In January Bavarian conservative politician Gabriele Pauli tackled Bavarian’s chief of government Edmund Stoiber for trying to obtain “information about lovers and alcohol consumption” and successfully forced him not to candidate for re-election in 2008. This way up she became by far the most prominent female politician of Bavarian conservative party CSU. Now her faith has changed and she is in the news for a “panty-affair”.
I just searched for a full video clip of Iranian television showing British boat people eating pancakes in Teheran to find out, why the British foreign office might tell about it, that the airing of the video was “completely inacceptable”. Accidently I stumbled over the article “Pancakes Versus Resisting the Enemy“, I had never heard before of Tammy Bruce. In the top of the page, I read a slogan saying “Your Defense Against the New Thought Police”, so I thought, well, that will be interesting to read the opinion of a tough chick in favour of free speach. What I got to read then, was really a surprise.
Some people in the USA might wonder, that German blogs dealing with US politics are friends like these. Some people in the USA might even assume, that these self-claimed friends of America in favour of Bush and Cheney represent somewhat like the majority of German opinions in the German blog world. However, if so, that assumption would be completely wrong. For most Germans these people in support of Bush and Cheney look about as strange as if they would have been coming with a direct flight from Mars.
The press chamber of the German court “Landgericht Berlin” presided by jugde Michael Mauck has in several sentences forbidden the German author Roman Grafe and several major German newspapers to publish the name of a polit officer serving in German Democratic Republics border troops. A polit officer’s responsibility at the border troops was giving soldiers political instruction and propaganda in favour of soviet style communism.
Yesterday The German war resisters organization Connection e.V. and Military Counseling Network noted in a press release, US army medic Agustín Aguayo has to spent eight months in prison for refusing to participate any further in the illegal and immoral war of the US government against the population of the Iraq.
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Par·tei·buch n. German: Booklet with personal data and number to prove membership in a party