From your name I’m going to assume you live in Australia. For if you were an American, you would know our high school students are not quite ready for Nietzsche. They have a hard enough time trying to grasp why Jack and Jill went up the hill.

The only religion people like Soros and Vance have is the worship of money and the narcissistic acting out which it enables. Amoral and nihilistic, they’d sell their grandmothers. There’s lots of people like this but they haven’t had the cunning to rise to the level of these two. Other people are just stepping stones in practice although they’ve mastered the art of talking some convincing stuff.

Both now.

Preach it, brother 😖
Once more we are reminded of the genius and clairvoyance of Ezra Pound
(“A ´democracy´ is a country that is ruled by Jews” – 1946); of course they
put him in the nuthouse …
Step One: Make Der Wille zur Macht required reading in every “high” school.

Soros has a page on the ADL site where they claim he is just a humanitarian, philanthropist, and advocate for democracy and anyone who says otherwise is an antisemite. See how they operate? You cannot even denounce a Jew as evil and demonic as Soros without having the antisemite card played on you.

the creator of the entire “black lives matter” dialectic shit-show that could potentially usher in the next fuhrer/pogrom (given how stupidly unstable the Murican electorate is when pushed), and the funder of blue-city crime wave in Murica for his personal benefit. Thanks Mr “Open Society”! Rot in Hell Soros and family!

Hehe, incredible how one psycho can spew so much shitt. Aand the vomit says ‘he is against’ the illegal settlement Isral..yeeh right..it’s ‘his’ perfectly closed society..

That America spends trillions of dollars and sends soldiers to die by the thousands on behalf of Israel to fight against Muslims in various wars while Soros is allowed by our government to do whatever he pleases to destroy America is proof that America is either the stupidest country in the world or the most corrupt.

I am not U.S., but have read of the lawfare upon them. It should be common knowledge to anybody reading about U.S. politics.

The same ‘judge’, Letitia James, was behind one of the lawfare attack fronts on Trump, so he should do what he can to free those two from their lawfare bindings.

Doubt that he will, though, also suspect that they (Brimelows) may now be more interested in their very expensive real-estate holding than in continuing anything else.

I just read a post by Peter and Lydia Brimelow about their hideous ordeal of lawfare, cancellation, and internet attack. See here. It is simply unimaginable that such a sustained attack could be made on people exercising their First Amendment right to free speech. The immigration fanatics definitely want them to disappear as well.

That seems quite sensible. I have had SGI, Shin Nyo En (think I am still on their membership list, a former work colleague dragged me along enough times for me to qualify as a member, I stopped going), even Aum Shinrikyou try to recruit me.

My only regret is not having bought things (electronic ambient music tapes, other items) from Aum, they’d sell high now. Can’t say that I regret not having ever attended their meetings.

One of my closer friends in a rock band, drummer, when his father (Buddhist priest) died, he thought for a while, then decided to take that path. So we can’t contact him. I am sure that he will be good at it.

No offense taken. I believe in what Buddha said and meant-to the greatest accuracy I can compound. I believe in all and none the various “schools” and varieties.

I don’t need or want any front loading of beliefs, tenets, canons, etc, etc.

Seems correct, although I am only an outside observer. Used to want to visit, but no thanks now, thanks to Merkhin.

Alice Weidel is the ONLY politician in Europe, outside of Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia that wants this to stop AND deport these anthropoids sofort!

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Much is vanishing, I recommend that people save what may be made to vanish, and I only have a very small collection.

The vanishing of articles on Merkhin’s SED career was so sudden as to surprise me, I have spent several hours trying to find them, but they seem to have been made to vanish a few years ago, as I was saying in an earlier comment, saving things is good, but it was impossible to predict the mass-flushing of any info on Merkhin and SED.

Yet they did it.

Not intending to be impolite with this question, in which variety of Buddhism do you believe?

Seeing your posts and knowing you are one of the most clever representations of your race is quite comforting.

Hey, anony-mouse. Forgotten the planetary ecological collapse have you? Seeing as it is irreversible for millions of years, and will exterminate most, or all, humanity, we might be said to be in Post-mortem, or Zombie, Modernity.

It just shows that queers can be scum, too, like the rest of us. Mind you, a decent, sane, human being might yet escape the Imperial vetting process. You never know.

Maybe he developed them.

Because Trump never had bone heel spurs. Did he not play baseball at Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania?

Why would defective eyesight be a more legitimate excuse than bone heel spurs?

It’s really too bad that such a fine looking woman is batting for the other team

Meanwhile, in the Real World where performance and ability are forefront:

https://nypost.com/2025/01/18/us-news/trump-is-tapping-members-of-the-lgbt-community-for-top-spots-in-administration/

Trump is tapping members of the LGBT community for top spots in his administration — despite Dem hysteria
By Jon Levine
Published Jan. 18, 2025, 8:16 a.m. ET

President Trump is assembling an administration stocked with prominent gay and lesbian Americans — defying hysterical Democratic rhetoric.

“When it comes to whether you’re gay or straight, black or white and all those markers others calculate — President Trump is decision blind. He bases his decision on the kind of job he knows you will do, period,� said Bill White, a top Trump fundraiser — who was tapped to serve as the US ambassador to Belgium.

Among the picks:

Scott Bessent, 62, treasury secretary. If confirmed, the hedge fund manager would be the highest-ranking openly gay official in US history.
Ric Grenell, 58, presidential envoy for special missions. He was Trump’s director of national intelligence during his first term.
Tammy Bruce, 62, the new State Department spokesperson was a Fox News contributor.
Jacob Helberg, 35, undersecretary of state for economic growth, energy, and the environment.
Bill White, 57, ambassador to Belgium.
Art Fisher, 49, ambassador to Austria.

Tammy Bruce, American radio host, author, and political commentator, in a blue suit at Fox Business Network Studios for ‘Lou Dobbs Tonight.’ 3
Former Fox News host Tammy Bruce is among the most prominent LGBT administration officials. Getty Images

And at least 10 other prominent LGBT Americans are slated for major administration posts, one Trump insider said.

