http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/germany/ en-us Thu, 4 Sep 2008 03:36:08 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074235/posts WorldNetDaily staff reporter and columnist Jerome Corsi's book "The Obama Nation" contributed to a decision by Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga not to accept Sen. Barack Obama's invitation to attend the Democratic National Convention, according to a prominent Kenyan newspaper. "The cancellation of the trip by Mr. Odinga comes hot on the heels of the publication of a book that is being used to attack Mr. Obama in which the PM [Prime Minister] features," wrote Kenya's Daily Nation. "The book, The Obama Nation, by Jerome Corsi depicts Mr. Obama as a covert sympathizer of radical Islam and communism." "In the... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074235/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 03:36:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073565/posts Crippled by record unpopularity and uncharismatic, rudderless leadership, Germany's oldest political party has erupted into open revolt over the hot-button issue of welfare reforms. SPD, Germany's major mainstream Leftwing party, pushed through controversial liberalising reforms several years ago under the chancellorship of Gerhard Schroeder. But the reforms, which made it easier to sack workers and reduced unemployment benefits, have now come back to haunt the party, with its leading left-wingers demanding centrist economic policies be scrapped. The SPD, which governs in a grand coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party, is currently at a historic low in polls. Since the... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073565/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 07:13:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071215/posts (Tried to do a literal translation, with minimal paraphrasing) SIE wird McCains Vize [She is McCain's running mate] John McCain hat seinen Kandidaten für das Amt des Vizepräsidenten gefunden: Es ist eine Frau. Und was für eine! [John McCain has found his candidate for Vice-President and he is a she. And what a lady!] Sarah Palin (44), die junge Gouverneurin des US-Bundesstaates Alaska, ist ein konservativer Hardliner. Und deswegen genau die Richtige für McCain. Vor allem die religiöse Rechte steht McCain nach wie vor skeptisch gegenüber. Und das soll Palin jetzt richten. [Sarah Palin, 44, the young Governor from the... Bild.de http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071215/posts#comment Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:02:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069061/posts On August 25 Patrick Donahue of Bloomberg breathlessly informed us that a recent poll showed that Germans love Barack Obama. In a week where Obama's soft polling numbers with Americans who will do the actual voting, you'd be excused if you wondered who cared, but apparently Bloomberg thinks this Obama puffing "news" is worth reporting. It's more reason to be suspicious that the Old Media is in the tank for Barack Obama, in any case. This particular Bloomberg story has little substance and is centered on a population that cannot even vote for Obama in the first place. Interestingly, however,... publiusforum.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069061/posts#comment Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:12:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067323/posts German military attache found Russian response in Georgia 'appropriate' IANS Sunday 24th August, 2008 The German military attache in Moscow described the Russian military response in Georgia as 'appropriate' in an internal document, according to a report in the Sunday edition of the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). 'The extent of the use of military force by the Russian side appears - seen from here and despite reports to the contrary from Georgia and the picture conveyed by the media - not inappropriately high,' Brigadier General Heinz G. Wagner wrote Aug 11. According to the report, the general said... BigNewsNetwork.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067323/posts#comment Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:14:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067260/posts Berlin, Aug 24 (DPA) The German military attache in Moscow described the Russian military response in Georgia as 'appropriate' in an internal document, according to a report in the Sunday edition of the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). 'The extent of the use of military force by the Russian side appears - seen from here and despite reports to the contrary from Georgia and the picture conveyed by the media - not inappropriately high,' Brigadier General Heinz G. Wagner wrote Aug 11. According to the report, the general said some three days after the outbreak of hostilities that Russia... Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067260/posts#comment Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:40:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066014/posts NATO warships, which passed through Istanbul's Bosporus Strait Thursday, entered the Black Sea for long-planned exercises and routine visits to ports in Romania and Bulgaria, the alliance said. A U.S. Navy warship entered Turkey's Dardanel Strait on Friday taking relief supplies to Georgia. Three warships - from Spain, Germany and Poland - sailed into the Black Sea on Thursday. The move is not linked to the tensions over Russia's invasion of Georgia, which lies on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, about 900 kilometers (550 miles) from the Romanian coast, said officials at NATO's military command in southern Belgium.... Hürriyet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066014/posts#comment Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:55:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063345/posts TBILISI (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday assured Georgia would join NATO as she strongly backed the ex-Soviet republic's President Mikheil Saakashvili in his conflict with Russia. "Georgia will become a member of NATO if it wants to -- and it does want to," she told reporters before talks with Saakashvili in Tbilisi. It was one of the strongest statements yet of support for Georgia's NATO membership bid, which is fiercely opposed by Russia. "We are on a clear road towards NATO membership (for Georgia)," she added at a later news conference. afp