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04-10-2008: Demonstrating Against China for the Case of Tibet...But Where Were You, When...
Where were you? Were you demonstrating when George Bush and Tony Blair (with the support of Silvio Berlusconi and José María Aznar) were invading and bombing Iraq, killing people by the ten thousand in the years after the invasion? Were you demonstrating when they were going to make a mess of the Middle East? Were you?

Where were you? Were you demonstrating when America got the right to use Turkish airfields for the war and granting the Turks a free hand in the suppression and killing of Kurds? Were you demonstrating?

Where were you? Were you demonstrating when in 2000 Robert Mugabe started the farm seizures and when he later burned down the primitiv shelters of thousands of Zimbabwens, and was ruining the economy competely? Were you in a worldwide demonstration asking actions and a standpoint from the leaders of the world? Especially fromm Tony Blair to end Zimbabwe's membership of the Commonwealth?

Where were you? Were you demonstrating when you found out that Quantanamo Bay is quarantaining hundreds of men who have no legal rights and who are treated not in accordance with the Convention of Geneva? Or any other Human Rights Convention? Were you demonstrating?

Where were you? Were you demonstrating when continuing protests should be heard concerning the barbaric sharia which rules in many muslim countries, specifically the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia one of the friends of the Western World? Were you seen in the streets of San Francisco?

Would you demonstrate with the same vehemence and would you boycot the Russia of today if the Olympic Games were held there?
And what about if the games were held in the US?

You hypocrites, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. (Matthew 7:5).

05-10-2007: Tony Blair announced he is stepping down on June 27, 2007. Then he can be brought to justice and tried at the International Court of Justice in the Hague for crimes committed against humanity.
Is it possible that Tony Blair is getting away with "making the world a safer place"? (to quote his friend, George W.)
Much will eventually be analysed and will hopefully be revealed: the masquerade in the United Nations with Geoff Hoon and Jack Straw ("Well, Dominique..."), the many lies, the death of David Kelly (was it murder or suicide), the forced departure of BBC director Greg Dyke, the construction of The Hutton Report, the coinciding, untimely death of Robin Cook, etc.
Of course the world had to get rid of Saddam Hussein (and should get rid of several other dictators as well, with or without oil). But the strategy chosen by Bush and Blair was a concocted scheme based on false information right from the start and they knew it. There scheming did not take reality into account at all and therefor it was predestined to be a failure, right from the beginning.

And then there is the continuous obstruction by Great Britain of the further development of the EU. Was this strategy also concocted together with George W. Bush? Britain should better become a state of the US and get out of the EU alltogether.

12-30-2006: Some comments on the hanging of Saddam Hussein.
There were many comments on the death sentence and the execution of it by hanging former dictator Saddam Hussein.
Ulrich Tilgner of Germany's Seond hannel ZDF, analysed that Saddam Hussein had been supported by the USA with weapons and funds in order to prevent Iran to grow in power and significance. He failed. He was supported by the USA in order to gain a dominant position in the region. Saddam failed. And he was supported to bring order in his own country so it could be an example for other countries in the region. He failed.
When Kuwait did not pay its debts, Saddam occupied the former province. That was his fourth mistake.
The analyst of International French Television TV5 said that the process against Saddam Hussein was cut short and the dictator was condemned on a relatively small crime if compared to all the atrocities he himself committed and those committed in his name. This short trial was to prevent to unrevel the real facts. The analyst said that if the process had really been a fair one and the lawyers would have gone to the bottom of it, not only Iraqi's would have to testify, but also people like Donald Rumsfeld (the US provided the weapons of mass destruction which Iraq did not have any longer) and as a result Rumsfeld would have had to stand trial as well. In that case Saddam's death sentence would not have been too certain. Even Colin Powel would have to be heard about his role in the years before the first Iraq war from 1991 and would have to face consequencies. And much more information would surface. Questions like: Who supplied the ingredients for the nerve gas which killed so many Kurds and was the massacre never condemned by the West before Bush and Blair decided to invade Iraq?

08-04-2006: Landis fell through and so did his mennonite mother who had one million mennonites praying for her and her beloved son. Most religions exclude self criticism.

04-19-2006: If You, as a President Have a Sexual Relation with an Intern, we will start Presidential Impeachment Proceedings. But if You, as a President, start World War Three by bombing Iran, we say you make the country safe.
But maybe you are just a Barking Dog and there is no intern.

02-12-2006: The Pictures of News of the World - British Soldiers beating Up Young Iraqis
If you do not want democracy and do not like the way George W. Bush, Tony Blair and their allies bring it, we will hammer it into you.

02-02-2006: "America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world," said George W. Bush in his State of the Union.
Unstable parts of the world? How come?

01-31-2006: Should the Danish Cartoons appear in all Western Newspapers?
A visitor of my site mailed me and suggested that it would be a good idea if all the Western newspapers (including all US papers) would print the Danish cartoons as a token of solidarity with the Danes and to express the principle of freedom of speech in the western world. German newspapers and french newspapers have already done so. What do you think?

