Berliner woman sues in Karlsruhe against Hartz

But according to Wolfgang and Federal Gerd, everything is just fine. How far removed they are from reality is no longer even measurable...

The frightening thing about it is that this bunch in the opposition doesn't think it's nearly enough yet, what's being destroyed. So we can look forward to another round of china-smashing after the next election. Until the unemployed and welfare recipients, the asylum seekers and others that our elitist politicians deem not full members of society are where this elite wants them: right down in the dirt at the bottom.

At Pepilog - Berlinerin klagt in Karlsruhe gegen Hartz there's the original article.

Newspaper: Authorities can access bank accounts from 2005

Because recipients of unemployment benefits II are by definition suspicious and you can't trust them anyway. That's why they have fewer rights than normal suspects - for those you still need a court order for something like this ...

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD there's the original article.

"One-Euro Job" - what is that?

State-sanctioned serfdom? Fascinating how the right to work becomes a duty to work - although back in the times of the existing GDR, there was always insistence that the GDR only had such low unemployment figures precisely because of this duty to work. And of course, at that time the duty to work was considered unthinkable for a free democracy.

At WDR.de you can find the original article.

Beckstein welcomes planned refugee camps in Africa

Yes sure, intern them far away from Germany, then the upstanding German citizen won't have to be confronted with the fact that there are asylum seekers. It's much more humane for the German citizen if he's not constantly having his nose rubbed in the suffering of the world.

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.

In case of doubt against the defendant

About the nonsense that lawyers, their clients, and technically incompetent judges are causing to break the Internet.

At Telepolis News (02.08.2004) you can find the original article.

Watching screens makes you depressed

Or how else should one react when you're told how people who can't afford glasses don't get them paid for either by health insurance or social welfare offices. Health insurance companies aren't allowed to anymore, but social welfare offices only pay what health insurance would have paid — which is absurd, because that's precisely where people receiving social assistance need support, where the insurance companies won't pay. A society that treats poor people like dirt is simply undignified.

Our Berlin dimwits manage it so that we end up looking longingly at the American system because it's better than what we'll eventually have here ...

Federal Employment Agency: Discrepancies over Million-Euro Contract

The Federal Agency emphasizes its lead in the application for the Federal Institute for Planning Errors ...

At heise online news you can find the original article.

Federal Chancellor: Patents Strengthen Innovation Drive and Investment Readiness

Even more venting about the concentrated incompetence (also commonly known as Federal Justice Minister) and the industry chancellor.

No, patents do not strengthen the willingness to innovate or the readiness to invest. They solely strengthen the position of large corporations with plenty of money in their war chest against smaller companies with less money in theirs. Enforcing patents has nothing to do with who is ultimately the inventor - but solely with who can afford a larger legal department and can sustain the longer legal battle.

After kicking patients in the teeth with the proposal to relieve the pharmaceutical industry, now comes the kick in the teeth to the mid-market software industry. Because it is precisely from this sector that innovations often come, yet as a rule they cannot afford all this patent wrangling without a big player backing them up.

And in the process, this dismantles Free Software, which eventually won't be allowed to implement anything anymore because every bit of nonsense gets blocked by stupid trivial patents.

At heise online news there is the original article.

Schröder suggests relief for pharmaceutical industry

Great. The pharmaceutical industry typically shows itself in public either by bringing overpriced drugs to market to finance bogus expenses while ripping off the sick, or by throwing drugs like Lipobay onto the market that in the form they come to market then kill people, or by vehemently refusing to take urgently needed action against AIDS or other epidemic diseases for example in Africa, or by diligently trying to manipulate medical associations, doctors, hospitals and whatever else.

But now the Chancellor wants it to be relieved of burden. The patients - who are first and foremost the victims of the pharmaceutical industry and its rip-offs - are being diligently burdened more.

And with such conduct, the SPD wonders why citizens no longer believe that they stand for social issues? What kind of complete idiot does a politician have to be to spout such nonsensical remarks and then still be amazed when he loses elections by a landslide?

A relief for the pharmaceutical industry would be a slap in the face to all patients. Schröder, that's appalling!

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD there's the original article.

Zypries plans levy on PCs and printers

And the personified incompetence of the German federal government continues working to implement everything as absurdly as imaginable. Eventually, copyright fees will be levied on pencils and paper because they are basically suitable for copying too.

One thing will never see a copyright fee, though: politicians' brains. They're far too small and limited to copy anything ...

At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet you can find the original article.

SPD politicians turn their backs on ver.di

Dear Ms. Kastner, even if this might hurt now: you are foolish. Just admit it.

Particularly foolish, however, are SPD politicians who are now starting to play unions off against each other.

