I was just back at Flickr, and even wondered if one of my stock images got so many favorites, until I read that the group "Make it Interesting" had organized a competition in which my image "Circus Wagon Thingie" was the initial image:
It came out beautiful works of art here! All images can be found here .
I was just browsing Flickr when I noticed that one of my stock images received quite a few favorites. It turned out that the group "Make it Interesting" made a contest where one of my images, the "circus wagon thingie, what the starting image.
Really beautiful artworks were created from it! You can see all images here .
published steampunk heart in the book! - Steam Punk Heart published in Book! Bal Masque II
I have just learned that my steampunk heart from last April in Teja Floyd book "Polymer Artists Showcase" has been released! Teja the last year has been working to put this book together, and now it's finally come out. The book looks wonderful, and I am very proud to be present with my steampunk heart! The book is getting for 24.95 U.S. $ at Blurb.com.
I just learned that my Steampunk Heart from last April has been published in Teja Floyd's book "Polymer Artists Showcase" ! Teja worked on it the whole past year, and now it finally got published. The book turned out really beautiful, and I am very proud that my Steampunk Heart got included!
The book can be bought for U.S. $ 24.95 at Blurb.com.
In the last issue of "Top Ten" we began investigating in detail the repulsive Attacks of the Vice Chancellor / Secretary / party leader Guido Westerwelle, with which he tried to stir for electoral reasons, low income against the unemployed. This attempt failed, although, as the new polls for the state election in North Rhine-Westphalia, but we do not yet failed to measure the man by his own standards. Parasites are named. Well, then. Then point times , Mr. Westerwelle what you mean by "performance has to again pay" understand:
Westerwelle was mid-January for a four-day visit as Foreign Minister to Estonia, Japan and China broken. Also on board according to the travel program was Ralf Marohn, majority owner and managing director of Far Eastern Far East Consulting and Trade Ltd. An official of the consulting firm's records indicate that Westerwelle's brother, Kai Westerwelle equity affiliates. (...) Far Eastern Far East is to the Participant, the company involved in Mountain Partners Group. Its founder, Conny is an old friend Westerwelle and was at the Asian tour of the Foreign Minister also on board. Boersch donating for years, the FDP: So far, more than 160,000 €.
Ui. That sounds like Vetternwirtschft. Refute these allegations, Mr. Westerwelle
Guido Westerwelle even denies to combine private and official affairs. "Since the start of the opposition political arguments, they try it now with personal attacks against me and my family," the FDP leader said during his trip to Brazil in São Paulo.
"the opposition". The evil. Well, that sounds a bit thin as a justification, Mr. Westerwelle. After I hang up. First :
delegations to the Foreign Minister were among managers, who had previously donated to the FDP. Thus, in his South American trip (...) Dommermuth it. 2005 showed the founder of United Internet 48,000 euros to the FDP.
According to the Berliner Zeitung on Saturday he was on his Asian tour in January, accompanied by a board member of the retail group Metro, the the most important customer is used to include a Westerwelle associated with management consulting. Westerwelle was a member until recently, the Advisory Board of Consulting named TellSell Consulting. (...) The company TellSell Consulting have also organized several fundraising events for the FDP. (...) also puts the close Westerwelle staff and head of the unit of work "06 coordination" in the Foreign Office, Jörg Arntz, in the spotlight. A report by the "mirror" According to Arntz was until recently the Swiss group of Mountain Partners, whose founder was one of repeated Conny Westerwelle travel entourage.
again "Conny". The man is not only Westerwelle's economic adviser and FDP-party donor (or what you thought?), But also semi-silk tax refugee who has in Switzerland over a whole stable of front companies. And thirdly :
also Christoph Walter travels with Westerwelle through South America - he was once a campaign adviser to the FDP and now leads the consulting firm CNC Communications & Network Consulting.
Well, Mr. Westerwelle? If you really nothing better than a than to curse the evil opposition?
Westerwelle assumes that criticism is it also inflamed, that it advocates as foreign minister for German companies. (...) "The left has Zeitgeist doing business is questionable. The public has to get used to, that the future is different," said Westerwelle.
Well, yes, we can expect some. I supply to no end for my blog, and Mr Westerwelle respectively the FDP on a slapper in the regional elections in North Rhine-Westphalia.
"I sometimes wonder sometimes whether that would have been in other situations really commented on the opposition," said Westerwelle. He indicated the first time in public, his critics would exploit his homosexuality politically.
it plays Westerwelle to criticism that his life partner Michael Mronz - in addition to professional sports marketers - on the trips is also included, and not only in his capacity as minister husband. That this criticism is not of homophobia result can be, how insinuates Westerwelle, shown by the examples Klaus Wowereit and Ole von Beust. This is about tough business interests . If you do not believe it:
Mronz (...) is the owner of MMP, which he organized high-profile sporting and show events - including the Chio in Aachen (largest riding event in the world) and Stefan Raab Wok-WM. At the IAAF World Championships in Berlin in 2009 Mronz was marketing director. Of course, it goes in Westerwelle's visit to Brazil and the World Cup, held here in 2014 and the Olympic Games two years later, which the South American country also hosts.
your comment , Mr. From and To?
"I am delighted that Mr Mronz takes the time to join me at his own expense, to gather information in the region on social projects and to engage them. The want and we will continue. "
Right. I forgot that the FDP is a party that has social responsibility up the cause. No, now plays for keeps. The amalgamation of private life and private interests is at master Westerwelle and his wed spouse or much more curious :
Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle a new menace for his commitment to a hotel operator. Last Sunday was the Vice Chancellor at the opening of the Bonn Luxury Hotels Kameha Grand. The organizers of the event is Westerwelle boyfriend Michael Mronz. The FDP leader had opened the hotel in front of guests such as Thomas Gottschalk, the Begum Aga Khan and ex-porn star Michaela Schaffrath solemnly and as one of the world's "most exciting hotels" praised.
"Ex-porn star Michaela Schaffrath. That is worth at least Conclusions about the pay-TV in the precious descending to. Once again, Mr. Westerwelle, I give you the opportunity to comment on a task such as this. Is surely not, now we are back where we once begun to analyze the political patronage of the FDP, namely at the hotels. Give's a parable, Vice Chancellor / Secretary / party leader, but you say in the name of God, what have you here now thought again:
Westerwelle said he had attended the event as the Bonn constituency MPs.
