Originally published on the author’s Substack Report that Ukrainian team destroyed Nord Stream puts Germany in awkward position. For my first book about the Viennese serial killer (of prostitutes), Jack Unterweger, I read a fair amount of literature on the ways in which pimps psychologically manipulate the women who work for […]
How the leaders of the Great German Farmers’ Protest are committed to neutralising their own movement, and what the farmers must now do if they want anything to change
A report on the 15 January farmers’ demonstration in Berlin Yesterday tens of thousands of farmers, tradesmen and truckers, with at least 5,000 tractors and other vehicles, gathered on the Street of 17 June and adjacent boulevards. I could hear their horns from my room all the way on the […]
The Great German Farmer Protests Have Begun
First came the farmers’ protests in the Netherlands, then the Freedom Convoy in Canada. Now the farm protests have reached Germany. The background is simple: On 15 November 2023, the Federal Constitutional Court declared the budgetary manipulations of the Scholz government unconstitutional, in one stroke depriving our rulers of 60 billion Euros […]
How Political Establishments Sponsor Protests They Want, Suppress the Ones They Don’t, and Tread Carefully When Clients Go Off-Message
A brief consideration of how the German state has treated climate, pandemic and pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Protestors raise the Palestinian flag atop the Neptune Fountain in Berlin on Saturday. Western liberal democracies cultivate a range of fictions about their nature and function. In the myths they tell about themselves, the people […]
Green Party Mask Fanatic Predicts That a “Covid Fall” Awaits Us, Calls Upon Germans to Resume Masking
They will try to bring back masking, but it’s not going to happen. From Spiegel: Case statistics are rising, and some experts fear a Covid Fall. 1 Now the health policy spokesman for the Green Party in the Bundestag, Janosch Dahmen, recommends a return to masking … “In order to protect […]