Germany’s foreign intelligence agency has suffered “grave reputational damage” and lost the trust of some western partners after one of its senior officers was outed as an alleged Russian spy, the organisation’s chief has said.
The Federal Intelligence Service (BND), which loosely speaking combines the roles of MI6 and GCHQ in the UK, has been dragged into a Berlin court to address one of the most serious breaches of secrecy in its 70-year history.
A court in Germany is set to rule this week on whether the anti-globalist, anti-immigration party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) can be designated as a suspected extremist organisation, in what is seen as another attempt to delegitimise the party which is riding high in the polls amid voter disenchantment with the policies of the left-liberal coalition government.
Less than 40 per cent of Germans said they would be willing to defend their nation with weapons even if it came under attack, a survey has found.
A poll conducted by Forsa for German broadcaster RTL Deutschland, found that 59 per cent of adults said they would “probably not” or “absolutely not” take up arms to defend their homeland in the case of an invasion or other attack.
On a trip to Germany last month, I met a young man who wanted me to understand something important about his country. He said he, like me, is a believing Christian—and this, he did not need to tell me, makes him rare in his generation. He also said he is a conservative, but a conservative under siege in a way that an American like me might not understand.
“You have to realize that in Germany, anything to the right of the liberal conservative party”—he meant the Christian Democrats—“is seen as fascist,” the young man said. Given Germany’s history, this designation demonizes any and all challenges to the current system.
With past and ongoing attempts by Germany’s political establishment to diminish the support base of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) having failed, Germany’s highly politicized domestic intelligence agency is stepping up its efforts to deal a death blow to the country’s second-largest party.
Plans to stamp the entire AfD party with the ‘extremist’ label come ahead of critical elections in East Germany and at the European level, where the AfD is poised to place first—by a large margin—in Saxony, Brandenburg, and Thuringia, and second in EU parliamentary elections.
Get ready to seethe.
Jonathan A., or “Mr. Cash Money” as he calls himself on social media, is a Nigerian-born migrant, and according to an explosive report out today, he’s making around €22,000 a month off of German taxpayers, because thanks to the open borders policies of the left, he now has citizenship. To add to the madness… he doesn’t even appear to live in Germany.
Anna Leisten is cheerful, young and radical. That’s how she appears in the many images she’s posted on Instagram, at least.
She’s one of the best-known faces of Germany’s Junge Alternative (JA), or Young Alternative, the youth wing of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Her social media profile says she can be anything “from a braid-wearing sweetie pie to a forged-iron soldier.”
As a part of her ongoing oppression campaign targeting the political opposition, Germany’s activist interior minister has announced that the state will take action to ban the assembly of ‘right-wing extremist’ groups—namely the ascendent AfD, its exponents, and any other group she considers a threat to the left-liberal order.
The radical measures, set to be implemented as a part of Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser’s 13-step plan to combat the so-called ‘extreme right,’ have been revealed by an information request submitted to the Federal Ministry of the Interior by the German portal Apollo News.
Four students at Wilhelm Dörpfeld Gymnasium, a high school in the western German city of Wuppertal, were wounded in a knife attack on Thursday.
Two of the victims were being treated in intensive care for severe injuries, according to local prosecutors.
Police say they have arrested a suspect, believed to be a 17-year-old male student at the school, who sustained “life-threatening injuries.”
Tweet Translation – “The stabber from #Wuppertal , who is said to have injured at least 4 students, is said to be the 17-year-old Turk Yilmaz B.
And tomorrow in North Rhine-Westphalia, with the highest ministerial approval, we will demonstrate together against the RIGHT, as if Wuppertal had never happened.”
Bei dem Messerstecher von #Wuppertal, der mindestens 4 Schüler verletzt haben soll, soll es sich um den 17-jährigen Türken Yilmaz B. handeln.
Und morgen demonstriert man dann in NRW mit höchst ministerieller Billigung gemeinsam gegen RECHTS, als sei Wuppertal niemals geschehen. pic.twitter.com/ttWPG7KNKQ
— Georg Pazderski (@Georg_Pazderski) February 22, 2024
Weird one, someone posted he was a Satanist.
BERLIN, Feb 17 (Reuters) – A former German spy chief who was sacked after being accused of averting his eyes to the threat posed by the far-right founded a new right-wing party on Saturday, holding an inaugural party congress on a boat near Germany’s old capital Bonn.
The party is the third to be founded this year in Germany, further fragmenting the political landscape and making electoral predictions tricky ahead of European parliamentary polls and votes in half the country’s municipalities and three states.
Europe — at least Western Europe; there may be hope yet for certain rogue Eastern European nations like Poland or Hungary — has fully abandoned any remnants of Enlightenment or Renaissance values.
On the road to techno-totalitarianism, Germany’s #1 SS officer, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, has announced an “early recognition unit” that will “detect far-right and foreign disinformation campaigns as early as possible.”
The managing director of the disinformation-peddling media outlet Correctiv met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz days before the ‘secret’ Potsdam meeting, and the publication’s subsequent, grossly deceptive reporting on the gathering.
The outlet’s ‘investigative reporting’ from the meeting—in which it spread brazen lies about a non-existent Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) plan to deport millions of German citizens with migration backgrounds—propelled a wave of anti-AfD demonstrations across Germany and prompted calls for the traffic light coalition to ban the increasingly popular insurgent party.
Both the centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) and the right-wing, antiglobalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) made significant gains in elections held on Sunday, February 11th, in Berlin. Newly released opinion polls also suggest that Germany has veered sharply to the right, despite multiple attempts by the leftist government to stigmatise the AfD.
Recently orchestrated demonstrations against the ‘far right’ in Berlin were claimed by the media to show public opinion opposing the AfD—but the election results tell a different story.
The managing director of Correctiv, the self-proclaimed “independent investigative journalism network” that recently ran a disinformation piece against the AfD—falsely accusing the party of planning to deport millions of Germans with migrant backgrounds—met with officials from the federal government on numerous occasions, apparently to “exchange ideas” on what coverage is desirable.
Correctiv’s false reporting—deliberate or not—on what has come to be known as the “Potsdam Meeting” precipitated a wave of anti-AfD demonstrations across Germany and prompted calls for the left-liberal traffic coalition to initiate banning proceedings against the increasingly popular party.
The cat is out of the bag. After months of denial, it is now conventional wisdom that Germany — and Europe more generally — faces deindustrialisation due to the end of cheap Russian piped gas. “Germany’s Days as an Industrial Superpower Are Coming to an End,” reads a headline on Bloomberg.
