy

At the EU summit in Brussels, the tensions between Scholz and Macron became even more obvious. It would be good neither for Germany nor for Europe if a member state "isolated" itself, the French president told the press. This was referring to the German chancellor's opposition to an EU-wide gas price cap. Scholz leads a minority of states that reject market intervention. Macron, on the other hand, wants the state-imposed cap on gas prices and knows that he is in agreement with the majority of Southern and Eastern Europeans.

In the end, there was no big bang in Brussels. Scholz said that they had come together and presented a vague minimum compromise. But the points of contention were by no means resolved. A high-ranking EU official told the NZZ that there was a lot of frustration, especially among the East-Central European summit participants, about Germany, which was largely responsible for the crisis through its misguided energy policy decisions.

This refers to the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, the high dependence on Russian gas, but also the fact that the German government has recently been buying up the gas market, thus driving up prices. Not only in France, but also in East-Central Europe, people are also surprised that Berlin is sticking to the final nuclear phase-out in the midst of the biggest energy crisis.

Going it alone to China

In Poland and the Baltic states, moreover, there is distrust of Scholz and his traffic light coalition because of its hesitant support for Ukraine. Few seem to trust him with the leadership role that many in Europe would like to see from Germany.

The skeptics are also concerned that Berlin seems to be repeating the same mistakes in its dealings with China that it made with Russia: Although Brussels has long been discussing how to decouple from China in order to become more strategically independent, Scholz is flying to Beijing next week with a large business delegation without a care in the world.

In Brussels, the chancellor brushed off critical questions about the trip by pointing out that it had "always been done this way" - as if the example of Russia did not show that it can be politically highly risky to become unilaterally economically dependent.

In fact, Merkel had also seen foreign policy primarily through economic glasses. The chancellor, who on the one hand managed to hold the EU together in many crises, on the other hand sowed the seeds for European conflicts with her mercantilism: with the adherence to Nord Stream 2, the nuclear phase-out and the naive trust in Putin as an economic partner.

Today, these mistakes are falling on Scholz's feet. But instead of working closely with his European partners to counteract them, the chancellor has paid lip service to the idea of a "stronger, more sovereign and more geopolitical European Union" - and has so far failed to show that he is serious about this.



Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
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[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Grrrr. One moment I read it, and when I go back to it and wanted to translate it, it has disappeared behind a paywall. But the first sentences alone are already the content:

What a surprise, why had I predicted that this is the case?

Liars. Cheaters. Fraudulent ideologist scum. Party before common good.

More major media pick it up. This is FOCUS:
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Habeck ignored his own experts on nuclear power plant issue

In deciding against extending the operating lives of nuclear power plants, Robert Habeck is said to have acted against the advice of his own experts.
He ignored counter-positions from within the company.
According to a report in "Welt am Sonntag," an open-ended review was not carried out.

In the traffic light dispute over extending the operating lives of nuclear power plants, Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) is said to have ignored the recommendations of his own experts. A report in the "Welt am Sonntag" says that the nuclear power plant issue was not examined in an open-ended manner. Habeck and Environment Minister Steffi Lemke had acted against the assessment of their own experts.

According to the report, Habeck's experts spoke out internally in favor of extending the operating lives of nuclear power plants. But Habeck is said to have ignored this. Internal government documents obtained by "Die Welt" and "Cicero" are said to prove this. For example, the ministries for the economy and the environment are said to have pre-formulated their rejection of an extension even before the results of an internal review.

As early as March 1, the "National Nuclear Safety Affairs" working group in the Environment Ministry had already drawn up an initial "note" on the legal and technical hurdles of a lifetime extension. Allegedly on this basis, Habeck and Lemke made public their opposition to a lifetime extension on March 8.

At that time, however, a conversation with the operators of the nuclear power plants is said not to have taken place at all. According to information of the sheet there is to have been only on 5. March a video switch with the energy companies EnBW, E.on and RWE, when the result of the ministerial examination was already present. The statement of Klaus Müller, president of the Federal Network Agency, had arrived at the Environment Ministry only on March 9, i.e. several days after the "note" had been written.

The operators of the nuclear power plants are also said to have given their blessing to a lifetime extension. EnBW, for example, is said to have stated on March 2 that the plants were "also at the highest safety level in an international comparison" and that "continued operation at this high safety level can take place." But these recommendations did not appear in Habeck and Lemke's "review note," he said.

"As a result of weighing the benefits and risks, an extension of the operating lives of the three remaining nuclear power plants is not to be recommended, even in view of the current gas crisis," it said. That had been the exact wording from the previous week.