This is an excuse not only thin, but already transparent. However, I ask myself under quite desirable transparency in politics otherwise. Moreover it is possible to cross the dividing line between the private and trade as in the case Westerwelle / Mronz quite clearly show :
Mronz In 2008, a service passport of the Foreign Office. The document also travel with the German honorary consuls, had applied for the FDP parliamentary group for him. (...) Like the diplomatic passport of the passport service facilitates the monitoring procedure including the point of entry. On how the need for the VIP pass at that time founded specifically was, took the FDP not comment.
The FDP. Its chairman at that time who was that? Exactly:
That will be taken care of that in the future for more Westerwelle, also shows a further Posse from the parallel universe of our foreign ministers Starring:
has twice been Westerwelle Loading Berliner evenings in the Villa Borsig - to exchange ideas with good food and a subsequent round fireplace with representatives from government, business, media and diplomacy.
sounds demanding. Clinics, even if they are made of gold, must occasionally be cleaned. As the guest list reads like a Who's Whos of international ...
ZDF-TV host Thomas Gottschalk, talk show host Erin Sabine Christiansen, football coach Felix Magath and Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick, also Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann, the billionaire Reinhold Würth (...)
The screwdriver Würth? The Ex-kicker Felix Magath? should
In selecting the guests next But celebrities also have sympathy played a role. Screw manufacturer Würth was for many years FDP member, football coach Magath known after the federal election, 2009: "In fact, power is in my professional life very top, so I also hope that the FDP can pull this off, and word continues."
's it to me. Such a flawless nepotism, full of arrogance, incompetence (especially self-criticism) and Stroppy, which it presumes to be the poor in this society against the poor play off, just ensure that it can capture the regulars some much-needed votes. And by the way: If one is likely to lose track of what Westerwelle rallies on his trips abroad for a clique of buddies around, those people whom he is in future to further open doors "in his words, even wants those people who we should not criticize, because otherwise, according Westerwelle FDP "democracy damaged" whose blatant favoritism by the man who abused his position as foreign minister for clients to use, supposedly a "smear campaign" by the "left Zeitgeist" is, also available referred to as the evil "attacks" on Westerwelle "family" - then you should look at me, what the Lord Westerwelle built for a corruption scandal has, which is on his travels always one of the party:
"Those who Mr. Westerwelle - some from Switzerland - with him on trips abroad, the opposite of meritocracy. they belong rather to rags elite that damage the business location Germany and contribute nothing to preceded it in this country. " SPD chief Sigmar Gabriel
Guido Westerwelle
But it is also different. Always the evil media with their "left Zeitgeist. No one should claim Westerwelle was not a patron of the Fine Arts. For representative of the aesthetics in his delegation is always a place free:
On his inaugural trip to Turkey in early January, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle a report in the Financial Times Germany, "according to an artist from his constituency Bonn taken as a special guest at government expense. Nurten Schlinkert, Turkish-born wife of the managing partner of the Bonn Dimap polling institute, be gone with Westerwelle in January to Ankara and Istanbul, the newspaper said. In the travel program, it was a "special guest" and "artist" was performed.
And that is indeed in accordance with the regulations of the Office, for:
A Foreign Office spokesman described the suspect to the amalgamation as "baseless": "The along on the trip to the Federal Minister Foreign made solely on the basis of professional expertise. "
And what art direction represents Schlinkert woman?
The Foreign Office did, however, on request can not answer, the art field she was active, reports The Financial Times Germany ".
Aha. So when I think back to Gerhard Schroeder, who could at least have a say always competent when it comes to his artists went whose works he had issued publicity. As Ms Schlinkert here clearly with art has absolutely nothing to care, but the mere fact qualified, the wife of the head of a notoriously right-wing Survey Institute to be asking yourself what is really behind this so and so most number of nepotism Westerwelle
The invitation to the Bonn local politician allegedly private on a promise from the 2004 decline. (...) Is known about Nurten Schlinkert that she sits as an alternate member for the FDP in the culture committee of the city of Bonn.
What was the name it used at the "Mouse TV": This was Turkish. good that Westerwelle apparently at least know what "art direction" Michaela Schaffrath represents.
Jürgen Rüttgers
In the last issue we dealt inter alia with the sponsorship scandal of the CDU NRW. Reminder: It is our Prime Minister for cash is also known to be rent a tête-à-tête. From this proven popular for more than five years of practice will be charged the corpus delicti Jürgen Rüttgers have known nothing. laughable. However, one was from the CDU in NRW obviously feel that you have done with setting this highly dubious form of fund raising things from the world and devote himself to the campaign. Well. Firstly, it is different ...
reason is a SPIEGEL report that sent North Rhine-Westphalia CDU in the past, invitations to potential sponsors of their party congress, in which the companies could check with which you want CDU member of the government they have their pictures taken at the company level.
... and second, as you might think. The political prostitution in Rüttgers Club continues: Will you go with me? Tick the Yes or No. So, based on the state election, I would clearly argue for a cross No. Figuratively at least. What else can you pull a consequence, if the latest idiocy from the stable Rüttgers really sink leaves:
Under the heading "Photo request on the presentation stand" was the sought-after business their crosses behind the names of several national ministers make the CDU. Topping the list was "Prime Minister Dr. Jürgen Rüttgers MdL" to select. Furthermore, the ministers were able to photo requests, Armin Laschet, Christa Thoben, Eckhard Uhlenberg, and the then Minister Andreas Krautscheid and Oliver Wittke be sought. On their role as cabinet ministers in the country were each explicitly. Among the list was the note: "The lease on the agreed fee must be paid even if a photo session to be canceled or shall not come about."
I repeat the last word again, that the "mirror" here quoted verbatim from the CDU Invitation: "lease" . You can rent our country's Minister very high official. What does this have to do with the independence of MPs from the obligation to serve all citizens, not to mention, is beyond my understanding. Well, main thing that this thing is now completely exposed. Can surely be hard to believe that this would swamp much deeper ...
The system belongs to the creative sponsorship SPIEGEL information also that after the events, an external vendor to the sponsors report to the membership magazine ads for sale "Here in NRW" - too high Prices. For a double-page ad in the leaves, the party demands an internal price list, according to 17 900 €, one side can be had for € 11 980. The entrance is a letter from the state chairman Rüttgers who advertise in it for the purchase of properties. "I thank you for your commitment now," it says at the end of the letter. In the letter usually follows a call from the ad salesperson who ordered the first time "kind regards to Mr. Rüttgers" before it comes to specific jobs.
Or is it. But it has master Rüttgers probably knew nothing. you get also a nice greeting, Mr Rüttgers: A big "bye" on May 9 at the state election.