You have no interest, and yet you jump in like some White knight come to save a maiden? Weird.

The Roosevelt administration shipped food, weaponry etc. to Russia but the political right in this country was largely isolationist and opposed that.

The political right in this country was traditionally noninterventionist. Our first president, Washington, warned us in his Farewell Address not to become involved in European wars. It was a liberal, Wilson, who dragged us into WW I. Then liberals FDR, Truman and LBJ took us into WW II, Korea and Vietnam. Things changed when the neocons took over the Republican party. Real conservatives like Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul, though, continued to be antiwar.

Your boy Poopon decided to get personal and insult me. So I hit him back.

FWIW — along with most people here — I have zero interest in your little internet dramas, but I quoted the above because it’s a virtually word-for-word transcription of an Alden rant. Coincidence, I’m sure. Have fun!

More than the hands. Look closely at the face. Alice Weidel is a tranny and AFD is the very definition of false-opposition. Just more jew tricks. Cut to the chase already and lets implement the only system, in thousands of years, that was finally able to break the jews meta-hold on the european mind.
VOTE NSDAP.

To be fair, the number anti-zionist hegemons in the world is just about zero. ZOG’s power is global and even BRICS+ countries rarely protest…fortunately, we’re in late modernity…unfortunately, WE ARE IN LATE MODERNITY…so we have to ride this out…with demographic collapse, global capitalism failing, and the West hollowing itself out from decades of hedonistic libertinism, the JQ will resolve itself and its consummate middlemen will return to being diaspora bridge trolls in the forest.

Okay Mikey, try following the thread. Your boy Poopon decided to get personal and insult me. So I hit him back. I know that among chicks and effeminate men, hitting back isn’t acceptable, you gals believe in running away and telling the teacher. Doesn’t work that way where I come from. And William Conrad was such a tough guy. Sad.

Christoph HH-the electric trucks already exist, and, can you believe it, electric TRAINS exist. As for 850 people (are you getting carried away?)in planes, it’s only a matter of time. What is it with you Rightists that you deny technological progress, even as it accelerates all around you. Small minds hate change, even, possibly particularly, for the better. Or do you own fossil fuel and ICE shares?

The Grundgesetz, or Basic Law is the German constitution post 1945. It was another diktat by the allies with very little or no input by the German citizenry. The German government of the day had to agree with it in order to have a modicum of power to sort out the piles of rubble that was left after the incessant bombing by the USA and Britain.

This Basic Law stipulates that the findings of the Nuernberg War Crimes Trials were to be accepted as inviolate and that the state was to govern itself accordingly.

ISTR that this diktat was to be effective for a period of 97 or so years.

If I had anything to say about Germany and its internal struggles I’d pass a law that makes it illegal, with serious penalty, for anyone that harms Germany or its people. That would include anti-German propaganda and all the lies of the Ho;ocaust for which no authenticated forensic evidence has ever been furnished.

And by hook or by crook I’d obtain nuclear weaponry along with delivery systems. Then woe betide any organization that harms the German state, such as the destruction of the Nordstream pipeline.

Your style of “argumentation” is exactly that of Alden, another notorious forum troll. A mix of childish, puerile name-calling and full-blown Tourette’s. Mixed in with cherry-picked facts, of varying relevance. Until proven otherwise, I’d say you and she are the same person.

You obviously swallowed all that anti-German war propaganda!

“…The political right in America did not want to join the war … or the side of Stalin…”

Pure rubbish! The USA shipped millions upon millions of tons of food, weaponry, whole factories, 400,000 trucks, US dollar printing plates etc. to the Soviet Union.

The Roosevelt administration had a burr up its ass about Germany. in all likelihood because it was overwhelmingly staffed by Jews and communists. Recall that in 1933 already “Judea Declares War on Germany”.

The reason? Germany managed to untie itself from the Jewish international banker’s cabal. The result was that the German economy recovered very quickly while the US was still in the depths of the Great Depression. Methinks there is a moral herein.

Harlem?

Anyway, my original point was that the average German has been conditioned to automatically avoid anybody the official narrative describes as leaning toward Far Right, ergo “they must be Nazis,� but there is no similar scepticism or stigma applied to actual communists and fellow travellers are in positions to destroy their nation with a malign agenda.

I’ve only see that photo of Merkel in her apartchiki uniform. I am aware of her father’s amazing freedom of movement and do not think there’s any mystery why he had that.

I argued for the parallel existence of decency despite highly authoritarian government. Even people serving in authoritarian governments are not perverted but it. A German soldier’s account of his service told how his seargeant order his squad to take some Italian partisans into the woods and shoot them. They were just kids and the author said he and his comrades fired a few shots into the ground and told the kids to scram.

Merkel strikes me as someone afflicted with an unseemly devotion to the DDR, not just someone who wanted what advantages government service provided. What I read about her post-1991 career suggested that it was dangerous to be a mentor to her. One or two mentors ended up being sideline if memory serves me. I can’t source any of that but she did seem to have the skids greased for her in her progress in the W. German government.

Btw, a pleasant book about decent Germans not fitting the stereotyple of SS brute is “Berlin Diaries 1940-1945” by Marie Vassiltchikov. The book I referred to about a timber operation in Stalinist Russia is “Bitter Waters: Life And Work In Stalin’s Russia” by Gennady Andreev-khomiakov.

The disappearance of certain stuff is amazing. It’s humorous when the Wayback Machine indicates that that item hasn’t been archived. The arrogance of the censors is through the roof.

It’s weird how you weak minds automatically assume everyone has the mental deficiencies you have. Just because you had that little fling in your high school locker room with that janitor, doesn’t mean normal people don’t exist. You degenerates are a small minority, obviously getting larger as America declines.

