Westerwelle is the Titan Arum "of politics - Amorphophallus titanum (Titans or Riesenstinkwurz) is indeed the largest flower in the world, flowers but only a few days met, the environment here with a piercing stench, and then rapidly fades away.
According to the CSU, the problems of Greece are very large, the CSU are calling for sharp results in: CSU party head Hans-Peter Friedrich has advocated to consider a withdrawal of the country from the European Monetary Union. "Greece has not only liquidity but also a fundamental growth and structural problem," said Frederick SPIEGEL. Therefore the country should "seriously consider withdrawing from the euro area". Such a step, said Friedrich, "can not be declared a taboo restricted '.
in Rhineland-Palatinate state government has decided to amend the Police Act. (...) The police should be empowered to covert access to information technology systems (online search) get to determine personal data.
red, bold, dangerous
No majority for the CDU and FDP, SPD and the Greens for not: say so it polls for the North Rhine-Westphalia state election ahead. More important could be the role of the left. The comrades advertise openly for the favor of the Red-Green - Prime Minister Rüttgers is alarmed.
want As far as the CDU does not even have to come first, "The time was in the development of the radical left with a benevolent 'wink' way in is over," says the "Red Book" - and then lists what to expect of a government of the Left.
The template for the CDU's paper has given the left of the Rhine and Ruhr but themselves. While the comrades disarmed their election program in tone, yet they continue to advertise with radical demands for votes: about with the socialization of the energy companies RWE and E.on and the introduction of the 30-hour week without loss of pay.
had often hoped the comrades in the past few months to a government involvement in the countries - and went in the end, empty-handed: How about in Thuringia, where they would like to put the Prime Minister, the SPD is preferred but an alliance with the CDU. As in the Saarland, where they are already in a red-red-green alliance saw it but now governed Jamaica coalition. In Hesse the SPD, they would heave-wife Andrea Ypsilanti to office - and for this plan came to nothing.
What to do with people whose jobs the home sofa is? RTL send in a new format loose a coach who makes you fit with a firm hand unemployed for the job market. Thus providing an insight resulting in a dull part of the German reality, the sets in large moralizing debates often.
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moves accompanied by television cameras, the psychologist and job coach Jürgen Hesse, 58, bravely to the front line of unemployment. In first three episodes, he visited three different families and trying very practical to help those who can not free itself from its awkward situation.
Hesse, who ran 25 years, the telephone counseling service in Berlin and published jointly with Hans Christian Schrader over 150 counselors and books on career, job and career, including songs like "Too young for retirement, too old for the job," occurs while in the TV footsteps of Lars Naunton. Who had taken over two years ago, also at RTL, under the title "Working buyer" has the same task: Finally get back to jobs for people who have almost given up.
Let's make it short: It works. Cindy gets her teaching job at a vet, and Theo a solid job on a horse farm. Gisela mother is happy. Only Martin will sit on the sofa. He capitulated. Even at the trial an interview he slipped on the question of why he was interested in after four years of carpentry training for the job offered out: "Because I have two left hands." The job coach is shocked. With 23 years So Martin has given up and a hoarding in his mini-world between sofa and flat screen. He would be neither more nor Hartz IV helped with the obligatory call for more education.
Nevertheless, or rather, especially so-friendly format gives the happy end of the small number of RTL-an illuminating insight into that part of the reality, in the wave anschwappenden, ideological moralizing big debate among mostly goes: It's actually on everyone to leave on his own personal will, the stronghold of their own misery, take the determination and the ability to own, irreplaceable and unique life back into their own hands.
This unique freedom is more important than any deduction of any new tax base in the wake of all those legislative changes that we will face over the coming years.
Those who work should not only have - it is also more out of life. If this is not an incentive.
The German middle class, the most voters, but loses more and more political influence. Guilt is the middle class itself: It borders on the arms, thinks he is on the side of the wealthy - and thus reinforces precisely those who enrich themselves at his expense.
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But why the middle class is shrinking? It is often assumed that the state is to blame for the prey, the middle class through taxes and social contributions. This observation is not entirely wrong. Indeed, the recent tax reforms have favored above all the top earners while the middle class is left alone to finance the growing number of poor.
Nevertheless, it is strange to be pitied of all the middle class as victims of the state. For the middle class is still the vast majority of eligible voters. The politics knows that elections are won only with the middle class, so all the established parties seek to "center". The FDP campaigned as "Strengthening the middle" in the last federal election campaign with the slogan.
The middle class can not only victims but also perpetrators must be. When it descends, it is because it is involved in this decline. She herself is to vote for a tax and social policies, their Interests is the complete opposite.
The cost of this self-deception is enormous. While the top earners will be charged less and less, the middle class is rapidly losing. Even now, ordinary workers have to pay up to 53 percent of their labor costs as taxes and social security - while, conversely, their income tax on millionaires with an average of 34 percent.
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Even lobbyists are only successful because they target the self-image of middle class. They speak of their hopes and dreams to serve their fears and prejudices. If lobbyists want to get privileges for the rich, then they must feel the middle class To give that also belongs to the elite.
(...) But the middle class did not realize how big the gap with the wealthy actually is. The belief in one's own rise continues unabated, as the boom in private schools shows. In the fight for one's career escapes the middle class, as unattainable, the elites, who acquire their status not by power, but inherited from generation to generation: The top ten percent already own 61 percent of the total national wealth, and receive 36 percent of all income.
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The middle class status overestimated but also because they are much power and attention used, strongly distinguished from the lower class. Only too happy to care for the middle class of the prejudice that the poor are freeloaders. Sun least 57 percent of Germans think that long-term unemployed "make a good life at the expense of society". From this contempt for the lower layer results in a fatal alliance: The middle class thinks he is on the side of the elite, because they said that they would jointly exploited by perfidious arms.
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The middle class already suspect that the cost of the financial crisis should stick to it. Nevertheless, they still turned against the lower class and not against the elite. So say almost 65 percent of people who feel themselves affected by the economic crisis "must be jointly supplied to many vulnerable groups in Germany." Again gets completely out of sight that have benefited mainly the wealthy from the fact that the state has bailed out with billions in banks and the economy.
What possessed Hamid Karzai? Afghan President sour-faced the West, which guarantees him his power. He feels insulted and provoked, and now he is looking for new alliances to survive a NATO withdrawal policy - the relationship with the U.S. is not kitten anymore.
Is Hamid Karzai went crazy, as it feared long-time associate of Afghan President these days?
Twice in three days of the troubled Afghan president his Western allies with provocative comments. First he claimed that "foreigners" were behind the massive election fraud in the presidential and provincial council elections in September. Then he announced to defect to the Taliban if he'll continue to set international political pressure.
What happened to the charming head of state, the former darling of the West in the chic silk coat and the elegant English?
Hamid Karzai is first and foremost a typical Pashtun: proud to make aware, but also sensitive. The Americans have insulted him and again, and that is unforgivable for him. "We are poor, but we are a proud nation. I am not a servant of a colonial regime, not a puppet president, I would rather die." Spake Karzai when he is sitting with friends. He sees the world.
There was the election crisis, and instead of making electoral fraud as Atonement, the angry Karzai believes today cheated of outright victory. The constant and never-resolved scandal involving his brother, Ahmad Wali, who is suspected of drug trafficking, he considered a personal attack on their family and the continuing allegations against his corrupt government as an attack on his integrity.