Gerhard Ludwig Müller
long time no hear from Rambo flagship of Germany's bishops. We know him from the "Top Ten" issues No. 26 and No. 30 when we were with his action in the case of the pedophile pastor concerned in Riekofen. We wondered then, as the man was apparently more interested in saving his reputation and to insult the media, rather than admit failure and take responsibility. Now is the Catholic Church on the shit really steamed when it comes to abuse cases, you can hear almost every day what new perversions have been sent there under the crucifix. Bishop Müller steeled by his bitter experience, there is an wise words know where to find.
The Bishop of Regensburg Gerhard Ludwig Müller, accused the media in connection with the molestation cases, a "campaign against the Church." The bishop moved the ongoing coverage in the vicinity of the anti-church attitude of the Nazis.
Nee, ne? That is not true. I have here in this column have heard a lot of intellectual Dünnschiß, but this can not seriously be true ... go
it comes to the media, the credibility of the Church erschüttern.Es'll try to get the whole Catholic Church and its institutions into disrepute, added the bishop added in a pastoral letter published on Sunday. (...) "Those wishing to place at any cost the Catholic Church to its good reputation, the" cathedral choir "chosen as victims. A highlight of the diocese of Regensburg is to be drawn in the dirt " criticized Mueller reported by the Bishop Ordinary on to the media. In the boys' choir there should have been in the past, numerous cases of abuse.
is And in the online mag the Catholic Church, he is still in its assessment of the coverage of the crimes committed against defenseless children or meanly:
This is not only a distorted beyond reality, but also an identity of the criminal activity of its media settings. The moral responsibility, those who cause these baiting programs.
There we have it. Such is the sick mind of a Catholic bishop, the processing of thousands of cases of ill-treatment wards. From the dark figure, we do not even talk. Even Bishop Zollitsch scheme now recognizes that abuse has for decades deliberately covered up , some of his colleagues want to work up honest and prevent for the future. Only Arschgeigen such as Müller-Regensburg have learned not to worry, about their world, the only salvation is in their imagination, and rushing with sayings from the bottom drawer against the evil media, deliberately twisting the cause and effect. This is called the "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger" in a very recommended comment quite aptly a "perverse diversion" . Westerwelle "leftist zeitgeist exists in modified form, including the skull of Gerhard Ludwig Müller. Perhaps you should accompany the Minister again on a trip abroad. The best way to Ireland. Since the work-up of abuses against children has begun that is long.
Joseph Ratzinger
Which brings us to the subject. What does actually our German Pope to the ever-increasing number of scandal stories from every corner of his shop? So far, he shone by eloquent silence, which will not surprise the other day but came out that under Ratzinger's aegis as a bishop in the diocese of Munich, was a convicted pedophile used in community work - with Ratzinger's Okay. Although in the meantime, a former vicar general for his boss at the time fell on his sword, but the fact that Ratzinger is damaged, are considered safe. Now with much fanfare was a pastoral letter from the Vatican announced that deals primarily with the abuse cases in Ireland, but also to be seen as a pointer to the situation in Germany. Well, Master. Since you now have the chance to talk straight, to show the alternative with an apology without ifs and buts, that the sacrifices are for you first. And action :
had so Benedict wrote in the letter that the problem of sexual abuse of children needed to understand the overall context of the "rapid transformation and secularization of Irish society" and the "fast-paced social change" be.
you perceive. Not a structural problem of the church, let alone its hypocritical sexual morality, no, it is the "secularization" , that the secularization of Irish society. In other words, because the Irishman had left the path of orthodoxy, they should not be surprised if there even child molesters in the Catholic Church to let off steam. And I thought the media were to blame. Too bad only that this argument in their idiocy does not drag because the abuses are not only in Ireland but also in this country for many decades the custom. But Ratzinger as head of concrete in this regard was to be expected nothing else. The man is obviously more interested in bringing his own ass out of the firing line than to seriously deal with the matter. The victim in any case are crystal clear in their verdict: pleadings
instead only the past, the pope had more need to respond to consequences and the future, it said. Above all, he should condemn the way, as the church have kept the abuse hidden for years and systematically, "said Maeve Lewis, head of the victim group" One in Four ". Benedict has "let pass a glorious opportunity to address the essence of the church abuse scandal: The deliberate policy of the Catholic Church to the highest levels, to protect abusers and thus endangering children," said Lewis. Victim Andrew Madden said he had no confirmation needed, that abuse is a crime and sin: "The apology today is not for the concealment." But that was also a sin was because so many children to further abuse had been suspended.
Thilo Sarrazin
time for what a well-drained. For wisecracks out of the box "Nazi do it yourself" Thilo Sarrazin is so well known. example :
Arabs and Turks had only "a productive function in the fruit Trade and vegetables "and would always" produce new small headscarf girls, "he said. (...) Jews have a higher IQ by 30 points. And that only when Arabs and Turks, a lower desire for integration.
More incomprehensible why pocket-racists of the mark Sarrazin can not be excluded from the SPD. But the racism's end so not. Even Hartz IV recipients among Sarrazin's preferred prey. For he had in the face of the just ended cold winter, including huge heating costs thereof petto:
turn down heating, put on sweater and now even cold showers - Thilo Sarrazin, former finance minister of Berlin, and now the board of the Bundesbank, has a lot to save money for Hartz IV recipients of stock. In an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung, he said, are wimps never got far in life.
assholes on the other hand already: Sarrazin is a member of the board of the Bundesbank. Mr Westerwelle be going down these "views" such as oil well. So, and now are the schoolchildren turn:
It would have every day before the beginning of class be verified whether the students are doing your homework, "said the 65-year-old. "And if they have not made them, the parents cited" said Sarrazin. He also proposed penalties before the child benefit. "Not made twice homework, child benefit cut by 50 percent," said Sarrazin. "What do you mean what should be done at once the homework."
I guess if there had been such a rule at the time of Sarrazin's school career, Depp us this mandate would have stayed with his shitty omissions probably spared. Or, as a participant in the forum in the "mirror" aptly formulated
election promises broken - MPs salary halved. Budget deficit increases - pension forfeited. Prestige projects rather than educational support - with weights on your feet in the lake (see Asterix and the Swiss). There
Markus Hebgen
Because of its great success in today's issue again our "Guess the party affiliation." As usual, I provide a headline together with the accompanying message and the likeness of the offender:
severity embezzlement and fraud: two years probation for Hebgen
The court found Hebgen serious breach of trust in 18 cases and serious fraud in a case, guilty. The total also includes penalty an earlier decision of the district court for embezzlement of Rüdesheim is € 30,000 of the monastery Eberbach. As Group Managing Director Hebgen has the satisfaction of the Court is diverted from the Group of 30 000 € cash for their own purposes.
respect. This is a representative of the people have a decent package of criminal energy. Since the rate is simple:
Former Managing Director of the Rhineland-Palatinate CDU parliamentary group, Markus Hebgen, is of serious breach of trust and serious fraud to a prison sentence of two years was sentenced to probation. (...) He also said the findings, according to the Treasury of the Conference of the CDU parliamentary group chairman, a damage of more than 52,000 €.
