Politics and events in Germany these days

[Skybird]

First story about our latest party achievement, the Left Party, an alliance of a westergerman more-left-than-SPD party, and communists and cadre-comrades from the Eastgerman SED party. Just recently we had the pleasure to hear one member of them saying the wall was raised to protect Eastgermany from Westgerman people, and that she (the speaker) would welcome the return of an organisation like the Stasi to secure the outcome of the left revolution she hope would sweep Germany away, and that siuch a secret police would be an indispensable organization for the new left society in Germany. - Now we enjoyed of being told that Dalai Lama compares to Khomenei. Her excuse and explanation afterwards may sound nice, but is not really believable, since the Left Party is home to so many SED-comrades and so often shines with statements that signal their admiration for the SED, the order in the Warsaw Pact states, and that they don't think the GDR to have been that bad at all, that this latest "fauxpas" just runs under "already so many that this one just is boring". I also love to hear them speak in the exact vocabulary of the cold war and the former Eastern one-party-governments. the same phrases, the same labels, the same vocabulary. they have changed, some say? No, they have not. Not at all.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,druck-545252,00.html



Next is a growing awareness of German politics of to what immense degree Christians get discriminated, threatened and persecuted in Iraq.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-545125,00.html



And finally, how overly ambitious German biofuel plans seem to be doomed to end in a political desaster due to too hysteric "actionism" and too little competence for the issues at hand.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,druck-545165,00.html

[Brag]

There will always people who are extreme left (and right, too). My ex wife used to teach English to refugees from the DDR. We were both amazed how many of these people had trouble adjusting to life in the west and were sorry they had left.

[Trex]

Ick. I wonder what her Stasi file says?

[Happy Times]

Very sad reading that Iraq article, EU should take all if they wish to leave.:nope:

[mrbeast]

Ick. I wonder what her Stasi file says?

A+ for effort. :know:

[Skybird]

Ick. I wonder what her Stasi file says?
She probably had the pleasure of never having to deal with them (as to her knowledge).

[Trex]

Could be, but they would certainly seem to be soulmates.