Wagenknecht's Höcke phobia
Dear Ms. Wagenknecht, does Mr. Höcke have anything against an increase in the minimum wage?
Is Mr Höcke against lowering the retirement age?
Does Mr. Höcke support a war against Russia? Does he want to bomb Moscow with German missiles?
Does Mr. Höcke want to station American nuclear missiles on German soil?
Does Mr Höcke want to improve the lot of single women who also have to support their children? Or is he against it? Is Mr Höcke against an increase in social assistance (in Orwellian terms, citizen's allowance) for people who are unemployed through no fault of their own?
Are Höcke and his AfD resisting bringing those responsible for the Corona crimes to justice?
Instead of answering these questions, Ms Wagenknecht, you evade the issue by saying that Höcke spoke of "well-tempered cruelty" in the repatriation of immigrants. Whether it is cruel when people have to return to their home countries is certainly debatable in many cases.
But there is little debate about whether it makes sense for peace activists, pacifists or just reasonable people to refuse to help warmongers continue to govern. They laugh up their sleeves or make fun of the "uproar from Berlin" in public (like the Thuringian fraudster).
In order to enforce a smartphone ban in primary schools, one does not have to form a coalition; this can also be achieved through agreements without ministerial seats
If eighty billion euros have to be raised just for the most basic costs for the immigrants, such as accommodation and food, then everyone can see that the federal states do not have enough resources to employ enough teachers (not to mention the many “special funds”).
One gets the impression that participation in government is so important to you that social issues are pushed into the background and your Höcke phobia is intended to distract from them.
Norbert Haring:
The pandemic measures are denied as a problem:
"The pandemic has revealed deep social divisions and has deeply affected many people through loneliness and isolation. That is why we see it as our task to develop common solutions that will strengthen social cohesion again."
It was not the pandemic that "revealed" the divisions, but the authoritarian, divisive measures that brought about the division and left people to suffer and die alone and lonely. If you start like that, you will never achieve an honest review. If those who set out with the declared goal of forcing an honest review of the pandemic measures sign such a dishonest statement, it is no wonder that the end result is a totally watered-down joint motion with the CDU for a state parliament committee of inquiry.
The paper also lacks any recognizable reference to the need for an amnesty for those doctors, judges and citizens who have stood up for those who suffered as a result of the measures and have been convicted for doing so, or who have disregarded nonsensical Corona orders and bans.
Those for whom this issue is important, and this will apply to many (potential) BSW voters, will be driven by something like this towards the AfD or abstention. The AfD has countered the harmless BSW-CDU motion in Thuringia with its own, more ambitious investigation mandate."
Editorial Network Germany, 25.10.24 :
"Dresden. After the BSW parliamentary group approved an application by the AfD for a Corona investigation committee in the Saxon state parliament, the exploratory talks between the CDU, BSW and SPD have been suspended for the time being. "Today's solidarity between the AfD and BSW in the vote on a Corona investigation committee is a heavy burden on the ongoing exploratory talks," said the Saxon SPD leaders Kathrin Michel and Henning Homann. Their party will therefore suspend negotiations in the working groups until the top issues have been clarified.
Negotiations require trust, said Michel and Homann. The BSW faction gave the impression in the state parliament that it also supported the AfD's motion in terms of content, and thus agreed to a tribunal. "That is unacceptable for us." The BSW faction decided to support the content of a populist motion from a clearly right-wing extremist party. "Supporting a populist motion from a clearly right-wing extremist party" is fatal."
While BSW state chairwoman Katja Wolf says she wants to govern, Wagenknecht is pushing for unilateral pressure on Ukraine to make peace with Russia possible. She is also calling for a rejection of the stationing of US medium-range missiles in West Germany.
At the beginning of the week, the Thuringian co-chairman of the BSW, Steffen Schütz, expressed his confidence "that we will find a solution because we all have one thing in common: we take people's worries and needs seriously." There is a chance of a blackberry coalition in Thuringia - "if the peace formula in the preamble is clear and unambiguous," he told the German Press Agency. According to information from the CDU and SPD, however, Wolf and Schütz are under massive pressure to follow Wagenknecht's line.
The Blackberry coalition is also shaky in Saxony
In Saxony, talks about a blackberry coalition are also shaky because BSW MPs voted for an AfD motion to set up a Corona investigative committee.
Meanwhile, Schleswig-Holstein's Prime Minister Daniel Günther (CDU) warned his party against making too many compromises with the BSW. Respect requires that the negotiations be left to the local Christian Democrats and not commented on from the sidelines, he told "Spiegel". But the CDU politician added: "It makes my hair stand on end when I imagine that the CDU could end up signing a coalition agreement with a party whose attitude to Europe, NATO and Germany's ties to the West is in stark contrast to the fundamental positions of the Union."