And what did the political-Christ with the whole coal ever made ? Expensive cars, Penthouse renovated, travels around the world? Well, "Penthouse", here's in the right direction - at least if you think around the corner
Hebgen was also convicted of paid invoices in red-light bars with a total of around 7000 € with the credit card of the group added, including the Berlin brothel "Rascona. It was the ex-CEO also yesterday, to have been accompanied by other CDU politicians. Hebgen not name names. The fraction used credit card has Hebgen his confession, according to Jordan, even during a holiday for private purposes, he also has improperly money as aid for medical treatments fraudulently and repeatedly diverted cash payments from the Group Fund for the payment of his livelihood.
you perceive.
Dirk Reelfs
And just before closing time still a boar. Welcome :
The spokesman of the CDU-Saxon Group is reflected in the far-right weekly newspaper of the DVU-founder Gerhard Frey. The opposition surprised, cheering the Nazis.
Well. The notorious right-wing Saxony-CDU - see for example, already one of the first "Top Ten", and that is the issue dated 14.11.2005 - is just to hold to their principles. As stated so well: stonn Escht Fründe zesamme. Taking it seriously. What democratic politician expresses itself in the Nazi-mag "National-Zeitung" by Gerhard Frey? Which lies next to a bunch of ads for Nazi memorabilia from the House Frey only impose a racist, anti-democratic and revisionist claptrap. What devil rides a gentleman Reelfs to operate with such people small talk?
He has written two questions answers that had been sent to him by the newspaper by e-mail, said CDU-Mann Reelfs the taz. "I did not know that the answers should appear as an interview," he said. The form of the publication had it compatible surprised.
Aha. A newspaper provides me with a faction of a party press officer writing a few questions. I will answer them and then wonder afterwards that the newspaper reproduces my opinion. a newspaper, Mr. Reelfs. And use in this case the leaflets, which neo-Nazis as an intellectual template weighting. How stupid can one be , master? I do not even know what I'm ridiculous will find: your brainless excuse that would confirm nor any special student with a shake of the head, or the fact that you have banned the Nazi inquiry immediately into the electronic trash. But Reelfs seems anyway conviction:
The questions he did but after a "long process of weighing" answered deliberately. "I stage the right to information of the press a very high," said Reelfs. (...) A different treatment of the press he deems inappropriate.
So, this form of distance against the enemies of the constitution and its propaganda organs really beats each barrel from the ground.
Guido Westerwelle
And here it is, your moment of Zen:
Until next time! "The Top Ten Conservative Idiots" will return.
Synopsis: happens in the small town of Chester's Mill in Maine one day the unthinkable: Literally out of nowhere, the town suddenly a giant, invisible dome of the Incommunicado. The mysterious bell jar can be up to a small breeze to penetrate anything, neither inside nor out. Anyone who is in that moment on the borderline of the dome, pierced by her. The residents of Chester's Mill, small ordinary citizens with their advantages and quirks are, by their de facto separation from the outside world on their own. The tensions between themselves lead to the struggle between good and evil, and finally to catastrophe.
Review: As a horror veteran Stephen King in November 2009 its highly anticipated epic "Under The Dome" published, the comparisons were with his masterpiece "The Stand" made quickly. However, the basic design of the book is more reminiscent of "Needful Things" on almost 900 pages (in the American edition even more than a thousand pages) he draws a picture of a perfectly crafted losgelasen 08/15-Community middle class, whose aggression substituted by an external event together be. Is it in "Needful Things" an incarnation of the Incarnate, who incited the people sent each other, so here it is a dome that excludes them from a place of interaction with the outside world almost completely. Henceforth, within the dome are the only rules which give the people themselves, and the reader can witness their behavior, as if the people in Chester's Mill laboratory animals in an experiment. The dome is like an emotional greenhouse effect, which no one can escape. A power-hungry and unscrupulous provincial politicians jumped onto the pocket-dictator, his followers gathered around him, manipulating the crowd and tried to abuse the dome of his intentions. Meet him face a few Upright, including an Iraq war veteran, a doctor, a journalist and a gifted teenager. As with a magnifying glass, the small Nicklich, we all know from our environment, to a matter of life and death. inserted in the drawing of the figures, the only weakness of the book. The list of dramatis personae can look like any old Shakespearean drama, but in the end they all remain pale. They are simply figures on Kings chessboard without life of its own, either all good or all bad. They seem like a perfectly choreographed dance, but not surprised. This is, however, hardly different, for behind the massive storytelling, which in King plays the leading role, the character development comes back completely. That was when King had always been and will probably not change, is the decades-long success proved him right. One misses the nonexistent three-dimensionality of the characters not: The rate at which King strikes, allows also to no time. The book is a real page-turner , and one can hardly help it once to put it down. interesting is the tome also for the reason that King is here for once all unashamedly political. For him, the fictional Chester's Mill is under its dome is a placeholder for the earth on which we all live and on us gradually, thanks to our home-made greenhouse effect, assumed the air threat. Furthermore also recognizes the little political savvy reader in the characters and the allusions in the text barely veiled parallels to the America of George W. Bush and his right-wing administration. For Stephen King, in the last presidential election Barack Obama supports and has more recently declared voters is the Democratic Party, herein lies a will, although no will to art:
"Obviously I'm on the left of center I did not believe there was justification for going. into the war in Iraq. (...) Sometimes the sublimely wrong people can be in power at a time when you really need the right people. I put a lot of that into the book. (...) I enjoyed taking the Bush-Cheney dynamic and shrinking it to the small-town level. The last administration interested me because of the aura of fundamentalist religion that surrounded it and the rather amazing incompetency of those two top guys. "
Conclusion: Whether the political and socio-cultural overtones as an essential part of the book is responsible or simply can only inspire Kings of masterful storytelling ability , ultimately plays only a minor role. Who from the old masters of horror once again a really great tome in the tradition of "The Stand," "It", or even wants to have "Needful Things," which is "Under The Dome" well served. As long as one is not just ardent fan of George W. Bush, one can look forward to reading about a thousand pages of fun.
Stephen King: Under The Dome Publisher: Scribner (USA), Hodder & Stoughton (UK), 2009 Number of pages: 1074 (USA), 900 (UK)
No.35 At nescis, Wed fili, quantilla prudentia regatur mundus?
