Category Germany

Sep 3 2024

Left-Wing German Coalition Government Stunned by Nationalist Wins in Eastern Germany


Posted originally on the CTH on September 2, 2024 | Sundance 

We have often said the American people are in an abusive relationship with our government; meaning the priorities and important policies of the majority of Americans (specifically immigration, economic nationalism, Ukraine spending, and the core elements that have created the Trump/RFK Jr coalition), are not represented in the legislative outcomes of a UniParty congress.

In essence, the USA government, both parties, are deaf to the voices of American citizens.  This is stunningly visible around the issue of congress using U.S taxpayer funds to support the Ukraine government and the Ukraine budget.

However, this is not just an American problem.  We can see the same disconnect in Canada, Australia, the U.K. and parts of the EU including France and more recently, Germany.

In the Eastern German elections held Sunday, the AfD party (Alternate for Deutschland) won resounding victories.  Essentially, the center-left party and the UniParty coalition, was disregarded. The election was won by pragmatic nationalists on the key issues of immigration, the economy and Ukraine policy.

(Wall Street Journal) […] Projections by public broadcaster ZDF showed the AfD getting around 33.4% of the votes in Thuringia and 31.4% in Saxony, with Scholz’s center-left SPD scoring under 8% in both states, with its two coalition partners trailing it. (more)

In response there is an almost laughable reactive article in Politico, where they push the same favored MSM narrative of “far right, Nazis, surging again just like 1945,” etc. etc. blah, blah, blah.  Laughably, they use language like, “The far-right Alternative for Germany just keeps rising despite efforts to stop it.”…  I mean, seriously; have you ever seen a more perfect encapsulation of the disconnect.

In order for the professional political leftists to continue what they do best, which is to destroy everything, they must pretend not to know things.  In this example the entire media ecosphere pretends not to know that what they are seeing happen in all of these elections is a reaction to globalism being pushed by the governing body, while the citizens are against it.

In the USA you might say, Donald Trump is not the cause of the Republican party problems, he is our direct response to it.   In Germany you can say the rise of the AfD is not the cause of the government problem, it is the citizens response to the problem they have with government.

BERLIN — Germany’s far right is here — and it’s here to stay.

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Sunday scored a stunning win in an eastern German state election, amid rising voter discontent at Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left national government.

The AfD’s victory in Thuringia and strong second place in Saxony has prompted a new round of soul searching in Berlin, a year out from national elections which could see EU powerhouse Germany tilt to the right.

“Our country cannot and must not get used to this,” Scholz told Reuters after the results came in. “The AfD is damaging Germany. It is weakening the economy, dividing society and ruining our country’s reputation.”

In Thuringia, the AfD — which has been classified as extremist in some German states — gained a clear victory with nearly 33 percent of the vote. In the more populous state of Saxony, the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) eked out a victory with around 32 percent of the vote, with the AfD trailing close behind.

[…] Germany’s mainstream leaders have made a concerted effort to stop the rise of the AfD by warning voters of the party’s growing extremism, with some leaders even calling it a Nazi party.

State-level domestic intelligence authorities have classified the local branches of the party in both Saxony and Thuringia as extremist organizations aiming to undermine German democracy. Earlier this year, Saskia Esken, the co-chief of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), came out in favor of discussing a ban of the AfD — if only, as she put it, to “shake voters” out of their complacency. (read more)

You can just as easily replace “German far-right” with the USA version of “MAGA Republicans” and get the exact same scenario.

Both the AfD in Germany and the MAGA movement in the USA labeled as “domestic extremists” simply for wanting controls of immigration policy, sensible energy policy and a stopping of the insufferable war effort in Ukraine.

Apparently, the German government is shocked, SHOCKED, and didn’t see this coming.   Yet, again, western media play along and pretend not to know things….

Jul 20 2024

Germany Bans Conservative Voices


Posted originally on Jul 19, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser announced that the nation banned conservative Compact Magazine for allegedly inciting hatred. Authorities raided properties in Brandenburg, Hesse, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt to confiscate evidence and assets.

“This magazine incites hatred against Jews, against people with a history of migration and against our parliamentary democracy in an unspeakable manner,” the minister said, calling the publication “a mouthpiece of the far-right extremist scene.” Conservative politicians are calling the move “a serious blow to the freedom of the press.”

