GER politics thread

[Skybird]

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Linker, ekelhafter Dreck. It's not by random chance if this reminds you of the Third Reich, the GDR, or the novel 1984.

[Skybird]

[Tichy's Einblicke, Septembre 9th 2023] In the first half of 2023, we generated 233.9 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in Germany and fed it into our grids. Sounds like a lot, but it's not: In fact, it's 11.4% less than in the first half of 2022.

Unsurprisingly, we also exported just under a fifth less electricity in the first six months of this year (- 18.1%). By contrast, our electricity imports have virtually exploded, by almost a third (+ 30.8%).

In the second quarter of this year - i.e. in the months April to June 2023 - the last three nuclear power plants in operation supplied almost no more electricity to us, as they were shut down on April 15. During this period, we imported 18.5 billion kWh of electricity, which is significantly more than we exported (11.4 billion kWh).

In addition, destatis [German Statistical Data Office] now writes, quote:

"This import surplus of 7.1 billion kilowatt hours corresponds roughly to the amount of electricity that was still fed in by the three nuclear power plants in Q2 2022 (7.3 billion kilowatt hours)."

So we're getting virtually all the electricity we previously produced ourselves with our nuclear power plants from abroad now.

In the case of electricity imports, the statistics do not provide any information on the energy sources used abroad to generate electricity. Instead, we know exactly where the electricity we buy elsewhere comes from.

Brief review: In the first six months of last year, imports from France were down sharply - according to destatits because of "problems at the nuclear power plants there." At that time, we actually sent more electricity to France than France sent to us.

Now, as we know, the nuclear power plants there are running smoothly and at full speed again. Our electricity imports from France promptly increased more than from any other country: by a whopping 147.8%. In France alone, we bought 4.4 billion kWh in the first half of 2023.

We shut down our nuclear power plants. France generates well over two-thirds of its electricity from its nuclear power plants. What does all this tell us?

Sometimes just a few numbers are enough.

[Skybird]

The German government wages an economic war against the German people.

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[Skybird]

A new party is being founded in Germany, the head is a Stalinist with great acceptance from all camps of society. She is unfortunately very intelligent, this and her radical ideological background once made me call her in some thread thd most dangerous woman in Germany. Projections show the party could from start win elections with 20-25% results.

The fall of Germany wins in speed.

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[Skybird]

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[Jimbuna]

Par for the course.

[Skybird]

[Neue Zürcher Zeitung] According to calculations by the ministry [of economics], German electricity traders were still able to generate export revenues of €1.9 billion from the beginning of the year to April 15, 2023. In the same period, this sum was offset by expenditure on electricity imports amounting to €1.3 billion. After that, the picture changed to an import surplus: By August 31, export revenues were 0.42 billion euros, while import expenditures were 2.64 billion euros. That's according to the ministry's response to a parliamentary question from the AfD parliamentary group.

If one balances all electricity exchanges of Germany with its neighbors, it can be stated for 2023 "that with the change from winter to summer, Germany went from being a net exporter to a net importer," the ministry writes. The German government puts the trade surplus in favor of foreign countries for the second quarter at a total of 2.5 terawatt hours. In the three months before, German electricity traders were still able to realize an export surplus of 4.7 terawatt hours.

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What also happened in April beside the change form winter to summer was the switching-off of the last three nuclear powerplants which in 2022 had a annual energy production of 4.4 terawatt hours.

Habeck the Destroyer still claims that the switching off had no effect on the German energy balance and that Germany could easily handle it.

At a cost, of course.

That he forgot to mention, of course.

Which is a pattern in this man's political acting. His politics is full of costly details, which he never forgets not to mention.


He should be thrown in jail. And the rest of this cabinet of horrors, too.

[Jimbuna]

Poland election turns Germany into punchbag, straining Western alliance

WARSAW/BERLIN (Reuters) - Fighting to win an unprecedented third term in office, Poland's nationalist government has seized on a target close to home: Germany, its NATO ally and biggest trading partner.

In a tight race ahead of Poland's Oct. 15 election, leaders of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party have accused Germany of trying to dictate Polish government policy from Berlin on anything from migration to gas.

The feud has frayed Europe's broadly united front supporting Ukraine against Russia's invasion, shredding a plan for a joint Polish-German tank repair plant for Kyiv's benefit.

The populist PiS leadership also says Germany is plotting to install the party's main electoral opponent, the liberal former prime minister Donald Tusk, back in power.

PiS has tapped into a mistrust towards Germany that still runs high in part of the electorate, above all elderly conservatives who remember the devastation of World War Two.

"Do you know where you can read the (opposition's campaign) programme? In German newspapers," Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told a campaign event.

