More than half percent of all migrants who claimed asylum in Germany in the first five months of this year had no form of identification, according to an article by the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. The share of people without documentation (57%) is much higher than last year, when 48% of arrivals claimed to have no passport or an identity card.
There’s a populist revolution in Germany.
In her political ads in the leadup to last week’s EU parliamentary elections, European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen bizarrely walks and jogs through a forest in her native Germany as she explains why she’s running. That she would retreat to the woods to make her electoral pitch is fitting for the ruling class she represents.
Armies all over the world have observed Russia’s wider war on Ukraine and have come to the same conclusion: modern war is mostly an artillery war – or as Stalin put it, artillery is the “God of War”. Armies need more howitzers and more rocket launchers and plenty of ammunition for both.
The German army might be the best example of this determination to add artillery firepower. The Bundeswehr has an ambitious plan to more than double its artillery inventory from 121 self-propelled howitzers and 36 rocket launchers today to 289 self-propelled howitzers and 76 rocket launchers in 2035.
But for all its ambition, the German artillery plan illustrates the relative paucity of artillery in the armies of the biggest Western powers. Sure, a force of 365 artillery pieces is better than a force of just 157 artillery pieces. But 365 is still too few when Germany’s biggest potential foe, Russia, deploys thousands of howitzers and launchers.
A knife attacker killed one person and severely injured two more in a rampage at a Euros party in east Germany before being shot dead by police.
The man entered a garden in the city of Magdeburg where a family were hosting a private party to watch Germany’s opening match against Scotland.
Inside the garden, the attacker stabbed at least three football fans. Two suffered severe wounds.
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… According to information from the police, the perpetrator was an Afghan (27). According to the “Magdeburger Volksstimme” newspaper, he had previously threatened people with a knife in the garden area opposite. Local residents called the police.
In the aftermath of the European elections last Sunday, the German establishment has been trying to come to terms with radically altered political realities. Despite advance polls predicting a notable shift to the Right, the result still shook the country. Less than a third of voters stuck with the parties of the ruling centre-left coalition, and the Right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) became the second largest political force after the conservative Union. Young people in particular defied expectations, many turning their backs on the Greens and switching to the Right.
Police have raided more than 70 homes in Germany concerning incidents of so-called “online hate posting”, the country’s justice ministry said.
According to a press release published late on June 6, residences in every German state were raided in the latest attempt to crack down on “hate speech”.
Numerous justifications were given for the action: some residents were suspected of issuing “threats” against politicians, while others were suspected of merely targeting them with “insults”, which is also a crime in Germany.
Nearly two-thirds of German residents receiving unemployment benefits have a migration background, new figures from the Federal Employment Agency have revealed.
Long-time anti-Islamism activist Michael Stürzenberger, the main focus of the bloody knife attack in Mannheim on Friday, has long had a target on his back—put there not only by extremist Islamists, but also by the German state. The Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV)—the country’s domestic spy agency—has monitored the campaigner for the past ten years, and a state-funded Bavarian anti-extremism organisation has called Stürzenberger a conspiracy theorist for warning about political Islam getting a foothold in Germany.
Just five years ago, the 70th anniversary of the birth of the post-war German democratic state was accompanied by euphoric celebrations across the country. This week, by contrast, few Germans were in the mood to party. Aside from the Federal Republic of Germany’s economic woes, the prevailing opinion is that German democracy isn’t in very good health.
Who is to blame? The liberal-centrist consensus is that the country is facing an unprecedented threat from nefarious populist and far-Right forces — most notably the AfD, which aims, according to the country’s vice-chancellor, to “turn Germany into an authoritarian state”. But one may very well argue that Germany is already displaying worrying signs of authoritarianism, at the hands of those very same liberal-centrist forces that claim to be defending democracy from the barbarians at the gate.
The video, which is now causing a stir in Berlin’s political circles, is just 15 seconds long. It shows young people on the terrace of an expensive restaurant on Sylt, the North Sea island much frequented by wealthy German holidaymakers.
The short sequence was recorded on what appears to be a mild early summer evening, with the first glow of sunset in the background. The young people are wearing smart-casual clothes and dancing. Five of them are chanting: “Germany for the Germans, foreigners out.”
And at least one of the participants appears to be giving the Hitler salute, holding two fingers between his upper lip and nose, as if to imitate a Hitler mustache.
