In a rare fit of soundness of mind, the notoriously leftist "Spiegel" managed to publish an editorial condemning the German government for its malicious callousness.
What a refreshing sight.
1 posted on
08/31/2005 10:00:38 AM PDT by
wolf78
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To: wolf78
Wow. That is one hell of an editorial. That minister should be taken out back and dealt with.
2 posted on
08/31/2005 10:04:31 AM PDT by
MNlurker
To: wolf78
President Bush should announce that all Foriegn aid is cancelled while we recover from this natural disaster.
3 posted on
08/31/2005 10:05:16 AM PDT by
CSM
( If the government has taken your money, it has fulfilled its Social Security promises. (dufekin))
To: wolf78
I don't believe this report is true. FNC reported this morning that Germany has offered relief help to the US. Russia has as well. I don't have a link - it was a banner on FNC.
4 posted on
08/31/2005 10:06:03 AM PDT by
Peach
(South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
To: wolf78
Hurray for common sense from Germany....
I especially like the shots that this guy took at the Forgien minister.
5 posted on
08/31/2005 10:07:48 AM PDT by
Americanwolf
(To all in the States of MS, AL, and LA effect by Hurricane Katrina my heart and prayers to you all!)
To: wolf78
To those who only read the excerpt - read the whole thing. Devastating.
To: wolf78
That Trittin guy is a Green Party member.
10 posted on
08/31/2005 10:25:20 AM PDT by
MarxSux
To: wolf78
"Katrina" is a German name, so I blame the Germans for this hurricane! ;-}
13 posted on
08/31/2005 10:32:00 AM PDT by
Arpege92
("I am happy, be it yourselves." - Pope John Paul II)
To: wolf78
I too was astonished about the clearness of this article. Thanks for posting.
And prayers continuously going up for the citizens of the affected areas, especially for the people of the New Orleans region, which are supposed to leave their (former) homes for at least 4 months. As it looks today, New Orleans seems to be lost. What a sad week!!
14 posted on
08/31/2005 10:35:43 AM PDT by
Michael81Dus
(Venimus adorare eum - Immanuel, Gott ist mit uns!!)
To: wolf78
Wow, great article.
"It's not the American people's fault that the storm hit and they couldn't have stopped it. The Germans, on the other hand, could have done a lot to prevent World War II. And yet, care packages still rained down from US troops. Trittin's know-it-all stance is therefore not only tasteless, it is also historically blind."
To: wolf78
"Nice words to be sure, but that was it. No pledges of aid money, no announcements of immediate help -- although finally, two days later, the German interior minister did manage to come out with a hesitant offer of assistance."
This sounds like the complaints that the US govt. was being selfish the week after the tsunami flooding. Typically governments are never the quickest to respond to emergencies. All that bureaucratic incompetence and inertia makes it surprising they ever get anything done.
23 posted on
08/31/2005 11:24:42 AM PDT by
monday
To: wolf78
Take ALL our troops out of Germany now.
24 posted on
08/31/2005 11:44:56 AM PDT by
joesnuffy
(Save the whales. Redeem them for valuable prizes.)
To: wolf78
This out of control US capitalist monster says heartfelt thanks to 'Spiegel'.
26 posted on
08/31/2005 11:49:19 AM PDT by
hershey
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28 posted on
08/31/2005 11:50:42 AM PDT by
Clemenza
(Proud "Free Traitor" & Capitalist Pig)
To: wolf78
Maybe we should have hit Dresden harder in 1945.
To: wolf78
The Krauts, Surrender-Monkeys and the rest of the EU should be pulling their weight in Iraq, and free us up to take care of our own. Whazoo apertures.
30 posted on
08/31/2005 12:13:02 PM PDT by
Keith in Iowa
(Liberals...they're so quixotic...)
To: wolf78
Good thing we have elections here in Germany on September 18, and right now it looks as if we will finally get rid of that bunch of idiots (quite a few of them are criminals, IMO).
Oh man, I hate them!!!
What do you expect from a chancellor who calls Putin a "picture book democrat"?
Best wishes to all you folks in LA, MS, AL, GA and FL! My thoughts are with you!
31 posted on
08/31/2005 12:22:49 PM PDT by
flieger
(Go Angie!)
To: Berosus; blam; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Do not dub me shapka broham; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
![Bullshit. Trittin's article is a slap in the face to all the victims.](http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,484637,00.jpg) |
"The American president has closed his eyes to the economic and human damage that natural catastrophes such as Katrina -- in other words, disasters caused by a lack of climate protection measures -- can visit on his country." Who wrote this? None other than Jürgen Trittin, Germany's minister of the environment... It's not the American people's fault that the storm hit and they couldn't have stopped it. The Germans, on the other hand, could have done a lot to prevent World War II. And yet, care packages still rained down from US troops. Trittin's know-it-all stance is therefore not only tasteless, it is also historically blind. |
33 posted on
08/31/2005 12:38:31 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
To: wolf78
My dear
Herr Trittin:
Be advised that the United States intends to institute repossession procedures stemming from the Marshall Plan. Accordingly, please take steps to disassemble your infrastructure and ship it back to us -- c/o the Port of New Orleans.
Screw you very much, a$$hole.
The American People
34 posted on
08/31/2005 12:40:36 PM PDT by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: wolf78
This makes me not want to buy any German products.
37 posted on
08/31/2005 4:18:33 PM PDT by
optik_b
(follow the money)
The Biotech Boom
by Karen Lowry Miller
[original, dead link]
When Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker started out as a biochemist at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany, he could assume that if he worked hard, he would eventually win recognition from his peers and perhaps a science prize or two... Protesters were calling him a murderer and harassing his kids on their way to school. The police found his name on a terrorist hit list. He had to install a security system in his home and travel with bodyguards... One of the protest leaders who helped demonize Winnacker was Joschka Fischer, a Green-party minister from the state of Hesse. Like many radical groups at the time, the Greens were fervently against anything that smacked of Nazi-style eugenics -- just about anything with the word "gene" in it. That also included a new plant for manufacturing a genetically engineered protein for hemophiliacs, which Winnacker strongly supported. In the end, the protesters got their way. Pharmaceutical giant Bayer decided to build its plant in the United States, taking 1,300 new jobs abroad.
That was 12 years ago. These days the prevailing attitude toward biotechnology couldn't be more different. Fischer is still a Green, but he also happens to be Germany's foreign minister and a cabinet member in the government. The Greens, now part of the political mainstream, are no longer against genetics. On the contrary, they are presiding over a dizzyingly rapid expansion in Germany's biotechnology industry.
38 posted on
09/01/2005 5:29:45 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
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