Now, why do we never hear the term “far-left extremist” mentioned in the news? Every conservative politician receives the “far-right extremist” label to invoke hatred and fear. Every news outlet across the globe is calling this ban a first step in outright banning “far-right extremist” views. Compact was associated with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, the only German party against open borders, climate change, and ongoing funding of external wars.

Governments globally would like to stifle conservative voices. There is no place for dissent in this increasingly tyrannical world. Germany has sent 35,000 of its own troops to die in Ukraine for a war that does not involve the German people. They plan to open a headquarters of sorts to help direct the war in Ukraine from Germany. Women have been asked to conscribe to the war efforts. They have decimated the agricultural sector through their green agenda and want to de-platform the thousands of farmers who have attempted to protest throughout the year. Crime is at a 15-year high, and the population is rising to unsustainable levels. They demand that the media remain quiet on all of these issues.

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Governments have become the judge and the juror. They are creating an underground culture of dissent and disorder among otherwise law-abiding citizens who simply wish to see their nation restored. Socrates sees Germany descending into a recession that will bottom in nominal terms in 2028 but will extend into 2030. They will increase their efforts to silence those who disagree with the direction of the nation as the economy turns down.

Jun 25 2024

One Killed, One Seriously Injured – Hungarian President Viktor Orban Motorcade Crash in Germany


Posted originally on the CTH on June 25, 2024 | Sundance

Hungarian President Viktor Orban is not liked by NATO and Western leaders for his opposition to the war in Ukraine. Hungary just took over as rotating lead of presidency of the EU. Germany is the largest nation in the EU and vehemently opposed to the Orban peace initiative.

President Orban was traveling to the airport in Germany, when suddenly a car made an unexpected turn into his motorcade. One motorcycle officer was killed, another seriously injured. Viktor Orban is unharmed. Samantha Power and William Burns shout, “VERDAMMT!”

GERMANY – […] The crash took place at around 11.15am in the district of Degerloch in Stuttgart, Germany, when the Hungarian leader was being escorted to the airport.

[…] The Stuttgart traffic police motorcycle squad were escorting the Hungarian president to Stuttgart Airport on Löffelstrasse.

However, a woman, 69, driving a BMW reportedly drove through an intersection that had been closed off by the police for Orban’s convoy at Albplatz.

She is understood to have turned left at the Rubensstrasse intersection and hit the motorcycle of a 61-year-old male officer who was accompanying Orban’s car.

Due to the force of the impact, the police vehicle was thrown onto the motorcycle of a 27-year-old colleague who had used his motor to block the intersection for traffic.

Both police officers were seriously injured in the collision and were rushed to hospital, reports Bild.

But despite the best efforts of paramedics, the 61-year-old cop died of his injuries shortly afterwards.

The public prosecutor’s office and the Stuttgart police announced the horror collision in a statement. (link)

Suspicious Cat remains, well, suspicious.

Jun 17 2024

Germany Moving into Recession


Posted originally on Jun 16, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong, Thank you so much for coming to Germany. Your view is always the best, for it is not based, as you say, on personal opinion. I wish the government would listen and inform the politicians to adopt a new way of managing society.

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ANSWER: Yes, I know what you mean. But as I have always said, after working and meeting with governments worldwide for over 40 years, they prefer to act in their own self-interest, defined as their personal power – not the benefit of the people. This illustration is of the German GDP in the Euro, followed by the timing array, and then expressed in US dollars.

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Currency masks the real trends. I try to explain that, but as you know, most people in these meetings cannot grasp the concept. You are not common in government. There needs to be more like you. More than a simple one-dimensional view seems too complicated for them to understand. When I am gone, hopefully, they will be able to take what I have done without prejudice as to who developed it. That’s just the way it goes. They used to say a prophet is never accepted in his own land. Keynes was criticized in the 1920s. Marx was embraced only after he died.

ECM 2007 Detailed

As you can see, German GDP peaked in terms of real international value in 2007 with the Economic Confidence Model, and the Euro peaked in 2008. The high value of the Euro in 2008 reduced exports, and the recession began with that turning point on the ECM. The Pi Target on that wave was the precise day Greece turned to the IMF for a bailout, launching the European Debt Crisis.

ECM Wave 2020 2028 Pi

German REAL GDP in international value terms will not bottom until 2030. The ECM turning point suggests that Germany is headed into a recession that overall will appear to bottom in nominal terms in 2028, but in real terms, it will extend into 2030.

