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Spy Academy Awards

Posted on June 20, 2013 by | Leave a comment

In olden days nations would boast about their armed forces or their economic might, but in the modern world, unless a nation has a first class spy system, they must be condemned to the dustbin of second rate powers. Keith Alexander, head of the National Security Agency is currently in Germany where he is extolling the virtues of his organization. As he strolled through offices of the German government, the man of darkness quietly and firmly explained to backward German officials that they have fallen behind in the spy race. They can not read what each citizen in Germany has said, written or done today. They do not know what Kurt or Hilgrid is discussing on Facebook so how can Germany claim to be a first rate nation?

We now inhabit a world in which spying is the latest proof that a nation is important. I am certain that as Alexander extolls the work of his agency, German spy folk are seeking to learn so they can know what goes on in each German home. Yesterday, it was Europe, today it is being a number One spook!

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Islamists In Germany

Posted on June 12, 2013 by | Leave a comment

Sixty years ago the Nazi regime collapsed and the people of Germany  created a new society. Within ten years after the war concluded Germany was on the road to economic prosperity and its people decided that doing the dirty jobs of a society should be handled by people from other lands. “Guest workers” entered Germany and as the years progressed they assumed responsibility for doing hard physical labor. Of course, these “guest workers”had children, they went to school in  Germany, and some went on to a university education. Children of immigrants tend to divide with some absorbing religion and customs of elders while others become engaged with the country they inhabit along with its customs.

During the past year, Islamist organizations in Germany experienced a surge of support. Milli Gorus, a major Islamist group saw its membership rise from 38,800 to 42,550. The numbers are rather small given the number of

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Ami Go Home

Posted on June 9, 2013 by | Leave a comment

During the past two hundred years there has been a huge shift in population as hundreds of millions left Europe for the western hemisphere and within Europe untold millions have moved from one nation to another. After World War II over thirty million were forced to shift from one European location to another. As West Europe enjoyed an economic boom after World War II, it imported millions from areas like Turkey or Greece in order to handle the dirty jobs of society not desired by native born Germans. But, a recession has allowed forces of anti-immigrants to emerge.

German Interior Minister Peter Friedrich made clear to those who entered without permission their presence was no longer desired. “If you are working here illegally–no matter how-then please go back to where you came from.” Of course, the European Union allows Europeans to work within it, but these are tough times for all. My question is: when those not born in Germany depart, who picks up the garbage??

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Neo-Nazi Tough Guy

Posted on June 8, 2013 by | Leave a comment

There is a trial taking place in Germany that deals with activities of those who regard selves as members of the Nazi party. Carsten S. is a defendant who explained why he wants to be a Neo-Nazi. He explained to the jury how he smashed windows of stores owned by Turkish people, how he beat up two men and so enjoyed the experience of assaulting those who could not defend themselves. When asked why he  beat up people, his explanation was simple and clear, “we did if for a laugh–and of course to get one over on them.”

Carsten is angry that his homeland has  become a multiculural land. “It was a simple ideology, black and white. The fact that we were losing our homeland, that we’re governed by  financial Jewry.”

As I recall, the last venture into Nazism left eight million Germans dead and over a million women raped.

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Think Like A Nazi

Posted on June 2, 2013 by | Leave a comment

After teaching over 12,000 teachers I never cease being amazed how some identify assignments for students that emanate from the deep interior of their minds. A teacher in an Albany, New York high school asked students to write a persuasive argument in support of Nazi ideas. “You must argue that Jews are evil, and use solid rationale from government propaganda to convince me of your loyalty to the Third Reich.” They also watched Nazi propaganda films and other Nazi sources. One assumes that students in 2013 have a grasp about Nazi ideas or the time period of the 1930s and  1940s. Few students have any understanding of the extent of anti-Semitism in Europe.

There is a difference between asking students to write persuasive essays about topics they have studied and writing about things that are literally, Greek to them. It is akin to asking students if dropping the atomic bomb was ethically correct even though they have no knowledge as to how the Japanese government thought or how American military leaders and government officials thought.

I would be more impressed if students wrote a persuasive essay supporting
Republican arguments that health care is not necessary in modern America.

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Hungary Does Not Hunger For Democracy

Posted on May 29, 2013 by | Leave a comment

The European Parliament has expressed concern about laws being passed in Hungary which, in effect, would empower conservatives to push through whatever laws they desire including denying free speech to opponents. Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban has trampled on basic values of the European Union. Early this month the EU Parliament’s Rapporteur for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs blasted a new Hungarian law which prevents its Supreme Court from declaring unconstitutional laws passer by Parliament. This Committee is raising an issue-should the European Union take action against the Hungarian government or should it allow a member to ignore the basis of what is meant by being in the European Union?