Guido Westerwelle
was a few weeks ago, the Federal Constitutional Court of its highly anticipated ruling in terms of "Hartz IV" from. The judges of the First Senate missed it the government a hefty slap. Excerpts:
(the Hartz IV laws) are incompatible with Article 1, paragraph 1 of the Basic Law in conjunction with the welfare state principle of Article 20, paragraph 1 of the Basic Law. (...) These principles do not satisfy the requirements provided the requirements of Article 1 paragraph 1 GG in conjunction with Article 20, paragraph 1 GG. (...) The law has for the basic control power (...) found in principle a useful calculation method for determining the poverty line. In determining the standard payment of 345 € but he has left this in various respects, without replacing it with another identifiable and sustainable criteria. This also leads to the unconstitutionality of the derived benefits (...); Latter also suffers from a complete failure in terms of identifying the specific needs of children. The control power of 345 € (...) is not determined in a constitutionally proper manner because of the structural principles of the statistical model that was chosen by the legislature itself and the basis for his assessment of the necessary subsistence made without good cause has been waived.
In other words, in the determination of the Hartz IV-rates, the need of the children did not identified, but a flat rate derived from the needs of adults were, which was also set arbitrarily. It has namely a consumption statistics taken, considered it the bottom twenty percent of income, and from this the need for Hartz IV. Since this amount is too high out comer appeared, it has been deleted arbitrary elements, such as education. But there's not a cent of Hartz IV. Since the demand of children is derived from the flat rate of adults, there is something for children - go to school every day - for education is also: 0,00 €. I said twice now, "arbitrary" to this madness. The judges call it "free hand". And three times:
Even if at the time of the evaluation of income and expenditure survey 1998 should have been no adequate detailed data on individual consumption items available, as the Federal Government has argued, justified the decision not hands-free estimates. (...) His the discarding discount of 40% compared to the control power for a single person based on a hands-free setting without any empirical and methodological foundation. (...) Neither the reasoning of the draft of the Family Services Act nor the opinion of the Federal Government to specify how the amount is € 100 a year each, and he was obviously appreciated by private treaty.
And, to fully carry on the barrel:
An estimate on sound empirical basis is not out there; estimates' into the blue "but real way to determine a method to run contrary manner incompatible with Article 1 paragraph 1 GG in conjunction with the welfare state principle of Art 20 para 1 GG.
Sun This should inform everyone to be clear that change must Hartz IV something. I ask for suggestions :
Vice Chancellor Guido Westerwelle ago in a commentary for the 'World' a violation of the thinking power warned: ". Who promises to the people effortless prosperity, invites to late Roman decadence at such a thought can fail Germany," writes the FDP leader and foreign minister. (...) The discussion of the Karlsruhe ruling put "socialist lines. Instead of debating the question of who gets more state benefits, the benefits should the taxpayer be moved to the center. (...) It seems in Germany "to be only beneficiaries of tax money, but no one who worked all this," writes Westerwelle.
I admit I did not ask for serious Proposals. Since Mr. Westerwelle immediately felt called to be spiritual Dünnschiß. Apart the fact that the largest recipients of tax money in Germany is not the poor, but the banks to which the tax payer their criminal Börsenzockerei in Germany alone had 500 billion euros catch (!) - While the oh-so-bad 50 billion for Hartz IV Peanuts are deemed to be - even his brand of neo-liberal morons Westerwelle able to understand the principles of the ruling from Karlsruhe. Apparently, however, the man has already broken the NRW election campaign, and as the surveys of his party there, even a dangerous proximity to the five-percent hurdle Demonstrate good will of Stammtisch give the black and yellow fantasies new food:
"When one is in Germany have attacked it, if they say, that have one that works, more needs than one who does not work, then the spiritual socialism. " (...) "The fact remains that power must be worthwhile, and there is no prosperity without effort and performance."
Aha. "No prosperity without effort." was probably why the inheritance tax on the own initiative of the FDP reduced. Millionaires are made easy. I would also fools the FDP recommend that you employ even with its coalition partners in NRW, which is in the shape of the parliament president - has four hours ass flat seats in RAG 30 000 euros in the pocket can be put - referenced in the previous edition of the "Top Ten". And "power must be worth it." Very true. A better argument for minimum wage it. Since then they have that at work all day, even more than that, nothing does. Around so that is a shoe out of it: that it is now slave wages that fall below even the (too low) poverty line yet, this is the real scandal. gets the rest, Westerwelle his arguments once again from the deepest Proll-bottom:
If Westerwelle occurs for workers with little income, he also speaks of life, which he apparently knows only from the newspaper. The figures on the situation, the waitress had the FDP leader of the image (8 February) are taken, told the press department of the FDP-FR.
This is Westerwelle namely peddling for weeks. The poor waitress who has less than the lazy mom with Hartz IV, these figures turn out on closer examination, however, backfired as . you perceive. All election campaign bluster at the expense of the poor. Westerwelle tried to fish for, that he wants to stir up with the help of the already busy drumming "Bild"-Zeitung against low-income unemployed. If the adjective "disgusting" does not fit, then I do not know. But more on this topic. How would you call it when a financial elite celebrates the center of power at the expense of the population in an orgy? How here as:
The head of Deutsche Bank, Josef Ackermann, has turned 60 Birthday celebrated in the Federal Chancellery. Was paid for the exclusive dinner after a report of the ARD magazine "Report Mainz" of tax money. (...) For the event, additional costs were incurred for external service personnel in the amount of 2100 € to reports, the magazine, citing a report by the Federal Office dated May 2009. The cost of the dinner could not be calculated according to the report. (...) Ackermann was therefore in a television interview from a range of Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) reports to invite about 30 friends to the Chancellery.
Na? Exactly: DAS, Mr. Westerwelle is "late Roman decadence" .
Jürgen Rüttgers
The self-proclaimed "workers 'leader' of NRW could be in the current debate about Westerwelle scandalous throws grenades at unarmed poverty sufferers in our country, so this profile really very comfortable. Who cares that Rüttgers make as prime minister with the liberal FDP Rambos of the common cause and also after the state election would prefer to continue? If I just look at how Rüttgers starts on the black and green through ball his buddy Röttgen who tells stories from the nuclear phase and is beaten for it by his coalition government colleagues in proscribed. Well, as it will be for the Prime Minister a breeze to show solidarity now with the lower class talking :
the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia has tried to sell confidential talks with their Prime Minister Juergen Ruettgers and his ministers from wealthy sponsors. For the CDU regional party congress on 20 March, the party headquarters in Dusseldorf offers entrepreneurs in marketing mail packages known as Partners, which also "individual meetings with the Prime Minister and the Ministers" were promised. 20,000 euros would cost such a "Partner Package. A 15-square meter exhibition stand at the CDU party on the other hand, already have € 14,000 - but without a personal interview with the governor. Bids will be only a "photo opportunity and tour with the Prime Minister and the Ministers".