May 14 2024

Germany Considers Conscription for Men and Women Over 18


Posted originally on May 14, 2024 By Martin Armstrong

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Germany is considering forcing the youngest adults in their population to die in the name of a proxy war that in no way affected Germany, the German people or their way of life. Former President Donald Trump warned Germany that it had become too reliant on Russian energy and they mocked him. Sadly, German leadership had known all along that the ultimate goal was to use Ukraine as their gateway to attack Russia. As I’ve stated countless times, Merkel openly admitted that the Minsk Agreement was merely a ploy to weaken Russia’s defenses and buy time for Ukraine to build its military. Russia has not backed down and now the proxy war is becoming a global conflict.

Everyone criticized Trump for condemning his NATO allies in 2018. At the time, only five nations were meeting their 2% GDP spending requirement on NATO defense, with the US paying around 5%. Trump suggested that everyone contribute 4% to build a stronger alliance. He never wanted to back away from NATO to support Putin; rather, he wanted to back away from NATO because he felt the US had been taken advantage of by its European allies. Trump even threatened to remove the US from the NATO alliance because he simply did not see the benefits to domestic interests.

Trump called Ukraine the wall between Russia and Europe and stated that America had become the “sucker country” by shelling out millions to Ukraine when they received far less in return. He warned Europe that their reliance on Russian imported energy would spell disaster and went as far as declaring that Germany was “totally controlled by Russia.” Instead of looking for energy alternatives, Germany went through with the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline and wasted billions as sanctions were implemented before the pipeline was fully functional.

This is yet another reason why they are fearful of a Trump re-election, for he has vowed to remove America from these senseless wars as part of his first plan of action. The globalists and neocons simply cannot allow that to happen.

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Perhaps Germany believed they could rely on an alternative supplier for energy. Perhaps they believed Ukraine would have made at least a dent in Russia’s military power. Instead, they are prepared to send their own kids to die for this senseless war. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said he is “convinced” that Germany “needs a form of military conscription.”

Since the West has effectively eliminated genders or the need for a family structure, they plan to draft both men and women. Anyone fit to fight will be sent off to die. Pistorius believes Germany needs 200,000 troops to begin training immediately.

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The centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) are no longer opposing conscription and now support the “reintroduction of conscription in a step-by-step process,” much to the support of Pistorius. All those virtue signaling with Ukraine flags and cheering each aid package must now acknowledge that their own youth will be sent off to war, and many will never return home. They cheer the “good” guys winning these battles abroad in Taiwan, Ukraine, and Israel, but fail to understand that there is no “good” guy in the game of war. The people are merely chess pieces to be used as pawns by their governments.

The worst part about all of this is that Germany KNEW they were going to fight Russia. Ten years ago, Germany knew they were going to fight Russia. I discuss this in detail in my book, “The Plot to Seize Russia.” The fact of the matter is that the West could not simply enter Russia without giving the public a reason for warfare and creating countless fake flags, demonizing its opponent through propaganda, and attempting to weaken its military through a proxy war. We are now embarking on the beginning of the third world war thanks to the manipulation of the elites in power who have absolutely no regard for human life.

Mar 4 2024

German Health Minister Said We Need to Boost Healthcare in case of “military conflict”


Posted originally on Mar 3, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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I have been reporting that it is the West that wants war because the financial system is collapsing. They are reaching the point where they know that the are rapidly approaching the point of collapse which HISTORICALLY always takes place when governments run these Ponzi Schemes where they NEVER intend to pay off what they borrow, so they constantly issue new debt to retire the old. This is the failure of Marxism, where they always spend more than what they have and then blame us.

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The German Minister of Health says they must expand the healthcare system to deal with a future pandemic or more likely World War III. But they intend to default on all outstanding debts. The CBDCs will be the new currency, and they get to restart everything and collect $200 for passing GO.

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This war would have been over in six weeks. Both sides agreed in Istanbul, and then Boris Johnson was told to hop on a plane and kill any peace deal. Since then, over 500,000 Ukrainians are dead and around 8 million have fled the country.

There is NOBODY among the leaders of the pretend Free World who cares about the people. They want war at all costs, and they are going to get it. They have their bunkers and pray that 50% of the population will be eradicated so they can reach their fictional CO2 targets.

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Our models all say the West loses. This is a straight-up chart of US GDP minus China GDP. The peak in the US economy over China took place in 2006. Even our Chaos Models predict that Chine will become the major economic and military power. We are in Crash Mode. So while the Neocons convince themselves that they can defeat everyone in the world, there is nobody warming – WHAT IF YOU ARE WRONG!