As the "Welt am Sonntag" further reported, the Ministry for the Economy and the Environment had calculated that extending the operating lives of nuclear power plants would result in "around 25 to 30 million tons of CO₂ reduction in the German electricity market per year from 2024." This information had been deleted from the draft "note," the paper said.
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[Jimbuna]

Europe struggles to hold ranks against China and Xi Jinping as Germany defies EU with business trip to Beijing

This week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will be the first Western leader to travel to Beijing since Xi Jinping was confirmed for an unprecedented third term as China’s President, much to the dismay of the EU.

Mr Scholz’s visit with a business delegation on Thursday is alarming the rest of Europe, with leaders and officials warning that it could legitimise Mr Xi’s increasingly authoritarian regime, while also increasing reliance on China for key manufacturing supply chains and raw materials, from solar panels to rare metals.

During a secret three-hour EU summit discussion on 21 October, with no mobile phones allowed, EU leaders agreed that they have become too dependent on China in vital economic and trading sectors.

They agreed that the EU needed to work together to engage with China to tackle common problems such as climate change, while admitting that they had so far failed to persuade Mr Xi to use his leverage over Russian President Vladimir Putin to help end the war in Ukraine, or even provide assurances that Beijing would not circumvent sanctions on Russia.

Mr Scholz’s solo trip drew criticism from other leaders, who said that for China to take Europe seriously the bloc should be united.

“Considering what’s going on in China, it’s in their interests to divide us. It should be in our interests to stay united,” said Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas.

“It is also important that we don’t have separate deals with China, because that would mean we are weak as a union.”

His remarks echo the view in Brussels. In 2019, the European Commission took a fundamental shift in its approach to China when it published a new strategy that named Beijing a systemic rival and economic competitor.

However, Mr Scholz was not dissuaded from postponing his travel, telling his EU counterparts there should be no “decoupling” from Beijing, and refusing French President Emmanuel Macron’s offer to accompany him so the trip would have a broader European accent.

Mr Scholz has even drawn criticism within Germany earlier this month for giving the green light to the disputed sale of a stake in a Hamburg container terminal to China’s state-owned Cosco.

The Chancellor, a former mayor of Hamburg, overrode opposition to the sale by six ministries, including those of defence, economy and foreign affairs, who all raised concerns about critical infrastructure falling into foreign hands.

He has even run up against his own Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, from the Green Party, who has attacked businesses for building up their dependency on China.

“Complete economic dependence based on the principle of hope makes us politically blackmailable,” she said.

China has been Germany’s biggest trading partner for the past six years, with volumes reaching more than €245bn (£210bn) in 2021.

In 2000, China accounted for just over one per cent of German exports but now accounts for a 7.5 per cent share.

In December, the German city of Duisburg will host the European Silk Road Summit, which is aimed at debating China’s so-called Belt and Road Initiative of investing in key European infrastructure, ostensibly to support trade.

However, Mr Scholz would be naive to imagine he can win special concessions from Beijing, according to economist Alicia Garcia Herrero, a senior fellow at think-tank Bruegel.

“I wish Scholz good luck. but I think he will be humiliated,” she said, pointing out that China will exploit Europe’s splits to secure special deals with pliant countries.

“By seeking trade deals for a few, he will destroy many others. And it is complacent: we will get to a point where Europe looks like Gruyere cheese with holes in it.”
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...2db4d8c08fb5c7

[Skybird]

I just heard the coordinator of German secret sevrice sin a TV interview, he is a Green. If you decypher the usual diplomatic sound of political language - and even for that standard he was almost rude - then you could not escape the impression that he SUNK Scholzilein's China policy. He warned, severla times, in very clear words, against the Germna way of handlign China, and he confiremd that China put extremely heavy pressure on German industry leaders to make sure the Hamburg harbour deal would pass.


Neverteghless Scholz will take all business breats of Germanyx with him- except a very few who have made it oublic that they oppose any further German conspiracy with China and have pulled out of China or are on the way to do so.



Add to this the helpless wekaness of the Gwermna military and intel services. I can only warn against selling Germany critical military and high tech systems like the F-35 and according stuff. Also, cooperation on critical cooperaiton projects nand industruial cooperaiton touchign upon critical content, should be ended and boyoctted. Scholz continues 1:1 Merkelian economics and bets on "change by trade" - and hope. Thats ha snot worked with Russia, and it will not work with China. In the coming war about China, Germany once again will find itself on the wrong side of history.



Stupid, irresponsible, and I even call it treacherous.