I notice that you latent homosexuals are always talking about psychiatrists. Is that where your mind was twisted? Look, poop-on (a common homosexual act), you’re probably still young, even if you’re not, find a Bibke believing Church, confess your sins and get out of the gutter. Normal people exist. And none of us like homosexuality

Merkel or as I prefer Merkhin (look it up) was really high up in the SED, she and her agents have cleansed the Internet of such, but you would find her sharing podium positions with the top leadership.

Her father was a ‘living Church’ (apostate) Lutheran priest who crossed from west to east.

That isn’t bad in itself, if I had been a teen or early twenties in that place and time, may also have decided to cross to the east. In Japan, many of Korean descent chose return to north Korea.

Merkel seems to have been singularly evil.

However much Merkhin and her agents destroy information about her on the Internet, people (like me, others posting here, others, too) have seen the information, Merkhin sitting among the very top of the SED in the DDR.

I doubt that they would have supported the degree of destruction that she has wrought, but that is what it is.

Things keep disappearing from the ‘net all the time. I post an old song from a German band, but it doesn’t suit the band, I’m pretty sure that I posted a link to a live performance of the same song two or three years ago, would guess that it is a dead link now.

Save anything that seems as if it may be whitewashed (like Merkhin’s political history) or be judged ‘not PC’, as is the case with the song below, only over a still, but to the point if you understand any German.

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Title is Kebabtraume.

I feel many at the keyboards, leading regular commuter lives, living under the Talmudic Radar of the Chosen, do not appreciate the limitations and balancing required to run a country in the West. To the average schmo, it looks like easy 123, “Why if I was President, I would snap my fingers and make ____ go away”. Yessir. “Another shot and I’ll blow my snot, Paddy”.

Your sub-conscious dread that you might be a homosexual, inherently, is a schism in your personality.
That box with a spring inside of it is ready to spring and blow up your world, when the lid loses its latch. Then you reconfigure and confront yourself with total honesty, or your personality disintegrates by opposing forces within.

Get some major psychiatric/psychological help, before you hurt innocent people and yourself out of internal tension and self-hate.

Undeniably what you wrote is true. I don’t know about 19th Century Romanticism, if it was that important toward this construct. It seemed an artistically focused movement. Jung’s Analytic Psychology is very structured, while the 19th Century Romanticism distanced itself from this German obsession. The 1960s had similarity.

I believe the greatest influence on Jung was The Buddha and his teachings. His ideas of the Collective Consciousness can not be linked to previous or his contemporary epoch. Schopenhauer proclaimed his acceptance of Buddhism, as well as immersing himself in His teachings. This had a profound effect on Richard Wagner, who was struggling with the maimed and dysfunctional Christian religions of his epoch. He saw, I believe, the limitations on the reflexive worship of the pagan gods of the the Northern People.

As I am a Buddhist, a follower and acceptor, the many derivatives and similarities between Jung and Buddha are obvious. One other individual you did not mention was Hermann Hesse. If you had been reading my comments, I have shown the profound effect that Schopenhauer had upon Wagner, and likewise upon Schopenhauer. I had spent much time in the Orient, from high school on, two years in Hawaii, one year at the U of H, Manoa, and spent considerable time at its East-West Cultural Center. My professional life included many trips to the Orient, as well as most of the World.

You, like most Western intellectuals, you seem to have a void where Eastern Religions and Thought are concerned. This self-centered, anti-heuristic, and exclusion even by the Common Man has great negative consequences for the West, and has to be factored in its constant decline and degradation, like the half life of a radioactive material. This self imposed filter and prism is very stupid, and maintained for control and manipulation of the masses, by limiting their contact and Consciousness of other ways of perception and thinking.

For those reading this exchange, a definition is in order:

Individuation is the process of becoming a distinct, independent person with a unique identity. It’s a psychological concept that involves developing a sense of self, purpose, and self-awareness.

https://www.hasegawaryo.com/wagners-journey-with-buddhism-to-the-present

Jung, in his pre-war and post-war writings, offers more total insight into Germany’s Collective Consciousness, its deficiencies, its tragic march to the edge and over into the abyss, and the amplification of German malignancies of its milieu, and why only Germans where carried away into mass hypnosis by this pathetic creature.

I’ve asked a hundred times whether you’re a female or just an effeminate man. Why won’t you answer? Or don’t you know the difference?

So I’m a liar? Then you’re an idiot and probably a flaming homosexual who spent the night at a glory hole. Homosexuality has been a jailable offense, a felony, in Christendom for over 2,000 years. In ancient Rome, the punishment for homosexuality, before the decline, was death. At the height of the British Empire, before the decline, homosexuals were imprisoned. Homosexual activity was illegal in the US until a week ago. Your weak mind has been propagandized into believing a person who abuses his rectum and the rectums of others, is normal. You’ve got a weird name, too, probably some kind of homosexual act you guys engage in at circuit parties or in public restrooms.

In the part of NYC where I grew up, if you called someone a liar, you’d have to back it up with your fists. Too bad we can’t settle who’s the liar that way.

The founder of the actual Giga Society for super-geniuses, Paul Cooijmans, called Kim “a megalomaniac, pathologically lying impostor.” Kim had created a clone of the Giga Society website, using the same name and listing actual members without their knowledge. The AfD has since deleted their enthusiastic posts about Kim’s support, stating, “The post was deleted due to doubts about the authenticity of the gentleman’s account.” https://linkmix.co/33592444

How is the hip-replacement prep. for your decrepit body going? You’re the one who mentioned that.

Wouldn’t replay it to you, except that you are in general such a pompous and supercilious wind-bag. Pompous Marx.

Let me know when a battery-powered vehicle can pull a 60K lbs load across the US in a few days or can carry 850 people in the sky across the Atlantic Ocean.

There weren’t a lot of options for ambitious people in the communist bloc. If you had the fortitude to sit through regular party meetings and could keep your opinions to yourself you could have a better life materially.

Putin and Orban strike me as regular guys. Merkel not so much.

The author of “East of the Oder” wrote of a Red Army major who took a shine to her mother and was a perfect gentleman. A book by another gent who was released from the Gulag after a mere five years described the manager of the timber enterprise very favorably. A former girlfriend’s mother had been a major in the Red Army air force during War Two as Philomena Cunk would say. She was a sweetheart.