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.

Less vacation for more jobs?

And the dismantling continues. Because of course workers are to blame for everything. And because it makes so much sense to have too many unemployed people and then make those who have jobs work even more.

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.

Ministry of Justice wants to place further obstacles in the way of online copiers

No, Mr. Hucko, with such an absurd proposal, poor pigs is the wrong term. Stupid pigs is more fitting if you're suggesting extending the information rights of law enforcement agencies towards Internet providers to private snooping operations of the film industry. Such nonsense. At heise online news you can find the original article.

More Work, Less Money

What comes next? Will more companies blackmail their employees and unions? Because that's exactly what Siemens did here. And then it's celebrated as a patriotic act. The original article is at WDR.de.

Fearmongering for tuition fees

German to English Translation

Anyone who wants to know how the practical results of surveys come about, which are used to justify the greatest political nonsense, should simply follow the link. In this case, it's directed at our education system.

We shouldn't be too arrogant in our response to American think tanks. We've had the same problem here for a long time - and it's getting increasingly massive. In many areas, lobbying has long been more important than expert opinion or even the will of voters.

I found das Netzbuch and the original article.

Blue Letter for the Federal Returning Officer

Sometimes you just have to hold your head in disbelief at how much stupidity our federal politicians display.

At Telepolis News (12.06.2004) you can find the original article.

Bus and train travel more expensive for disabled people?

Necessary subsidy cuts - at the expense of the disabled. How wonderfully social.

The original article can be found at WDR.de.

Tax authorities threatened with tax shortfalls due to Mannesmann shares case

This can't possibly be true. A company artificially inflates its stock price to sell itself off, the board members pocket million-euro severance packages for it, the stock price comes back down to earth, and the state — and thus all taxpayers — are supposed to foot the bill?

The whole Vodafone-Mannesmann deal is nothing but one big fraud anyway, and we get to clean up the mess. The very idea of such blatant corruption makes you pretty angry.

Tax justice in Germany has been gone for a long time. And this whole pile of garbage is the best proof of it. It can't be right that companies themselves still profit from this crap, while ordinary taxpayers are constantly hit with higher burdens because the money runs out.

If we're blowing billions up the backsides of companies for stupidity and audacity, it's no wonder money is lacking...

Here's the original article.

tagesschau.de: The Triumph of Horst Köhler

Triumph? Please, what? He has the absolute majority - no wonder given the starting position in the Federal Assembly. But what kind of triumph is it when we get a Federal President that no one knows and no one can do anything with - just because the parties are stubbornly clinging to their stupid party politics again? Just because stupid power-mongering by the Union and silly haggling by the FDP had to turn the presidential election into a farce once more? What kind of triumph could possibly be represented by the election of an absolute candidate of last resort? If such embarrassments are already being counted as triumphs, I don't want to experience what such people would call a debacle...

Here's the original article.

Software patent opponents accuse Brussels of dishonesty

So much for our government allegedly being against software patents, as it claimed itself just recently (P2234). It was all just a lie. The original article can be found at heise online news.

Missing in NRW: Almost one billion euros

Dieckmann finds the situation alarming? I find it alarming that politicians apparently knew nothing about it beforehand - do these idiots actually just manage everything without any plan? Doesn't any of them make calculations that have something to do with reality? Has "Oops - we're missing a billion, sorry, no problem, let's just carry on" already become the norm for politicians these days? The original article is available at WDR.de.

Schröder Pressures Banks to Merge

Another mindless call to sell out.

You can find the original article at tagesschau.de - The News of the ARD here.

Business rejects training pact

And Clement keeps spouting off that the economy would manage it on a voluntary basis. While in North Rhine-Westphalia the number of training applications is rising, but the supply of apprenticeships is dropping dramatically. And what's the result? Youth unemployment. Just great. And then the business bosses whine about the poor state of training at Germany as a business location. Lying scumbags.

Companies that don't train even though they could are deliberately destroying the future of young people out of egoism and arrogance. Young people who can't defend themselves because politicians would rather crawl up the arses of business bosses than show some backbone for those who should be our future.

That's one way to destroy the future. Completely deliberate, completely systematic and without any real economic reason.

It takes on extremely idiotic features with the Union, by the way: on the one hand they whine that the population is ageing and not enough children are coming along, on the other hand they're naturally massively against offering the existing children and young people a future. And immigration laws – which could also lead to a supply of young people, for example – they naturally want to block those too.

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD there's the original article.

It's getting worse

Conscience examination for Lower Saxony hat-wearing women. All of course in the name of combating terrorism.

At Telepolis News (01.05.2004) you can find the original article.