His party casts Tusk, who said his grandfather was forcibly conscripted into the Nazi Wehrmacht during World War Two before escaping to the Allied side, as a German puppet and the "political husband" of former German chancellor Angela Merkel. A campaign video also mocked Merkel's successor Olaf Scholz.
Months of spats between the two neighbours have tested the solidarity of the Western alliance that rallied around Ukraine after the Russian invasion last year. They have come at a time when other issues, including the election of a pro-Russian leader in EU member state Slovakia, are threatening disruption.

IMPACT ON UKRAINE

The quarrel has already impacted efforts to help Ukraine.

In April the defence ministers of Germany and Poland, with a smile and hug of solidarity, announced the creation of a joint hub in Poland to repair German-made Leopard tanks damaged in battle in Ukraine.

But the deal quickly collapsed. In another dispute, Warsaw resisted a German offer to station Patriot missile air defence units in Poland before eventually agreeing to it.

"It's very unhelpful that Poland, the people from the Law and Justice Party, continues to criticize Germany in such a harsh public way," U.S. General Ben Hodges, who commanded U.S. Army forces in Europe in 2014-17, told Reuters.

"It's unhelpful because it puts strain on the relationship between two NATO allies, which therefore puts strain on the overall cohesion of NATO."

The tank plant would have been a joint effort by German manufacturers Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Rheinmetall, neither of which responded to a request for comment, and the Polish defence conglomerate Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ).

Among the sticking points, one German source said Poland was asking for too much money for the repair works. Another source, a German diplomat, said the talks failed partly because German companies were reluctant to share technical information.

"But it also showed a little bit the same thing we had for the Patriots, a general mistrust on the part of the Poles and a sort of being in the habit of treating a partner in a way that is not usual for a partnership in the EU or in an alliance."

As things stand, PGZ is repairing some Leopard tanks using spare parts supplied from Germany.

"To some extent, it depended on the speed of action and decisiveness of the German side. We were negotiating. Unfortunately, we have a slightly different view of what it should look like," Sebastian Chwalek, PGZ's CEO, told Reuters.

Other tanks will be repaired elsewhere, "which is maybe a little bit more costly and maybe a little bit more time consuming but it's happening anyway," the German diplomat said.

"It's a sign of the present relationship that we cannot agree on such things."

Polish government officials did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment.

A German Foreign Office spokesperson said Berlin and Warsaw work closely together on European security and defence but declined comment on "current domestic political debates in Poland".

SOURING RELATIONS

While ties between Poland and Germany have been frosty since PiS first came to power in 2015, Poles now see them worsening. Just 47% think relations are good, according to a German Polish barometer poll this year, down from 72% in 2020.

Many Poles, included 56% of respondents in the opinion poll, feel Germany has not done enough to compensate for the damage inflicted by the war. PiS has called on Germany to pay over 1 trillion euros in reparations, which Berlin rejected.

A PiS source who requested anonymity described relations as "competitive", saying Berlin and Warsaw "could work together on many issues" but others were divisive, including reparations.

Two German lawmakers privately told Reuters that Berlin could have been more forthcoming in addressing Polish concerns and take conciliatory steps over the issue of reparations.

"I think we should be looking beyond the cartoonish (Polish policy) that this (election) campaign has put in front of us. It's the moment for Germany to look into the mirror," said Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff of the German Marshall Fund.

Scholz's government has largely brushed off the attacks from PiS. A government source said Berlin was extra cautious not to even inadvertently provoke Warsaw.

"We're treading on egg shells," the source said.

To be sure, some analysts believe the Polish rhetoric towards Berlin could be dialled down after the elections.

But irritants on both sides are likely to persist, including over migration, which again mushroomed into a flashpoint over a cash-for-visas scandal in Poland last month.

"Now, to be honest, what I hope will happen is that my president will invite the two leaders kind of the way he did the leaders from Japan and South Korea, invited them to Camp David,” Hodges said.

"You know, maybe at some point President (Joe) Biden meets President (Andrzej) Duda and Chancellor Scholz and says: Fellows, we have got to fix it."
(Reporting by Justyna Pawlak, Marek Strzelecki, Anna Koper, Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk, Alan Charlish in Warsaw; Sarah Marsh, Sabine Siebold and Andreas Rinke in Berlin; writing by Matthias Williams; editing by Mark Heinrich)
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[Skybird]

Tichy's Einblicke writes on the Hamas-launched war:


Germany plays a shabby role again

This government has also supported Hamas in Gaza with hundreds of millions of euros. The whereabouts of these funds are now becoming apparent. It certainly was not invested in school projects or in building an Islamic queer community.

In the first German cities, such as Berlin, supporters of Hamas are already cheering again the murders of Jewish civilians.

The Berlin police are watching, you know the drill: a politicized police force no longer protects law and order, but follows the Hamas-friendly line set by Olaf Scholz. Both he and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock made their kowtows to the violence-prone Palestinian organizations before signing the checks.