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As Goring said, when asked how they got the German people to support Hitler. He explained that is the easy part. They are doing this to us now. They demonize whoever is their opponent, from Trump to Putin. They do this to get smucks willing to die on a battlefield far away telling them they are defending liberty when the USA has more people in prison that China or Russia and that is saying something when we have 300 million and China has 1.5 billion. You have a 500% greater chance of imprisonment in the USA than in China.  Now, they have armed IRS agents and given them $60 billion to harrass the people because they PRESUME everyone cheats and they think people only pay 85% of what they really owe. They expect to collect almost $500 billion with all of these agents who are free to imprison you and even shoot your ass.

Mar 4 2024

Leaked German Military Tapes Are Viewed as Real & the Government is Again Lying


Posted originally on Mar 3, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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There has been a leak of a recording of the call between the commander in chief of the German Air Force, General Ingo Gerhartz, and Brigadier General Frank Graefe, along with two Bundeswehr officers that was posted online on March 1 on Russian social media. Naturally, despite this being a 38-minute phone call, the Berlin government accused Russia on March 3 of trying to sow disunity following the leak of a confidential conference call between high-ranking German military staff discussing the possible use of German-made Taurus missiles by Ukraine.

Numerous sources in Germany believe this call is genuine and concerns Ukraine’s request, which has been asking Germany to provide it with Taurus missiles. They are discussing sending the missiles so Ukraine can take out the bridge connecting Crimea to Russia.  The German Defense Ministry confirmed on March 3 that a “conversation related to the Air Force” had been intercepted.

“Whether changes were made to the recorded oral or written version that is circulating on social media, we cannot say with certainty at this time,” a ministry spokesman said, according to German broadcaster ARD. Representatives of the army told Germany’s other public broadcaster, ZDF, that they considered the recording to be authentic.

This seems to be the same situation as Hillary’s emails. She could never deny that they were real. So she attacked the messenger. This is what Germany is doing right now labeling this a Russia’s propaganda war. But they are real.

“It is part of an information war that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is waging. There is absolutely no doubt about that,” he said at a news briefing in Berlin. “It is a hybrid attack aimed at disinformation. It is about division. It is about undermining our resolve.”

Astonishingly, they must have called Hillary on how to turn it against Russia even when it is genuine. He said Germany should not “fall for Putin’s line” and the reaction should be “in a particularly level-headed manner, but no less resolutely.”

Is this really Putin’s propaganda war of misinformation when the tape is genuine?

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This tape called out how Ukraine could carry out the strike without the involvement of German armed forces and Germany pretends not be involved. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on March 2 that the recording indicated that Ukraine and its backers “do not want to change their course at all and want to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia on the battlefield.” That is what I have been saying all along. This would be be over in 24 hours by just honoring the Minisk Agreement that Chancellor Merkel admitted the West lied to Putin, which was their own misinformation campaign. There is NO LEADER even interested in peace. Nobody in Europe has stood up and waited a minute, nor in North America. All they say is that Putin wants to invade a NATO country. He has had since 1999 to do so. The Russian people are not interested in occupping Europe nor are the European common folk interested in occupping Russia. This is always between elites.

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Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy head of the Security Council, went further, saying Germany “is preparing for war with Russia.” They are entitled to their Neocons since we have our own scheming to create World War III one way or another.

Jan 17 2024

German Farm Protests Continue – New Shift to Add Blockades of Warehouse and Distribution Centers


Posted originally on the CTH on January 16, 2024 | Sundance 

The German farmer protests are strategic.   The reality that food doesn’t originate in a grocery store is an odd concept for many who do not pay attention.  The latest strategic move by the farmers aims to highlight the issue.

With an alliance of truckers supporting the farmers, the German farmers have now begun short-term blockades of warehouse and distribution centers. The farmers are following and disrupting the general supply chain, leading to delivery issues upon the downstream retail stores that carry their products.

GERMANY –  In Germany, farmers block the warehouses of retailers Aldi, Amazon and Lidl. This is reported by the telegram channel “Militarist”.

As the media reported, the president of the Bavarian Farmers’ Association Gunther Felsner said that regional organizations representing the interests of farmers want to enter into dialogue with representatives of the federal government this week. According to the head of the association, if the authorities do not agree to concessions, nationwide protests will continue.

