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11-25-19, 07:25 AM | #901 |
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Blue Monday in the Green Vault. No Black Friday in sight.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50545003
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11-25-19, 07:41 AM | #902 | |
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11-25-19, 08:20 AM | #903 |
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Tabloid Bild Zeitung writes jewelry worth "up to one billion" Euros was stolen. Howqever, the pieces are unsellable on the market, since they are too well-known.
I think they are likely to dissapear in a private collection. The total collection stored in the museum has a material value of several billions. The immaterial value due to their historical and cultural relevance cannot be estimated. They even were lucky, however. The Green Diamond, 41 Karat and the biggest green diamond in the world, was not "at home", but currently is on display in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
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11-25-19, 09:05 AM | #904 |
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Gnnnnaahhhhh... They say the guards in the museum watched and recorded the robbery live on their video, and did - nothing, for self-protection. They are not armed.
One of the biggest treasury chambers in Europe. Well. Such "guard" nobody needs - automatic cameras and remote-controlled alarm sensor woukd be enough. Why having - and paying - guards that are not allowed to fulfill the task they are being hired for? Guards that cannot fight off robbers, due to legal limitations, inability or lack of weaponry, are not guards, but - well, bystanders. Tourists.
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11-25-19, 09:10 AM | #905 |
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Private guards eh?
They were of course "allowed to interfere", you could even go as far as expect it from them; there is no rule or conduct that forbade that. They just chose not to. Privatizing profits is good for you. Socialising losses is even better. edit: some uniform-wearing person told the journalists that they were not allowed to use force because "human life counts more than jewels". The curator also said that guards were not allowed to use physical force. Another source claims the guards carried machine guns. Another source denies it.
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11-25-19, 02:28 PM | #907 |
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Main news on State TV main channel reiterated that the "guards" in the museum did exactly what they were supposed to do: nothing, just telephoning to the police that a robbery takes place.
They also said that the museum has claimed to have gotten top notch security systems, rivalling the best in the world. Still, a gang of people were able to brake in, were caught on video, were watched to walk to a certain showcase, were recorded to smack it open with an axe, and were observed taking the jewelry and then moving out. And the guards all the time did nothing. As was expected of them. An electric junction box was set on fire. The fire brigade switched off the power in the block to extinguish the fire. In other words: it was the fire brigade that interrupted the power to the museum. The top notch security system, rivalling the best of the best in the world, had no independent power supply. Still, no reaosn for the guards to do anything. As was expected of them. Dear Dresden museum and dear German legislative - you got what you have asked for. Top notch security system, rivalling the best of the best in the world, and the appropriate result. And the guards doing nothing, as expected of them. Really, I could laugh my lower backside off over this. Well, its Germany, maybe I should not be surprised. Their idea of security and my idea of security seem to be a galaxy apart.
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11-29-19, 08:51 AM | #908 |
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https://translate.google.de/translat...a-1298889.html
A Muhammeddan soldier who refused to shake hands with women for religious reasons and was therefore released from the Bundeswehr has now filed a constitutional complaint.
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11-30-19, 12:58 PM | #909 |
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The former co-head of the AfD party Gauweiler said today:
"If the Greens, the reds and the dark-reds go together, there will come the day when a weakened CDU will have only one option left - us." Well. Hate it or like it, he has a point. The polarization moves on. The sPD is dead, and the old promise to never form coalitions with Die Linke, ha sbeen vanished. I am certain the CDU vow to never go into coaltions with the AfD, is of limit5ed longevitxy as well. The CDU nevertheless will lose in relevance. The political middle is eroded after these great coalitions and then 16 years of Merkel stasis, the extreme poles left and right thus take over. Gauweiler above referred to the coalition on federal state level between Die Grünen (greens), the SPD (reds) , and Die Linke (dark reds).
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11-30-19, 02:47 PM | #910 |
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The German football team must play against France and Portugal in group F in the first round of the European championship next year. The fourth candidate in that group still is not decided. But with Portugal and France (the ruling world and European champions), an early death of the German team in an international tournament once again is possible and absolutely not unrealistic.