ARD [first channel of the German state propaganda broadcaster] conceptually spares the terrorists, who rape women, abduct and humiliate the elderly, and gun down civilians, as "fighters." War begins with words. The presenters of the ARD relativize the murders, it is unbearable that we are forced to finance this with our fees. The Süddeutsche Zeitung goes so far as to make the Israeli government responsible for the terror of Hamas - as the Aiwanger affair at the latest shows: this newspaper is completely lost.

The Minister of the Interior is pushing the migration of young Mohammedans and undermining every demand for limitation. She deceives the population when she talks about control. The Minister of the Interior obstructs every real limitation and every real border protection with rejection. Germany is the country that willingly allows itself to be deceived when it comes to the identity of migrants. There are hundreds of thousands on their way to Germany; the ships are ready, financed by the federal government and the state churches. More and more are also making their way by land. Germany's inconceivable self-deception is escalating into a policy of suicide: it is bringing enemies into the country because it has given up control. We do not know who is there, just as we do not know who is coming.

Germany may experience something similar this fall as it did before the September 11 attack: it is the retreat and resting place for Palestinian terror, which is also celebrated in Berlin's Sonnenallee and notoriously downplayed by left-wing and green politicians. Jews are not only hunted in Israel, but also on our streets.

[mapuc]

This is scary indeed, if it goes through the EU-Parliament

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

Markus

[Skybird]

The EU is walking down paths completely unabashedly along the lines of China's example. Social scoring is also on the way. And I predicted to shcin 15 years ago that the criminalization of criticism of the EU and its decisions will also be implemented at some point. They want criticism to have to be submitted beforehand to an EU-appointed panel that will decide whether it is valid and whether it can be brought forward and expressed publicly.

But why this in the Germany thread, mapuc? It is very relevant because it changes the way we are allowed to communicate and express ourselves - thats what they really are after, to gag free speech. It would have deserved its own thread.



Maybe Jim reads this.

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Skybird

The EU is walking down paths completely unabashedly along the lines of China's example. Social scoring is also on the way. And I predicted to shcin 15 years ago that the criminalization of criticism of the EU and its decisions will also be implemented at some point. They want criticism to have to be submitted beforehand to an EU-appointed panel that will decide whether it is valid and whether it can be brought forward and expressed publicly.

But why this in the Germany thread, mapuc? It is very relevant because it changes the way we are allowed to communicate and express ourselves - thats what they really are after, to gag free speech. It would have deserved its own thread.



Maybe Jim reads this.

Sorry forgot to mention why I posted it here.
Germany is EU or EU is Germany therefore I post the article in this thread.

You are free to create a new thread on this topic.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

I'll leave it here for now thanks.

[Rockstar]

You’re not alone though Germany. I think the U.S. has made the same mistake. On the bright side it seems Germany has an idea how many migrants they have and who they are. Whereas pretty much our entire southern border is wide open some we catch some we don’t. It’s been said we have over a million got-aways and don’t have a clue who they are or where they went. It’s a mess.


Henry Kissinger on Hamas attacks fallout: Germany let in too many foreigners

As a minority in Berlin cheer Hamas’ attacks on Israel, former top US diplomat says mass immigration was a ‘grave mistake.’

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Hamas’ attack against Israel being celebrated on the streets of Berlin indicates that Germany has let too many foreigners into the country, according to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

“It was a grave mistake to let in so many people of totally different culture and religion and concepts, because it creates a pressure group inside each country that does that,” the 100-year-old ex-top American diplomat said in an interview with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner for Germany’s Welt TV. Axel Springer is POLITICO’s parent company.

German-born Kissinger — who fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1938, and went on to become the architect of American foreign policy during the Vietnam War — said that it was “painful,” in response to a question about seeing Arabs in Berlin celebrating last weekend’s assault on Israel.

In a surprise attack that started on Saturday morning, Hamas militants stormed out of the Gaza Strip, killing more than 1,200 Israelis and abducting dozens more, while firing rockets at cities including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Israel has since hit back by commencing a siege of Gaza and firing its own barrage of retaliatory missiles, killing hundreds of Palestinians.

Hamas’ “open act of aggression” must be met with “some penalty,” Kissinger said — while warning about the potential for dangerous escalation in the region.

“The Middle East conflict has the danger of escalating and bringing in other Arab countries under the pressure of their public opinion,” Kissinger warned, while pointing to the lessons learned from the 1973 Yom Kippur War, during which an Arab coalition led by Egypt and Syria attacked Israel.

The real goal of Hamas and its supporters “can only be to mobilize the Arab world against Israel and to get off the track of peaceful negotiations,” Kissinger said.

It is also “possible” that Israel could take action against Iran, if it considers Tehran to have had a hand in perpetrating the attack, the former top diplomat added.

More broadly, Kissinger said, Russia’s ongoing aggression in Ukraine coupled with Hamas’ attack on Israel represent a “fundamental attack on the international system.”