The FRG government should be interested in improving the situation, the lack of dialogue between the Cabinet and farmers harms all participants. This was stated, in turn, to the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

Recall, despite the budget deficit, the German government ordered for themselves luxury helicopters for 200 million euros, wrote the day before the telegram channel “Bild in Russian”. (read more)

This approach follows the continued use of farm tractors to block major roads and transportation arteries around Germany.   The various cross border and national truckers support the farmers because the overall issues, particularly the diesel prices and taxes therein, are important to the economic livelihood of both.

It is particularly noteworthy that this specific set of protests is happening in Germany, the largest economy inside the EU bloc.  Germany is the epicenter of the EU assembly, and Germany has abandoned their own currency in favor of the €uro.  As a result, Germany -more than any other nation- is ‘all-in’ on the globalist agenda, and confrontation with the German government is akin to direct confrontation with the leadership in Brussels.

Western media are avoiding all reporting on the events because they do not want to fuel public awareness.

If the German farm protests are successful, it will be a major victory for the larger EU middle and working-class who support them.  The assembly of government interests represented by Germany, Brussels and the corporations in the World Economic Forum (the Build Back Better group) are essentially all targets of these protests even though the protests are happening in one nation.  This is a systemic pushback against the entire globalist agenda.

To the German farmers who have watched similar action from Holland, Ireland and beyond, this is a zero-sum contest.  They are all-in and not open to negotiating a series of slower terms for their eventual demise.

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“Too much is too much – enough is enough” – this is the motto under which thousands of farmers are currently taking part in demonstrations and protests throughout Germany. Why are the farmers taking to the streets? The trigger is the planned changes to the tax on agricultural diesel, but this announcement by the federal government is not the only reason for the frustration of the farmers, it only brings the barrel to overflowing. It’s about more and more bureaucracy and requirements, about less and less planning security and appreciation. All this stinks the farmers enormously. That’s why they roll into the city centre with their tractors, paralyze traffic in parts and hope for their actions not only for understanding, but also for the sympathy of consumers. The message from the farmers: without us farmers, there would be no food, at least not domestic food.

Jan 16 2024

German Farmers Enter Week #2 Steadfast: “Take back the proposed tax increases, then we’ll pull back”


Posted originally on the CTH on January 15, 2024 | Sundance 

The German farmers are not negotiating with a government who is supposed to represent their interests.  No, the farmers are telling their elected officials what they will accept, and what they will not accept.  And this approach has the German government in fits of apoplexy….  The farmers are revolting.

[Background Here] The second week of massive protests in the streets of Germany has the overwhelming majority of the people in support of the farmers.  However, to show just how large the gap between the people and their government has become, the German officials think a process of negotiating terms is possible.  The farmers are having none of that.

Really, this is awesome to see.  The Dutch farmers are in full support and truckers from around the EU are aligned with the German farmers.  The simple message is “enough is enough” and there are more EU interests that just the German government paying attention.  Keep in mind, the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos began today.

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GERMANY – Farmers clogged Berlin streets with their tractors on Monday, honking their horns in protest at a plan to scrap tax breaks on the diesel they use, the climax of a week of protests that has tapped into wider discontent with Germany’s government.

Columns of tractors rolled into the capital ahead of the demonstration at the landmark Brandenburg Gate. Over the past week, farmers have blocked highway entrances and slowed traffic across Germany with their protests, intent on pushing Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government to abandon the planned cuts entirely.

“Take back the proposed tax increases, then we’ll pull back,” said the chairman of the German Farmers’ Association, Joachim Rukwied. He said the demonstration sent a message to politicians that “too much is too much.”

“We are an important part of Germany — please don’t forget that,” he said.

Finance Minister Christian Lindner was greeted with boos, whistles and chants of “Get lost” as he defended the government’s revised plan. He conceded that the original proposal “was too much and it was too fast” and said the protests were legitimate and peaceful. (read more)

Support every effort that begins!

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Jan 15 2024

Germany Protest Today


Posted originally on Jan 15, 2024 By Martin Armstrong

Germany Farmer Protest at the Brandenburg Gate

COMMENT: Hey Mr Armstrong
The farmers protests here in Germany are about to get serious today! The Berlin police is in absolute chaos right now because there are an estimated number of 2500-3000 tractors entering the city! It is now 6am here and they are arriving in the capital from every direction. It is kinda hard to get through to you but i‘ll do my best to keep you updated.

EZ

REPLY: These politicians are really brain-dead. They take their marching orders from the World Economic Forum and never question the science or anything simply because everyone else is doing it. This is pretty much the same as go WOKE = go BROKE.