Stop Church Exits with Tax Advantages

What a stupid idea. Tax benefits for those who are church members. Is there really no proposal so dumb and absurd that some stupid CDU/CSU politician won't put it on the table?

The taxpayer is already financing the church anyway. Directly through tax collection executed by the state, indirectly through the many kindergartens, schools and hospitals that are allegedly run by church organizations but ultimately operated with taxpayer money.

The Catholic Church is one of the richest organizations in Germany, is tax-privileged through its church status and is now supposed to be additionally subsidized at the wish of these CDU/CSU clowns? Ridiculous!

At tagesschau.de - The ARD News you can find the original article.

Arbitrariness of the Justice Senator in Hamburg

How a CDU Senator shows himself unimpressed by court decisions and bends the law.

I found the original article at .::: [unsinnfälliges].

Rüttgers demands mandatory private pension for all

Let me summarize once more: the existing pension fund is designed according to the principle of cost minimization - a public administration, control apparatus and essentially legal protection (except when a chancellor dips into the pension fund for reunification, but that's a different story). The advantage of such a public institution: it is controllable (at least if politicians and federal government institutions do their job) and the government can exert direct influence (which brings us back to the chancellor with his blooming imagination, sorry, blooming landscapes).

On the other hand, we have large insurance companies whose orientation has a single goal: profit maximization. Makes the shareholders happy - customers are only of secondary interest. Besides, of course the employees of the insurance companies need to be paid. And the boss needs his million-dollar severance. And a new company car for the procurator is also due, just like the beautiful ostentatious buildings in the insurance districts of major German cities. And government influence? No influence, except through legislation. Securing pensions? No special provisions (of course, the legislator could ensure that - but that would then be an impermissible intervention in the economy, huge fuss about the business location, massive protests about competitive disadvantage...).

Rüttgers now wants to force all citizens to put money into a second pot to balance the money he wants to take from them from the first pot. Money should flow out of controllable and state-run pots into uncontrollable pots subject to economic arbitrariness. Because it's guaranteed to become cheaper for consumers when a structure oriented toward cost minimization is replaced by one oriented toward profit maximization.

In the Ruhr Valley, workers take to the streets against the state and for their business bosses - because they want to protest against emissions trading regulations. No one there seems to care about their pension...

The original article is available at tagesschau im Internet.

Schröder satisfied with reform course

I'm sick of this self-aggrandizement. Just as much as the — predictable — idiotic response from the Union leader. This is such silly nonsense — do adults really have nothing better to do than strut around Berlin and pretend they have something important to say? I don't even dare compare this behavior to small children anymore, because they come up with ten times more intelligent things than these politicians. The government is patting itself on the back and praising itself for work done — sure, nobody else would praise the garbage they've spouted. The Union, of course, doesn't engage with substantive questions, but pats itself on the back and takes swipes at the government because it wants to form the next government. Just to then deliver equally meaningless speeches and break a bit more stuff.

And what does reality get out of it? Nothing. Stupid babble, peacocking, and half-baked concepts driven only by party political power interests but having nothing to do with real problems.

At WDR.de you can find the original article.

DIHK Chief Advises on Production Abroad

I would advise this censored person to have their brain checked. If companies listen to this troll, soon there will be no buyers left for their overpriced cheap productions. And if German industry is sold off abroad, his position as top blowhard will very quickly become utterly superfluous. I keep asking myself when I hear such gross nonsense, what goes on in the minds of such people and who pays them to spout such rubbish.

What kind of trust in the economy is supposed to be built when production is to be relocated abroad and thousands of jobs are put at risk? And the investments of the economy - laughable, the only investments go into the pockets of major shareholders and managers. And if that's actually pointed out, these fat cats treat themselves to arrogant gestures in court.

For every mundane investment that actually goes into production facilities or similar, these people have themselves celebrated as if they had laid the golden egg. And they let themselves be pumped full of money from the federal government each time, or only do it if they're granted far-reaching concessions from state governments and municipalities. Exemption from business tax in exchange for jobs - every small business owner has to pay business tax. Every self-employed person is called to contribute. But large corporations extort their own conditions.

It's all just lies, rip-offs and fraud what's going on in the business associations and executive suites of large corporations and major banks. Trust cannot be imposed from above. And certainly one cannot demand trust-building measures from the government if one is only out to confirm all prejudices oneself.

Sure, the government is a bunch of fools stumbling around and having lost their footing in their own ideas. But still better than the other bunch who only say what the business bosses want to hear and would sell everything for a bit of power - even what still makes our society acceptable.