I think people made do under difficult circumstances. Just b/c someone was a communist doesn’t tell the whole story.

A second Meloni ?
Indeed, for me, Meloni remains a question mark : an Aspen follow, she did not differentiate much, beyond talks, from other EU countries or from the EU commission policy aligned on US.
But she is keeping some form of low profile compared to her German, French, or Dutch counterparts, not to mention Polish and Baltic ones.

Indeed it looks like Germany is not a sovereign country.
I’m wondering whether secret clauses remain in place since 1945, or the creation of the federal republic of Germany, whereby Germany would have to follow the US rule.
Also Germany remains aUS-occupied country, as Emmanuel Todd, the author of “The defeat of the West” reminds.
It was frequently said that Germany was governed by its large corporates Union; the lack of rreaction to the destruction of NordStream, and resulting destruction of affordable gaz supply, critical to a uniquely manufacturing country like Germany, would tend to show that it is not, or no longer, the case.
Corporates can re-locate their plants at great cost, but German population will remain in place, at pain, with an enormous quantity of immigrants which was only to be ‘digested’ with a florishing manufacturing sector.

Treason?

Mr. Vogel, I think you’re being too hard on Ms. Weidel. She’s a powerful speaker and only has to contend with every scumbag politician in the entire German nation and its loathsome press. They are scared to death of her and are itching for an opportunity to crucify her and criminalize her party. Courageous hardly begins to describe that woman.

Others here have noted that she said Hitler was a socialist, not a communist. The street battles between the SA and the reds were not kabuki theater, though I have read that the two groups would meet for a brewski after an engagement. I doubt she thinks they were chums.

It’s really too bad that such a fine looking woman is batting for the other team. Let me just point out she’s like Roseanne Barr’s TV character who said to the man attempting to chat her up at the diner, “Sir, I’ll have you know I’m a married woman . . . .but I’m not a fanatic about it.” She’s hardly a crusader for “that stuff.” So let’s be like President Lincoln who, when told that Gen. Grant was an alcoholic, said let’s send him a case of his favorite whiskey because that man can fight.

I don’t think we should read any agenda of submission into her meeting with Musk. Yes, the US agenda is poisonous but as a practical matter Musk just happens to control a worldwide media company and talking him into lending his support to the AfD would be a great benefit to it and her.

Great article nonetheless. Thanks.

Excellent comment.

Alas old 88 keeps being thrust into every article, podcast, talk show, movie, court case, and political campaign for dog catcher. As the great Sam Kinison would say, “Oh! Oh! It never quits! It never quits!”

Why that is so is a complete mystery to me.

I’m surprised we’re not still all wrapped around the axle over the the Australian-Hungarian Empire after all these years. Franz Jose this and Franz Jose that.

Very good article. Thank you.

separating The Self the social role.

Should be: separating The Self from the social role.

Individuation was a termed coined by Jung to describe the most important theme of 19th century Romanticism, which he was steeped in from the time he was a young student.

Here’s a short list of some of the figures of that time who had an influence on Jung.

Kant, Goethe, Beethoven, Shcopenhauer, Caspar David Friedrich, Schelling, Schuman, ETA Hoffman, Stendhal, Byron, Wordsworth, Mill, Carlyle, Balzac, Bergson, Bastian, Hartmann, and of course Nietzsche (in spite of CJ’s criticisms of FN). All of the names listed, and in so many different areas of the arts & sciences, have to do with developing and ultimately separating The Self, the social role.

Individuation is just another way of saying the same thing.

He just coined a term and offered an explantion for what was already in the culture nearly 100 years before he was even born. Speak your mind, but know your facts.

Double or even Triple Drivel.

I don’t believe your outline biography. You profile as some Fundamentalist Zion Church in San Antonio, Arkansas, or some backwoods Bible Thumping dump. If you knew any history, you would realize that many great, important contributors to civilization have been of “gay” or had same sex partners. And were quite happy, and accepted.

I have always been heterosexual and have lived in gay towns like San Francisco, Guerneville, CA, etc. I live and let live. The gays I have known have been settled, monogamous, committed, and extremely civilized, altruistic, kind, and have talent and intelligence. I’ve also lived in Hollywood, and have attended several parties that were predominantly gay, but I brought my woman date, and nobody cared. I have never been propositioned by a gay, except once in Hollywood, in passing on the sidewalk.

Rather than running down a decent, capable, and moral person like Alice Weibel, you should take an inward look at your tottering self-confidence in your masculinity, and why you need to strangle an outward phenomenon that is eating you up inwardly.

You need help with your phobia (irrational fear), and seek out the proper healthy and freedom from your sickness and spiritual dissipation. I had not realized that you were so psychologically and spiritually bereft.

‘…dismantle every ‘windmill’ (a true sign of a brainwashed, Rightwing, moron-cultic cant)and go for coal and maintain environmental quality.’ Gibberish, the productive of a disease mind, appealing to reality deniers.

Rich, you are plainly hate-crazed and psychopathic, so why should we accord your rantings anything but contempt? If he was YOUR grandfather it was because he was mean, like you. And not just in the meaning of ‘cruel’.

I’ve lived all over the world and have been headquartered in NYC for much of my adult life. I’ve seen it all, and if I missed anything, I’ve read about it. Every single homosexual I’ve met, every one, has been mentally damaged. Every single one isn’t all there. Like a necrophiliac, or a copropheliac, they have a mental disorder. It can be fixed, I’ve seen it happen, but it takes a religious conversion, work and leaves a lot of scars. Now some young, drunk or immature woman who has a fling, is maybe not that bad, but a sober, adult woman who goes through a sham “marriage” is showing signs of serious mental illness. She may be able to function and hold down a job, but by spitting in the face of what has been human “tradition” for 6,000 years of recorded history, means you aren’t a “traditionalist”. As I wrote, she may be better than the freaks running Germany right now, but because of her inability to deal with her mental disorder, she shouldn’t be trusted around sharp objects. There’s a reason great grandpa had laws against such behavior. It wasn’t because he was mean, it was because he was smart. Much smarter than the current crop.

