The WWI Conspiracy - Part Two: The American Front
French PM to announce 'suspension of fuel tax hikes'
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe is to announce on Tuesday a suspension of fuel tax hikes planned for January 1 in a move to end violent "yellow vest" protests against the measure, government sources said Tuesday. The suspension, which is expected to last several months, will be accompanied by other measures aimed at calming two weeks of nationwide demonstrations by the protesters, the sources said. The meeting the French prime minister had scheduled with members of the 'yellow vest' movement, set to take place on Tuesday, was cancelled on Monday night with the delegation from the protest group indicating they did not plan on attending. Philippe held talks with party leaders on Monday as Paris scrambled to forge a response to violence by anti-government protesters that has left hundreds injured nationwide and caused widespread destruction around the capital on Saturday. The talks followed a crisis meeting chaired by French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday as he surveyed the damage from a day of riots across Paris that saw violence "on a level not seen in decades."
source: the local
How a German art group aims to name and shame far-right Chemnitz protesters
A group of artists is calling on members of the public to name and shame “problem Germans” who took part in far-right rallies in eastern Germany earlier this year. But it has raised concerns over privacy. The Center for Political Beauty (Zentrum für Politische Schönheit or ZPS) has published online pictures of people's faces who the group says took part in anti-foreigner rallies in Chemnitz, Saxony, at the end of August and in September. Under the slogan: "Wanted: Where do these idiots work?" the group, known as ZPS, says it will hand out cash rewards for anyone who reveals information to them, such as names and employers. In a statement on the website Soko-Chemnitz.de, which was launched on Monday, the group said it had evaluated 3 million pictures of 7,000 “suspects”. ...
source: the local
"Have Muslims in Europe ever thought about how Christians feel when they see Muslims publicly celebrating their festivals in parks and doing prayer in the streets undisturbed while Christmas markets are sealed off like fortresses? "
Incident in Witzenhausen - man threatens Christmas market visitors with hatchet
With a cleaver in hand, a 38-year-old in Witzenhausen has scared the visitors of a Christmas market. The heavily alcoholized man shouted "Allahu Akbar" and behaved very aggressively. At 8:30 pm, several emergency calls were received by the police on Saturday evening: A man who had been noticed at the Christmas market in Witzenhausen (Werra-Meißner) or on the way there with a cleaver in his hand was reported as were the police and the prosecutor Kassel on Sunday announced. The man had "fumbled around" with the hatchet in the air and repeatedly called "Allahu Akbar" (Arabic for "God is great"). Several visitors to the market felt threatened, according to the police report. Nobody got hurt. The man performed after the current state of investigation no concrete striking movements with the hatchet. He then climbed on a bike and drove off. Policemen caught him a little later in the pedestrian zone. Aggressive behavior towards police The suspect was a 38-year-old "foreign citizen" from Bornhagen in Thuringia. He had been very drunk at the arrest and behaved highly aggressive and offensive to the officials, the police reported. The hatchet could be found a little later in a bed near the Christmas market. Whether the incident is in any way related to Islamism is still completely open. Investigations by the police and prosecutors continue.
source: hessenschau
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Assessing Legacy of Late President George H. W. Bush: View from Russia
George H. W. Bush died at the age of 94. A moderate Republican, he had no sympathy whatsoever for the Soviet Union, the country Americans preferred to call simply “Russia” just because it is shorter. After all, he served two terms as a vice president under Ronald Reagan, the chief executive who said “We begin bombing in five minutes” – the last sentence of his joke to hit headlines in 1984. But the late president is well-remembered and respected in Russia for what he did to benefit both nations. ... It was him who went to Kiev in August 1991 to warn about the danger of “a suicidal nationalism based upon ethnic hatred”. Looking at the contemporary Ukraine, one can see the late president was bestowed with the gift of foresight. After the Soviet Union’s collapse, he continued to view the world through the paradigm of Washington-Moscow relations. He believed that the relationship with the nuclear power, which has huge territory, resources, population and a seat in the UN Security Council, was of paramount importance for America’s national interests. During President H.W. Bush’s tenure, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was given assurances that NATO would not expand past Germany. The recently declassified documents confirm the story. “Not one inch eastward” said Secretary of State James Baker 9, 1990.It was Bill Clinton who made a decision to expand NATO forward. By doing so, he undermined the European security without any benefits for American people. The warnings by such renowned experts as George Kennan, who opposed the formation of NATO, went unheeded. George H.W. Bush had the gift of global vision while Bill Clinton was mainly concentrated on the Middle East due to internal reasons. Former head of the Central Intelligence Agency, a two-term vice president, ambassador to the United Nations and China, George Bush Senior was the only foreign policy guru among the post-war chief executives – “America’s last foreign policy president”. ...