Rent a prime minister. Call now. I wonder what political free in all seriousness, has 20 000 toads loose, just to whisper to the pointless, opportunistic whispering into the ear of Mr Rüttgers. Really, would you give even a penny, so to listen to a weak sense, as was shown in the previous edition of the "Top Ten" of Rüttgers? The number with the "lazy Romanians, "you remember. But that was just a faux pas, a verbal slip-up in the heat of battle ...
Or not. But what now is to react with the venality, or the rentable our Prime Minister, how will the NRW-CDU that? It has to apologize for this form cheapest political prostitution so well.
Rüttgers, on 9 . disassociated state elections in May has to exist, on Sunday of the letter from his party headquarters. He had "the letters to the sponsors do not know," was Chairman of the CDU state proclaim. (...) The CDU tried to limit the damage. The letter was a "false impression" emerged, the one regret insured party spokesman Matt Heidmeier. However, only had "the wrong language in some respects" - from the usual in other parties as rent would be kept.
Or not. Well, after all, it might be that, in fact, has produced a false impression. You know, since I talked him in issue 33, as can be overzealous Wüst responsible CDU Secretary-General Hendrik. It's not about where that such a Number method would ...
The attempt to channel extra money at party conferences in the SPD-fund is the "mirror" not according to new report. The state-CDU tried earlier to attract sponsors with appointments to the Prime Minister. For the state party in 2008 in Dortmund was the office of the party also offered a "partner package", a conversation with Rüttgers single lock. The "Tagesspiegel am Sonntag" calls even an example from the year 2006. A local company had stated that following the future Congress of the CDU in Bonn it was for been a five-figure sum placed at the table of Rüttgers.
Or is it. wonder the rest, I wonder how Mr Rüttgers of these events "knew nothing" will have . For those who think the story is here with the resignation finished by Secretary-General Wüst, who has not yet grasped the seriousness of the situation:
could Accordingly, companies in the fall of 2004 against a payment of 14,000 € acquire sponsorship package for a CDU congress. Representatives of the sponsoring companies were allowed to talk to Rüttgers and a top-VIP table " follow from an evening show program.
That was before the state election in 2005. Wüst was in 2006 secretary-general. Define the term "pawn" on the basis of a concrete example. But that will change the checkmate for Rüttgers and his black-yellow government Bude nothing more. Rüttgers therefore knew of nothing. That he has no idea, sign me, but here things are a little different. Because whether you believe it or not :
dive Meanwhile accessible to new documents showing that the state-CDU with the use of Rüttgers courting sponsors. WDR has received three offers of the CDU, which show that anti-money sponsors were able to produce apparently intentionally close to Jürgen Rüttgers. (...) However, already in 2004, a year before Rüttgers election as prime minister, publicly discussed, whether the financing of the CDU-run Congress over future a kind of covert party donation. At that time, letters were sent word same as today to the companies. Then, too, was advertised with the proximity of Jürgen Rüttgers.
I wonder how it is possible that the years of practice, interviews with JR for cash to sell off should be passed just to the individuals themselves unnoticed.
One has to explain to me.
Stanislaw Tillich
perhaps can help in this question, the East German counterpart to Jürgen Rüttgers : Stanislaw Tillich, in his capacity Sorbe and Prime Minister of Saxony, seen here in the middle :
"Without sponsorship of political dialogue in Germany would be poorer," he indirectly justified the controversial contracts with sponsors that include a state visit at the event presentation Tillich explicitly. Companies pay fees prior to 8000 € in the party treasury.
Excuse me?
(Former Saxony CDU General Secretary) Hermann Winkler confirmed these sponsors practice had long been as common as the so-called fund-raising. This party patrons pay, matches well beyond the entertainment expense amounts that they can deduct as business expenses. However, they add the dimensions of the sponsorship has grown enormously, said. Bei der „Denkfabrik“ gestern waren 28 Firmen vertreten.
Mir scheint, die Polit-Prostitution der Marke "Rent-a-Ministerpräsident" ist in der CDU überhaupt gang und gäbe. Das macht es umso unglaubwürdiger, daß Rüttgers von dieser Nummer nix gewußt haben will. Tillich jedenfalls wird sich diese dümmste aller denkbaren Ausreden mit Sicherheit verkneifen , wo sein Düsseldorfer Pendant doch so schlechte Erfahrungen damit gemacht hat...
"Sponsoring hin oder her - der sächsische Ministerpräsident ist nicht käuflich", stellt Tillich, is the same person also CDU regional chairman, clearly at the start of the event. He did not know that sponsors of the evening in addition to presentation areas could book also talks with him - for prices from 3900 € up. Conferences such as the "think tank" are not feasible without additional sponsorship, says Tillich.
Or not. Nix knew. You guessed it. that the man but almost in the same breath admits that the practice complained sponsorship is essential for so-called "think tanks", the present, in principle nothing more than fundraising events for the party, where he still the central point of the to have had no idea the whole fits into the pattern again conservative "logic". knows
BUNTE
It is the fatal waiting at the hairdresser, this leaflet, which trumpeted the really important messages for the drying hoods Group:
Currently, the "COLORFUL" team engaged in our government depp AGAINST showing now even big shots Association of the BDI bird, eager to kiss his feet. This must be a kitsch-publication from the house of the right-wing publisher Hubert Burda not otherwise expect when times because a CDU / FDP force may swing the Scepter. politicians of other stripes are there less handled with kid gloves:
Could this be possible: a German party leader, whose personal life is spied by professional snoopers? This idea seemed to be the "focus" even not to believe it really, as the magazine in its issue dated 23rd November last year reported about the spying by the left-leader Oskar Lafontaine. "Lafontaine target person" was the headline of the story in the paper wrote about "sinister enemies" with "sneaky Methods "in the" Berliner privacy snooping ". " Who could have initiated the explosive shading Lafontaine almost two years ago and paid for? "Asked the" Focus "editors.
