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Hamburg street festival ends with riot
Anarchists from Hamburg’s autonomous scene battled police for six hours late Saturday and early Sunday in the trendy Schanzenviertel neighbourhood after a street fair. Over 100 rioters were arrested and 27 police officers injured.
Over 10,000 visitors visited the Schanzenfest street fair, but once it turned dark, over 1,000 young, masked anarchists came out to do battle, police said. The rioters...
Siemens company fined $100 million by US-based World Bank for "past misconduct"
German industrial giant Siemens will pay $100 million over 15 years into a fund to fight corruption after probes revealed fraud at its subsidiaries, the jewish World Bank said.
Siemens has also agreed not to bid for business from the Washington-based jewish World Bank for two years as part of its punishment following the anti-corruption investigations.
“The World Bank Group today announced a...
Pravda: "Hitler rescued German economy before WWII"
The history of the economic crisis in Germany before the Second World War began with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. The WWI winners deprived the country of a part of its territories with three-quarters of iron ore reserves. German was supposed to pay $33 billion of reparations.
Germany plunged into the chaos of inflation. One US dollar cost 4.2 trillion Deutsche Marks. People were...
UN says Germany should allow more immigrants and reward them
Muigai was in Germany for 10 days on a fact-finding trip
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Though Germany has made large strides in fighting racial discrimination, a UN representative said ethnic minorities are still underrepresented in the German public sector.
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism Githu Muigai has spent 10 days visiting various towns in Germany as part of a fact finding mission...
EU Warning: Europe Will be Occupied by Immigrants
European authorities from Brussels published Monday June 29, 2009 a report showing the flux of immigrants will reach alarming numbers in Europe in the next years. By the year 2060, Italy will gain 12 million more immigrants than present.
In the entire EU zone immigrants will increase by 46,2 millions, informs the Italian newspapers Il Giornale.
According to Brussels, Spain’s immigrants will...
Germany faces England in 'classic' U21 football final
Could you imagine that the above people are called “English” and “German”? They are just two foreigners dressed up in European clothes.
Arsenal winger Theo Walcott has said the England camp is “buzzing” ahead of their European Under-21 Championship final against Germany in Malmo, Sweden, on Monday.
Stuart Pearce’s men booked their place in the final with a...
Bavarian official backs new Mein Kampf edition
Bavaria’s science minister wants to publish a new scholarly edition of Adolf Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf” ahead of 2015, when the state’s exclusive rights to the work expire, daily Handelsblatt reported on Monday.
“There is a danger that charlatans and neo-Nazis will usurp this infamous work when the copyright runs out,” Wolfgang Heubisch told the paper from Munich. “Which is why I believe...
German court upholds ban on words with Nazi link
Germany’s highest court has upheld a ban on three words appearing in sequence because of their link to a former anthem of the Nazi party.
The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe rejected on Thursday an appeal by a member of a far-right party who was fined 1,750 euros ($2,400) for wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “die Fahnen hoch.”
This literally translates as...
The SPD of Frank Walter Steinmeier would raise Taxes on poor low-income Germans suffering economically
Throughout the history of Europe, the Socialists creates problems, bringing more immigration and raising taxes on the poor people native people and exploiting the race issues to stay in power.
If the SPD ever win the elections,it would be a catastrophe for low income earning Germans.
Conservative leaders voted unanimously on Sunday, June 28, in favor of a program of moderate tax cuts and income...
Germany's Muslim population larger than thought
A report by the Interior Ministry shows that Germany’s Muslim community is larger and more diverse than previously estimated.
According to the latest figures, Germany’s Muslim community numbers close to 4 million people, or about 5 percent of the entire population. Past estimates put the number of Muslims in the country at 3.1 to 3.4 million.
Additionally, the survey funded by the Interior...
Parade in SS uniforms under fire in German Saxony-Anhalt
Police are investigating whether marchers in a recent parade in Saxony-Anhalt broke the law by wearing Nazi-era SS and Wehrmacht uniforms. The incident has sparked outrage beyond the borders of the eastern German state.
The state-funded parade last weekend through the town of Thale had over 4,000 participants representing different periods of the state’s history. Over 200,000 people came to watch...
Germany and EU to Legalize Pedophilia and with it, Child Pornography as well!
Booklets from a subsidiary of the German government’s Ministry for Family Affairs encourage parents to sexually massage their children as young as 1 to 3 years of age. Two 40-page booklets entitled “Love, Body and Playing Doctor” by the German Federal Health Education Center (Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung – BZgA) are aimed at parents – the first addressing...
Germany on the verge of censoring Internet Free Speech
Germany is on the verge of censoring its Internet: The government – a grand coalition between the German social democrats and conservative party – seems united in its decision: On Thursday the parliament is to vote on the erection of an internet censorship architecture.
The Minister for Family Affairs Ursula von der Leyen kicked off and lead the discussions within the German Federal Government...
EU conference on Migration and Integration kicks off in Berlin
How well is Europe coping with the integration of its foreign residents? A two-day EU conference in Berlin will discuss methods to monitor migratory trends within Europe.
For decades the nations of the expanded European Union, now comprising 27 countries, have wrangled over the integration of the EU’s 30 million foreign residents. The question: how to deal with those who try to enter what human rights...
17-year-old kills 16 Students on a Killing Spree in Winnenden Germany
The 17-year-old had no criminal record and authorities say he was barely noticed in school until he returned Wednesday with a handgun and a purpose.
Entering the high school where he graduated last year, he burst into morning classes and opened fire, taking students and teachers by complete surprise.
“Children were sitting at their tables, with pencils still in their hands, their heads fallen...