Over the course of the last year or longer, an itense alienation process between fans and the DFB has taken place. It started already before the catastrophe at the last world championship, but since then has intensified. Many are stunned that no serious personell consequences at the boss positions have taken place and that Löw still is in place. The price policy gets criticised, and the identification with the team and the players is as low as never before. Almost non-existent. And many of the players have an obedient Milchbubi-image, streamlined and housebroken. What is missed are characters "mit Ecken und Kanten". Personally my interest is even lower than at the world championship. Maybe they live through the first phase, maybe not. Its uninteresting now.
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11-30-19, 03:48 PM | #911 |
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The great coalition has been exposed to dramatically raised risk of breaking apart. The SPD voted against the pro-coalition pair Scholtz/Geywitz and made Walter-Borjans/Esken their new party bosses. Thy are representign the left wing in the left SPD, and some describe them as the trojan horses of the even more-left-leaning SPD youth organisation JuSo.
https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-spd-e...ers/a-51484038 The coalition would be no loss if dying early. Its record is desastrous charcaterised by opportunism and long.term risks and vulenrabilities raised, all in a bid to secure Merkel's term. The constellation was vouted out of office in last egnerla elections - and should not even exist today. Its the reaosn why the potlicla middle is eroding and the polarised edges of the spectrum gain in power and influence.
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12-04-19, 08:26 AM | #912 |
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At least some people fianlly have woken up. Or so it seems.
https://translate.google.de/translat..._11418849.html This comes a week after a news report saying that even if just the minimum quota for electrifcation ofindividual traffic with batter-cars would be met over the coming ten years, this would mean that after wokring hours lights and heating in germany would be "switched off" just so to charge the dcars, and that therefore power for car charging would be rationized, which in return would mean that the in dovidual traffic, the private drivers, would run into mounting risks regarding the reach of their cars. This battery-driven eletrification idea leads nowhere, I think. It can be only a solution for locally focussed, limited traffic , oike delivery services and such. All prvater hpuseholds running on batteries? I have stopped believing this already years ago. Producing hydrogene may need a lot of work and energy, but form nothign comes nothing, and the idea that we could live as before without self-limitations but reduce energy conummation rates, is for little children only. This is part of the great self-deception anyway: to think we could have both: a cleaner world without cutting back luxury, consummation, and population numbers (globally). We may want to have it all - but we cannot have it.
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12-05-19, 04:37 AM | #913 |
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Das nackte Grauen.
https://www.focus.de/finanzen/boerse..._11424935.html Und niemand empört sich. Niemand. Atlas shrugged.
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12-06-19, 08:47 AM | #914 | |
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A loong (50 minutes) interview with one of my most favourite commentators of contemporary Zeitgeist issues in Germany, Henryk Broder. Good entertainment , witty conversation and good fun is to be had, unfortunately only for people understanding spoken German - or who are satisfied with Googles automatic video translation textlines.
Have the Germans always been like this...? The interviewing lady is Swiss. Quote:
Edit: "Heil Broder!"
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Who is the author Vera Lengsfeld: Vera Lengsfeld, born in Thuringia in 1952, is a politician and publicist. She was a civil rights activist and a member of the first freely elected People's Chamber of the GDR. From 1990 to 2005 she was a member of the German Bundestag, initially until 1996 for Alliance 90 / The Greens, and from 1996 for the CDU. Since then she has worked as a freelance writer. In 2008 she was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. - In Germany she now is beign demonised and defamed as a racist, right-winger, xeno- and islamophobe, anti.feminist etc etc etc. Different to all these big mouths today she belongs to a generation that indeed put somethign at risk when they went to the streets in the uprising GDR. She once described herseld as desillusionised and that the Germany of today is not the country that she once fought for. I feel with her. I am so sick of this country as well. Its becoming sicker every day.
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