The" FOCUS " appears indeed in Burda, and "FOCUS" supremo Helmut Markwort (FDP member) is - politically incestuous enough -. romantically involved with the "colorful" boss and Merkel's bosom friend Patricia Riekel You retain the best in mind, if you to read that behind the spying by Lafontaine and other
their own publishing group (attached). For added after "Star"-the research "Colorful" - as the "Focus" is a title of the Burda publishing house - the spying Lafontaine ordered. And not only that: the "star" was, according to the Munich tabloid with similar methods and identical by contractors to spy and the then SPD leader Franz Muentefering, and Bavaria's CSU today's Prime Minister Horst Seehofer.
As also Wolfgang Tiefensee, Günther Oettinger, Christian Wulff, and Günter Verheugen. facts, facts, facts:
Accordingly, the Berlin photo-CMK and research company on behalf of "colored" with the highest questionable methods, the three leaders spied upon. Riekel editor has compared to the "star" admitted to taking charge of the CMC research to the private lives of politicians. (...) In the case Müntefering under surveillance for months, therefore CMK-people whose former residence in Berlin Wilhelmstrasse to bring details of the relationship with Michelle Schumann experience and secretly take pictures of the two. This is the mailbox of Schumann to have been tampered with, on the opposite side of William Street is also an observation apartment was rented. The spying of Lafontaine was code-named "Scarface" takes place - an allusion to a scar on Neck with the Saarland since the knife attack on him in 1990. According to "Star" researched CMK Lafontaine from former apartment in the Berlin district of Köpenick. A spy is said to have tried to get into the left-faction of the Bundestag on an internship to Lafontaine observe them better.
Well, Mrs. Riekel. Get times down by Mr Markwort, and refer position this you dirty tricks initiated:
on the allegations of the parliamentary leader of the Greens in parliament on Tuesday, "Bunte" editor in chief Patricia Riekel responded with an open letter. Riekel Künast before throwing it, "to rely on a highly questionable publication in" (meaning the "star") and also "to misunderstand the role of the press". For journalistic task belongs to contribute by reports of politicians to shape opinion that this involves the detection of discrepancies between the desired image of a politician and his actual behavior. "The social behavior of role models is an issue for society," wrote Riekel. (...) Künast directly addressed: the "control function of the press allows the colorful, but also the entire German press, not take from you. "
I would rather say, a tabloid as" colorful, "that is of political opinion at best interested peripherally, has attempted here, unpopular " role models " with to discredit shabbiest Stasi methods to provide the readership with prejudice Deppert, in which these wallows in the absence of political discourse skills such as pigs in mud. Take me word for woman Riekel, but let's take a experts in matters "control function of the press" to speak:
expressed much more clearly, the Berlin media lawyer Christian Schertz: "Should the 'star' methods described actually be true, this would be a new level of brutality of tabloid journalism in Germany." The targeted "shadowing and stalking of celebrities, to obtain information about a private love relationship is, by any information of public interest justified," said Schertz, "a reporting on illegal". The methods described were "nothing but do nothing to do with freedom of the press and will set a new reason that courts as well as the legislators are called to such Perversions down as soon as a limit ".
" brutalization of tabloid journalism ". " No justification ". " Rechtswirdig ". " Nothing to do with press freedom ". " perversions ".
you should rename the woman Riekel. by canceling the first two letters of their surname.
Walter Mixa
currently an abuse scandal rocked by one the Catholic Church. Not for the first time in this heaped form but it is still rarely occurred:
The scandal over the sexual abuse of children and young people in the Catholic Church is widening. At least seven other Catholic institutions are confronted with new allegations, according to media reports. (...) The abuse scandal in late January its output from the Berlin Canisius College had taken. Since then, around 120 victims reported in schools throughout Germany (...). Der Spiegel reported that it had come in two former homes of the Salesians of Don Bosco in Augsburg and Berlin to child abuse by Catholic clergymen. Also affected are a former children's home of the Daughters of Charity Oggelsbeuren in Upper Swabia and the Marist boarding school in the Bavarian Mindelheim and the former Franciscan boarding school in Großkrotzenburg in Hanau. give Massive abuse allegations against it and former employees of the Franz-Sales-House in Essen, a renowned institution for the disabled. The Frankfurter Rundschau reported another case in the Bonn boarding St. Louis College of the Catholic order of Franciscan friars in the 70's.
The tip of the iceberg, guess what. The causes are of course in the ossified structures of the Church and its wholly contrary to nature to seek to suppress addressed sexual morality. This says not just the next progressive bloggers, but - a bit blurry - in this respect, certainly more unsuspecting Archbishop of Hamburg . As you should be able to require the Good Shepherd that education and caring for the victims should be the focus of future action.
The Augsburg Bishop Walter Mixa, has made the sexual revolution for a increasing abuse of minors engaged. The Catholic priest said: "The so-called sexual revolution, especially in the course of progressive moral critics of the legalization of sexual contacts was required between adults and minors, it certainly not innocent. "
Mixa. Long time no see. Remember,
Muessig, idiots like him and applauding Mixa Bavarian Justice Minister wish to point out that abuses in Catholic organizations also have long existed before the sexual revolution. It is enough to send for the bishop of Hamburg Thissen again to speak:
The handling of the clergy with their sexuality must up their efforts to come to the language, Thissen said the Frankfurter Rundschau. Thissen said there was sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in an "appalling degree that we would not have thought possible." (...) The fact that the church currently standing in the pillory was more understandable. "We act with high moral standards. We have to just let us then be measured."
Moreover knew the founder of the term "Sexual Revolution", Wilhelm Reich, that bring double standards and sexual repression of vital instincts personality deformations with him and so aggression and cause frustration. However, they are displaced and must be so rich, often provide a valve in the lust of domination and hierarchy. fits like a glove on the false sexual morality of the church and their unholy celibacy, the hardliners of the mark Mixa prefer their eternal struggle against the liberation of women by the pill and the sexual equality continue, as if ashamed of the vileness of Catholic educators towards wards with this matter deal.
And such as Ekelpakete Mixa are also financed by church taxes.
Pankraz Schmidbauer
And now once again a review of our popular category "Guess the party affiliation" . I will deliver as always the message and the accompanying headline:
City Council admits election fraud
In the proceedings because of the "Rodinger voter fraud" before the District Court of Regensburg, the accused a confession. (...) Is accused of the 68-year-old among other alleged forgery in 30 cases of electoral fraud in 58 cases and because of the inducement to false statements in 46 cases.
Oh. In Bavaria also. Very difficult time. solution:
He is said to have manipulated on a large scale postal ballot papers to facilitate his election to the City Council. The lawyer read out the confession stated in detail how the CSU candidate for City Council are among ethnic Rodinger earned as agent for the absentee ballot, filled out the ballots for them and sometimes their signatures forged.