There are two sides to nearly every story. It’s a funny old world when Hamas Terrorists get the greenlight for a new Pallie state but Germans who have been severely over enriched by a Muslim invasion are declared racists for wanting to have their country back. The same people complaining of the silly “Hitler moustache” likely turn a blind eye to the routine Mohammedan mayhem in their streets. Canada too is full of that kind of hypocrite.
Tweet Translation – When you watch videos like these from parties on Sylt and understand the background to them, I’m actually surprised that people don’t sing “Foreigners out” more often.
They are there 1-2 times a year with 100% ethnic Germans. A hundred people in a small space and everyone is peaceful and relaxed despite the alcohol.
They subconsciously associate these experiences with the idea that it is apparently possible to celebrate exuberantly if the right circumstances prevail.
Back in the disco of their hometown (Munich, Hamburg, Düsseldorf), the girls have to take pepper spray with them again, the boys have to put up with insults from Ahmet and Murat because otherwise they’ll get a slap in the face and one of the gang is missing their cell phone or wallet after the evening (Has Motumbo)
Of course, these people would like the whole of Germany to look like Sylt. They know that this is desirable and worth living in, but they cannot communicate this publicly because their social fall is much greater than that of Ronny from the prefab housing project.
Wenn man sich solche Videos von Partys auf Sylt ansieht und die Hintergründe dazu versteht, dann wundert es mich tatsächlich, dass da nicht öfter „Ausländer raus“ gesungen wird.
Die sind 1-2 mal im Jahr unter 100% ethnisch Deutschen. Hundert Leute auf engstem Raum und jeder ist… pic.twitter.com/RZTeV2QsZZ
— Arminius (@arminiusdd) May 25, 2024
An employee of the domestic intelligence service says real threats are ignored while ordinary citizens are harassed for their political opinions.
Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) is being used for political purposes and is protecting the interests of the Berlin Government’s three coalition parties, the Social Democrats, the Greens, and the liberal FDP, according to a BfV official who spoke anonymously about his concerns to the Schwäbische Zeitung.
The man, referred to as Gregor S. in the article, said the agency is not competent enough to investigate serious enemies of the state, genuinely violent left-wing and right-wing terrorists or radical Islamists, and instead goes after people who should not be of interest to the BfV: people who don’t like the Greens, hang up posters or submit posts on social media that are critical of the state. “What used to be considered legally acceptable criticism can now be a reason for the BfV to target someone,” he explained. The agency is devoting a lot of time to investigate not only these targets but their whole environment, their employers, their friends, their lovers.
Following their widely criticized rally in Hamburg in late April, where calls for the establishment of a caliphate were overheard and seen, over 2,300 Muslim protesters again gathered in the city last Saturday, German media report.
Organized by the Islamist group Muslim Interaktiv (MI), this latest rally, which most ironically railed against “censorship and opinions being dictated,” was held in the St. Georg district as a sizable police force looked on.
Thousands of Muslims out in Hamburg again calling for a caliphate in Germany.
Taking the absolute p*ss.
Round them up and deport them. pic.twitter.com/DNrT1IE9ZU
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) May 12, 2024
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, or BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence service, has argued that the populist far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD) is anti-constitutional. It therefore classified the political party as a “suspected case” in 2021.
The party took legal action against this decision at the Cologne Administrative Court, but was unsuccessful. A higher regional court in western Germany has now confirmed that ruling, meaning the AfD may be classified as a “suspected” far-right extremist organization.
The court proceedings have drawn attention to a state organization that acts as an early warning system to detect threats to democracy, and is one of Germany’s most important intelligence agencies. It gathers intelligence while coordinating information gathered by the 16 state-level intelligence agencies.
Germany is considering introducing conscription for all 18-year-olds, as it looks to boost its troop numbers in the face of Russian military aggression.
Military planners in Berlin are in the final stages of discussing three options, two of which involve a form of conscription, according to leaked plans reported in the German media.
Defence Minister Boris Pistorius is set to go public with the official plans by June.
Police in the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg said two politicians were attacked in the city of Stuttgart on Wednesday evening.
The two, who were identified as state lawmakers from the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD), suffered slight injuries, police said.
The incident is the latest attack on politicians in Germany, following days of violence against multiple left-leaning and Greens politicians.
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