Be as explicit as you wish, just don’t bore the rest of us with ” I have to have the last word.” You must be a woman.

Anglo Saxon Europe had a shot at a successful future. They let the Eastern European Jews and U.S. bend their brains. There is still time for them to break the bonds that curse them but they must look to the Far East.

Reagan never fought in combat supposedly due to defective eyesight but it’s probably more legitimate than Trump getting out of Vietnam due to bone heel spurs.

Imagine being so decayed and delusional to think that a ‘far right’ lesbian will be the savior of Germany and restore it to health…

homosexual, says it all, lot’s of trouble.
What a shame,

They should rename the streets Hitler-Stalin-Pact-Street, then their own Jewish-communist-capitalist involvement won’t be too unpleasant to the eye. After all, all enlightened people have known since Brandon Martinez and Alice Weidel that Hitler was a communist.

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Stalin could not have been a mass murderer, if only because Hitler waged war against him, and if he had been a mass murderer, the Jews would have all those who “deny� this silenced and thrown into prison just like the “Holocaust deniers�!

“Suffice to say, that bellicose monster, Reagan, despite being born in 1912, never ever served in the military.”

Not true.

He enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve in 1937 and went on active duty in 1942. He was discharged in 1945.

“The overload of the compensatory mechanisms that worked so well in the 1970s and 1980s can be captured by what Streeck and Trampusch (2005) call a

“vicious circle of positive feedback�

between high nonwage labor costs and unemployment.

The high nonwage labor costs make German labor more expensive, and German workers must demand higher gross wages in order to improve their disposable income.

This induces firms to shed labor and increase capital intensity, and this increases nonwage labor costs further, because the claims on the pay-asyou-go transfer systems increase further, which in turn requires higher social contribution rates.

Against this backdrop, Helmut Kohl’s government introduced a consolidation package in 1997 that amounted to “the largest cutbacks in social policy in the Federal Republic’s history� (Siegel2004).

It included retrenchment of disability pensions

and reduction of benefits and tightening of eligibility criteria for unemployment insurance,

as well as abandonment of the parity principle (equal share of the financial burden between labor and capital) in health insurance.

The last proposal represented a major departure from the German model.”

…

“The proposition of an emergent European economic superpower is based on a basic-force model. It asserts that the EU has reached a position of global economic leadership by virtue of its equality with the United States in terms of GDP and presence in world trade. In order for this proposition to be compelling, two corollary assumptions are required: first, for economic purposes, the EU can be viewed as a polity or at least a single actor; and, second, in the contemporary era of globalization, military power has lost much of its utility, not least because it has become decoupled from economic power.”

…

“In fact, the basic-force model greatly overstates the nature and extent of the decline of US hegemony. It fails to account for the ways in which Washington and Wall Street were able successfully to reconfigure US hegemony after the collapse of the Bretton Woods system on the basis of the interactive embeddedness of public, corporate, and retail financial and money markets in accordance with US welfare residualism. By contrast, the Maastricht design of EMU, fiscal pacts, and the Lisbon reform process have not established an adequate foundation for sustained European economic growth and political cohesion. Rather,
they have introduced selectively within the EU–and especially within the eurozone–institutions and practices that are incompatible with European systems of innovation and social accords and that reinforce US-led neoliberal hegemony. The result has been chronic uneven development, stagnation, and unemployment. These factors, in turn, fan the flames of nationalist populism and prevent the emergence of a genuine polity and the mobilization of a coherent EU foreign policy agency.
Those who have made their way through the preceding chapters will also be in no doubt that we are sceptical of claims that international economic relations are multipolar or chaotically organized, or that globalization has decoupled military power from international and transnational economic relations. More broadly, the distinction between political and economic power implicit in basic-force and soft-power models is analytical, and not real. Since 1945, US hegemony in Europe has been expressed through the mutual interaction of political military and economic power. The United States’ geopolitical expansion across the European continent after 1989 was itself a key factor in the consolidation of neoliberalism. Indeed, China’s rapid ascendance, the resurgence of Russian nationalism, growing instability in the Middle East, and the resource rivalries that are likely to become increasingly acute in the coming decades throw a spotlight on the continuing realities of geopolitical rivalry and the limitations of Europe’s nascent security project.”
”

It’s interesting that the tech-savvy people and companies from Germany & Israel are leaving those places due to expensive energy and war respectively , and where might they be moving to? The USA or somewhere like Mexico for the ‘on-shoring’ effect?

how many recall the number of countries that rejected the eu via “voting” sometimes multiple times. spain, france, chekia, ireland, italy, etc all rejected the eu.

From cafruney & ryner:

“We do not think that one has said everything that is important about actors when one has labeled them “neoliberal.â€�

Rather, in our view social forces, state managers, supranational entrepreneurs, and other actors embrace, tactically adjust themselves toward, or resist neoliberalism from the vantage points of different, and often competing, material positions and interests.

Above all, we do not suggest that the neoliberal European project is a conspiracy–a fully thought out blueprint immanently implemented,
and globally mastered, by its agents.

We rather subscribe to a more structural point of view, in which neoliberalism describes an “institutional materialityâ€�–a set of intersubjective norms and rules to which actors have to orient themselves or, for that matter, a “logic of appropriatenessâ€�.

These norms and rules, in turn, reflect a structural matrix of institutions that define the formal separation of politics and economics in the prevailing regulatory mode of capitalist development.

Especially important in this context has been the organization of finance, which systematically favors the United States.

It is in this sense that the United States remains hegemonic, albeit not without a growing list of challengers.

This is a position that we amplify [and] our analytical focus on [the] EMU reflects the centrality of money and finance in transatlantic and European regional power relations.

In a classic formulation, David Calleo has highlighted the importance of money for social and political relations in general:

“International economic relations are highly politicized. This is particularly true of monetary relations,
the history of which often serves as a metaphor for general politico-economic relations in the world system�.