It is time to eject Hungary from the EU and allow its dictatorial leaders life without being part of a continental alliance. Even Angela Merkel, a leading conservative is ready to take action. There is evidence that many conservative groups in the EU will support action against a leading conservative party.

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Forgotten European Youth

Posted on May 23, 2013 by | Leave a comment

Among the tragedies of Europe’s dance with austerity has been a dramatic rise in unemployment throughout the region. An estimated 50% of young Spaniards lack jobs and similar figures are evident in Greece or Italy or even Sweden. Hundreds of Swedish young boys and girls went on a rampage through the streets of Stockholm showing their anger at being ignored and having their lives put on hold. They set fire to over 300 cars, burned down a restaurant and threw stones through store windows. There are even reports of a police station being burned to the ground. The initial outbreak most probably arose from police killing a 69 year -old man who was wielding a machete. Young people felt the police over-reacted.

It is time for Europe to abandon the austerity tactic and go back to some old fashioned John Keynes stimulus to the economy. Sweden might borrow the Depression CCC which placed one million young Americans to work on infrastructure tasks. FDR even pushed through bills that paid artists to paint or musicians to play music of people to put on plays. Provide meaningful work and riots will cease and desist.

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Future For Youth?

Posted on May 21, 2013 by | Leave a comment

Four years ago in most European nations young people were hopeful that with further education there would be ample opportunities to secure a good job.Today, the unemployment rate in Spain or Greece is over 50% for young people with scant prospect of changes during the coming decade of their life. Stylia Kampani, now works as an unpaid intern for an important Athens newspaper. What happens after the end of her internship is unknown. “None of my friends believes that we have a futureor will live a normal life. That wasn’t quite the case four years ago.” She is now part of a lost generation which is doomed to low wages, uncertan job security and loss of control over individual lives. European nations have not learned the lesson of America’s Depression when the federal government created jobs for youth like the CCC. It funded the theater, opera, symphony orchestras and provided many job opportunities in society.

Germany recruits some  skilled workers from Greece or Spain. In the UK anger is directed at immigrants because the government has done nothing to offer youth a chance for the future. Oh, it has tripled the cost of college. Youth needs to go beyond protest and organize political parties which pledge to create jobs, and, in so doing create hope. If governments refuse to act to create jobs, the end result will be emergence of neo-fascist political parties based on hate an violence.

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American Ami–Go Home!!

Posted on May 20, 2013 by | Leave a comment

A Republican party era that dawned with the coming to power of Ronald Reagan left in its wake attitudes that business leaders knew what was best for their employees as they did for American society. They refuse to respect rights of workers to organize for better wages and working conditions. Unfortunately for US business organizations, that attitude is not shared in Germany whose constitution respects the rights of workers to have input into wages and working conditions. Workers at the two largest distribution centers for Amazon in Germany went on strike when company officials refused to engage in negotiations with them. Amazon wages in Germany are most probably better than what is paid to their American employees. But, management can cut wages whenever it desires.

American business leaders in Europe do not grasp the absence of medieval minded Republicans having power in Europe. Walmart had limited success in Germany  because it did not understand German attitudes toward worker rights. Few American companies in Germany even have a personnel department because they do not believe workers have any rights-other than accepting low pay and being treated like those without the right to a decent  economic life.

German business is built on long term thinking, not this year’s bottom line. It respects the rights of workers just as it respects the rights of share holders.

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Hungary Not Hungry For Democracy

Posted on May 20, 2013 by | Leave a comment

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has done his best to remove those who oppose his regime from any source of power. He has welcomed those with Nazi ideas into his company and urged that Romas be sent to other areas of Europe rather than remain in his racially pure Hungary. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has made him angry because of her opposition to removal of democratic procedures in Hungary. A German politician, Social Democrat Peer Steinbruck, raised the issue of asking Hungary to leave the European Union only to infuriate Orban.

Orban compared Nazi occupation of Hungary to current complaints about his dictatorial regime. “The Germans have already sent cavalry to Hungary-they came in the form of tanks.” I hate to teach the Hungarian some Hungarian history.  Hungary was an ALLY of Nazi Germany. Thousands of Hungarians took part in the invasion of the Soviet Union and thousands died there.

Oh, Mr. Ovban, over 500,000 Hungarian Jews were rounded up with the assistance of Hungarian police and sent to their deaths. The people who killd them would agree with his views on democracy-or, should we say, the absence of democracy!

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