source: strategic culture foundation
«Muslim anti-Semitism is the most dangerous»
The German-Jewish historian Michael Wolffsohn sees three sources of rekindling hatred of the Jews. In the latest issue of NZZ-Standpunkte, he talks about the alliance between leftist and Muslim anti-Semitism and explains why AfD's failures are least of all appalling. ... The AfD - not a hopeless case From the AfD, under whose party members and supporters there is hatred of the Jews, Michael Wolffsohn draws no totally black picture. "These are not anti-Semites all the time." Of course, exponents like Björn Höcke, head of the Thuringian AFD, are "deeply disagreeable." Höcke had called the Holocaust memorial in Berlin a "monument of shame", spoken of a "stupid coping policy" and called for a "remembrance policy change of 180 degrees". But Wolffsohn sees many shades in the party, and yet at their events no Israel flags were burned. "In these populist movements, I do not even and always determine the discriminatory anti-Semitism."
source: nzz
source: nzz translate
New EU digital tax to let most US giants off the hook
US tech giants AirBnB, Amazon, Apple, and Spotify look set to get off the hook on new EU taxes, but Facebook and Google are still in the crosshairs. That was the net result of EU talks so far on a new "digital tax" designed to stop global firms from paying next to nothing in Europe via accountancy tricks, even though they generate billions of euros in profits there. France had pushed for a new three percent tax on all online sales and services in the EU by companies with a global turnover of €750m or more, and online sales of €50m or more in Europe. Its plan, put on paper by the Austrian EU presidency, needed unanimity to go ahead. But it was scuppered last week when Ireland, home to Apple's HQ in Europe, and Luxembourg, which has also cut sweetheart tax deals with multinationals, opposed it. Denmark, Finland, and Sweden also said no, while Germany sat on the fence, amid concern that US leader Donald Trump would retaliate if the EU went ahead and that the new measures might harm growth in the digital economy. ...
source: euobserver
French PM to announce 'suspension of fuel tax hikes'
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe is to announce on Tuesday a suspension of fuel tax hikes planned for January 1 in a move to end violent "yellow vest" protests against the measure, government sources said Tuesday. The suspension, which is expected to last several months, will be accompanied by other measures aimed at calming two weeks of nationwide demonstrations by the protesters, the sources said. The meeting the French prime minister had scheduled with members of the 'yellow vest' movement, set to take place on Tuesday, was cancelled on Monday night with the delegation from the protest group indicating they did not plan on attending. Philippe held talks with party leaders on Monday as Paris scrambled to forge a response to violence by anti-government protesters that has left hundreds injured nationwide and caused widespread destruction around the capital on Saturday. The talks followed a crisis meeting chaired by French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday as he surveyed the damage from a day of riots across Paris that saw violence "on a level not seen in decades."
source: the local
How a German art group aims to name and shame far-right Chemnitz protesters
A group of artists is calling on members of the public to name and shame “problem Germans” who took part in far-right rallies in eastern Germany earlier this year. But it has raised concerns over privacy. The Center for Political Beauty (Zentrum für Politische Schönheit or ZPS) has published online pictures of people's faces who the group says took part in anti-foreigner rallies in Chemnitz, Saxony, at the end of August and in September. Under the slogan: "Wanted: Where do these idiots work?" the group, known as ZPS, says it will hand out cash rewards for anyone who reveals information to them, such as names and employers. In a statement on the website Soko-Chemnitz.de, which was launched on Monday, the group said it had evaluated 3 million pictures of 7,000 “suspects”. ...
source: the local
Haben Muslime in Europa sich je darüber Gedanken gemacht, wie sich Christen dabei fühlen wenn sie sehen wie Muslime ihre Feste öffentlich in Parks feiern und das Gebet auf der Straße ungestört verrichten, während Weihnachtsmärkte wie Festungen abgeriegelt werden?