Similarly, drawing on Georg Simmel and Niklas Luhmann, Claus Offe (1985) has emphasized the importance of money and finance as central “steering media� through which capitalist states perform their contradictory roles of rendering compatible economic dynamism, social legitimation, and internal operational cohesion.

The EMU, then, can be seen as constituting the institutional fulcrum of the neoliberal integrationist project.

Nevertheless, the scope of this book goes well beyond the question of money and monetary union.

From our chosen analytical vantage point, we offer a holistic analysis of the interconnections of socioeconomic dynamics, the welfare state, questions of legitimacy and citizenship, and Europe’s geopolitical predicament.

Hegemony cannot be reduced to “institutional copying.�

To assert that the EU is pursuing a neoliberal project does not imply that either the EU itself or its individual nation-states can entirely abandon distinctive institutions or values that have been shaped by centuries of historical experience.

Europe will never become “Americanized� or even “Anglicized� in this sense.

Rather, hegemony means that norms and rules successfully represent certain particular interests as general interests.”

– from chapter 1 of Europe at Bay: In The Shadow of US Hegemony by Alan Cafruney and Magnus Ryner. Copyright 2007 Reinner Publishing.

A true crop of European leaders needs to emerge that needs to realize that the United States is a disease and having close relations with it is akin to sleeping with someone who has full blown smallpox or bubonic plague. The US alphabet agencies have wormed their way in to every aspect of the German establishment as well as those of other European nations, and under no circumstances will the US allow any parties to evolve that have true European interests in mind.

I don’t think that the election of Trump will make any difference as he is just a big fraud. European nations will need to almost completely cut relations off with the United States as Russia has done. Only then can they truly say that they have severed the poisonous ties that have bound them to the diseased US government for the past 80 years.

China is very good investor and they are willing to build battery factories in Europe which is essential for the future of auto industry. Slovakia recently made very good deals.

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That is the main reason why the west hates Fico so much.

But in English for over a century it’s been Vlad. Even my Russian relatives use it because it’s a swell tough-guy name.

The Russian version just don’t make it past the language barrier.

You are a Hasbara sayanim or a cognitively disordered and pitiable remnant of a normal person. Her public persona is charismatic and audiences revel and cheer her speeches. She is adored withing the AfD and its supporters. She is the face of the Party and has been chosen almost unanimously as the candidate for Chancellor.

She has a towering intellect, is down to earth, a gracious woman who radiates genuineness and authenticity. You are lying and misrepresenting Reality.

Anyone can double click my moniker for reference of videos and text, all of which give the lie to your mealy mouthed slander and filthy misrepresentations.

The Unexpected Rise of Alice Weidel in German Politics
By
Rocco Caldero
December 23, 2024

Alice Weidel, co-leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), has emerged as a formidable figure in German politics. With a simple post on his platform, Elon Musk declared a couple of days ago, “Only the AfD can save Germany,� igniting a firestorm of debate as the nation prepares for its February 23, 2025, federal election.

Recent polls show Weidel surpassing Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union as the preferred chancellor candidate. This development marks a significant shift in Germany’s political landscape.

The AfD, founded in 2013, has steadily gained support over the years. The party currently polls at around 19-20% nationally, making it the second-strongest party behind the CDU/CSU union. Weidel’s personal popularity exceeds her party’s, indicating her broad appeal.

Weidel’s background sets her apart from typical conservative politicians. She holds a doctorate, speaks fluent Mandarin, and lives openly with her female partner. These qualities have helped her connect with middle-class voters and broaden the AfD’s appeal.

etc….

Voter choice for Chancellor of Germany:

Alice Weidel. 24%
Fredrich Merz. 20%
Olaf Scholz. 15%
Robert Habeck. 14%

Alice Weidel’s personal popularity exceeds her party’s popularity.

Since you are an obvious liar, the question is, what is your motivation and aim? Assume a Hasbara Gefilthy Fish and it would fit your comment. That would be to discredit the leading and most popular figure inside and outside the AfD for a stable of nobodies who could not poll in the low single digits. Or, you are some mentally disordered ideological dumb terminal controlled by an off site mainframe. Either way you are either a low aptitude cognitive mess and inadequate human being or – my guess – another Mossad troll with the load of personality traits of common to Jewry, i.e., socio and psychopathology and Satanism. May you live to see and experience the Big Orange Mushroom Cloud sitting at your computer desk in Mossad Information Disruption Bureau.

Thank you Hans for a hard hitting and largely accurate assessment of our current geopolitical landscape. The actual absurdity of it is the best indicator that “the times they are a changin’” Alice for all her faults is a change agent, a catalyst, not a leader and will likely be replaced tout suite once it is clear that she will get no attention from Trump, who although non committal does not appreciate people of confused sexuality.

@Miro23

You’re right but the logical and natural integration should be with Russia, a country both in Europe and Asia and the link between China and Europe.

The divide and rule attacks by Britain and now the US against most European countries (with Germany being the first target, Russia the second and France the third) are meant to make sure western Europe won’t ally with their natural partners: Russia.

Western Europe and Russia together would already dwarf the US and the UK economically.

It’s not new, here is an interesting article related to the topic:

The Dark Forces in Control of the Anglo-American-Zionist Empire Are the Source of the World Crisis. Richard C. Cook
http://www.globalresearch.ca/anglo-american-zionist-empire-source-world-crisis/5877240

If you want to see what is happening to Europe then watch the interview of David Frost with Oswald Mosely, he describes in the interview how Britain lost an Empire and were now just the plaything of the U.S and Russia…tossed from one to the other, Europe is at that point now.

Oswald Mosely was labelled a fascist, but that is what worked at the time that’s all, Mosely was above all else a patriot and he loved his country and knew that there was a malevolent force agitating for war, who is agitating for war at this moment?

Hitler was also a patriot and people forget the good he did because of what happened during the war.