"The other two hospitals in Gaza are barely functional. The Indonesian Hospital in Sheikh Zayed city ceased operations last week after Israeli troops besieged it and invaded its surroundings. The smaller Al-Awda Hospital in Jabaliya has suspended most of its services and is only functioning to a limited extent. On Tuesday, October 22, the director of Al-Awda Hospital, Bakr Abu Safiyeh, told al-Ghad TV that Israeli quadcopter drones were firing directly at the hospital.
Dr. Baker said Israeli quadcopters also opened fire on anyone moving on the street, including ambulances. According to the hospital director, one Israeli attack was fired at an ambulance carrying a mother who had just given birth. The mother was killed, Dr. Baker said, and the baby was later found alive by rescue teams and taken to the neonatal unit at Kamal Adwan Hospital."
Okay, it can happen in the heat of the moment that names get mixed up, Mr Merz. And I absolutely agree with you, the mass murderer Netanyahu needs to be stopped. In this regard, you and your party should also rethink transatlantic relations. Just because the USA is behind the Israelis committing genocide, you and your "values-based" party and the rest of the bootlicking party cartel don't have to do the same, do you? There is still such a thing as human rights, or am I wrong about that?
Mr CDU Chairman, "You are also personally responsible for this, you are also personally responsible with your attitude for the fact that..." Netanyahu is carrying out a genocide in Palestine. To accuse the Federal Chancellor of his hesitant attitude towards arms deliveries to Israel is, in my opinion, the way of thinking of a person without conscience. People - yes, even among politicians there are people who deserve the word human - with a humanistic conscience simply do not want to get their hands dirty by aiding and abetting mass murder. It would be even better if these people tried with all their might to prevent the mass murder in Palestine. Then at least their lives would have meaning! Would you like to be the most powerful and richest man in the cemetery? If so: how pathetic! Poor in soul.
According to the news magazine Spiegel, Mr. Merz, you claimed that we know of a "whole series of very specific cases in which the Federal Government has refused the necessary approval for the delivery of equipment and material to Israel." These are goods that Israel urgently needs for military purposes. "What are your expressions of solidarity with the State of Israel actually worth if you are simultaneously refusing to provide the country with essential parts of the aid in such a precarious situation?" Merz allegedly asked the Chancellor.
Expressions of solidarity with Israel are hypocrisy, I agree with you there, Mr. Merz, because it is difficult to show solidarity with powers that commit mass murder, is it? But supplying weapons for this mass murder is even worse, Mr. Merz!”
https://wassersaege.com/blogbeitraege/kriegsgeiler-blackrocker-auf-horrortrip-friedrich-merz/
VW CUTS PLANS: SYMPTOMATIC OF THE DECLINE OF THE GERMAN ECONOMY
Dear Community,
The BZ reports today about horror messages to the VW workforce.
https://www.bz-berlin.de/deutschland/vw-3-werke-dicht-weniger-gehalt
A few brief remarks:
1. The cutbacks will also affect the suppliers. VW is not bankrupt (as Robert Habeck will probably put it), it is just stopping production - at least at some locations. And there will then no longer be any need for supplied parts.
2. The cries of lament from the works council and IG Metall are only credible if these two institutions can prove that, before the current difficulties arose, they actively opposed the policies that brought VW to where the company is now. Because, in my opinion, the current situation is not only the result of management failure, but also due to the political framework. So how independent are the VW works council and IG Metall from politics?
3. On August 10.8.2017, 20, tagesschau.de reported: "The state of Lower Saxony is one of the largest shareholders in VW and holds 20 percent of the voting rights in the group. The state government can therefore have a say in VW and also sends two representatives to the XNUMX-member supervisory board." What is the Lower Saxony state government's position on the cutback plans? Does it think it's OK if VW gradually goes down the drain?
Kind regards
You and yours
Martin Schwab
"The energy experts Manfred Haferburg and Fritz Vahrenholt have calculated that the energy transition to exclusively renewables, which the BSW has joined, will cost 1 trillion or even 2 trillion euros. Wagenknecht's program is therefore not suitable for stopping the deindustrialization of Germany.
Even if the climate narrative is accepted, it would be possible to provide electricity at very moderate costs, for example through nuclear energy and coal-fired power plants with CO2 capture.
The BSW's energy policy program gives the impression that Wagenknecht wants to strike a balance between Green beliefs on the one hand and the public's outrage over deindustrialization and impoverishment on the other. Ultimately, she cannot satisfy any group: for Green supporters, her program is not nearly radical enough, and for critics of current energy policy from the ranks of the general population, it is far too Green.
The energy policy programme therefore makes a significant contribution to the BSW’s reduced chances of being elected in the 2025 federal elections.”
https://tkp.at/2025/01/21/die-energiepolitik-der-parteien-teil-1-das-bsw/