http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063345/posts#comment Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:31:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062517/posts The other half of the diplomatic pincer movement took place in Sochi, as the German Chancellor Angela Merkel used a pre-planned trip there to try to lean on the Russian president to withdraw his troops. The talks were short. Afterwards it appeared there had been no meeting of minds. Russia said it was too late to turn the clock back. “Nobody rejects the principle of territorial integrity as one of the fundamental principles of international law,” said Dmitri Medvedev. “But if we look at this concrete situation we see it is very complex. Unfortunately, after what has happened, the people... Euro News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062517/posts#comment Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:32:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061633/posts German, French economies contract By Steve Goldstein, MarketWatch Last update: 3:13 a.m. EDT Aug. 14, 2008LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The German and French economies contracted during the second quarter, figures out Thursday showed, the latest evidence demonstrating how European activity has not been able to decouple from the U.S. slowdown. In Germany, gross domestic product dropped 0.5% compared to the first quarter, the Federal Statistics Office said, the first drop in nearly four years. Weaker consumption, capital investment and construction activity led to the decline. Market Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061633/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:39:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055031/posts Pentagon Makes Fighting Extremism Top Priority Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pentagon on Thursday officially named "the long war" against global extremism as its top priority and pledged to avert any conventional military threat from China or Russia through dialogue. The Defense Department, in a new national defense strategy, also emphasized the need to subordinate military operations to "soft power" initiatives to undermine Islamist militancy by promoting economic, political and social development in vulnerable corners of the world. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he hoped the change would help establish permanent institutional support for counterinsurgency skills... Previous Thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055031/posts#comment Fri, 1 Aug 2008 19:17:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059199/posts BERLIN - The number two at the German foreign ministry on Saturday said Georgia is breaking international law by launching military action to reclaim South Ossetia. Gernot Erler said Tbilisi had breached a 1992 ceasefire agreement struck with Russia over the renegade Caucasus enclave, monitored essentially by Russian peacekeepers. "In this sense, it is also a question of a violation of international law as soon as you start to go down the road of military action," Erler told German radio station NDR Info. Erler acknowledged prior provocation of the Georgian leadership from Russian-backed South Ossetia's separatists, but said he understood... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059199/posts#comment Sat, 9 Aug 2008 22:40:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059175/posts German original text: "Unter Feinden" Translation: Anthony Pfriem Criminality: the new fear of the German police A few German districts the police hardly dares to enter anymore, because they are attacked immediately. A visit to “dangerous areas” of the Ruhr. One further step over the Viehofer Straße, and a line has been crossed. It is invisible; there is no warning sign on the usual road maps of Essen. Yet there are other laws on this side of the line. At the Viehofer Strasse the “dangerous area” starts. This is how the local police call the northern part of the inner... WELT ONLINE/Europe News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059175/posts#comment Sat, 9 Aug 2008 21:14:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059064/posts A young Israeli man who studied in Germany has been arrested on espionage charges in Israel. Khaled K., of Palestinian descent, allegedly spied for the Hezbollah Shiite militia. His case is expected to highlight Hezbollah recruiting activities in Germany. When Khaled K. stepped off the plane from Germany to start his summer vacation, it wasn't his family that awaited him at the gate. Instead Shin Bet agents and police greeted the 29-year-old Israeli man of Palestinian descent when he arrived on July 16 at Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport. He was arrested and disappeared into custody for two weeks until... Spiegel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059064/posts#comment Sat, 9 Aug 2008 15:30:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057275/posts Khaled Kashkush, 29, of the Israeli-Arab town of Kalansuwa, was indicted in the Petach Tikva District Court on Wednesday for contact with a foreign element connected with the Hizbullah enemy - and with Hizbullah itself. Kashkush allegedly made contact with a Lebanese Hizbullah-affiliated organization that attempts, among other goals, to transfer money to the families of dead Hizbullah terrorists. In 2002, the charge sheet states, he worked in the German headquarters of the organization, and had constant contact with the chairman, Dr. Hasham Hassan. Kashkush was arrested three weeks ago when he returned from Germany. It is not felt that... Arutz Sheva http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057275/posts#comment Wed, 6 Aug 2008 09:29:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057890/posts German manufacturing orders fell by an unexpectedly steep 2.9 per cent in June, data released on Wednesday showed, underlining the rapid deterioration of the countryÂ’s economic performance and raising fears about the health of the European economy as a whole. The drop, which was much larger than expected, was the seventh consecutive month-on-month fall, the longest such downward spell in nearly 20 years. “This is all quite worrisome,” said Dirk Schumacher, an economist at Goldman Sachs. “There is no denying that the underlying trend has weakened more than I would have expected.” The latest figures left the average order level in... The Financial Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057890/posts#comment Thu, 7 Aug 2008 07:17:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2056403/posts Holidaymakers feeling nostalgic for the Cold War can now tour what was once a top