Hitler erred when he believed stealing others assets and land was the answer to Germany’s overpopulation problem and once he decided on war and murder there should of being a mechanism to remove him.

I guess we are a little dense here. Let’s make it simple: Does she oppose Jewish interference in Germany, whether via the American Jews or otherwise? Does she oppose Israeli genocide? Will she support a total ban on all foreign aid, financial and military, to Israel? Will she support international criminal prosecution of Netanyahu and friends? Will she end German prostration before the notion of eternal Jewish victimhood, e.g. the holocaust?

Don’t talk to me about windmills — holy shit.

However, gays and lesbians are at best, what Jung described as individuals that lack courage to endure relationships with the opposite sex. Even worse, they are those individuals who have lost the connection with their human instinct to preserve the tribe and the greater specie.

I have read and thought about Jung and his works for decades. I do not believe that his thought and opinions can be adequately and sufficiently represented by your opinion above. Jungian Analytic Psychology has many components. Like a complex machine, these components vary in magnitude and effect to the individual. Some those components have to be modified in order for the individual to approach unity and a functional personality. Just as those missing limbs need prosthetic, or those who need medicine for metabolic disorder, whatever modification WORK to supplant or modify the ideal are obviously of utility and practicum.

Obviously, those who are less than perfect, are employable whether psychologically or physically outside the default congenital norm.

You need to turn away from the Evil of your SatanoAllah and the Anti-Christ Muhammad.

As a Christian, I feel great pity for you. All I can offer is forgiveness.

PEACE 😇

Grim video

https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2025/01/liberated-russkoe-porechnoe.html

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Though having followed the machinations of the Afd for years, had never heard Weidel speak before listening to some clips of the Musk interview and was just as dumbfounded by the amount of nonsense she uttered as the author of this article..

But after looking at the entirety of her, that Party and overall current political situation, the picture at least for me got more balanced again.

1. She is not the leader of the AfD but only 50 % of the leadership. The other co-chairman being Tino Chrupalla:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tino_Chrupalla

And this tandem-chairteam was specifically chosen in 2021 as successor of Alexander Gauland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gauland

-who remained an honorary chairman!-

to give the party a more “acceptable”, soft-entry public representation.

Weidel in this regard very clearly is mostly a straight out political correctness DEI figure explicitly -and very smartly- chosen to immunize the party from a great majority of all the usual cartoon-accusations and attacks from the media and officials.

In a very eloquent move once and for all all the usual cliche- attackpoints and wonder-weapons from the left were suddenly rendered moot.
Accusing a young rather attractive lesbian woman married to a Sri-Lankian immigrant to be a “Nazi”,”Sexist”, “Extremist” ant the likes simply does not work even with the most gullible of audiences and indeed created an enormous frustration among the nations media and journalists…

And that she can`t help herself publically regularly drivelling about “bad Nazis/Adolf”, “me love liberalism” and “protect Jews/Israel” is only one more involuntary plus, she perfectly embodying that front-idiot role better than anyone could have expected and of course the best thing being she actually takes herself very seriously, in contrast to large parts and perhaps most of the AfD party and their followers.

2. The AfD really has 2 sides in my experience, the first is the current extermely polished public image/policies, necessarily almost castrated in their appearance and utterances to the point that they indeed appear to have lost their real right roots.

But then there is the other side, representing what a large part of the party could and probably would do if they were actually free to do so and not constantly threatened with legal prosecution and violence from the left.

This “old school” side is represented very clearly by its most succesfull local leader Björn Höcke:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_H%C3%B6cke

And most notably by their entire Youth-wing, the JA (Junge Alternative), which of course fittingly was prosecuted by the state and temporarily banned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Alternative_for_Germany

But is now in the process of being incorporated again into the party.

These parts/sides of the AfD -and as said to note, that means the entire upcoming generation (age 15-35 years) really appear to be the real deal, the latter were behind last summers international media-sensation campaign of promoting the song and slogan “Ausländer raus!”:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/lamour-toujours-german-far-right-controversy-auslander-raus

And Björn Höcke explicitly and officially promotes to “turn Germans understanding/commemoration of their history 180 Degrees”, “stop immigration and start re-migrating non-Germans”, “abolish all Holocaust- Denial and Hate-Speech law” “promote 3 child-german family policies” and leave the EU and Euro (see his Wikipedia page above).

Last year he lead the AfD to win the election in the state of Thuringia by an astonishing 33% majority and the only reason why his ideals and promises so far have not been carried out is that of course All the other parties (that lost the election) so far have boycotted him from getting into any government position, against the will of the majority of the states citizens.

So, the question is really, will the AfD in the end (and in contrast to the parties of Italy`s Meloni and France`s La Pen), when they finally get into positions of power, turn full on turn-coat and compromise their original roots to the degree that it loses its soul and deceives its supporters completely, or will it after “having faked it to make it” return and be true to them…?

You are inexperienced in the World, haven’t traveled or lived in different American locals, or countries. Your statement that no same sex partnered person can be entrusted with any important job, task, or position, is beyond ignorance and vacuity.

You must explain how a same sex partnered person cannot, by some mysterious ether or imperceptible steel-like cable is automatically and inevitably prevented from endorsing traditional marriage and raising of children. Vladimir Putin would certainly condemn your opinion, which is so shallow and reflexive that my elucidation here is a burden of my time, but done out of altruism or the wish that other weak-minded souls would consider such nonsense as worthy outside of a trash bin.

Logically and syllogistically, your assertion is a fish out of water, a priori and prima facie. Alice Weibel had a father and mother, relatives who were normative and traditional. Thumb nail biography:

A-levels; studies in economics (Diplom Volkswirtin); studies in business administration (Diplom Kauffrau); doctorate in economics (Dr.rer.pol.).

Employed as an analyst and vice president in capital investment consulting and in the executive office of leading financial companies; head of investment management and development of new markets for an internationally active group of companies in the food industry; several years of international experience in Asia with a focus on China as well as in Europe and the USA; co-founding, consulting and development of start-up companies.

