The Israeli PM and other members of his cabinet will arrive in Germany next week for previously arranged government-to-government consultations.
It will be just one week after the German government abstained in a United Nations vote on the recognition of the state of Palestine – an abstention which the ultra-nationalist government of Netanyahu had not reckoned with.
The vindictive Israeli PM Netanyahu has just [...] Continue Reading…
Happy Birthday Günter Grass! German authour turns 85 today and still going strong.
The Günter Grass House, has existed since 2002 in the Glockengießerstraße 21 in Lubeck – its official name is ‘Günter Grass-Haus, Forum für Literatur und Bildende Kunst’ / the Günter Grass House, Forum for Literature and Visual Arts.
It offers insights into the work of Nobel laureate, graphic artist and sculptor [...] Continue Reading…
Circa 10,000 Potsdamers were evacuated yesterday from their city, just west of Berlin after the discovery of an unexploded 250kg World War II bomb which was subsequently successfully defused.
To see a picture of the bomb go to – http://www.news.com.au/news/wwii-bomb-causes-evacuations-in-germany/story-fnejlrpu-1226494918044
The 250kg turned out to be of US manufacture and was discovered in a residential Potsdam area, wrote the paper.
After almost 70 years following [...] Continue Reading…
Angela Merkel
In an article published yesterday, the increasingly unreliable UK Guardian , written by Dan Milmo, ‘industrial editor’ , openly blames German chancellor, Angela Merkel for the collapse of the BAE-EADS merger talks.
The article called “Angela Merkel blamed for collapse of £28bn BAE-EADS merger” claims that “sources” say German chancellor was key factor in decision to terminate talks. – http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/oct/10/angela-merkel-bae-eads-merger
The article was supposed [...] Continue Reading…
The annual report on ‘German reunification’ was delivered in Berlin yesterday by Germany’s Interior Minister Friedrich – and it concedes that while progress has been made to reconcile the economic differences there still remains a lot of work to be done.
In an article entitled ‘Germany’s former East still lagging behind’ the German Deutsche Welle reports about the report….and says ….” Even 22 years [...] Continue Reading…
The Guardian, which up until 1959 went through life known as ‘The Manchester Guardian’ is a British national daily along with its Sunday sister publication, ‘The Observer’.
It is generally considered ‘progressive’ and/or ‘left-leaning’ – except in the case of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks where it takes a completely vile and opportunistic position. [see below*]
It also often shares articles with the American newspaper [...] Continue Reading…
All eyes were on the constitutional court president, Andreas Vosskühle, who delivered what many believed to be an historical verdict some hours ago in the German city of Karlsruhe.
Amongst his rather stern and dour colleagues -in what looked like some kind of kitsch Dutch orange-clad football supporter outfits – he read out the courts findings. [ see foto in link to Sueddeutsche article below!]
There [...] Continue Reading…
Photo from Wikipedia shows Anti-American (“Yankee go home – imperialism is a paper tiger”) and anti-Israeli (“23 popularly elected in Israeli prisons”) banners and placards at a demonstration in Kungsträdgården in Stockholm, Sweden, against Israel’s 2006 Lebanon War. About 1 500 people participated in the demonstration- author – robotpolisher
He wants to lead America back to its ‘former strength’ – whatever the heck [...] Continue Reading…
The Nobel Peace winner and South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for a criminal case against George W. Bush and Tony Blair. He has accused the former ‘leaders’ that they had justified the Iraq war with a lie in an article published in today’s edition of the UK Observer/Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/sep/02/tony-blair-iraq-war-desmond-tutu
His clear words are what everyone has wanted to hear over the [...] Continue Reading…
Chancelor Angela Merkel leaves for China tomorrow accompanied by a usual large entourage of business delegates just so that there can be no confusion about the actual nature of the visit.
When she recently visited Canada for a day visit, she did the same thing. http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/08/16/merkel-meets-harper-cunning-bambi-meets-dour-elmer-fudd-ota-berlin-constituency-blog-commentary-by-emil-hoogensteyn/
“China, Germany sign $15 billion deals” wrote the China Daily about Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’ visit earlier this year and [...] Continue Reading…
merkel ota-berlinGerman Chancelor Angela Merkel arrived in Ottawa earlier today on a whirlwind 24-hour visit to Canada.
”Euro crisis ‘elephant in the room’ for Harper-Merkel talks” – is what the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the CBC is calling this two-people summit.
The government news broadcaster has as its website headline – ‘No-nonsense’ politicians also likely to discuss trade and global security during chancellor’s visit’ http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/08/14/pol-merkel-visit-advancer-wednesday.html
And while much is being [...] Continue Reading…
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