Fact is, without Chinese imports, Germany would be off even worse, that is true. But the consequence from that should be to realise that we are not the giants that we asusmed for so long to be, but to reduce our claims and goals, namely on energy transformation, but also in many other things. Germany in most econiomic and industral and social fields is no logner worlds class, but is mediocre only. Mittelmaß. And with those reduced means available to us, our goals must become more realistic and less delusional as well. Outr eeuction system suffers. Our stundents are less and lesser conoetent than in the oast. We flal back in almpost every field of social and economic relevance. The causes for this are many, and many of these are beyond out reach.



We must become more honest about ourselves, and more realistic in our wishes and goals. The gigh-flying ambitions we still announce to be our goals, we simply cannot afford anymore. We want more than we can do. Much more. This is guarantee for catstrophic failure and - then uncontrolled - collapse.

[Skybird]

https://www.achgut.com/artikel/chron...r_oktober_2022


Chronicle of Insanity. From only one month of lived stupidity in Germany. And so it goes month after month, year after year. If you've ever wondered why I'm sometimes so bitter and grumpy.

[Jimbuna]

The German state pension system could collapse unless the retirement age increases experts have warned, leading to fears the same could happen in the UK.

Germany has one of the oldest populations in Europe with 22 percent of its population aged 65 years or older. However, the UK is not far behind with 19 percent of the population aged 65 and older - a figure that is expected to increase to 22 percent in just 10 years’ time.

Under Germany’s current system, the state pension guarantees retirees at least 48 percent of the average wage until 2025.

Its current state pension age is 65, but, similar to the UK, the German Government is in the process of gradually increasing this to 67-years-old.

Rainer Dulger, president of the Confederation of German Employers’ Association, told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper the current system could crash within five years unless the state intervenes.

He said: “For every 100 contributors, there are currently about 50 pensioners; in 15 years, there will be 100 contributors for every 70 pensioners.”

Mr Dulger said the retirement age needs to increase or the current system will not hold up.

He said: “This means that the financing of our pension system is on the verge of collapse.

“The retirement age should be linked to the increase in life expectancy.

“It must not be the case that the further increase in life expectancy leads to an ever longer retirement.”

The British Government is also in the process of raising the state pension age to 68-years-old but experts here are also warning it may have to rise even further.

Simon Jones, CEO of InvestingReviews.co.uk warned the Government may change its policy as the state pension becomes more expensive to fund.

He told Express.co.uk: "The Government currently plans to increase the state pension age from 66 to 67 between 2026 and 2028, and again to 68 between 2044 and 2046.

"Because people are living longer, it's becoming more expensive every year for the Government to fund the state pension.”

An Express.co.uk poll showed significant concern among readers over the Government's refusal to commit to the state pension triple lock.

The Government is considering whether to suspend or scrap the triple lock.
Former Prime Minister Liz Truss committed to the policy but since Mr Sunak took office last week he is yet to clarify his stance.

The Prime Minister's press secretary said Chancellor Jeremy Hunt would address the future of the triple lock in his autumn budget on November 17.
https://www.express.co.uk/finance/pe...retirement-age

[Skybird]

FOCUS reveals the holy trinity's plan for German self-destruction!




Guaranteed fail-safe! Bullet-proof! "Your fall is our promise!"
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We don't need Putin or Xi for our dismantling

The downfall of our country is possible with onboard resources; we don't need any sinister powers to do it. If you turn seven screws, you can initiate it without any outside help.

We live in the age of do-it-yourself. Today, you can build your own house - or at least your own tree house - with the help of the nearest hardware store.

Thanks to the Internet, you can open a TV station in your own kitchen - or at least produce a podcast. And if you have the time and inclination like Judith Rakers, you can switch to self-sufficiency in your own garden after watching the news. There you go!

Even the decline of our country can be managed with onboard resources. We don't need any dark forces for that, just ourselves. So here's the seven-point plan for dismantling a model of prosperity that some thought was indestructible. Listen and Repeat.

1. Expand the welfare state, deprive it first of children and then of contributors, until it groans and moans and later collapses.

At the latest, when one employee has to finance one pensioner, the contract between the generations is over. Then, at last, Adam Smith's neo-liberal phrase applies: "When everyone thinks of himself, everyone is thought of."

2. prohibit the country from using its domestic energy reserves, from coal to nuclear energy to fracked gas, thus deliberately increasing its dependence on foreign sources of supply.

The permanent price push triggered by this will not fail to have its diabolical effect. Then we will be poor, but at least CO2-free. One cannot have everything.

3. overburden this unruly German middle class with high taxes and throw tons of bureaucratic forms over it. So that it may suffocate from it.

Everything can be reduced to zero, including the willingness of those who are willing to perform to do so. This already worked quite well in the GDR.

4. Let the education system rust away, since artificial intelligence will soon take over anyway. The new Goethe is called Google. We don't need a second Einstein, we have Alexa. And we'll learn Denglish [mix of German and English, Skybird] as the only foreign language.