Am I the only one, or does Alice Weidel have the hands of a man?

So Alice be eatin dark chicken… hmm!

Europe at Bay: In the Shadow of US Hegemony, is a great slim book. Ron Unz will read it and write up a 3 hour article on it.

Cafruney and Ryner explain how the US made Euro faggot elites their bitch: Because they own stocks in NYSE. That’s it.

Here is the 1st chapter in pdf. It gets technical, so if youre a dumb fucking idiot retard you can skip it.

https://www.rienner.com/uploads/47e2942e8d5f9.pdf

Both Merkel and Putin are former (?) communists. Many other figures in eastern Europe are former communists. Elections in Romania were cancelled because aledged Russian meddling. Why would aledged communists in Bruxelles have issues with meddling of Russian communists.

Czech president general Pavel is not only former communist party member, but was trained as a military spy. Robert Fico of Slovakia is also former communist. I am not sure about Tusk. Orban’s father also communist.

I outed you as either a Christian Zionist putana or a ZIO pimp. Underneath the vestiges of “Christianity”, your reality is that of soiled underwear and suffocating body odor, similar to rotting fish offal.

Obscenely irrelevant.

Joe, she has stated explicitly and several times that she and the Party officially place the traditional family as the most essential institution in a culture. She and Putin are in Underline Text perfect harmonyUnderline Text on this issue. I ask you to read further in my postings to verify my assertion. She has two adopted children.

So sadly stupid. Vietnam is NOWHERE near China, and is just getting China’s low-level manufacturing, much of it from Chinese investment. Clutching at straws are you, you poor, brainwashed, ignorant, racist Sinophobe. China’s economy ‘imploding’??? Are you Gordon Chang?

Weidel was correct Hitler was on the left, not right, but should have left it at him being a socialist without throwing in communist, because that does not distinguish him from Stalin. World War II largely involved three forms of socialism: the international socialism of Stalin, the national socialism of Hitler, and the democratic socialism of FDR.

The political right in America did not want to join the war either on the side of Hitler or the side of Stalin, correctly identifying them as just two variations of the socialism they opposed. This American political right also opposed FDR, once again correctly identifying him as a third variation of the socialism they opposed.

Not EVERYONE with a wife IS a male, now, are they? Alice Weidel, for example…
Got to be explicit, nowadays. Certainly with people who don’t know (and can’t even see) us.

You Rightist cretins do love dear old A.H’s ‘Big Lie’, don’t you. EV sales are booming, and China will almost certainly sell no ICE vehicles, or a tint number, by 2030. And ALL types of vehicles were abandoned in the fires, you imbecile. Yeah, let the Chinese have quiet, smog-free cities, while dullards like you breathe shit and benzene, and your children’s lungs are permanently affected.

Poor Vogel goes full cuckoo’s nest when he arrogantly, ignorantly and INSANELY dismisses anthropogenic climate destabilisation with its nearly two hundred years of science, near total consensus among climate scientists today, and the MOUNTAINS of hard evidence of rapid disruption to numerous climate systems at present, with the Rightist denialists’ insouciant insanity. What is it about the Right that they cannot understand simple science and evidence, and instead prefer suicidal, paranoid, undifferentiating Groupthink?

We live in a day and age where the living sh*t has been beaten out of anything that used to be more or less ‘normal.’

My normal is a natural balance between anything around me and myself.

The Hopi were right: Koyaanisqatsi.

Survival of the fittest comes without any fags flags.

The EV vehicles are the future, in China already cheaper than petrol ones, but you need state of the art batteries to be competitive.

Germans have a pathological fear of anything branded as far right or in any way conflated with Nazism, to wit the hatred of anything called deportation, and won’t have anybody they think has Nazi or nationalistic leanings in their government, but they are quite comfortable with the fact that to this day they still have DDR communists and sympathisers sprinkled throughout their government. A revered former Chancellor is but one example.

The Communists were arguably far worse for the average German and for far longer than the Nazis, if you attribute a reasonable measure the tribulations of the last war to the Allies, but the average German is still unsettlingly confortable with Communists running the show. This gives one a clear picture of which side of the slippery slope Germany will fall, along with their partners in crime in the other EuSSR regions.

Just like we see in Romania, the Supreme Soviet in Brussels will appoint their preferred regional secretary/minister in any EU land they deem to be important to advancing the EU project. As Thierry Breton signalled, even the German elections might be annulled if the Germans choose wrong.

As long as the internet is working and the Walmarts are all open nobody is going to do anything.

Yes. In Reality, there is much more commonality between Communism and Fascism than difference. Both oppress individualilty, in terms of expression, dissent, and the pursuit of what C. G. Jung termed the process of Individuation.*

*Individuation is the process of becoming a distinct, independent person with a unique identity. It’s a psychological concept that involves developing a sense of self, purpose, and self-awareness.
Explanation

The term was created by Carl Jung, a psychoanalyst believed it was a central part of human development.

Jung believed that individuation was a process of self-realization, where people discover their purpose and meaning in life.
It’s a lifelong process that involves making choices that make you who you are.
Individuation involves integrating elements of the conscious and unconscious mind.
It’s a process of synthesizing opposites, such as conscious and unconscious, personal and collective, and life and death.

Both exert total control from above, an Elite, and brook no deviation from “doctrine” and official beliefs and ideals. Both are soul crushing. Whether the individual “owns” property but is totally directed by the Government or the State owns it, is of little relevance. Fascism depends upon the good will of a small number of permanent rulers or authoritarians. The owners of capital or businesses end up in an incestuous relationship as we see today as Corporate-State Fascism, where the Corporation kneels in supplication to the Government and the revolving door is always spinning.

Thus, as Alice Weidel has said Hitler was a Communist Socialist. Words are imprecise, but this is overwhelmingly valid and veritas. Alice has said that AfD is a Libertarian-Conservative Party.

For all you lazy slobs and schmucks out there who thoughtlessly scribble drivel, just read the AfD Manifesto, and watch the videos I posted.