And what the whole thing like a letter of application for the "Top Ten Conservative Idiots "look can be, once again the" justification "of the offender (where the face of the confession at all may be an acceptable term):
The defendant justified, however: He wanted to help the emigrants, which hardly German speaking and not the candidates knew.'s why he can also easily convinced to make the crosses to the him. Thankfully, he had been passed from family to family.
They were so grateful to him even their signatures were forged. Consequently, is Mr. Schmidbauer's conviction addition to a suspended sentence, the active and passive voting rights revoked for several years.
NRW CDU
again back to North Rhine-Westphalia. Man delights in the NRW CDU in the role of a "left" national association. Although this has to do with reality as you can in the "Top Ten" read for years, but is good for the image. therefore now again a trip to the reality of the "labor leader" Juergen Ruettgers and his oh-so-left force:
The NRW CDU fought back on Wednesday before the Labour Court Dusseldorf the dismissal of a longtime associate and former works council in December.
terminated long-time assistant. If one were cynical, one could now relate to the imagine Bagatellkündigungen , which caused a stir lately, have been thrown out as unpopular employees void. But the "red" CDUler to Düsseldorf will have identified with certainty as serious when you fire a worker earning ...
The 48-year-old had made mistakes in the Christmas post. Subsequently, some recipients had their CDU-Advent after 1 December preserved. The clerk (is) employed for 28 years and member of the CDU for 22 years with the party (...).
Advent. Well, yes. If you work at a Christian party, something may happen, of course. From the snow shoveling, ma'am. A working judge of the CDU was then the Bogeyman:
Labour Court Director Sabine Dauch made it clear to the representatives of the national CDU, that the expulsion law had "no prospects of success". "I urge you to withdraw the resignation." Also, a service provided by the state-CDU resolution application was abgeschmettert severance, as it is legally inadmissible in the event of termination without notice. "What happened?" Asked Judge Dauch. Especially to members of the Junge Union (JU) was addressed incorrectly, but the error was in the first days of December has been partially repaired. According to the CDU representatives had against "mass returns" given at the Christmas greeting in the form of an advent calendar. "The purpose was not chocolate, but the messages were," said the CDU representatives. "There was delivery before 1.12. incredibly important. "
important Unbelievable. Since the Christian jumpsuit Group their chocolates has not time for 1.12. , And you get heads to roll. But the number remains with Rüttgers and his venality - except for the pawn sacrifice Wüst - go unpunished. Welcome in workers' paradise NRW made by CDU.
Karlheinz Weimar
now is - representative - by the Finance Minister of Hessen. Since weeks in Germany hotly debated whether to buy the offered data CDs, where thousands of tax evaders, with their hidden in Switzerland Milliönchen are reported. Whatever one may think this, but we are all agreed that the principal task of a state is one potential tax cheaters by experienced professionals - to make arrest - that tax investigators. Do not mean to not know that these wealthy gentlemen sponge here, but create their coal abroad. Roland Koch in Hesse you can see the obvious a little differently :
the Hessian Ministry of Finance was forced to retire in four tax inspectors - apparently because they were too good and frightened investors. Department head Weimar, rejects the accusation, but questions remain. Now, a committee of inquiry to elucidate the affair. (...) The officers were part of a special group of the Frankfurt financial police, who investigated against the owners of hidden foreign accounts. They assessed meticulously from files that had been seized from several banks - and led, in part, with the aid of the prosecution, several thousand procedures. When her department after numerous successes was removed by a surprisingly large part of the pending cases, many investigators began to complain to their superiors. Your suspicion was that the Hesse state government seemed to favor lenient with tax evaders wanted to avoid in order not to scare away potential investors.
And that's not all. It was not enough to drive the successful tax investigators in the parade, no, they should also be humiliated :
In fact, one expert appointed by the Tax Office all four officials (...) uniform a "querulous paranoid-development" certified. This was obviously a courtesy report. In November 2009, condemned the Administrative Court (VG) casting the psychiatrist and expert H. Thomas to pay a fine of 12,000 euros, because it at the investigation of the tax inspectors' report issued intentionally defective "have.
know the four courageous, what is the point:
The four tax inspectors were already toying always suspected that their cold position related to their collective protest against an internal working procedure in which it to protection of wealthy tax exiles were invited.
And to make this farce from the system completely cook, read the mental attitude of his terrier in the U-Committee:
As if it were not for the decision of the VG casting, as says the chairman of the CDU in the committee, Peter Beuth, more of "querulous, self overestimated the average officer" Moreover, according Beuth resonant, had neither the government nor the Union this thing that was "just a campaign of opposition," "somewhat to blame."
From these stories we hear in the mainstream media. Instead phantom discussions take place, which would be completely unnecessary if the media would do their jobs. Actually dealing with the intimate life but rather of politicians and campaigns colored pseudo-debates of the brand Westerwelle.
Guido Westerwelle
So again to our neo-liberal screamer. One can accuse Westerwelle much, not least that it degenerates more and more into his own caricature. But a career politician like him who has never exercised a decent job - for example with regulated working hours and control board - was at least still have the political integrity. Such numbers like Jürgen Rüttgers or Stanislaw Tillich draws Westerwelle in life but not from ...
From 2005 to 2009 Westerwelle was therefore 35 papers in banks, insurance companies and businesses that were paid, each with more than 7000 € - a presentation was rewarded with less than 7000 €. Overall, Westerwelle ancillary revenues totaled at 16 Term of at least 270,000 €.
Well. But that would insinuate yes no venality. swaggering cash and do many politicians.
The current foreign minister, for example, received additional income from its advisory board of Deutsche Asset Consulting AG, Frankfurt / Main. DVAG also has 550 000 Euro donated to the FDP. At a lecture at Bank Sal Oppenheim in 2008 was a donation of 100,000 euros of money home to the FDP. Westerwelle also lectured at LGT Switzerland, a subsidiary of Liechtenstein's LGT Group. This was 2008, in connection with unmasked tax evaders around the Zumwinkel case in the headlines. In the list of honored lectures and advisory boards are more companies in the financial industry, such as the Hamburg Mannheimer Versicherungs-AG or Aspecta HDI Gerling Life Insurance Group, which are mainly active in the field of private pensions.
all colleagues, therefore, the suspiciously close to that of the FDP policy arschgepuderten clientele turn. And to top it measures , Westerwelle
for each of these units has received more than 7000 €. His clients included the Axa insurance, the food company Edeka, a prefabricated house manufacturers, several banks and asset managers and the Maritim Hotel Company.
"The Maritim Hotel Company" . It scarcely any further comment.
Guido Westerwelle
And here it is, your moment of Zen:
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