5. Let the public sector, from city administration to road construction to the railroads, slowly but surely decay. This is more effective than the dismantling after the Second World War, because the people are not jerkily and symbolically debilitated, but only very gradually.

The railroad comes later - and then it doesn't come at all. In the age of the home office it had lost its function anyway.

6. After the home-baked bread and the home-grown lettuce, one also makes the money on one's own. Those who are still upset about the unconditional basic income have not understood the mechanics of this decoupling of wages and performance.

At the center of our value creation is no longer the factory floor, but a special fund established by the Minister of Finance. The promissory bill is the new steam engine. It doesn't get any more sustainable than that.

7. make sure that writers, filmmakers and intellectuals of all stripes first find each other in heated debates and then lose.

When everyone has called everyone else racist, chauvinist or sexist at least once, we become brothers and sisters again; and happily anything in between.

Conclusion: For this fun-filled dismantling, we don't need Putin, we don't need Xi Jinping, and we certainly don't need Anton Hofreiter's heavy weapons. The Mecklenburg philosopher and prophetess Angela Merkel has always believed in our powers of self-destruction: Wir schaffen das!
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[mapuc]

Coincident !?

Some weeks ago German Railway had been sabotaged

Last Saturday it was Danish Railways who had suffered a severe hacker attack

A major breakdown of Denmark’s train network during the weekend was the result of a hacker attack on an IT subcontractor’s software testing environment, Danish train operator DSB said on on Thursday.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/1...-cybersecurity

I say every trails points towards Russia or Russian supporters being behind this.

Markus

[Gorpet]

Originally Posted by Skybird

FOCUS reveals the holy trinity's plan for German self-destruction!




Guaranteed fail-safe! Bullet-proof! "Your fall is our promise!"
-----------------------------------------

We don't need Putin or Xi for our dismantling

The downfall of our country is possible with onboard resources; we don't need any sinister powers to do it. If you turn seven screws, you can initiate it without any outside help.

We live in the age of do-it-yourself. Today, you can build your own house - or at least your own tree house - with the help of the nearest hardware store.

Thanks to the Internet, you can open a TV station in your own kitchen - or at least produce a podcast. And if you have the time and inclination like Judith Rakers, you can switch to self-sufficiency in your own garden after watching the news. There you go!

Even the decline of our country can be managed with onboard resources. We don't need any dark forces for that, just ourselves. So here's the seven-point plan for dismantling a model of prosperity that some thought was indestructible. Listen and Repeat.

1. Expand the welfare state, deprive it first of children and then of contributors, until it groans and moans and later collapses.

At the latest, when one employee has to finance one pensioner, the contract between the generations is over. Then, at last, Adam Smith's neo-liberal phrase applies: "When everyone thinks of himself, everyone is thought of."

2. prohibit the country from using its domestic energy reserves, from coal to nuclear energy to fracked gas, thus deliberately increasing its dependence on foreign sources of supply.

The permanent price push triggered by this will not fail to have its diabolical effect. Then we will be poor, but at least CO2-free. One cannot have everything.

3. overburden this unruly German middle class with high taxes and throw tons of bureaucratic forms over it. So that it may suffocate from it.

Everything can be reduced to zero, including the willingness of those who are willing to perform to do so. This already worked quite well in the GDR.

4. Let the education system rust away, since artificial intelligence will soon take over anyway. The new Goethe is called Google. We don't need a second Einstein, we have Alexa. And we'll learn Denglish [mix of German and English, Skybird] as the only foreign language.

5. Let the public sector, from city administration to road construction to the railroads, slowly but surely decay. This is more effective than the dismantling after the Second World War, because the people are not jerkily and symbolically debilitated, but only very gradually.

The railroad comes later - and then it doesn't come at all. In the age of the home office it had lost its function anyway.

6. After the home-baked bread and the home-grown lettuce, one also makes the money on one's own. Those who are still upset about the unconditional basic income have not understood the mechanics of this decoupling of wages and performance.

At the center of our value creation is no longer the factory floor, but a special fund established by the Minister of Finance. The promissory bill is the new steam engine. It doesn't get any more sustainable than that.

7. make sure that writers, filmmakers and intellectuals of all stripes first find each other in heated debates and then lose.

When everyone has called everyone else racist, chauvinist or sexist at least once, we become brothers and sisters again; and happily anything in between.

Conclusion: For this fun-filled dismantling, we don't need Putin, we don't need Xi Jinping, and we certainly don't need Anton Hofreiter's heavy weapons. The Mecklenburg philosopher and prophetess Angela Merkel has always believed in our powers of self-destruction: Wir schaffen das!
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