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Yogi and Ingo go home!
“Two German diplomats using the fictitious names of Yogi and Ingo were arrested” in Iran, Iran state television has announced. No, not for using fictitious names (their real names are Yogi and Boo-Boo,...
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Gau-Wow Pow-Wow
They call it Instrumentalisierung here, or instrumentalisation (exploitation), if your prefer: “To take advantage of a situation, especially unethically or unjustly for one’s own ends.” Demonstrators...
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WaWe 10, Where Are You?
Car 54 couldn’t make it. Man oh man. I want to see this puppy in action sooo bad. It’s the Berlin Police Department’s brand-new water canon monster WaWe (as in Wasserwerfer) 10, specifically designed...
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We Are Still A Popular Front Of The Confused And Mutually Contradictory Yet...
None of this was meant to be satirical, I believe, but I had to read it three times to be sure, sort of. Here are few of the more hilarious tidbits: The Occupy movement got off to a great start last...
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United Stasi of America
Get it? A protest at the US embassy in Berlin and stuff. The National Security Agency can gather about one billion times more information than the sinister Stasi police that were used to hunt down the...
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Wave Of Anti-Hamas Rallies Hits Cities Across Germany
Enraged at the cowardly Hamas rocket attacks that have provoked Israel’s ground offensive into the Gaza Strip, thousands of Islamists, left-wing extremists and neo-Nazis have taken to the streets all...
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Pegida? Kögida? Bärgida?
This is all starting to bug me a litta… Germany is preparing itself for the first wave of PEGIDA demonstrations of the new year. The anti-Islamization movement has been steadily growing in popularity...
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Germans Not Overdoing It Again
Honest. With their anti-Islamization bzw. (and) anti-Pegida hysteria, I mean. Not with Bagida. Not with Bärgida. Not with Hagida. Not with Legida. Not with Muegida. Not with Mvgida. Not with Öz-Gida....
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Bavarian Codebreaker Needed
Not everybody can speak this lingo. I assume it has something to do with the G7 demonstration festivities going on in Elmau, Germany right now but I can’t say for sure. I am also assuming here that...
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TTIP Demonstrators Refuse To Let Their Rotten Mood Be Ruined By The Rotten...
Fearing that German goods bound for US-Amerika could soon be subjected to lower tariffs, less red tape and a much wider base of consumers to purchase them, tens of thousands of German anti-TTIP...
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Berlin May Day Protesters Too Bourgeois For This Anti-Bourgeois Nonsense
And too old, I guess. Everything is “relatively calm” yet again. Boring. In 1987, far-left rioters battled with police for 12 hours, looting shops and burning cars. They were fighting against what they...
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Germans Oddly Quiet About Protests In Iran
I wonder why? I know, let’s ask the Tasnim News Agency: The head of the German-Iranian Chamber of Commerce said Germany sold 2.358 billion euros ($2.846 billion) worth of goods to Iran, and imported...
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German Of The Day: Aktionskunst
That means performance art. And in one of the stupidist performances seen to date in Berlin, Greenpeace activists painted the streets around the Siegessäule (Victory Column) yellow. Greenpeace went...
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German Of The Day: Verschiedene Nationalitäten
That means “various nationalities.” It ain’t getting prettier, folks. The death of a 35-year-old German man drew spontaneous protests, organized by several far-right groups. Police struggled to control...
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“Police And Politicians Lack Empathy”
I couldn’t agree more. A lack of empathy for the guy who was just murdered. But even more lacking in empathy here is the German media. It’s all about the threat from “right-wing mobs,” as usual....
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That’s A Shocker
Not. The Head of Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (a long name for their spooky spy FBI-type folks), Hans-Georg Maaßen, has had the unmitigated audacity to announce that...
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Alien Crop Circle Discovered In Prackenbach
That’s in Germany. Actually, it’s in Bavaria. But still. And it’s not really an alien crop circle, either. It’s more like an alien cross. It’s a strange geometrical figure and ancient religious icon...
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Germany Idealistic, Naive And Leftist?
How ya figure? “I’m seen in Germany as a critic of idealistic, naive and leftist foreign and security policy,” the fired head of German domestic intelligence said on his way out. He just got put out to...
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Marginal Art Marginalized In Berlin
Marginal art made by marginal artists, that is. Actually, the story’s about the marginal artists who are upset about being marginalized, for being marginal. There is a difference here, of course,...
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German Of The Day: Bußgeld
No, that doesn’t mean bus money. It means fine or penalty. And that’s what the parents of the kids who have been taking part in Joan of Arc’s, I mean, Greta Thunberg’s wackedelic Fridays for Future...
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