But one thing is certain: nobody trusts a bunch of talkers who secure their own position with million-mark salaries and networks that ensure at every failure that they can immediately jump into some big business again to mismanage it.

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

More Surveillance Desired

Does anyone need more proof of humanity's fundamental stupidity?

As if a surveillance state offers more citizen security. Quite the opposite. The terrorists just end up in another place: within the state apparatus. And that's exactly what's being demanded here. Total surveillance of public spaces. A standard presumption of guilt for all citizens - anyone walking around in public, using public transport, or standing in public places is fundamentally suspect from the start. When will the first person be convicted because the guardians of the public accuse them? How many hidden, invisible witnesses will soon exist for our actions in public, whose statements and claims we can no longer refute because they're invisible and uncontrollable to us?

We've already experienced attacks on private space through Schily and associates. I definitely don't feel any safer because of all this nonsense...

Brave new world. We ourselves are building our 1984...

At heise online news you'll find the original article.

Unrest in Union after Köhler remarks

Lacking neutrality? People, a presidential candidate who speaks out openly and directly in favor of a coalition government before the presidential election and even titles it hopefully a union chancellor, doesn't have a lack of neutrality, they have no neutrality at all. But what else would you expect from Kohl's lapdog ... At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

c't aktuell-wiretap botched: Partial victory for civil rights

Further reactions. If you look at the whole thing more closely, it's probably not as rosy as all that. Rosy, however, is probably the lens through which Schily is looking, otherwise I can't explain why he thinks the wiretapping has been confirmed as constitutional...

Here you can find the original article.

Schröder no longer talks to 'Bild'

Even though Schröder looks somewhat like an offended party-pooper about it, I can understand him. That tabloid rag has been absolutely unbearable lately. And the campaign interference in Hamburg was anything but objective journalism. Unfortunately, though, the press's misconduct is not a problem that can be solved through legal or legislative means, but only through the integrity of journalists - and image journalists probably have to hand over their integrity at the door anyway ...

A functioning press is an important control mechanism in a democracy. But if the press sinks to the level of such sleazy tabloids, and these sleazy tabloids then make politics through their market dominance, then the whole thing becomes a problem. Sure, it wouldn't be a problem if readers didn't believe every bit of nonsense printed in these papers.

But unfortunately, every society gets the press it deserves ...

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

Postal customers in Hamburg facing locked doors

Cuts to employee compensation and bonuses even though a company is profitable? It's completely normal these days. No matter what, employees' pockets are hit first. All it takes is the shareholder dividend not being as high as perhaps desired. Or whatever else — any flimsy excuse will do to take money from those who happen to be exactly the people who are supposed to be consuming. Of course they don't consume anymore. And suddenly the economy is complaining that sales are dropping, retail collectively goes bankrupt, and the next round of fleecing and cutting begins.

The fact that all of this is completely nonsensical and serves no purpose other than feeding the egos of stupid executives and lobbyists and filling the pockets of major shareholders apparently bothers hardly anyone. Even when these major shareholders themselves then lay off employees and cut compensation. Despite higher revenues.

And what's the end result? The companies go bankrupt anyway, because some managers would rather sell out their own employees for double-digit millions, or because stupid bosses hire even dumber management consultants to run a perfectly good company into the ground so that they finally have real reason to squeeze and fire employees. One last time...

The German economic location is run by stupidity, corruption, and arrogance. A lethal mix.

You can find the original article at tagesschau online at tagesschau im Internet.

Shot at alternative sparrows with police cannons

Of course, according to Schily, genetic fingerprinting should only be used for serious crimes such as sexual offenses or terrorism. As you can read here, in Hesse (naturally, where else, in Koch's personal swamp) this apparently means property damage with political motivation. In other words: damage to election posters.

At Telepolis News (13.02.2004) you can find the original article.

Cabinet paves way for gene-modified food

And once again reason and common sense have to take a backseat to the purely monetary interests of large corporations (and not even necessarily domestic ones). To hell with the will of the citizens, the only thing that matters is the sound of cash registers ringing for con artists and fraudsters, no matter what kind of crap they're selling.

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

Kästner ./. Schlu

Well, that's the - bitter - end of the whole story surrounding the Kästner quotes. Thus a great poet is defamed by stupid lawyers and stupid laws more than it happened during his lifetime - simply by the fact that people think they have rights to his thoughts that run counter to the dissemination of his ideas. Kästner would probably have written a few biting remarks about it, I can only be sad and hope that the poems of one of my favorite poets are still known when the copyright has expired - which, given the fact that teachers are striking him from the curriculum, is rather questionable.

The banana republic Germany rages not only among politicians. The nation of poets and thinkers, fettered by miserable petty bureaucracy.