11-29-2005: Germany's Susanne Osthoff kidnapped in Iraq. She faces possibly a terrible ordeal. Is this a result of Angela Merkel's signing "The Letter of Eight" in February and her subsequent visit to George W. Bush in 2003?
Gerhard Schröder said NO to Bush's warplans. But things have changed in Germany since the election of Angela Merkel as Bundeskanzlerin (chancellor). It is only a week into her reign and Angela Merkel is already in trouble: a German citizen has been kidnapped, reportedly by people of the Al Zarqawi clan. It is archeologist Susanne Osthoff who has lived in Iraq for many years, was married to an Iraqi (a Suni) and is converted to Islam. Merkel's ill judgement of the political situation in the world in 2003, and her solidarity with George W. Bush and his deliberate war plans, now seems to backfire on her. In that light the symbolism is clear. A woman has been abducted.
Al Zarqawi was losing popularity in the region because of the terrorist attacks in Jordan and the strong disapproval by king Abdul II backed by the many clans and backed by the Jordanian people was the result. The new abduction puts Al Zarqawi in the spotlight again.

11-10-2005: "Destructeurs d'automobile".
Harald Schmidt in his television show on the German ARD channel.

11-05-2005: Chers amis de banlieu Parisien
Comment réussir dans la vie? Comment se développer?
Pour réussir dans le monde il faut avoir/acquérir plusieurs qualités:
1. la volonté de travailler pour sa réussite.
2. l'inclinaison de vouloir s'adapter j'usqu'a un niveau minimum, nécessaire pour pouvoir améliorer sa situation de vie. (Ce n'est certainement pas nier sa descendance, sa culture. Mais de savoir élargir son horizon et se servir de l' occasion quand elle se présente.)
3. savoir prendre l'initiative soi-même et en plus se developper en suivant des cours specialisés.

L'environnement sociale et religieus et le support de la groupe peut, en certains cas, freiner le développement. Ce qui est important surtout c'est de chercher le support positif des parents et des professeurs, le support qui est à la base d'une réussite qui mène à une vie prospère. En cas d'opposition, il faut persévérer et établir son propre plan.
Pourquoi ne pas commencer dès aujourd'hui?

08-16-2005: World Youth Day in Cologne
A breeding place for the next generation of intolerant Christians? Or is it the place were the true believers are born and meet?
This question is legitimate. We shall not pretend that only in the Middle Ages and the past centuries Christians were intolerant, were suppressors, blessed the dictators, were warmongers and murderers, attending church on Sundays and on weekdays were killing and depriving others to have a bearable life.
The intolerant, the suppressors, the warmongers and murderers are among us and deceive the youth of today by telling them that they are operating in the name of Jezus Christ.

06-07-2005: 5 European leaders appeal G8 countries to increase development aid.
An important ingredient of development aid has a very familiar name: Durex.

04-19-2005: A new pope elected in Rome.
The choice of Benedictus 16th (Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger from Munich, Germany) means first of all a continuation and upholding of conservative views on pressing human issues.
Secondly it means a clear positioning of the Roman Katholic Church from its origin, Europe, with the Islam as antipode, and this choice must give strength to western society. Simili similibus curentur, as Hahnemann stipulated. Fight conservatism with conservatism.
It was too early for an African pope or South American pope. The next pope could come from India. That is if Ratzinger holds a long pontificat. Because such a change needs time.

12-31-2004: The Four Great Disasters Of 2004.
(Did I forget a few?)
1. Iraq: another possibly 10.000 innocent civilians killed.
2. Africa: 1300 children die every day of AIDS.
3. Darfour - Sudan: at least 70.000 deaths (the December 31st estimate).
4. Tsunami in countries bordering the Indian Ocean:more than 150.000 dead.
And we, in the West, ignite for billions and billions of dollars worth of fireworks to celebrate the New Year. 'They do not know what they are doing'. But the hypocrites who, sitting in their comfortable arm chairs, in their tv-programs discuss the presence of God and asked the question: 'Why did not He stop the tsunami', these hypocrites actually should know, if they did study the bible. Apparently they did not.
Let me tell you: God is the seismic alarm system of the United States and Japan. It is the devil who does not transmit a firm warning to the many countries that are expected to be stricken.
God is the emergency exit in the disco. It is the devil who locks the door, because the manager fears a lower turnover and less net profit. Every time again, all over the world doors are locked.
It was the late Dutch reverend Alje Klamer, who explained what the meaning of Sodom and Gomorrha actually is.
Sodom en Gomorra are the wealth and abundance that the inhabitants do not want to share with others whose existence is a daily struggle to servive.
Sodom en Gomorra is not being hospitable and not receiving the needed with open arms. Sodom and Gomorrha are the egoists who pretend that the others do not exist and forget this phrase: Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Sodom and Gomorra is driving in cars with an extremely high fuel consumption. It is sitting in the fromt row of the church and at the same time abandoning people and let them live in cardboard boxes. It is not wanting to sign the Kyoto Treaty. It is the obstruction of the North-South Dialogue. It is the denial of knowledge to others so their lives will not be enriched and cannot be better organized. It is the production of low quality foods enriched with pesticides. It is the shipping of many tons of bottled Coca-Cola to the tsunami stricken countries instead of pure drinking water. Etc., etc.
In the end, Sodom and Gomorrha will be destroyed. He, who does not want to leave the wealth and abundance, and looks back in yearning for that luxurious life which was built on the deprivation of others, the less fortunate, he will perish.
That is a completely different and less convenient Sodom en Gomorra than what the abstractly discussing and debating exegetes do want you to believe in.

11-04-04: Should Queen Elisabeth apologize for the severe bombing of Dresden and the killing of so many German citizens?
Certainly not. Not as long as the Germans themselves still consider their own men who did refuse to serve in Hitler's armies as traitors and deny these courageous Germans a pension and aknowledge that their deeds were right.

New opinions will be added in due time.

 

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