secret bunker in the former East Germany. Opened to the public for the first time on Friday, it was meant to house the ruling Communist elite in the event of a nuclear attack.Something some visitors said they were relieved was no longer a concern:“What goes through my mind is that it is quite nice to stand around here, look at the bunker and talk to each other peacefully,” one man said.Close to the size of a football field, the bunker was designed to function... Euronews / various others http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2056403/posts#comment Mon, 4 Aug 2008 20:21:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055776/posts The building of true civilization has always been exposed to various difficulties. But in the end, periods of unemployment, war and political turboil is nothing but small potatoes. Personally speaking, I'll turn 39 years old soon and one of the things that make me get out of bed and drive off to work each morning - a part from the luxury of driving a wonderful Volvo V70 to the place - is the magnificence of toiling in the company of certain younger Swedish work mates who I daily encounter there; people in their 20s who believe in hard work and... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055776/posts#comment Sun, 3 Aug 2008 16:42:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054839/posts BERLIN - Soaring oil prices combined with fears about energy security and climate change are softening Germans' hostility towards nuclear energy, a new survey showed on Wednesday. The results provide fodder for members of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) who have in the last few weeks have renewed their calls for a rethink of the planned phase out of Germany's 17 nuclear reactors by 2021. The Forsa poll for Stern weekly magazine showed that voters in Germany, Europe's biggest power market, were now evenly divided on the question of whether some of the plants should be allowed to... Nuclear News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054839/posts#comment Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:38:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2054820/posts First it was France, and now Germany. German authorities are reporting that, within their cities, areas now exist where police fear to tread. In many German urban areas drug dealing, theft, brawls, and assaults on police officers are the order of the day. The problem is becoming so severe police scarcely dare enter some quarters except in strength, while in others they concentrate on their own safety first. Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2054820/posts#comment Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:09:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040058/posts Al-Qaeda Draws New Recruits Via Internet Al-Qaeda is using the Internet to recruit vulnerable young people to its terrorist network, according to a programme aired on Saudi Arabian TV late on Tuesday. Umm Osama, the founder of al-Qaeda's first women-only website, al-Khansa, joined several others on the programme to discuss how they renounced jihadist ideology. Among those who sought a response to this question was an imam from the Medina mosque, Saleh Ibn Awad al-Mudamsi, and the father of a young al-Qaeda suspect held in an Iraqi prison. Read More Qaeda Targets U.S. Oil Interests in North Africa U.S.... Previous Thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040058/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 02:02:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054647/posts The United States, Britain, the European Union, the Vatican and a grossly perverse mass media machine will have a lot to answer for when the full extent of their anti-Serb bias is revealed. That’s not going to happen soon. The minds of a gullible public are being shaped to demonize one individual and the ethnic group he represents and, through him, to heap upon them the collective sins of opposing political forces still seeking their own selfish gain from the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Believe it or not, it was the revival of the old German dream of European... theTrumpet.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054647/posts#comment Fri, 1 Aug 2008 02:02:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2054592/posts Ross Douthat at the Atlantic.com notes that the Obama camp is accusing the McCain campaign of making Obama's rally in Berlin look like the sort of thing that Der Fuhrer might have staged. It's remarkable what those fiendish GOP operatives can squeeze into thirty seconds: Not only does McCain's "celeb" ad have "Barack Obama will rape yo daughters overtones," says Rick Perlstein (who's apparently under the impression that most Americans think of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears as stand-ins for their daughters), but it was edited to blatantly evoke Triumph of the Will as well - the better to freak... The Virginian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2054592/posts#comment Fri, 1 Aug 2008 00:21:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054396/posts Let him run for president of Germany. I mean, he's a citizen of the world, after all. If he wants to play act at being president, and he needs some country to lord it over, let him try Germany. Because we sure don't want him here. We don't want a man whose limited experience should give him humility, but whose ego demands supremacy. We don't want a man who thinks that because he has the audacity to speak at the Brandenburg Gate that he should have the authority to do so. In this cult of personality which has developed around... boblonsberry.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054396/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:25:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053427/posts German homeschool families continue to be persecuted and receive harsh treatment from government agencies in the Federal Republic of Germany while the European Union’s Petitions Committee has promised to look into accusations against Germany for repressing homeschooling. We told you recently about the Dudek family of in Archfeldt, Germany, who have just received their formal written sentence of three months each in prison because they homeschool. Although the family knew of the sentence after the hearing last month, the court took weeks to prepare its formal written opinion. The family now has four weeks to submit their written appeal of... HSLDA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053427/posts#comment Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:32:21 GMT