Here is the full segment from Para's original post. More tidbits- it is a crime to call a political leader a "dick" or idiot when posting online. Many head slapping moments, what a fucked up country.
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
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The wall came down in '89 and it looks like East Germany won.
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
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Just remember who picked the people that wrote their constitution and signed off on it.
The 1949 Constitution, which today governs Germany, is a slightly amended version of West Germany’s 1949 Constitution. The history of the German Basic Law is unique as it originated after WWII and was based on the influence of occupying foreign nations. While the Reich government still existed in theory after the war, the institutions of the German government were completely destroyed. The framers of the Constitution sought to create a provisional or temporary document that would guide West Germany until unification. Germany’s recent past played a significant role in the formation of the Basic Law. The Framers sought to create a constitution that would safeguard against the emergence of either the Weimar Republic’s overly fragmented, multiparty democracy or the Third Reich’s authoritarianism. In 1948, at the direction of the Western Powers, the ministers-presidents of the West-German states formed a Parliamentary Council to begin drafting a constitution, with the caveat that any document produced be provisional. The Parliaments of the Landers appointed sixty-one men and four women who were members of political parties licensed by the occupying powers as delegates. Most were veterans of the Weimar Republic. All but eleven were Social or Christian Democrats. The Council passed a draft in Bonn on May 8, 1949, which was approved by the occupiers on May 12.
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I’ve heard that Vice-president Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference was controversial. Of course it was, he spoke the truth about Orwellian laws and denial of election results all over Europe. If our Vice-president held a sword, many in the audience would be eviscerated. Absolutely worth your time.
I have no idea why I’m getting a “playback error” when I try to embed this video. I tried the White House’s version, as well as FOX News’. Here’s a link.
This is Cristoph Heusgen, a German diplomat, who has chaired the Munich Security Conference for the last four years, responding to Vance’s speech. With tears.
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