At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft I found the original article.

MPs receive 1,950 euros more

And surely this provides many good reasons why the markup on a member of parliament's salary must be higher than the average monthly wage of a worker ...

At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.

Health insurance companies bid farewell to 13.6 percent

And we're all being fooled ...

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

Federal Employment Agency: Evidence apparently manipulated

Well, it is indeed the task of the Federal Employment Agency to find work for job seekers, but this part is exaggerated: Almost all renowned consultants have received an assignment in Nuremberg. Gerster will certainly come up with great reasons again why the lies were completely fine. Probably such things, just like lavishly equipped executive floors, are part of the good practice of the business world, without which one apparently cannot discuss on equal terms with managers. That's probably even true when you look at the rip-off at Mannesmann. They're all just liars and cheaters, so they're looking for their own kind at the Federal Employment Agency too...

I wonder if Clement will finally feel properly foolish now, having just demonstratively stood up for Gerster?

I found the original article at RP-Online: Politik.

Backing for Gerster

There is no reason to question Gerster's work, according to Clement. An internal audit report is still to be presented today. - So retroactive creation of files to fabricate evidence is no longer considered grounds for questioning the work of a government agency head? In any case, that answers my question about whether Clement now feels stupid for his support of Gerster - apparently not stupid enough yet, so he continues.

At tagesschau im Internet there is the original article.

Reports: Gerster concludes another consultant contract

Gerster just doesn't learn ...

At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.

Genetically modified corn soon in supermarket shelves

Who wants this? Why does this crap have to exist?

For the first time, consumers are getting the right to choose, and farmers are getting safe framework conditions - yes, thank you. Farmers actually wanted security against this crap, because genetically modified plants cause problems for organic farmers, for example, if they mix with their seeds. And the consumers - has anyone ever asked them whether they even wanted this idiotic choice?

I can also choose whether to nail a meatball to my knee.

At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.

Chair of Interior Ministers' Conference Calls for More Genetic Fingerprints

And further, the threat of terrorism and the supposedly endangered public safety are used to express desires for further surveillance and control.

At heise online news there is the original article.

Schleswig-Holstein's Interior Minister Wants Police Access to Internet Customer Data

Another superfluous politician. Not only does he want to forcibly expand data retention at providers, but he's also demanding that cryptography must have access points for police decryption. The Clipper Chip and similar harebrained ideas come to mind.

You can find the original article at heise online news under the original article.

Children's DNA database for 'theft kids'

And once again another step in the direction of total control

At Telepolis News there's the original article.

Programmed on Lies

Furthermore, Binalshibh is supposedly programmed to lie as a matter of faith. The Muslim religion supposedly commands the faithful to speak "non-truth" if their own lives or property or those of people close to them are endangered. - oh yes. Clear, terrorists belong - if they are convicted as terrorists of the acts they are accused of, they belong in prison. But could one please reserve a cell right next door for the prosecutor for this audacity?

At Telepolis News there is the original article.

Majority of Germans consider politicians corrupt

After the perceived inflation, the perceived corruption. For the former, there is now evidence that it is not only perceived ...

I found the original article at RP-Online: Politik.

SPD politician Maas stirs up headscarf dispute

|KK| Once again the annoying reference to the invocation of God in the Basic Law - and of course from the ranks of the Union yet again. People, the word God is used in the preamble, that's correct. But only in one place: "Conscious of their responsibility before God and mankind" - and that's all there is about God in the Basic Law. And that's good. It's already absurd what some politicians think they have to read into this single mention of the word in the Basic Law. But if it helps: I'm in favor of removing the invocation of God from the preamble as well. At least it saves two words, makes the Basic Law shorter and no poor politicians' brains will be confused and thrown into bewilderment anymore.

While we're at it, also delete the addition to the oath "so help me God" without replacement. That's obsolete - just like crosses in schools. Or oaths on the Bible. Or state collection of funds for the large Christian churches. Or religious education. And school religious services. It is in any case highly absurd to derive from this single mention that the state must accept Christian symbolism. And of course it is in no way a form of discrimination when Merkelnix talks about not being able to agree to equal treatment of religions in the public service and derives from this that Christian symbols cannot be insignificant to the state and that their removal is no solution.

The separation of church and state apparently never took place. Or Merkelnix wasn't paying attention in school. Or both ...

I found the original article at RP-Online: Politik.

Federal Audit Office Criticizes Financing of Tax Reform

This also won't be of interest to anyone. Sustainability in planning hasn't existed for a long time, everything only looks at short-term successes. Maintaining power is simply more important than sensible politics.

I found the original article at RP-Online: Politik.