— Hamed Abdel-Samad (@hamed_samad) December 2, 2018
"Have Muslims in Europe ever thought about how Christians feel when they see Muslims publicly celebrating their festivals in parks and doing prayer in the streets undisturbed while Christmas markets are sealed off like fortresses? "
Incident in Witzenhausen - man threatens Christmas market visitors with hatchet
With a cleaver in hand, a 38-year-old in Witzenhausen has scared the visitors of a Christmas market. The heavily alcoholized man shouted "Allahu Akbar" and behaved very aggressively. At 8:30 pm, several emergency calls were received by the police on Saturday evening: A man who had been noticed at the Christmas market in Witzenhausen (Werra-Meißner) or on the way there with a cleaver in his hand was reported as were the police and the prosecutor Kassel on Sunday announced. The man had "fumbled around" with the hatchet in the air and repeatedly called "Allahu Akbar" (Arabic for "God is great"). Several visitors to the market felt threatened, according to the police report. Nobody got hurt. The man performed after the current state of investigation no concrete striking movements with the hatchet. He then climbed on a bike and drove off. Policemen caught him a little later in the pedestrian zone. Aggressive behavior towards police The suspect was a 38-year-old "foreign citizen" from Bornhagen in Thuringia. He had been very drunk at the arrest and behaved highly aggressive and offensive to the officials, the police reported. The hatchet could be found a little later in a bed near the Christmas market. Whether the incident is in any way related to Islamism is still completely open. Investigations by the police and prosecutors continue.
source: hessenschau
source: hessenschau translate
Assessing Legacy of Late President George H. W. Bush: View from Russia
George H. W. Bush died at the age of 94. A moderate Republican, he had no sympathy whatsoever for the Soviet Union, the country Americans preferred to call simply “Russia” just because it is shorter. After all, he served two terms as a vice president under Ronald Reagan, the chief executive who said “We begin bombing in five minutes” – the last sentence of his joke to hit headlines in 1984. But the late president is well-remembered and respected in Russia for what he did to benefit both nations. ... It was him who went to Kiev in August 1991 to warn about the danger of “a suicidal nationalism based upon ethnic hatred”. Looking at the contemporary Ukraine, one can see the late president was bestowed with the gift of foresight. After the Soviet Union’s collapse, he continued to view the world through the paradigm of Washington-Moscow relations. He believed that the relationship with the nuclear power, which has huge territory, resources, population and a seat in the UN Security Council, was of paramount importance for America’s national interests. During President H.W. Bush’s tenure, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was given assurances that NATO would not expand past Germany. The recently declassified documents confirm the story. “Not one inch eastward” said Secretary of State James Baker 9, 1990.It was Bill Clinton who made a decision to expand NATO forward. By doing so, he undermined the European security without any benefits for American people. The warnings by such renowned experts as George Kennan, who opposed the formation of NATO, went unheeded. George H.W. Bush had the gift of global vision while Bill Clinton was mainly concentrated on the Middle East due to internal reasons. Former head of the Central Intelligence Agency, a two-term vice president, ambassador to the United Nations and China, George Bush Senior was the only foreign policy guru among the post-war chief executives – “America’s last foreign policy president”. ...
source: strategic culture foundation
«Muslim anti-Semitism is the most dangerous»
The German-Jewish historian Michael Wolffsohn sees three sources of rekindling hatred of the Jews. In the latest issue of NZZ-Standpunkte, he talks about the alliance between leftist and Muslim anti-Semitism and explains why AfD's failures are least of all appalling. ... The AfD - not a hopeless case From the AfD, under whose party members and supporters there is hatred of the Jews, Michael Wolffsohn draws no totally black picture. "These are not anti-Semites all the time." Of course, exponents like Björn Höcke, head of the Thuringian AFD, are "deeply disagreeable." Höcke had called the Holocaust memorial in Berlin a "monument of shame", spoken of a "stupid coping policy" and called for a "remembrance policy change of 180 degrees". But Wolffsohn sees many shades in the party, and yet at their events no Israel flags were burned. "In these populist movements, I do not even and always determine the discriminatory anti-Semitism."
source: nzz
source: nzz translate
New EU digital tax to let most US giants off the hook
US tech giants AirBnB, Amazon, Apple, and Spotify look set to get off the hook on new EU taxes, but Facebook and Google are still in the crosshairs. That was the net result of EU talks so far on a new "digital tax" designed to stop global firms from paying next to nothing in Europe via accountancy tricks, even though they generate billions of euros in profits there. France had pushed for a new three percent tax on all online sales and services in the EU by companies with a global turnover of €750m or more, and online sales of €50m or more in Europe. Its plan, put on paper by the Austrian EU presidency, needed unanimity to go ahead. But it was scuppered last week when Ireland, home to Apple's HQ in Europe, and Luxembourg, which has also cut sweetheart tax deals with multinationals, opposed it. Denmark, Finland, and Sweden also said no, while Germany sat on the fence, amid concern that US leader Donald Trump would retaliate if the EU went ahead and that the new measures might harm growth in the digital economy. ...
source: euobserver
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